If Monday were a number, it would be 1. The loneliest one.

[HeartofCheese]

Because it sucks! Let 'em rip!

ET: make it make sense now that I've had loads of caffeine.

[HeartofCheese]

I applied for a completely different job in a field I haven't studied since the mfing bar exam. It's entry level, but still. Divorce and a new job? I'm so smart.

I've also been battling kids in the bed since STBXH moved into the playroom 2 months ago. Now they are sick, so I'm up for 1.5-2 hours every night with one or both and then the other one will get up at 5am. Sometimes wet. It's a struggle.

[akafred]

Hang in there, HeartofCheese! Hope the job process goes well!

[Covergirl82]

Hope you day and week get better, HeartofCheese!

Vent 1 is that I got on to the ramp to get on the highway this morning, and all I saw were brake lights. Luckily, the accident was only about 1.5 miles away, but it still made me 15-20 minutes late.

Vent 2 is that DH's company picnic can be summed up in two words: hot, lines. It was about 90 degrees and everything was in a big open field with no trees. DD really wanted her face painted, and the line was, no lie, at least a 30 minute wait when we got there. Apparently they hired artists who thought they needed to spend 5-10 minutes per face. We ended up getting out of the line so she could actually do something else, and then got back in right at the end. The face painter spent no more than 30 seconds doing a rainbow-sweep thing and it looked cute. How hard would that have been to do on every kid, so the wait was more like 5 minutes instead of 30??

Other than that, it was a good weekend. DS had a good football game and the weather was great so we could do things outside yet.

[twinmomma]

I'm dealing with an ex employee being crazy in negative reviews online, so that's always a good start to the day and week.

We had a great weekend though at my cousin's wedding. Although I now have a combo of a cold catching up with me and exhaustion from drinking too much and staying up too late. My voice keeps cracking, so I think it's on its way out.

[justcheckingin73]

Tired. I'm so tired. It was a busy weekend plus I'm PMSing so tired is the word of the day (or maybe week).

We had fun at the Luke Bryan concert but DD was a little cranky for some reason, the lines for apparel was more than 30 minutes long, same for the bathrooms and DS couldn't hang so he and I left early to sit in the car. DD and DH came about a 1/2 hour later. Not sure I'll ever go back to that venue again.

Sunday, DH finished the hall bathroom with new flooring and a new toilet. He had previously put in a new cabinet and lights. It looks really good. 

Today is picture day for DS and he chose a button down shirt and tie. He looks so adorable. I can't wait to get the pictures!

[akafred]

Vent: Still eating crackers for DH. I can't seem to do anything right. Also I don't look forward to counseling tonight because I know we will be talking about some traumas. And Thursday is that awful DISC thing. Since I complained and said I was planning to be sick that day, they made it mandatory. Lovely.

Celebration: DD had a good football game Saturday. She still sucks, but her team is good. Her coach is a hardass. Maybe that is good. Still, there is something about a 40 year old man yelling at 8 year olds that they need to tighten up their game because they should have done better when the team won 18-0.

[phdmomma]

Vent: So tired, we took our window air conditioners out a few weeks ago because it was fall-like here, now it is in the '80's. DD wouldn't sleep in her bed because she was too hot, so she and I slept in the basement. And she kept kicking me, and waking up to make sure that I was still there.

Vent: We spent a ton of time getting ready for the roofers to come this weekend, and now they aren't coming until later this week. Which is fine, but we had quite the mad dash

[rere]

Our church picnic was this weekend. It was hot. I feel like I have been hit by a truck and ran over again. We had at least 180 cakes in my stand. Dd must have won 20 cokes. Good thing she doesn't really like them, but keeping Ds out of them may be a challenge. Plus I woke up around 2:30 am, and have been up since.

[mommyatty]

We made it through the double-party weekend. Yippee!

And DH bought a tux on Saturday morning. He was so stressed about finding one. He's a gigantic guy, and he wears a 48 long, which is hard to find. Also, he's not fat, but he used to be, so he has trouble finding pants that fit around his middle, where he has a lot of extra skin. I've offered up plastic surgery to take care of that, but he is terrified of something going wrong. I won't lie, I am too, so I'm a-okay with his decision. But it's hard to see him struggle with body image when he worked so hard and lost almost 140 lbs.

I have a RTR dress coming this week. I'm hoping it works because I get back from a business trip on Friday and our event is Saturday. So if it doesn't fit or looks awful, I'm screwed. I have no backup plan. Oh, and I need to find a place to get my hair done because I don't know how to do my own hair. I suck at being a girly girl.

[saraml13]

The main event this weekend was our block party. The boys had a lot of fun, other than DS2 falling and scraping his face 5 minutes into it. Our area is turning over and there are a lot of new-ish families with young kids. ILs crashed the block party for awhile, which was annoying, but I mostly ditched them and left DH to deal. DH let DS1 stay out until nearly 10:00 watching a movie with the other kids.

DH and I were on each other's nerves most of the weekend. I'm stressed out about going back to work next week and the fact that DH has gotten spoiled and used to be doing 95% of the household drudge work. So I get annoyed with him over the inefficient special projects he does do (the elaborate meat loaf that required 2 hours of prep). Then DH is annoyed with me for being annoyed with him, which just makes him even less helpful. He's out of town all this week on a work trip. I'm half relieved to have him out of my hair and half annoyed that I get stuck with more single parenting while I have a massive to-do list.

And a final vent: We're in the middle of a heat wave and one of our A/C units isn't working. Of course these things only happen when DH is out of town. He wants to just leave it and wait to get it serviced next spring (because it will just break again over the winter?), but he's not the one who is going to be home for a string of 89 degree days in the forecast.

[erinshelley21]

I have to tell you guys this to get through my celebration and vent... DH thinks the current deal on the table is unfair to me and favors my brother more. That might be true, but I view it more as a compromise. It's created some tension because DH thinks I deserve exactly 50% after everything I've poured into this agency. While I don't disagree, I'm also done and if I end up with 35-40% then that's fine too because it means I'm done and can focus on myself and my family.

Celebration: DH and I had a great weekend. It was one of the best I've had in a long, long time. We had so much fun together Friday and Saturday. We talked about my work situation a bit without any frustration which was a nice change of pace.

Vent: He went over to his BFF's house last night to give him a ride back after he drove our mower home and his BFF asked him how selling/not selling was going, which just brought up all of DH's grumpiness towards the situation. He avoided talking to me for a while, was short with DS, did the "I'm fine" when I asked him what was wrong. He finally told me what happened. He ended up snapping out of it but as he walked out the door this morning he asked me to write down the numbers for both offers for best case scenario (meaning no one cancels) so he can see it on paper. I just did that and sent him a picture. The total for both offers is the exact same. I hope he can move on now.

[k3am]

I'm at work today. It's a celebration and a vent.

[justcheckingin73]

saraml13, sending good thoughts your way for an easy transition back to work. It was tough going back after I was unemployed so be kind to yourself. And I hope your dh steps up. I remember having similar adjustments with DH. Yes, you now have to help around the house again.

erinshelley21, good luck with everything! It will be such a relief when it's done.

[mustardseed2007]

I made it here. Hoorah.

I'm aghast at what didn't happen yesterday that should have happened.

Saturday was a tight schedule. H was supposed to attend a soccer informational meeting and then take DD to gymnsatics while I got a chance to get in my first bike ride since before the hurricane, and probably my last rid of the triathlon season b/c of kids sports. I rode my bike, came home and DD isn't dressed and DH is in the shower and it's 15 minutes before class starts. Since I had on a clean shirt I threw her outfit on her and got there right as class was about to start. Then when I get home i get my shower and we go to DH's college reunion. Which was great but also long. There was free wine though.

Sunday, I get in my run, and when I get home DH leaves for a card game that I thought was over at 2, but really wasn't over until 6. So basically everything we didn't do Saturday we also didn't do Sunday and now I'm way behind b/c I kept thinking he'd be home and somehow he just never was.

[shakinros]

Returning from Orlando this morning. Magical Express Bus: not exactly Express. They picked me up at my hotel at 920. It is now 10:50. We are approaching airport grounds but not yet at the terminal. My flight is at 12:05.

Free is not worth this stress. Be forewarned, WPs!

[mustardseed2007]

shakinros, they'll get you there. It does take forever though. Sorry your trip is over. My mom actually left for Disney World today. I'm so jelly.

[twinmomma]

Mini celebration: DH and I were talking about how to celebrate our 10th anniversary this weekend as we were caught up in the celebration of the wedding we were at. We threw out the idea of taking a family trip to Ireland and renewing our vows there with the kids. I've actually found two different companies that offer packages for that type of thing! So I reached out to get quotes. We have 2 years to save up for it, so I'm curious to see if we can actually pull it off. I bet we can!

[ilovelucyvv]

Celebration that Monday is usually one of the quieter days at work for me? This week is going to be super busy though.

[xctsclrx]

My child has found a new way not to use the potty and not get in trouble. Now he pees in his pull up when he wakes up and before he calls for us. Then holds it until he gets his nap pull up and then holds it again until night time pull up.

He might pee one other time in the potty. ugh. stubborn stubborn child. On a side not. If your child can go from 630-700 am to 200pm without peeing would you call the doctor? He was well hydrated. (pee was white when he did go) I just don't think this is normal for a kid.

[sudokufan]

Vent - I'm so frustrated with the car dealership where we bought our new car. We never got a payment book from the bank, and when we called them, they didn't even have us on file. Turns out the dealership didn't complete the paperwork correctly! It's been a month, and they didn't even notice until we called to ask WTF. The finance guy isn't returning my phone calls, no one is ever at their desk, and I couldn't even get through to the manager. I'm siccing H on them after work.

[Covergirl82]

twinmomma, that sounds amazing!! DH and I want to take a family trip to Ireland someday. Maybe for our 15th anniversary, which would be in about 4 years.

shakinros, I agree! They should just call it the Magical Bus, LOL.

[twinmomma]

Covergirl82, It's a country that DH and I didn't get to visit when we backpacked Europe. Our plans for that stop fell through and we ran out of money. I'm super Irish (even Irish step danced competitively growing up) so it would be a really great family trip. We want to do something more special than just a trip to an all inclusive resort.

[mustardseed2007]

sudokufan, free car?

It never works like that, though, does it? Ugh.

[186momx]

xctsclrx, DD has always been able to hold her pee for a long time even as a newly trained early 2 year old. She goes 12+ hours each night and lately will wait an hour or more after waking up to pee so we are back to reminding her to pee in the mornings. I would say she only pees 2 or 3 times a day. Now feed her a bunch of watermelon and she is peeing 20 minutes later.

Celebration/Vent: We got all the new grass seed planted yesterday and it started raining last night! My back is killing me from all the bending over that was needed to spreed the peat moss.

DD didn't want to go to school today. She was trying to tell me she was sick and too tired to go. She was asked over the weekend how school was and her reply was boring. This was right after we had a long discussion of animal husbandry and the morals of why fixing an animal to not have babies is sometimes the right choice.

[xctsclrx]

186momx, That makes feel a lot better Thank you!

[waverly]

Celebration- We for the most part had a great weekend. Had date night and church and enrolled the kids in Sunday school. DS went to his first Sunday school for first graders and stayed for part of the service. We used to have to drop him off before anything starts. He was nervous, but did great. He was freaking a little about going up front, was scared and didn't want to, but then was worried if he didn't go so he eventually went up and then to Sunday school with the rest of the kids.

Vent- DH has a man cold, and is driving me crazy. He was too sick to take DS to boy scouts. I did that, and I was upset about it, but it was nice sitting outside with a nice breeze talking to well mostly the dads, but whatever. So I guess it is partly a celebration that things are starting to gel a little bit with the Boy Scouts since I am not great with new things, and like it when I am used to something for a while.

Back at work which is also a vent and a celebration just to get out of the house.

DH is home today and tomorrow and then starts a new job Wednesday. So many new jobs. He has had like 4 in the last 2-3 years. But 2 were not his fault- don't even work for private equity ok, like seriously never do that. Its terrible.   This one he left of his own violation because of the commute and more money. So it's a little stressful on us both but mostly on him. Pray it all works out since it has been a bumpy 3 years.

Celebration- I am starting to get more RSVPs in for DS's party.  

[polecat8]

It's Monday and I am tired. DS2 barely slept last night and I have no idea why. It has been rough this morning.

On Saturday, DD had a softball game and then we went to my niece's birthday party. DD ended up getting sick at the party with heat exhaustion, so we headed home a little early.

On Sunday, I took the kids over to my parent's new place to help them unpack. I also helped my brother install their new microwave over the stove. DH stayed at home to get some chores done.

[sweetptater]

Celebration - It was a gorgeous weekend, highs in the 80s (in MI!). We had friends over for the weekend and had a great time.

Vent - I am not in my 20s anymore. Or even my early 30s. I am so exhausted from eating and drinking all weekend and staying up late drinking on Saturday night. The sad part is, "late" was only 1 AM. Ugh. When did I get so old? I need sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

[katrine05]

Celebration - I think we found renters for our property! They want the whole house (it's suited), which we are fine with, less hassle trying to find two sets of people and hoping they get along.

Vent - DS has a cold. Made it two weeks at daycare. Sleep was shit last night. I spent most of the night on the floor in his room. My eyes are blood shot and I feel like I'm getting sick.