Aug 19th weekend

[awick14]

Any plans for the weekend?

We just got home last night and DH was off again this morning. He was at a friends at 6:45am as they are going out of town for the day today for a friends bachelor party. They are going to be gone from 7am-6pm. Then they are doing dinner at a friends and then hanging out their all night and spending the night. So DD and I are spending most of the weekend just the 2 of us.

DH did say that he may come home late tonight as our friends place is only 3 blocks away and he can stumble here. I told him nope, I want the bed/house all to myself. He snores too loud after a few drinks.

Other then going to dinner tonight at dhs aunts house. (We won't stay long as it's an outdoor BBQ and it's smokey again today)

[katespade]

Slept in this morning, headed to the gym in a few minutes, then going to a wedding tonight. No plans tomorrow, other than the gym. Staying home to avoid the traffic and nonsense before the eclipse on Monday.

[bk1]

It's DH's birthday. G is still sick so I don't want to leave her for us to go out. My mom is going to deliver food from wherever we want so that's awesome.

Taking it easy and just doing a few things around here. Boring but not much we can do. 

[luv2rn4fun]

Happy birthday to your DH bk1. Sorry G is still sick and you guys can't really celebrate 🙁

awick14- hope you have a nice weekend with your DD!

Usual Sat morning of taking C to the park. Then we all went on a walk. Boys are napping now before a birthday party for our next door neighbor (he's turning 3).

Tomorrow we are going to breakfast at the bagel place I go to inn monday mornings. I have a BOGO coupon for egg sandwiches so we will get those and coffee! I will probably take C to the park again in the morning. Not sure what else we will do but need to get the boys out for something in the afternoon.

[amaranth]

ANNOUNCEMENT: the bathroom is done. I hand the torch off to ewall technically it isn't done because in the process of installing the vanitu the mirror was ruined and removed, so I need to buy a new mirror. But I can do my jobs quickly.


@my kids are being so poorly behaved in every way. They won't sleep, keep crying, won't obey, are making messes somehow while throwing fits. Plus we have company. I'm over it.

[katespade]

amaranth - YAY!!!

[pooh8402]

WOOHOO amaranth!

E is sicker than yesterday. Fever up higher, he's cranky, his voice is hoarse, and his cough is croupy. He's taking a shower with DH right now, and I have lemon and honey in his water. I'll also rub on the baby Vicks and run the humidifier.

[bk1]

Woohoo amaranth!!! Time to celebrate!! (almost) 

pooh8402 I hope he gets to feeling better soon. Poor guy.



A guy DH worked with when traveling is staying not far from here. I'm encouraging DH to meet up with him. It would be good for him to get out of town and see an old friend.

[katespade]

pooh8402 - I'm sorry to hear that E is sick. I hope he starts feeling better soon!!

[awick14]

Yay amaranth!!

I'm sorry he's sick pooh8402.

DH and I are spending the day organizing my ils basement so we can move back in next weekend.

[krystee]

Sick kid here too. Yesterday we were out of town when he projectile vomited at a restaurant (including quite a bit on me). We drove home and it went smoothly, but the fever is back now. Ugh.

[bk1]

krystee Hope he is better soon!


I just went to an open house with my mom. First one we have seen that could actually be a possibility for her and my grandma to live together. Plus, it's only 3 miles from my house!

Getting ready to wake kids and go to the ILs. They are doing better but not 100%. Good enough for going for birthday celebration at least. 

[luv2rn4fun]

Hope J feels better krystee.

pooh8402- how is E today?

bk1- will your mom put an offer in? That's exciting!

Thought of you yesterday amaranth! I was talking to my aunt about L's bday and his onesie and my interest in learning to sew. Well, apparently her MIL is visiting and they were talking about all this and she told my aunt that she had bought a sewing machine from my mom (I never even knew my mom knew how to sew) and she says it's mine if I want it! I am excited...extra special because it was my moms! Now we just have to figure out how to get it from their house (same city as my ILs, 6 hours away) to ours! Probably won't be anytime soon but she is willing to hold onto it for me.

We went to breakfast this morning, took c to the park, went for a walk as a family, boys are napping now and then we will go to Costco!

[estrellita]

Hope all the kids are feeling better bk1, pooh8402, krystee!

Just got back from camping a bit ago. Exhausted, mostly mentally. Taking E camping wasn't a great idea! Lesson learned. But for the most part we had fun. I'm just relaxing now while E eats dinner (had a big/ late lunch, H and I aren't hungry) and excited for GoT tonight! For some reason I've been thinking this was the last season and felt relieved when I realized there was one more. So much story to get through!

[bk1]

Not sure luv2rn4fun. My mom has a realtor set up to come look at her house this week. My mom truly has no idea what her house is worth. She's been in it over 20 years and it's a pretty unique property. The house we looked at needs work but the layout is pretty ideal.

[luv2rn4fun]

estrellita- sorry camping with E wasn't a good idea and it was a difficult time. I can only imagine. I LOVE camping and it's something I have really missed (DH too) but I can't imagine doing it with the boys for awhile. They are both picky sleepers and the tantrums from C are ridiculous these days. Hopefully in 2-3 years, once they are done taking naps...or whenever we decide to break them of their white noise machine sleeping habit...

[awick14]

krystee, I hope he feels better soon.

No offense everyone but I hope you can keep all your germs to yourself. I don't want a sick DD.

What was the bad part of camping with E estrellita?

[estrellita]

awick14 Sleep was difficult.. Fri night the next site over was being loud so it took forever to get him to sleep, resulting in cranky spoiled child on Sat. He refused to nap and threw a few tantrums until he finally passed out for a bit in the camper. When he woke up he screamed for about 15 min about wanting a cookie (because MIL can't say no and gives him cookies whenever he wants one, I wanted him to eat something else). Then that night he was screaming his head off, hitting, etc because he was overtired but refused to sleep at like midnight. He finally passed out in the camper after probably waking everyone up. He also hates bugs and the neighbor's dog kept wandering over, which E was deathly afraid of even though it was a pretty nice dog. We had told them to keep their dog at their own site but they didn't care. It was just a mess and I left feeling like a terrible parent because E is such a spoiled brat sometimes, and he just won't calm down for us. I feel like I've tried everything but anything I do makes it worse. I've been really stressed at work so I was looking forward to a relaxing weekend but that didn't happen

[luv2rn4fun]

So many ((hugs)) estrellita. Sorry it was such a rough weekend. You are a great mom!!! We are having many similar moments with C so I totally feel you. We have tried everything and he still can be such a brat- nothing works and it's frustrating. He doesn't listen and can be so mean to L (he can also be so loving, but you never know which version of C you are getting). I hope this is just a long phase we are in or something clicks eventually.

[estrellita]

Thank you luv2rn4fun. I keep telling myself it's a phase, it's normal, and it'll eventually pass. But it's completely draining me. He was really difficult again this morning and I just cried the entire way to daycare. Then again after leaving him yelling at me to come back. It's exhausting and taking every little bit of strength I have left to push through it.

[luv2rn4fun]

Aug 21, 2017 11:01:03 GMT -5 estrellita said:

Thank you luv2rn4fun. I keep telling myself it's a phase, it's normal, and it'll eventually pass. But it's completely draining me. He was really difficult again this morning and I just cried the entire way to daycare. Then again after leaving him yelling at me to come back. It's exhausting and taking every little bit of strength I have left to push through it.

((Hugs)). I could have written this myself. It's very exhausting and draining. I was pretty much done with C by 7:30 this morning. Doesn't help that it was a rough night with L and I have basically been up since 3:15. My patience is thin and he's testing me on everything. Thankfully we have been having quality time now that L is napping so he's content for now...but that will change as soon as it's not all about him 100% of the time.

[estrellita]

*hugs* to you too luv2rn4fun! Toddlers are amazing but terrible all at once!

[awick14]

((estrellita)) that's so hard.