How was your weekend?

[twotrue]

High light?
Low light?

[2brides]

Highlight? The employee picnic. The weather was gorgeous, it was nice hanging out and talking with co-workers, the kids had a blast (I bet they had 10 trips into the moon bounce plus carnival rides, mini golf, a petting zoo, playground, etc.) And it was free.

Lowlight? I just had a case of the bitters last night. I feel like I am running everything. I scheduled Carter's speech therapy assessment for this week so I can pick him up and take him, went and purchased everything the kids needed for soccer season and got it packed for their first practice today, did all of the laundry, did the grocery shopping, cleaned up around the house, blah, blah. blah....

[ct]

We had an up and down weekend.

Highlight: celebrating Rosh Hashana with family yesterday (and getting a card from Duchess!)

Lowlight: Sprout's epic freak out Saturday afternoon and me having ZERO patience for it.

[twotrue]

Highlight - Yesterday the three of us went for pedicures. Well, I got a pedicure while Jelly Bean soaked her feet in the foot spa and K got a massage. Whenever JB goes with me I let her pick out my polish color (this time purple sparkle won). The rest of the day whenever she saw something purple she'd scream "match mama toes! match mama toes!"

Lowlight - nothing too bad. I didn't get much down time to just rest and I was sorting hoping I would.

[Deleted]

Highlight: I made a new friend at the party we had this weekend.

Lowlight: J drank way too much (she was an alcoholic before we got together) and her reasoning for it being ok..."it was beer not liquor". She was so drunk that when SIL came out to tell us the baby was screaming, J ignored her, I had to free Apple's trapped leg from the crib slats and when I went out to tell J what had happened, she laughed it off.

ETA: I know that once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. By saying she was an alcoholic before we got together, I mean that it's not been a concern in our relationship until recently.

[bluedaisyus]

Mine was pretty good overall.

I think my highlight was that the boy had a sleepover with grandma and grandpa on Saturday night so that we could have an evening out with my SIL and her GF and a couple of other friends.

Lowlight was that I've got a cold (it started on Friday but I had chalked it up to the weather) and spent most of yesterday afternoon dozing on the couch.

[rikkiandjulie]

High light NEW IPad!!!!!!

Low light: news about work

[seattlekari]

Highlight: I made dinner for our neighbor who had surgery and at the same time made our dinner which will be quick to heat up tonight and a separate meal that we ate last night and have leftovers from. Go me!

Lowlight: Partial highlight- listening to my brother and SIL argue with my dad about politics. But as this was happening my mom was sitting in the room with me saying that she thinks "you kids" just don't get to see enough of the news to know what's going on and how bad it really is. Sigh. I have heard that line too many times and mom, no matter HOW much fox news you watch, that does not offset the limited news I see.

[kershnic]

High: Camping! We went hiking, cooked over the fire, and enjoyed nature. Yay.
Low: It was freezing overnight. Ridiculously freezing. And also I am in pain today, from some combo of shivering, dehydration, and hiking.

[never2amazing]

High: The Kiddos were extremely cute this weekend and it was fun watching them interact and play together.

Low: I would say it is a tie between not getting much done at the old house and yelling this weekend. I have been trying to watch my yelling, but my patience wore thin a couple of times this weekend. (Can someone please tell me how to deal with ... "NO!" coming from your child's mouth when you ask them to do something repeatedly?)

[ElsaVonM]

High: Dinner with my parents on both Saturday and Sunday, made a delicious peach cobbler, had a "picnic" (just the babies ate) by the lake in gorgeous weather.

Low: Having to live inside my own mind and constantly try to shove away job-search thoughts to properly enjoy my wonderful family.

[hlke]

High: C took me out to a very romantic fondue dinner on Sunday night as an anniversary "do over" dinner. She didn't do anything for the day of our anniversary, and we had plans to go out to dinner but ended up at a casual BBQ joint in the neighborhood. She planned the whole date night and it was lovely.

Low: I've struggled with anxiety and depression my whole life and I'm in a pretty bad flare right now. I had no fewer than three full on meltdowns over the weekend. C was a champ, but it's hard on our relationship. I'm exhausted, she's exhausted, and we don't know how long until things will be better. I had a doc's appointment this past week and their approach was good but it's all small changes and "wait and see".

[rikkiandjulie]

Hlke,

I can relate 200% to you depression/anxiety battles. I to have struggled with it the majority of my teenage, and now adult years. For several years I could only "sleep" a handful of hours a night bc of the anxiety. Julie handles my melt downs like a champ too, but it's exhausting all around. However, Finally with the help of my old psychiatrist and family doctor, things have been good for a while, and no longer find myself in deep lulls. I hope you do as well. If u ever need an ear that gets it, u know where to find me.


Rikki-iPhone

[hlke]

Thanks Rikki. I've actually had a long stable period for the past four years or so, and I know I'll get on top of it again and things will be better. In retrospect this all correlates with a med change about six months ago...it just snuck up on me. The hardest part is when depression tells you things will always be this way and you're never going to get better. Wrong depression! I've beat you before! I'll beat you again!

[hensmum]

Sept 18, 2012 16:40:11 GMT -5 hlke said:

The hardest part is when depression tells you things will always be this way and you're never going to get better.

So true. Hang in there.

[joyseattle]

Highlight was going to both Portland (Saturday) and Vancouver (Sunday) with our friends who were staying with us. Lowlight was an awkward dinner discussion about relationship challenges (seems to be a theme).