It's Monday...

[leap]

186momx, thanks! I'm really hoping we get some help from mother nature soon, too. I think all the firefighters are starting to get fatigued and I am so sick of smoky air.

[msn06]

We are in a holding pattern at work for our field crews. They crews have been directed to get packed for storm work and then sit and wait for assignment. I have 70 guys waiting to find out where they are being sent in FL.

[mommyatty]

Update: good convo with boss. Backstory- he told me he feels I get too quiet and emotional when I'm given negative feedback. The problem is that he's told me in the past not to try to explain or correct his misconceptions when he gives advice. So instead, I sit there, getting frustrated while he gives me advice that makes me go "well no shit, if only I had taken that tack. Oh yeah. I did. And it failed." And frustration when I have to bottle it up comes out as me blinking back tears. So today I told him it would be helpful if he would ask questions about how I had handled something before assuming I had not approached it in the way he would have preferred. And that I don't ever want to explain to him for fear he will think I'm making excuses or arguing. I think we came to a good conclusion. I hope.

[rere]

And my kid left his practice gear on the bus, so I just spent my lunch driving to the bus garage and to the high school. Kids man...

[katrine05]

This weekend was super busy, I barely got a chance to sit down and relax. All the life admin work is currently overwhelming me. DD came home with a stack of papers to go through for school, sign and return, fees, hot lunch options, fundraisers etc etc. She's going to a French school so everything came home in French. DH doesn't speak it, so it's going to fall 100% on me. She also has 2 birthday parties coming up that I need to get gifts for, and planning DS's 1st birthday party in 2.5 weeks. We're having a big bbq for all family and friends since we just moved and everyone wants to see our new house. So I'm doing a combo birthday/housewarming. Good thing my actual workload is minimal since they are easing me back in.

[judyblume14]

mommyatty, we have been potty training my daughter for about 2 months now. She has been completely accident free during the day from basically the start. But, we still wake her up one time each night to go.

She goes to be around 8, and we wake her up around 11 or midnight to have her pee. The only time she's had accidents are when we don't wake her (duh). We need to figure out how to wean the middle-of-the-night-potty-break though.

[mellym]

Weekend was okay - DD1 was really tired and cranky Friday night after her first week of K. DH did yard work most of Saturday while I went grocery shopping and took care of the kids and then went to a friends for dinner. DH had a golf outing Sunday and then I met him at my parents house to watch the football game. I forgot how loud my Dad is during games and it's not easy to watch the game at someone else's house with needing to keep an eye on the kids. DH checks out during football so basically wasn't really 'there' all weekend. I think I'm just sick of being pregnant too.

Vent - My mom made me feel bad when I told her we are just doing a small party for DD2 turning three. She wants her to have a big party with lots of people there and friends like DD1's and doesn't understand why we wouldn't do that. Hello, I'm going to be 9 months pregnant and she's three. My SIL stuck up for me since they just do our family for her kids' parties and then my mom turned on her that they should have a big party for my nephew's birthday too. I find it really ironic considering we never had birthday parties growing up.

[mellym]

Sept 11, 2017 12:08:49 GMT -5 judyblume14 said:

mommyatty , we have been potty training my daughter for about 2 months now. She has been completely accident free during the day from basically the start. But, we still wake her up one time each night to go.

She goes to be around 8, and we wake her up around 11 or midnight to have her pee. The only time she's had accidents are when we don't wake her (duh). We need to figure out how to wean the middle-of-the-night-potty-break though.

This is what my SIL has started to do too and is having success.  My nephew is basically sleep walking to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night so he goes right back to bed.

[freezorburn]

First day of kindergarten today! Dropoff went really well. They had a special reception for parents in the courtyard and DS was a bit overwhelmed by the crowd, so he pulled out his earmuffs for that. Then he took them off when it was time for the kids to go inside.

I'm spending my morning researching the whole Equifax thing and what to do about it. Also, apparently my data got lost over the summer by WSU, who I have no connection with, so when I got a letter from the over the summer I thought it was a phishing scam. And I had been lax about following up since learning a few weeks ago that it is a real thing. I'm researching and coming up with some conflicting advice about whether to sign up for the Equifax monitoring service. What to do, what to do.

[mommyatty]

judyblume14- We are taking her when we go to bed. She's still wet half the time. And she's 5. She's been day trained for over 2 years. Poor punkin. I really do think we broke her when we kept her in night Pull-Ups.

[traveltheworld]

Sept 11, 2017 12:41:29 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

judyblume14 - We are taking her when we go to bed. She's still wet half the time. And she's 5. She's been day trained for over 2 years. Poor punkin. I really do think we broke her when we kept her in night Pull-Ups.

If it makes you feel any better - DS is 5 too and is no where close to being night trained.  Day training was a breeze and I was hoping that night training will come on its own.  We had to take him out of pull-ups and back into diapers because he was/is soooo wet with pull-ups that they all "over-flow".

I talked to his pediatrician who said not to even try to train unless he can wake up dry 75% of the time.  So far we are at 0%.

I'm going to worry about it if it's still not better by the time he is 6.

[katrine05]

Sept 11, 2017 12:52:07 GMT -5 traveltheworld said:

Sept 11, 2017 12:41:29 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

judyblume14 - We are taking her when we go to bed. She's still wet half the time. And she's 5. She's been day trained for over 2 years. Poor punkin. I really do think we broke her when we kept her in night Pull-Ups.

If it makes you feel any better - DS is 5 too and is no where close to being night trained.  Day training was a breeze and I was hoping that night training will come on its own.  We had to take him out of pull-ups and back into diapers because he was/is soooo wet with pull-ups that they all "over-flow".

I talked to his pediatrician who said not to even try to train unless he can wake up dry 75% of the time.  So far we are at 0%.

I'm going to worry about it if it's still not better by the time he is 6.

We're in the exact same situation. DD will be 5 in December and has not woken up dry once in her life. She's been day trained since 2.5. I'm not going to worry about it for another year or so.

[2chatter]

FWIW we didn't even go to the ped urologist until DD was 8, closer to 9. She does have a bladder issue, but they prefer to wait until 8+ to test because so many issues resolve by that age. We are almost ten, medicated with zero daytime issues and a wet pull-up every night. Hang in there!

freezorburn can you please share your conclusions on Equifax? I'm ... too lazy to figure it out.

[saraml13]

Sept 11, 2017 13:10:21 GMT -5 2chatter said:

FWIW we didn't even go to the ped urologist until DD was 8, closer to 9. She does have a bladder issue, but they prefer to wait until 8+ to test because so many issues resolve by that age. We are almost ten, medicated with zero daytime issues and a wet pull-up every night. Hang in there!

freezorburn can you please share your conclusions on Equifax? I'm ... too lazy to figure it out.

Not freezorburn, but my data was lost by Equifax and I don't plan to sign up for the free credit monitoring.  The fine print for the free credit monitoring contains a binding arbitration clause, which I'm not willing to sign.  They put out a marketing statement that they aren't going to enforce the arbitration clause in relation to the data breach, but my understanding is that isn't legally binding.  DH is more of a privacy fanatic than I am and is planning to look for class action lawsuits to join.

[twinmomma]

Sept 11, 2017 13:15:46 GMT -5 saraml13 said:

Sept 11, 2017 13:10:21 GMT -5 2chatter said:

FWIW we didn't even go to the ped urologist until DD was 8, closer to 9. She does have a bladder issue, but they prefer to wait until 8+ to test because so many issues resolve by that age. We are almost ten, medicated with zero daytime issues and a wet pull-up every night. Hang in there!

freezorburn can you please share your conclusions on Equifax? I'm ... too lazy to figure it out.

Not freezorburn , but my data was lost by Equifax and I don't plan to sign up for the free credit monitoring.  The fine print for the free credit monitoring contains a binding arbitration clause, which I'm not willing to sign.  They put out a marketing statement that they aren't going to enforce the arbitration clause in relation to the data breach, but my understanding is that isn't legally binding.  DH is more of a privacy fanatic than I am and is planning to look for class action lawsuits to join.

Thanks! Add me to the too lazy club. And DH's response was "Ok. Pretty sure our date is already compromised 1,000 times over by now. Whatever." 

[frozenpeas]

Also not freezorburn, but the Equifax arbitration clause gives me pause. I'm not sure what I'll do about it, but one option I need to look into is putting a freeze on my credit. I need to find out if there are any ramifications I don't want to deal with.

[mustardseed2007]

Sept 11, 2017 12:52:07 GMT -5 traveltheworld said:

Sept 11, 2017 12:41:29 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

judyblume14 - We are taking her when we go to bed. She's still wet half the time. And she's 5. She's been day trained for over 2 years. Poor punkin. I really do think we broke her when we kept her in night Pull-Ups.

If it makes you feel any better - DS is 5 too and is no where close to being night trained.  Day training was a breeze and I was hoping that night training will come on its own.  We had to take him out of pull-ups and back into diapers because he was/is soooo wet with pull-ups that they all "over-flow".

I talked to his pediatrician who said not to even try to train unless he can wake up dry 75% of the time.  So far we are at 0%.

I'm going to worry about it if it's still not better by the time he is 6.

This is us with DS. He's going to be 6 in December so...I'm going to start to worry soon. We did try for a few days on his prompting and he had an accident every single day.

DD (ag 3) on the other hand does wake up dry 80% of the time. But if we put her to bed in panties and he went to bed in a diaper he'd feel really bad about himself...

[sudokufan]

This has just been the Monday-est of Mondays. There was H's key fiasco, I was late to work, later due to trying to find parking, forgot stuff in my trunk that I was supposed to bring in, met with unreasonable request that I barely got done by the 1pm due time only to be told they weren't ready and to stop the started train, which I did, then got an email asking why was the train stopped (metaphorically), missed lunch, made popcorn, started the train back up, spilled popcorn all over and finally said screw it and paid JJ to be crazy fast.

I want a do over.

[freezorburn]

frozenpeas, saraml13, 2chatter, I am going to start a separate thread about Equifax.

[xctsclrx]

My husband left his laptop at his brother's house 3 hours away. . .

[2chatter]

mustardseed2007 - I worried about the whole "my three year old brother doesn't wear pull ups at night" thing but DD really wasn't phased. She went with "everyone is different" and if you start that messaging now it won't be an issue with sleepovers down the road. DD does sleepovers, sleep away camps, camping trips - and just manages her pull ups based on the situation. I always pack gallon size ziplocks so she can store the wet ones until she can discreetly dispose of them.

[traveltheworld]

Sept 11, 2017 14:26:58 GMT -5 2chatter said:

mustardseed2007 - I worried about the whole "my three year old brother doesn't wear pull ups at night" thing but DD really wasn't phased. She went with "everyone is different" and if you start that messaging now it won't be an issue with sleepovers down the road. DD does sleepovers, sleep away camps, camping trips - and just manages her pull ups based on the situation. I always pack gallon size ziplocks so she can store the wet ones until she can discreetly dispose of them.

Agreed.

DS knows all his friends are in underwear, but seems un-phased by it.  We really enforce the "you can do things other kids can't do, and other kids can do things you can't do" message.  During a recent camping trip, a kid teased DS about it, I waited to see if DS would be hurt, but DS went back with "but I can whistle and you can't!  It's not a big deal"  I was a proud mama.

[rere]

Sept 11, 2017 12:52:07 GMT -5 traveltheworld said:

Sept 11, 2017 12:41:29 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

judyblume14 - We are taking her when we go to bed. She's still wet half the time. And she's 5. She's been day trained for over 2 years. Poor punkin. I really do think we broke her when we kept her in night Pull-Ups.

If it makes you feel any better - DS is 5 too and is no where close to being night trained.  Day training was a breeze and I was hoping that night training will come on its own.  We had to take him out of pull-ups and back into diapers because he was/is soooo wet with pull-ups that they all "over-flow".

I talked to his pediatrician who said not to even try to train unless he can wake up dry 75% of the time.  So far we are at 0%.

I'm going to worry about it if it's still not better by the time he is 6.

Our pediatrician said not to worry and it was usually hereditary and they will stop around the time the others in their family stopped. Their bladder just hasn't caught up to them and don't even try to train. Dh was all like, no one in my family has an issue. I did't remember me or my younger brothers having an issue, and they slept with me. Then Dh's older sister comes in and I tell her. She informed me that Dh wet the bed till 8, because she had to wash the sheets. Lo and behold, DD stopped having issues right at 8. His memory on his childhood is never helpful or correct.

[erinshelley21]

Celebration: our sort of buyer may have a WFH processing job for me. That would be ideal. I actually love the keying part of what I do. Friday when I asked him he made it sound like they might not but he just called my brother and mentioned that if they get our agency and one other agent then they would need me.

[erinshelley21]

Also, DS is almost 4 and I anticipate him being in pull ups at night until he is like 8. DH was a bed wetter

[mae0111]

We used pull-ups over PJs with DD1. We would put her to bed in undies, wake her around 1030 to pee, and put a pull up on her. She HATED wet undies, so this worked well. She would beat herself up if she had an accident, but she just slept so hard that she wouldn't wake up when she had to go.

DD2 REFUSED to wear pull ups EVER. So that was a mess until she got the hang of it.

My nephew is 12 and finally stayed dry on the regular about 2 years ago. He still has accidents when he's super tired. Just the way he's wired.

[shakinros]

A late random. TW for 9/11.

DD came home from K yesterday and told us it was Patriots Day. Here's how she relayed what Patriots Day is: "a long, long time ago, two planes flew into the twin towers and lots of heroes came to help as many people as they could."

I'm boggling. Had not yet engaged with the idea that seminal moments of history that I vividly remember will now be taught in kid-friendly ways at school.

[twinmomma]

Sept 12, 2017 5:19:51 GMT -5 shakinros said:

A late random. TW for 9/11.

DD came home from K yesterday and told us it was Patriots Day. Here's how she relayed what Patriots Day is: "a long, long time ago, two planes flew into the twin towers and lots of heroes came to help as many people as they could."

I'm boggling. Had not yet engaged with the idea that seminal moments of history that I vividly remember will now be taught in kid-friendly ways at school.

Ugh. This just made me cry at my desk. 

I feel the same way. DH finally has students this year who weren't even born yet when it happened, and it's just so jarring to think about.