Celebration: I'm feeling really on top of things at home, which is a nice change of pace from how we usually feel. And we have very minimal plans over the next couple weekends, so we should be able to keep it up. Saying no to things has really helped us decrease stress in our lives and spend more time just hanging out at home. I got to play some board games with my kids, watch Christmas movies, clean the house, and get all the laundry caught up. I also made a giant batch of soup and baked a ham this weekend, so we've got leftovers to eat this week instead of scrambling to put together dinners. And none of that felt like too much to pull off, since we had no real plans the rest of the weekend. Sometimes I just really need a weekend like that to put things in perspective and make me feel like I actually have my shit together.
Vent: I got a cold on Thanksgiving. It's still hanging on and doesn't seem like it's going away any time soon. My voice is usually scratchy and gone by the end of each day and my nose is so runny/stuffy. It's just annoying.
Celebration #1: I'm feeling very calm going into December which is....weird. Normally I'm a crying, stressed out mess. I'm not sure if it's because I'm actually on top of things, or if it's because I haven't listed everything left to do/buy.
Celebration #2: My friend hosted a soup swap yesterday so my freezer is filled with 6 different kinds of soups that I didn't have to cook!
Celebration #3: We have absolutely ZERO weekend plans for the rest of the year, which means we can play them by ear and do what we really want to do vs. what we feel obligated to do. This is most likely contributing to celebration #1.
Vent #1: My cold won't go away. I think it's settled in for the long haul.
Vent #2. I've managed to put on 10 pounds in the last couple of months. My pants HURT and I feel blah. I need to get out and run more, but I'm not training for anything so I have no motivation. My nutrition has also been way off, so I need to reel that back in too. Terrible timing because Christmas cookies.
Today is DD2's 6th birthday! It was a very busy weekend. Saturday was full of ice show practice and running errands for DD2's birthday party. Yesterday we had her party at our house. We had 13 kids including my two. They painted pictures on canvases and made snowflake ornaments. Everything went great, but I am exhausted. I now remember why I prefer to do parties someplace other than my house. So much work.
Celebration: it was a good weekend. Our house is decorated, kids’ Christmas toys are all purchased so only thing left is candy for stockings, I know what to get DH for a change, and DH is in charge of his mom.
Vent: DS is a full-on threenage-monster. Good lord. BIG emotions! And Mommy has to do everything for him.
Also vent: Work. Travel isn’t letting up. And I desperately need for it to.
Post by covergirl82 on Dec 4, 2017 10:23:36 GMT -5
Celebration: We made it through the busy weekend! Saturday DS had a game at 9 am, then we went to cut down a Christmas tree, then we went home and put it up and at lunch, then I took the kids to church for a practice for the Christmas program (and I ran to the grocery store during the practice), then we went to a movie (DH's company rents out half of a theater and gives each family tickets to a movie), then DH went to his bowling league (and DS went with him) and DD and I went to dinner and then home to decorate the Christmas tree. My favorite Christmas movie - Elf - was on TV so we watched that while we decorated. Sunday was church, then a few hours of time at home before we had to go back for the final practice and then the Christmas program at 6:00. Both kids remembered the verse they had to say, so that was good. However, I'm glad that is done.
Vent: Things keep coming up on the weekends, and I really would love at least one Saturday of no plans. And I have no idea when I'm going to wrap presents. Probably during my break for lunch when I work from home one day next week.
Celebrations: It was a great weekend. My first batch of PB fudge for the season turned out (it doesn't always set), I made 3 batches of cookies and they're all yummy, and 2 of the recipes were new to me so that's amazing. DS and I decorated the gingerbread cookies together and made decorations and generally had a blast. He was SO GOOD all weekend. Next weekend my parents are coming out for our Christmas get together and I can hardly wait. I even managed to finish Mom's scarf.
Vents: My thumb is acting up again. It's minor, but annoying, and might mean I don't finish my Dad's scarf. And I had to push H to get DS's Christmas pictures taken, turns out it was good I did because there was a problem with the camera and we need to retake them. FWP for sure.
Post by ilovelucyvv on Dec 4, 2017 10:30:51 GMT -5
Celebration: I bought a new Christmas tree this weekend! And finished stocking stuffer shopping!
Vent: New tree was purchased because we brought the old tree in the house and noticed it was the home to several baby mice. As far as we can tell no mice escaped into our house but I am still nervous.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Dec 4, 2017 10:37:24 GMT -5
Celebration: We got our christmas decorations up yesterday. Hoorah!
Random: I watched the Baked Alaska episode of Great British Bake Off this morning, which is a mistake b/c I'm so keyed up now by all the drama that is also somehow not dramatic.
Vent: I tore a chunk out of my tire this morning by clipping a curb as I took the kids to school. I had to have it replaced and this is when I learned how much more expensive the tires on my new car are compared to my old car.
Related vent: I feel like our finances are definitely at the end of the year this year. So annoying b/c we should have more money, not less.
I spent 20 hours at Soccer. DD had a great tournament though and really came through with a goal when her team was facing elimination. They placed second. It was really fun.
We also went to dinner with in laws. That was fun, too.
I took the kids to Wonder on Thursday evening - it was a great movie.
I’m somewhat exhausted, but looking forward to hosting 4 parties between now and New Years.
Celebrate : Great weekend! Breakfast with Santa Saturday, so cute and homemade pizza with friends. Sunday, soup day at my aunt's and the town Christmas parade, which is slightly hysterical.
Vent: I'm still trying to rise above the small town mean girl politics. One of my close friends was venting about it, so it's not just me. It's hard to get away in a small town because your lives are so intertwined with kids, sports, school, church.
Post by supertrooper1 on Dec 4, 2017 10:55:00 GMT -5
Celebration: I made a reservation for a fancy hotel in Seattle for the weekend before Christmas so we can go to zoo lights and some other holiday stuff going on in the city. Usually the hotel is out of our price range and I've always wanted to stay there.
Vent: It's going to be a very busy week this week with work, 2 funerals, a counseling appointment and just life in general. I have OT tonight in my least favorite work unit. The silver lining is I get sent home based on OT earnings (higher earnings go home first) and I'm not the lowest earner for once. It will still probably be a 14 hour shift. Expect the worst, hope for the best is how I go into my OT's at this location.
I need a weekend to recover from my weekend. I thought it was going to be a mellow weekend with minimal plans but forgot we had volunteered to have a friend's two kids spend the night. In true slumber party fashion, the kids were up until close to midnight, again at 1 when DD's friend was convinced she saw a rat at the top of DD's closet (it was troll hair), DS was up a couple times, and then Sunday started at 5am with kids who were cranky and grumpy. They seemed to alternate the day playing nicely together with freakouts over the most absurd things. It was overall not nearly as bad I would have expected, but exhausting none the less.
Oh, and DS has started saying "Hello!" So now we have 5 words in his vocabulary and I'm hoping that the audiology appointment next week is just extraneous.
Celebration: We got our christmas decorations up yesterday. Hoorah!
Random: I watched the Baked Alaska episode of Great British Bake Off this morning, which is a mistake b/c I'm so keyed up now by all the drama that is also somehow not dramatic.
Vent: I tore a chunk out of my tire this morning by clipping a curb as I took the kids to school. I had to have it replaced and this is when I learned how much more expensive the tires on my new car are compared to my old car.
Related vent: I feel like our finances are definitely at the end of the year this year. So annoying b/c we should have more money, not less.
God I love that series. So much so that to DS it will probably forever be "Mommy's show". Do you have Netflix? We binge watched the "The Big Family Cooking Showdown" last weekend, same vibe but less baking :-)
Vent- The weekend was not great. We did figure out spring break, but I was sick on Friday night (and didn't want to go), so I bowed out on dinner plans that no one had asked me about anyway with a weird dude who had ghosted us about 6 years ago when he quit his job and moved away. Come to find out he moved back 4 years ago but just reached out to us 6 months ago. And there was no issue or fight involved, so we have no idea what happened and during the dinner he wouldn't talk about the past. He is really weird guy though, so I guess par for the course? Weird as in poor social skills, but pretty smart in book ways, not street smart.
Vent- DH and I got in a fight Sat morning about the fact he always forges ahead of the kids, and never helps them across the street. Just leaves them on their own or for me to handle both at the same time, and DD was left at the corner not knowing what to do and ran in front of a car which luckily realized she didn't know what to do and waited for her. But I was mad because he does this all the time. He wanders off and picks up trash while I try to herd kids also.
We went to a party that night, which was a fun party, but one of the guests told me that it was a parenting issue that I don't have DS in PT and OT at the school. I never told her I wanted him in PT and OT at the school instead of our private practice, so that was weirdly out of the blue, pretty mean and not accurate to our situation. He will be finishing up PT in a couple of months, so no need to move it to the school. And the type of OT he needs is less handwriting or academic and more gym based services like core strengthening and motor planning. He has no school based or academic issues around these at this time.
Our friends turn my H down all the time when it comes to plans, but every time we turn them down we hear a comment on it. Like why, you turn H down like every weekend? But we are supposed to say how hi when you say jump?
Celebration- On paper it was a good weekend. Got lots done around the house, socialized some, made plans. But overall I just wasn't feeling great.
Celebrate : Great weekend! Breakfast with Santa Saturday, so cute and homemade pizza with friends. Sunday, soup day at my aunt's and the town Christmas parade, which is slightly hysterical.
Vent: I'm still trying to rise above the small town mean girl politics. One of my close friends was venting about it, so it's not just me. It's hard to get away in a small town because your lives are so intertwined with kids, sports, school, church.
I think this is what I am starting to run into. I am not from this town, and still getting to know people. But my good friend is starting to become friends with other moms, and some are great and some are mean. And I can't get away from the mean ones because they are friends of friends, and I think friend wants us to hang out sort of kill 2 birds with one stone idea. And we have kids in the same grade, and sports and activities. And I think ultimately I would be happier in a place with maybe a population double or triple this place.
I do miss our old daycare moms. They seemed much more like my kind of people. I don't know any moms at the new pre-school except one.
Post by covergirl82 on Dec 4, 2017 12:18:50 GMT -5
k3am, thank you for reminding me why we keep putting off letting the kids have a slumber party. We instituted a "no slumber parties until you're 8," and DS has yet to have one. We're definitely not encouraging one.
k3am , thank you for reminding me why we keep putting off letting the kids have a slumber party. We instituted a "no slumber parties until you're 8," and DS has yet to have one. We're definitely not encouraging one.
I think a slumber party with just one kid her age would have been better. Adding in the almost 3-year-old made things more difficult.
Celebration: With DH's help I got the outside Christmas lights all working! DD had a blast at breakfast with Santa at the gym.
Vent: We were at the mall yesterday and I ran into a couple of DH's old family friends. Was chatting and they asked if I got to go to the mall alone and I said no DD and DH were out shopping for me. I get a text from DH asking which store I was at so I told him and along they come. He sends DD over to me and rudely snubs his old family friends and walks on the opposite side and away quickly. Lets say the ladies were shocked and hurt he didn't come over to say hi and it put me in a weird spot. They go off and DD and I go join DH about 3 stores down. I say "S and K were upset you didn't stop to say hi" his response was I don't have to talk with them. These ladies have been in his life since before he was born, they have known and done stuff with him for 37 years. I was fuming and decided it was time to go home before we ran into anyone else. Dh gave me no reason why he couldn't see them and the only thing I thought was he was worried they would ask about his parents so he avoided them to avoid the topic.
Oh I forgot I got pulled over this morning in a stop sign trap the police set up. They didn't give me a ticket but frustrating because we all knew it was a trap. Oh and H's plane decompressed. He finally arrived at his location (I think) 3 hours later. Can I just go back to bed, and call it quits with today?
Post by erinshelley21 on Dec 4, 2017 13:34:56 GMT -5
Vent: Our dishwasher is already screwing up. It's been installed for 2 weeks. 2! There was a pool of water in it when I opened it up to get a bottle out. We set it to drain. It drained on the kitchen floor. I hope DH figured it out but if not, we'll be finding a plumber to come uninstall and then re-install it since this could be a self-installation error.
Celebration: It's DS's birthday today! I can't believe he is 4. Why does time move so quickly?
Another vent: I've mentioned before that a niece of mine very likely has ADHD that has not been diagnosed and is therefore, unmedicated. MIL just texted me that she's been forging her parent's names on her homework that she has to get signed. Last time I talked to SIL about it she said she didn't want to fight with her ex about it since he doesn't want her medicated so she's just not dealing with it. That's fine if you don't want your kid to be on medication, but at least go talk to the doctor about it, get a diagnosis, and figure out alternative ways to deal. I'm just getting really tired of hearing her get yelled at all the time and watching her struggle when she is not in complete control over what she is doing. It's sad and not fair to her.
Celebrate : Great weekend! Breakfast with Santa Saturday, so cute and homemade pizza with friends. Sunday, soup day at my aunt's and the town Christmas parade, which is slightly hysterical.
Vent: I'm still trying to rise above the small town mean girl politics. One of my close friends was venting about it, so it's not just me. It's hard to get away in a small town because your lives are so intertwined with kids, sports, school, church.
I think this is what I am starting to run into. I am not from this town, and still getting to know people. But my good friend is starting to become friends with other moms, and some are great and some are mean. And I can't get away from the mean ones because they are friends of friends, and I think friend wants us to hang out sort of kill 2 birds with one stone idea. And we have kids in the same grade, and sports and activities. And I think ultimately I would be happier in a place with maybe a population double or triple this place.
I do miss our old daycare moms. They seemed much more like my kind of people. I don't know any moms at the new pre-school except one.
Yeah, DH and I have brainstormed some other couples to hang out with, but thefe are only so many around your age and situation in a small town. Plus, the mean girls like to do everything I like to do and have queen beed pretty much everything because they are super vocal and plus only work part time so have more time to volunteer. They pretty much run the PTO and events related, our upcoming Christmas decorating at our church, etc.. The reason it came up is because I asked my friend why she didn't come to the Breakfast with Santa, a PTO event. She said she just had about had it with the mean girls and really didn't want to deal with them and didn't know if she would be volunteering at an upcoming event. I told her I am not going to be run off, if it is an event I want to do, I am going and pretty much ignore the bossy ladies and do what I want.
You guys my husband lost his vision from the lack of oxygen on the plane, and the oxygen masks didn't come down either. This is F-ing crazy. He has vision now, but holy crap.
Who knows what would have happened if they were far from somewhere. They weren't too far from where they took off, and just come back, but for the whole system and the back-up system to go down and nowhere to land- that would have been awful. He started losing his vision on the descent back to the airport.