We went to H's holiday party on Saturday. Instead of returning to our hotel room and enjoying out kidless, giant king sized bed we got to listen to this drunk guy raging on his girlfriend, trying to get her to open the door, finally KICKING IN the hotel room door and then eventually being hauled away by the cops. It was insane.
I had such an awesome long weekend with the kids and with my H.
I did not want to get out of our warm bed this morning.
I am thinking of inviting my parents for the weekend after Christmas. I'm about 50/50 on actually inviting them. We didn't talk for 2 years and we are trying to have a different relationship, but it gives me so much anxiety. But they are getting older and I feel like I should...
I am still really sad our bikes were stolen. We live a really modest lifestyle. Those things were one of the few items that wer actual nice and worth money. They were splurges when we bought them. I can't even stomach the idea of replacing them.
Also I feel stupid which pisses me off. We had the bikes hung from the wall. We could have easily put a chain on them. But who puts a chain on bikes THAT ARE IN YOUR OWN PERSONAL PROPERTY AND SECURED. And now I feel like it is probably someone who knew we had the bikes hanging there. Not our neighbors, but maybe someone who lives a couple blocks away. And that makes me feel dumb like we just put our nice stuff on display for others. It is just so brazen to roll up to a private garage, while the occupants are clearly home and steal two motherfucking bikes. All while we were carrying a fucking Christmas tree into our house.
H and I are in full too catch a predator mode. I am calling all the bike shops today to put a warning out. We have filters set on craigslist. We drove around seperately this morning to see if they were stashed somewhere. These are road bikes so they aren't for just tooling around. Someone is going to sell them and make good money off of them.
It's Superbef's funeral today. I have such a pit in my stomach - it's finally starting to feel real.
I saw this over the weekend but didn't have a chance to respond. I'm so sorry to hear this - I definitely remember her. Hugs to you and everyone who knew and loved her.
And hugs to all you others who need it, there are a few of you!
I made myself a nest of pillows last night and slept really well. Maybe this will work for a while until the belly gets even bigger.
I woke up with a sore throat and stuffy nose. I swear to god, if I start getting sick again, I may kill someone. I just got over my second sinus infection of the season and it lasted almost 3 weeks, just like the one before. I'm sick of this shit. Pregnancy is seriously fucking with my immune system.
I've got a full day of errands planned, but will hopefully get a great start on my Christmas shopping and can start getting the house tidied up. I need to start organizing the nursery as well and move all the office stuff out of it.
Booze Raccoon I'm sorry. That is awful! How old are these girls? And how did you respond?
They are 4. The girl had already been spoken to by her mother so I just repeated the words the mother had used. Something along the lines of "you should be nice to everyone."
This is the first time this has happened so I had no idea how to handle it. I hope this isn't a problem every week during ballet.
After church I was talking to the guy I like and we were making plans to go over to our mutual friends' house later, when a girl with cerebral palsy went into a grand mal seizure nearby. Thankfully once people noticed what was happening they called paramedics quickly, but she was seizing on the hard concrete floor so I ran over and shoved my coat under her head and turned her on her side. She came out of it alright and the paramedics deemed her ok to go home, so I'm glad for that. The adrenaline crash after was rough.
Then I spent all afternoon/evening at my bff's house with guy I like so that was nice. We sat next to each other on the couch and the kids kept bringing us books to read to them and it was really sweet to see him interacting with them since I know he doesn't have much experience with toddlers. My bff sneakily took a pic of us and the kids that he doesn't know about and sent it to me. It makes me feel all giddy.
Booze Raccoon I'm sorry. That is awful! How old are these girls? And how did you respond?
They are 4. The girl had already been spoken to by her mother so I just repeated the words the mother had used. Something along the lines of "you should be nice to everyone."
This is the first time this has happened so I had no idea how to handle it. I hope this isn't a problem every week during ballet.
Little kids can be mean. My DD is 4 I wouldn't know how to handle it either. I hope it was a one time thing!
It's a lazy day for me today. I worked the weekend and don't work till thursday. Our apt is tomorrow to start our IVF cycle. My dog is asleep on my lap and I don't want to wake her up. Attachment Deleted
My company did a system update which included all kinds of blocks on the internet. Including shopping. I'm glad I work from home and I have my other laptop for cyber monday.
Post by chedominique on Dec 1, 2014 11:12:30 GMT -5
Today is my first day back at work and B's first day in Daycare. Work is going great, but I'm not handling B's first day too well. I cried so bad when I dropped her off.
I am 12 years older than my brother. We were at a baseball party for him and some boys were absolutely horrid to him and I overheard. I got so angry I wanted to go over and kick them (or something mean!). I am so scared when my little one is an outside one and someone is mean!! I'm so sorry!!
I am having a horrendously bad day and it's only lunchtime. It's my first day back at work since hurting my back. I'm in so much pain sitting in my chair and have so much to get caught up on. H and I got into a fight this morning over something dumb and it's still bothering me. Money issues suck, especially at Christmas time with six kids to shop for. Somebody ate or threw away my lean cuisine that was in the freezer last week and I have no lunch.
A few months ago I bought Flyers tickets for H's birthday. His birthday is Wednesday and the game is next week so he still doesn't know about them. I'm debating whether or not I want to sell them and get him something less expensive to put that money towards something else or if I should just give them to him and enjoy a night out with him without the kids, especially since I didn't get to go to the football game with him last week.
I did my shopping for our "angel tree" kids on Amazon today. One kid broke my heart with her wish for "warm clothes and boots" and a book. She's getting two outfits, a book (George & Martha) and a Barbie. The other kid is getting the same book, a set of play dishes, and two sets of play food (one canned goods; one boxes), as she requested. Done!
I feel guilty because I really fucked up this parenting thing yesterday. I took DS to his favorite indoor playground, and while he was playing he met a little boy about a year or so older ( so maybe 4.5) They were running around, and the boy was chasing DS and I saw DS turn around and just smack him in the face. I pulled DS out and put him in time out and he was so so angry and kept hitting me and crying. When he calmed down I told him he could have one more chance and he ran off and then came back over and hit me AGAIN. So we left. He only got to play for 40 minutes.
We got all the way home & he told me that the little boy was chasing him all around and hitting him, and pushing and saying mean things. He asked him to stop but the boy kept chasing him so he turned around and hit him back.
I asked why he didn't tell me and he said " Mommy I love you, but you yell sometimes."
Great, he's FRICKEN 3 and he can't tell me stuff because I am mean. Awesome!
I'm so over Christmas already. I'm just not feeling it this year at all. I mean, I want shop and stuff for my kids and h, and spend time doing fun stuff with THEM, but I'm sorta feeling like everyone else can go fuck themselves (especially a few members of H's family). Lol. Grinchy?
We are still in NOLA. Last night was SO MUCH FUN. We went to Frenchmen's Street and saw a ton of amazing live music. There was a row of poets with typewriters on the street and we had one of them write us a poem about quantum physics (LOL). I also bought a cool stamped necklace with NOLA on it. This has been such a fun trip and I'm so sad to leave!