Monday (@) Randoms

[summer]

DD 1 has high cholesterol. She's 7.

[eponinepontmercy]

Oh, no! What can they do to treat it at that age? Is there a genetic component?

DD turned 4 in September, and size 5 shirts from Carter's are too tight. We need to start putting our feet down about healthy choices.

She was a terror yesterday and then gave me a hard time about picking a snack for the car on the way to school. I reacted terribly and was almost crying in the car while driving her to school. I need to figure out a way to keep from getting so angry while she pushes every available button.

[2curlydogs]

The Two Year Old Terror was in fine form this morning. I had to wrestle him into his coat and then the car seat. Blergh.

The Five Year Old is SO much attitude lately. He growled at me this morning. I was like "Growl all you like. You still aren't getting more juice."

Apparently everyone in my house hates Mondays.

[meshaliuknits]

Dec 14, 2015 10:23:07 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

The Two Year Old Terror was in fine form this morning. I had to wrestle him into his coat and then the car seat. Blergh.

The Five Year Old is SO much attitude lately. He growled at me this morning. I was like "Growl all you like. You still aren't getting more juice."

Apparently everyone in my house hates Mondays.

What is it with the growling! My 5yo does that too.

Also, H called her a dork last night which resulted in many, many tears. I looked at him "dude, you shouldn't have called her that. Go apologize." He did and all was well but he was TOTALLY just gonna let her cry for something that he shouldn't have done.

[meshaliuknits]

I want you all to know that BoyLiu is running around the house with a microphone singing "IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!"

[SallyJ]

My DS has become a disrespectful asshole in the last 3ish months. He is on restriction for pretty much everything and we are setting up a 'caught you doing a good job' so that we can see if it is a perception issue for us or if he will constantly need to earn things. I strongly dislike parenting when it's like this.

[hopecounts]

First World problem but I am REALLY bummed that FIL can't take or pick up DD tomorrow (he works an hour away where her school is).
She was suppossed to spend the night so DH and I could go shop and have a date night then he would just drive her from their house. Which means I would get to sleep in.
Instead I have to get up at 5:30 and then kill time for 9 hrs before picking her up.

[2curlydogs]

Dec 14, 2015 10:38:40 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Dec 14, 2015 10:23:07 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

The Two Year Old Terror was in fine form this morning. I had to wrestle him into his coat and then the car seat. Blergh.

The Five Year Old is SO much attitude lately. He growled at me this morning. I was like "Growl all you like. You still aren't getting more juice."

Apparently everyone in my house hates Mondays.

What is it with the growling! My 5yo does that too.

I don't know.

And the thing was, they were ADORABLE all day Saturday. No bickering, no whining, Just really wonderful and sweet. Look! Photographic proof:






Then Sunday afternoon, POOF. Little assholes all over the place. I'm like "Why am I busting my tail making you monsters christmas cookies?"

[josieposy]

I'm having a love/hate relationship with FB this week. The girls turn 5 on Thursday, and all of my "on this day" posts are of me freaking out and having a meltdown in the hospital on bedrest because I knew they were going to be coming way too early. I don't think I ever really dealt with my feelings from all of that because I went from pure panic to NICU mom and way too busy to think about it.

Freaking FB. Ugh.

[josieposy]

Oh! I do have a brag though. I can't believe I almost forgot to post it here of all places.

The girls are really into She-Ra now, thanks to me. They asked for dolls for Christmas which of course all of my old ones are long gone. I did find some on ebay though!

[Deleted]

So Friday night, I had fun drinking with DH in the 'man cave;' I had brought down one of C's gifts (Transformers wallet) to show DH because it was so cute. I forgot it downstairs after all the wine, and on Sat morning I hid it between cushions in the couch down there so it would stay hidden until I could get it back upstairs when C wasn't around/paying attention. Then I forgot about it. Sunday afternoon, we're down there again and C asks 'what's this,' and pulls it out. Sigh. So I was honest and said it's one of his presents, I was hiding it. "Mom, you need to be a better hider." And he still wants me to wrap it for Xmas day too, lol. At least we've always told him that Santa brings one gift, and the rest are from us so it didn't ruin the magic yet.

[jln]

I dropped DS2 at MDO today. It's his first time with anyone besides me and Grandma. And he was not pleased.

Edited to change to DS2. Need caffeine!

[heyjude]

We are so stressed about K and she doesn't start until 2017.

Our assigned school keeps slipping in the rankings and (now it's ranked a 3 out of 10 despite an increased effort to improve it and increased funding). The public magnet we want is almost impossible to get into and also a really high maintenance (monthly parental meetings to discuss upcoming projects and homework in K! And if you miss one they hold a crisis intervention meeting. )

We are looking into inter district transfer but that's no guarantee.

And now we are contemplating just moving altogether to a better school district but holy housing prices in these better neighborhoods. But our other option is private and doesn't it make more financial sense to spend that private school money on a better school district and house?

It's been a consuming topic of conversation in our house and we feel so stressed about it.

I'm so effing pissed that this is the state of public education today.

[heyjude]

Also my newly minted 4 year old has become so sassy and mouthy and ungreatful lately.

[lg28]

Dec 14, 2015 12:30:24 GMT -5 jln said:

I dropped DS1 at MDO today. It's his first time with anyone besides me and Grandma. And he was not pleased.

It will be a good experience for both of you, promise.

[lg28]

My own random is that I'm going back to work part time in January. I hate being off.

[wawa]

Shorti has really taken off with the imaginative play thing. This weekend she made a rocket ship out of a nesting ball toy and a cardboard tube and some masking tape. That made facebook because it was hilarious. And then she was wearing one of my scarves as a cape and informed me that she was a princess. no a super hero. no a princess super hero!

me: well that's cool! What are your powers?
her: bananas.
me: so you're a princess superhero with banana powers?
her: yes.
me: I look forward to reading your comic book.

[meshaliuknits]

Dec 14, 2015 14:18:13 GMT -5 wawa said:

Shorti has really taken off with the imaginative play thing. This weekend she made a rocket ship out of a nesting ball toy and a cardboard tube and some masking tape. That made facebook because it was hilarious. And then she was wearing one of my scarves as a cape and informed me that she was a princess. no a super hero. no a princess super hero!

me: well that's cool! What are your powers?
her: bananas.
me: so you're a princess superhero with banana powers?
her: yes.
me: I look forward to reading your comic book.

I would like to pre-order it to ensure it's published.

[summer]

Dec 14, 2015 10:26:42 GMT -5 mr+ms said:

Is checking grade-schoolers' cholesterol standard these days? I'm kind of concerned that adult ranges for "healthy" levels are being applied to kids and also about symptom-chasing at an early age. If cholesterol is elevated are docs also looking at other things like blood sugar trends/glucose tolerance, body fat percentage, triglycerides? Are they looking for possible sources of inflammation that could be the source of elevated cholesterol?

I don't know. I will bring all of these points up with the specialist. Thanks!

They wanted to blood test DD2 who just turned 2 for high cholesterol also. I said no.

[summer]

Dec 14, 2015 11:10:03 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Dec 14, 2015 10:38:40 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

What is it with the growling! My 5yo does that too.

I don't know.

And the thing was, they were ADORABLE all day Saturday. No bickering, no whining, Just really wonderful and sweet. Look! Photographic proof:

Then Sunday afternoon, POOF. Little assholes all over the place. I'm like "Why am I busting my tail making you monsters christmas cookies?"

I've given up on all Christmas expectations. Every year I say, "Let's do this Christmas craft!" or "Let's make cookies!!!" and it always ends with tears and tantrums and/or me and H not speaking. My Christmas narrative never turns out like all those damned commercials!!! Liars *pouts*

[ksun]

DD7 twisted her ankle at grandma's yesterday and put on a big show hopping around. Then she insisted when we got home that I wrap her ankle in toilet paper, because that's what you do for a "sprained" ankle. So, I did. With scotch tape. She also said she needed "crunches" to help her walk, and if I could find my "A's bandage" to put over the toilet paper, that would probably help, too.

But the TP and tape worked wonders and she's pain free and walking normal now.

[taratru]

I still have no idea what to get my 18 year old for Christmas. Cash isn't an option. Ugh.

We, both of us public school teachers, now have our kid in a charter school lottery. I am having SUCH a hard time with reconciling this. Our system is great, but it's fucking flawed for my kid, who is in private Montessori kindergarten right now because her birthday falls 13 days after our district cutoff, which has NO waivers. So my barely 5 year old, who can read chapter books, do simple division and multiplication, and knows geography better than her 6th grade sister, could be told she has to repeat kindergarten to be in our school district. How is this good for kids OR teachers? If she doesn't get into the charter (which is Montessori, which is why I'm doing it in the first place - she has done SO well with that philosophy), I'm going to lose my mind. If she has to repeat kindy, she will be bored to tears, which means she'll be a behavior problem.

I don't want to be that parent, but my 20 years has taught me that this is a spot where I have to and I have good reason to. It's stressing me out and we won't know until February. I'm trying SO hard to stay calm and hope for the best, but every time she comes home from school with another awesome learning, I realize what she could be missing.