Thanksgiving TWERKS and randoms

[supertrooper1]

Happy Thanksgiving all! 

Any updates? Random thoughts? Annoying family drama you need to vent about? 

k3am , how do you like your eyebrows now that some time has passed? 

[waverly]

I may have updates on the destination wedding tomorrow. We see everyone tonight around 5. At least I am not hosting this year. Still lounging in my PJs, and I don't have to rush around cleaning the house and prepping.

I updated on other boards but not sure here. DS's OT eval came back and he apparently has motor planning issues, attention issues, sensory and core strength issues etc etc. They want to see him for 6-12 months. Boo. But I guess I am lucky I can get these services for him.


He is also testing in the 99th percentile academically, so I guess he is twice exceptional? Well certainly a challenge for me anyway.

DD is doing great.

[rere]

All blood test came back good, so thankful for health. I still need to deal with the anxiety this year has brought on in terms of health.

Pies done last night. Mac and cheese in the cockpot and banana pudding made . Mom won't let me bring anything noteworthy. Apparently I don't use enough bacon grease and lard in my cooking.

I have wine to share with MIL later. She takes holidays more in stride.

Currently, Dh is on the roof with a leaf blower which he claims has to do with Christmas lights.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!

[mommyatty]

DH has a 101 degree fever. BFF’s DS had a fever last night. They seem to have the exact same symptoms, so we are assuming everyone has the same virus, and they are coming over.

Luckily with DH down and out, the kids are being awesome. They’ve both been playing really nicely together and staying out of the way mostly. DD desperately wants to help with cooking. I let her help make the sweet potato soufflé, so she’s kind of had her fill. DS came in to help stir, and that’s about as much as he wants to do.

TWERK: a couple of months ago, I gave up soda, cold turkey. Today I tried drinking a Coke. It tastes awful, and it made my stomach feel weird. Yay!!! Maybe I’m finally over my lifelong soda addiction! I’m off to make some iced tea.

[librarychica]

My H is also sick. We can’t bring germs around the babies, elderly and immunocompromised at the inlaws so we stayed home. I put together some ribs to accompany our thanksgiving sides, everything came out well except for the yeast rolls, DD2 is resting since she decided to wake up at 4, DD1 and H are on the couch watching tV. I’m cleaning the kitchen.

Oh! And I scored a deal on nice comforter for DD1’s birthday and some sheet sets from JC Penney’s website.

[supertrooper1]

It's been a day. I'm trying to focus on the positive. The food was great today and our guests seemed to enjoy their visit. But DH was a jerk today with condescending comments all day long and being demanding and just grumpy in general.

Possible TW...



My uncle passed away yesterday after suffering a couple of stokes due to complications from cancer. My mom told me today while they were here. He was 73. My 54 year old cousin is also not doing well due to cancer spreading. He hasn't eaten in a few days so it looks like he doesn't have long either. FUCK CANCER.

[rere]

So sorry supertrooper1 . Cancer sucks!

[campermom]

I have to vent this. My third (2 years) is a difficult toddler.

DH walked in on daycare teacher yelling and responding somewhat aggressively out of frustration to DS. She snatched him up and hefted him over herself. He was sideways. Her tone was inappropriate. H addressed it like a champ and I'm so proud of him.

Bottom line: Video was pulled, teacher was written up, upon my suggestion she needs to take professional development on behavior management. Director agreed with that. Apparently Harsh tones are not new. My son has been pulled from her class and transferred to another class.

I hate this feeling.

[supertrooper1]

campermom, I'm sorry you had to deal with such a crappy teacher. I'm glad she was reprimanded and you got to switch rooms.

[campermom]

supertrooper1, oh I so sorry about the bad news! keeping you in my thoughts. Cancer does suck.

[k3am]

Nov 23, 2017 11:12:59 GMT -5 supertrooper1 said:

Happy Thanksgiving all! 

Any updates? Random thoughts? Annoying family drama you need to vent about? 

k3am , how do you like your eyebrows now that some time has passed? 

I'm meh oh them. They actually flaked/peeled off TOO much. (I went from OMG THESE ARE TOO DARK to WTF WHERE'D THEY GO?!?!)  I do like that I have a good idea of where to pencil in, and like the shape of them, but definitely need to pencil them in daily, which is what I was trying to get away from.

I go back for my touch up next week, which will be another week or so of screwing with my mind but hopefully fixing up the baldish patches. At least this time I'm prepared for it. I'm doing them on a Thursday, WFH Friday, so hopefully, when I head back to work, I'll be feeling less awful about how they look. The mental process was seriously hard and if I knew what I was in store for, I don't know if I'd have done them. 

[k3am]

poof

[supertrooper1]

I had training last week for fraudulent documents and imposters. The instructor kept telling us to focus on the eyebrows because they don't changed, and I kept thinking to myself, but k3am and others are doing microblading so they do change...lol.
Hopefully the touch up goes well next week.

[k3am]

supertrooper1, ahhahaha

Obviously they never saw my server at Applebee's yesterday... or any of the facebook ads for wonderbrow

[freezorburn]

I carved two (2) turkeys tonight. And I feel pretty darn awesome about it. That is all.

[mustardseed2007]

campermom, how did your DH respond? I'm trying to imagine what I would do, especially b/c I'm not usually good in the moment but I'm pretty good if i have time to plan.

[mustardseed2007]

Thanksgiving went well. Buying the turkey and most of the sides was not a 100% success but it was good enough that we will probably do it again with some modifications.

This is becoming a kind of sad time b/c my sister died right after thanksgiving a couple years ago. At least this time her ex husband didn't come to thanksgiving with his new wife. I hate that.

Also DS and DD played great with their cousin. I love that.

Also, I've cleaned out my whole closet and DH is going to take it all to good will for me I'm thrilled

[mommyatty]

Our food was awesome. But funny true story. I told DH to get an 8 lb turkey breast. We had 8 people total, including 2 small kids and one big kid. He got a 6 lb breast. We also had a little sliced ham (under 2 lbs). I was worried we wouldn’t have enough. Good lord, we didn’t even eat half of it! So those people who say “allow 1.5 to 2 lbs of turkey per person” are insane.

Or maybe other people don’t make eleventy billion sides like we do.

DH is still sick. I’m trying to think of something to do with the kids to get them out of the house so he can rest. He was a total trouper yesterday.

[campermom]

Nov 24, 2017 10:09:41 GMT -5 mustardseed2007 said:

campermom, how did your DH respond? I'm trying to imagine what I would do, especially b/c I'm not usually good in the moment but I'm pretty good if i have time to plan.

He said firmly, "I saw what you did, and I'm not happy about it." He picked him up, got his stuff in the cubby out the door and returned. She was apologizing. He thinks she knew that she was inappropriate. Then he said he told her he was going upstairs to discuss it with the director. She said yes, she was going to talk to her about it.

He went to the director and told her. Apparently her tone has already been an issue. I've thought that but haven't had enough to complain, like this. She pulled the video and it took a while to find it. He said "you know maybe I saw it wrong maybe it wasn't that bad" but when they saw it (director could not show him for privacy of other kids-it's a policy) she called him. He was home by that time.

That's when we were all able to talk to her together and she came up with the actions of writing her up (next issue a suspension), I suggested the class and she said she had already thought about that so agreed and then she offered to move him and we said yes.

[k3am]

mommyatty, who are these people recommending 1.5 lbs of turkey per person?

I'm pretty sure I eat... 4 oz of turkey. At the most. DH probably double that.

[k3am]

TWERK on DS.. because going a month without a trip to a specialist would be boring, right? After DS's 18 month appointment, we're being referred to an audiologist because of his lack of speech progression. He can say mama and dada, but not in reference to anyone or anything. So that's coming up on 12/13.

[vasc]

Is the 1.5# per person rule in case you're buying a whole bird to account for the carcass waste? If you're just buying a breast then yes it would be too much.

[supertrooper1]

Nov 24, 2017 11:33:08 GMT -5 vasc said:

Is the 1.5# per person rule in case you're buying a whole bird to account for the carcass waste? If you're just buying a breast then yes it would be too much.

Yes, because about half of the bird is the carcass. 

[186momx]

I'm pretty sure between my brother and sister they ate 5lbs of turkey yesterday and 3lbs of mashed potatoes. I guess they ate DD and my portion as we are maybe ate 10 small bites between us.
Yesterday was just really long and both DD and I crashed early last night. I have no motivation to do anything today.

No updates

[traveltheworld]

No updates. Basement still unfinished.

Random: Sometimes I amaze myself with how insecure and weird I am. This morning I came across a really good website that sends you good summaries / write-ups on specific practice areas, one of which was my old practice area. I immediately wanted to send that site onto the relevant practice group at my old firm as I think it'd be really helpful for them. But then I was worried that it would come across weird - of all the associates who have left the firm, hardly anyone has ever communicated/associated with the firm again after his/her departure. So I drafted and re-drafted that email to be less personal, added/deleted the recipients list, then emailed DH to ask him if he thinks that's weird. In all, I've now wasted so much time thinking through this...

[waverly]

SIL said she rented a communal kitchen so we can do all our meals together for the vacation/ wedding weekend- um nope. When H said something she told him he was cooking- double nope. When he mentioned the cost she didn't say they were paying or anything nor did she give us any specific details.

We did find a hotel DH has points for in the area. Hmm $0 or $1000? Tough one.

SIL also corrected our parenting about 15 times this weekend. She thinks she is so unique and outdoorsy oh and also an expert on children even though she doesn't have kids. It wasn't helping her case that we should vacation with her.

[mommyatty]

waverly- wow, that’s a tough one. Free hotel where you don’t have to use a communal kitchen or $1000 where you get to cook for a crowd. How ever will you choose?

[mustardseed2007]

Nov 24, 2017 11:19:43 GMT -5 campermom said:

Nov 24, 2017 10:09:41 GMT -5 mustardseed2007 said:

campermom , how did your DH respond? I'm trying to imagine what I would do, especially b/c I'm not usually good in the moment but I'm pretty good if i have time to plan.

He said firmly, "I saw what you did, and I'm not happy about it." He picked him up, got his stuff in the cubby out the door and returned. She was apologizing. He thinks she knew that she was inappropriate. Then he said he told her he was going upstairs to discuss it with the director. She said yes, she was going to talk to her about it.

He went to the director and told her. Apparently her tone has already been an issue. I've thought that but haven't had enough to complain, like this. She pulled the video and it took a while to find it. He said "you know maybe I saw it wrong maybe it wasn't that bad" but when they saw it (director could not show him for privacy of other kids-it's a policy) she called him. He was home by that time.

That's when we were all able to talk to her together and she came up with the actions of writing her up (next issue a suspension), I suggested the class and she said she had already thought about that so agreed and then she offered to move him and we said yes.

His reaction is brilliant. Immediate, firm, decisive, but not inappropriate or over the top and not engaging. I'm going to have to file this away, thank you! I'm glad the director was able to resolve it and that moving your DS is a possibility. That solves a lot of things, too. 

[mommyatty]

Back to the crazy turkey breast thing. Two lbs per person was written on the turkey breast package! And just about every website I checked gave the 1.5-2 lbs per person. Cah-razy!!!

Random: DS has apparently decided he only eats oranges, peanut butter sandwiches (no jelly!), hot dogs, and chicken, preferably Chick Fil A chicken strips. Plus chocolate milk. And fruit snacks, chips, and candy when he can get his hands on them. At Thanksgiving dinner he cracked everyone up by declaring “I hate food!” Mommy was not amused. He ate two bites of turkey, but only because I wouldn’t let him have his chocolate milk until he did, and after dinner he had a few crackers from our appetizer tray. Later that night, he ate a whole peanut butter sandwich. Like, 2 pieces of whole wheat bread with peanut butter. Threenagers, man. They kill me.

[covergirl82]

supertrooper1, I'm sorry to hear about your uncle's passing. Hugs to you.

mommyatty, I gave up soda over a year ago (although I only had it about once or twice a week), but I felt the same way when I had it one time months after I gave it up. Overall yucky feeling. It's always nice to have some affirmation that giving up something was indeed a great thing.

Thanksgiving overall went well. The 10 hour drives each way went pretty well. DH drove the whole way there and back, so I got to catch up on some reading. MIL has no filter and she made a couple irritating a hurtful comments. (One of which was: "Boy, [SIL's DD1] is getting big!." (My niece is a little heaving, but IMO it's because SIL and BIL give her too much food and then make her eat it all (or she gets in trouble).) DH gave MIL a look and she added that she said she meant that SIL's DD1 is tall.)

I did get some good baby snuggles in while we were visiting - my youngest niece is 4 months old. I was also able to do some Black Friday shopping online and finish buying gifts for my kids.