I mentioned that my old company settled with the Dept of Labor for underpaying women. I've been waiting to see if I was one of the people named in the settlement.
I received a notification from UPS that the company has prepared a packing slip, and that I will have to sign for the package. Several other women that I assumed would be on the list have reported the same. I can't imagine what else it could possibly be, so I'm assuming it's a notification letter, which I would only receive if I'm part of the settlement.
Hope it comes soon. I'm dying to know if I'm a participant...
The patio is coming along. Looking forward to the spring when we can get our table, chairs and umbrella out of storage, it has been 5 years. I'm so glad that my H decided to hire someone to finish laying the brick. They got more done in one day with a crew than he got done in weeks.
judyblume14 I'm looking forward to hearing about your reiki (chicken reiki!) I have a discounted massage waiting to be scheduled from when I treated myself after solo parenting for a week with a high fever, when the massage therapist had to cancel. It was from like 4 months ago and I haven't carved out a time to reschedule. Mostly bc H has been working on this patio every weekend. I need to reschedule.
I thought I was done racing for the year with the exception of s 5k turkey trot, but I went on a 10 mile run in the rain and it felt so good I decided to join my friend and run another Half on the 18th. Only the 10 miler had hills and I went to fast downhill and my shins still hurt 5 days later. I have an early appt at PT to get dry needling done.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Nov 10, 2017 6:31:32 GMT -5
Just had parent teacher conferences today for my kids. DS' conference went really well. I feel like I know exactly what he's doing in class, the teachers are on top of everything, and his tutor is making everything better!
Unfortunately DD's did not go poorly...but it didn't go wonderfully. I just feel like at the moment she's having the kind of montessori experience people worry about their kids having. As in, she flits about the room, doing whatever. She's not interested in the work they are trying to get her to do b/c unlike DS she's totally not interested in blocks or building shapes (so for those who are familiar, an example is that she'll do the brown stairs if you really get on her, but she'd rather not), but she loves letters and numbers and cards (she'd rather do object to picture or even sandpaper letters). So what's happen is that she follows the kindergartners around watching them do their work and she's picking up on it, but they didn't realize she was picking up on it. It was news to them that she is able to go through a book about letters with me and identify all the letters by name and then ALSO correctly state the sounds for at least 50% of them. I can't say she's not learning but it's all indirect. Maybe that's ok...I was just really interested to see what happened when she got more formal lessons, but I'm still waiting for that to give. On the upside, the teachers were open to introducing those concepts to her so maybe we'll see something cool soon.
Also, after saying I was definitely doing public school with DS, I went ahead and toured a private school yesterday that another parent in our area was really saying was awesome. I toured it and it seems ok...they are billing themselves as being traditional education but with small classes and a culture that is more like our montessori school vs the public school we are zoned to. I'm intrigued. DH was very empty headed until I got him to start talking out loud about how much he hated school bc he was bullied and got swallowed up by it.
Unfortunately, he is now pro private school, but leaving the kids in the school they are in b/c things are going well with DS (and he thinks with DD it's going well). Right now, I'm not on board with that b/c DS is having trouble with that style of instruction and DD is not flourishing at the moment either. It's taken a LOT to get DS to this point there. I dunno...ask a man to have an opinion and he automatically gets the "wrong" one. Ha.
Endocrinologist appointment is today. I'm going to ask DS' doctor to prescribe growth hormones and ask about prescribing DD also. I'm nervous and interested to see what she says when I ask that, seeing as how they make enough. They have grown lately but they both still look like their at least a full year younger than their age and I'm pretty sure the growth chart will reflect that...we shall see.
I survived my "Professional Enrinchment Day" yesterday. It was such a waste of time. I left the house at 445 and got back just past 7pm. I had gotten less than 4 hours of sleep between both kids being up and DD was still feverish. Thankfully my mom stayed home with them and DH took over after lunch. Everyone was grumpy and miserable when I got home, including myself. I had a horrible headache and was nauseous I was so tired. We were all asleep by 830. Thankfully both kids slept well last night and I feel human again today.
Glad I'm off again today with the kids (pre-planned, school and daycare are closed). Didn't spend one day in the office this week. Hoping everyone gets healthy and next week can go back to normal.
Post by covergirl82 on Nov 10, 2017 9:09:32 GMT -5
Update on my coworker: She texted our manager late yesterday afternoon to say that she and the kids are home, and now she is working on setting up appointments and figuring out school. I am thinking that she might come back next week, but I almost hope she waits until after Thanksgiving to come back to give her lots of time to get her kids settled and reacclimated. She already has a counselor lined up who specializes in trauma, so that is a good step in the right direction.
Update on my coworker: She texted our manager late yesterday afternoon to say that she and the kids are home, and now she is working on setting up appointments and figuring out school. I am thinking that she might come back next week, but I almost hope she waits until after Thanksgiving to come back to give her lots of time to get her kids settled and reacclimated. She already has a counselor lined up who specializes in trauma, so that is a good step in the right direction.
This is a wonderful update! I was hoping everything would turn out well.
Post by erinshelley21 on Nov 10, 2017 12:06:26 GMT -5
covergirl82, I'm so glad they are finally home. Is she the type that wouldn't take time off until after Thanksgiving unless it was offered to her by the manager? It sounds like since she was working through the entire time her kids were gone that she is a hard and loyal worker. She might need a gentle nudge to be okay with taking the time off.
My Update: my dept. at work has been kind of falling apart due to staffing issues so Iβm back full time+ until the end of the year and have been for a couple months. H is being a champ about it and when he is in town has been great about taking a disproportionate number of kid field trips and whatnot.
My baby turns 3 next week. πππππππππππ
We decided to be done having babies (yβall remember my angst over that) and H is supposed to get a vasectomy because I needed my IUD out. He has not. Iβd forgotten how much condoms suck and about monthly think βa baby would be sweetβ so he better hurry it up.
My Update: my dept. at work has been kind of falling apart due to staffing issues so Iβm back full time+ until the end of the year and have been for a couple months. H is being a champ about it and when he is in town has been great about taking a disproportionate number of kid field trips and whatnot.
My baby turns 3 next week. πππππππππππ
We decided to be done having babies (yβall remember my angst over that) and H is supposed to get a vasectomy because I needed my IUD out. He has not. Iβd forgotten how much condoms suck and about monthly think βa baby would be sweetβ so he better hurry it up.
Haha my baby turns 3 next week too. We are now expecting another one due to him not getting his vasectomy and me being irresponsible with birth control so be careful!!!
waverly, I'm trying to figure out where all our money is going. This month I am going to try to get DH to give me all receipts for the month or at least dollar figures so I can track each expense. My budget shows us having an extra 800-1000 a month but the checkbook doesn't show this.
Still looking for a dishwasher. Now looking for a new car. The governor signed in a sales tax on new vehicle & bicycle purchases starting Jan 1 so if I am going to buy I want to do it before the tax goes into affect. Looking at a small sedan Corolla, Civic, Camry, Focus, Prius, etc. Any opinions WPs?
DD missing coat was found on Monday! It was inside the piano in the music room. No idea how it got there and I feel like someone hid it on purpose but it is found. She is so happy to have it back but now refuses to wear it to school. The rain has set in so coats are now needed at the end of the day too so we haven't had any issues this week.
IοΈ have a 2016 prius and love it so much Iβd marry it. . We have 2 car seats in the back and are very comfortable in the front. The trunk space is amazing and IοΈ am averaging 54 mpg.
My Update: my dept. at work has been kind of falling apart due to staffing issues so Iβm back full time+ until the end of the year and have been for a couple months. H is being a champ about it and when he is in town has been great about taking a disproportionate number of kid field trips and whatnot.
My baby turns 3 next week. πππππππππππ
We decided to be done having babies (yβall remember my angst over that) and H is supposed to get a vasectomy because I needed my IUD out. He has not. Iβd forgotten how much condoms suck and about monthly think βa baby would be sweetβ so he better hurry it up.
Haha my baby turns 3 next week too. We are now expecting another one due to him not getting his vasectomy and me being irresponsible with birth control so be careful!!!
This is what Iβve been saying! Like, H, we have a history of poor impulse control in this area.
Things have been super busy at work and my boss is annoying the piss out of me. I don't think he's listening to me in our 1-on-1's (or maybe he's listening but not retaining the info) and then something goes poorly that I tried to prevent. Example: we have typically done annual goal-setting in a waterfall way. Start with the board for approving overall org goals, flow down to staff level goals. For this to work, we should have started working with staff in late September to source next year's work plans. No, he didn't want to do that. Ok. Well now the board needs goal statements and he's made all the staff dept heads scramble to get something done by Monday and sent an email that says "shakinros will work on aligning this better next year." Umm, I tried this year and you blew me off. If I work on it again, will you listen?
DD saw a play therapist to work on emotional outbursts in class and frustrational tolerance. We have a couple more sessions before I think we'll get much info. Next parent teacher conference is 11/21.
And after trying for a second kid all year, we're now seeing an RE. DH has low sperm count and is totally moping about it. This is like the worlds most unsurprising news, given his health issues of the last 5yrs. Waiting on my lab work to come back, and we need to schedule a consult then to discuss next steps.