Monday morning

[supertrooper1]

The good, the bad and the ugly from your weekends go here.

[supertrooper1]

Celebration: I grew up in a small town of about 250 people, so a very close knit community. When I was in elementary school, an 18 year old girl was murdered and the killer was never caught. Until now, 28 years later. He was arrested at the end of last week based on DNA. It was such a shock to my hometown when it happened. The girl's mom was my bus driver. I never waited for the bus alone again because no one knew if there was a serial killer on the loose. It is such a relief for the family and the community that the killer was finally caught. I know he hasn't been tried and found guilty yet, but there is so much evidence against him.

Vent: I used to work alone on the weekends. It was quiet and great. I am now working with someone on the weekends and she is so chatty. She is sick again and spend the weekend coughing and blowing her nose, so that wasn't fun in our small office. Celebration: She is off the next two days.

[twinmomma]

Celebration: We accomplished quite a bit this weekend. All food is bought for Christmas meals, everything is wrapped, and DH went on a decluttering spree, so all our cabinets and drawers are organized and we weeded out a bunch of stuff that was just taking up space. And, I treated myself to a fancy new coffee/espresso machine since I got a giant bonus on Friday. And the Patriots won!

Vent: DH bailed on me on Sunday to go see Star Wars without me, when we had lined up kid-free time to get Christmas things accomplished. Since I was busy carting the kids to and from the play date alone, I didn't get as much accomplished on my quilt as I'd hoped. Plus, I didn't get to see Star Wars! Feeling pretty anxious about this week and getting everything done in time despite the progress we made this weekend.

ETA: Another vent: Went to urgent care on Friday to figure out what's wrong with me. Nurse Practioner yelled at me for not going to see my primary care because of my autoimmune issues, then told me there's nothing she can do for me because it's just a virus. 

[2chatter]

DD had a bad turn with her autonomic dysfunction and has been in bed since Saturday night. She missed the wedding and is missing two finals and isn’t feeling better. I’m super stressed about what will happen (despite her 504, there isn’t a good solution), the fact that she feels and looks so bad (she can barely walk) and that I can’t fix this at all.

Generally, I can’t seem to focus at work. I have some things I HAVE TO do - well - and am only in today and Wednesday with a half day tomorrow.

Wednesday I am trying to start and end early because DD and her partner need to do their science fair experiment and then we are hosting a team party. This week may kill me!

[erinshelley21]

The Good: DH got up with DD at 5:30 Saturday morning and let me sleep until 7:30. When I arose from my slumber, he was standing at the stove whipping up some biscuits and gravy, potatoes, and eggs. DS slept until I got up too. Of course, the early morning achievements required him to take a nap during crunch time from 5:15-6:30pm for our Christmas party prep, but it's fine. We had a really fun day Saturday between breakfast, Christmas with my dad's family and our party.

The Bad: Kid-free time comes with a grandparent hangover. DS showed the true meaning of Four-nado yesterday and I was hoping we could magically skip that. No such luck.

The Other Bad: My dad's family will never grow up. Quick recap of 2010: parents got a divorce early in the year, dad died 2 months after it was final, he and his family suspected my mom cheating, never confirmed and she denies anything physical happened. So, my dad's family hates my mom. Even though 7 years have passed, they've all attended 2 weddings, a baby shower, and a 1st birthday party together. They've even been at our Christmas party (except for my great aunt, the one with the farmhouse) before with my mom and have talked, hugged, laughed, been civil. Except for this weekend my dad's sister told 2 other party-goers that she refused to go into the party until my mom left. Thankfully this never got around to my mom or else she would have felt so awkward and would have probably cried and felt ran out of her son's house (we had it at my brothers). So, my aunt being the mature adult that she is, sat in her car the whole time that they parked basically on the porch of the garage that we had it in. My mom stayed all night at my brother's so she never left lol.

The Ugly: My muffin top. It screams "Erinshelley ate and drank way too much this weekend"

[rere]

Celebrate. We had a lot of fun this weekend. We saw Star Wars, went to look at Christmas lights, went to hear a friend's band play.

#2 staff Christmas luncheon today. My waist line really doesn't need it, but oh well.

Vent. This may seem petty, but I think I have spoken about the small town clique women that are a pain in my ass. Well they of course have taken over the decorations at the church. I went up yesterday because it was time to decorate for Christmas and volunteers were needed. This usually puts me in the Christmas spirit. My aunt came and she was hesitant because she felt out of place because, cliques. I told her not to let a few people run her off.

Well, we decorated the tree, then setup the manager scene beside it. These are 3 ft statues. We were sitting there admiring our work, when one of the clique comes over and ponders if a wise man should be moved. She then proceeds with this syrupy smile to freaking redo the entire thing, all the will smiling saying yall probably hate me , I just am so Ocd. Then she says rere, don't give me the stink eye tell me what you think. I said it looked good the way we had it. My aunt was like, why did we even come. I was livid, and said some things you don't say in church.

I guess she realized we were pissed, because I got a syrupy apology txt after citing Ocd. Dh says I may need to go back to confession.

supertrooper1 that's great. I hope her family can find some peace after all these years.

[xctsclrx]

Well the weekend was good. I started feeling what I think was baby moving Saturday night. It felt like baby, but I am not sure because it seems so early. Woke up this morning and I was afraid to get up, because I knew the second I did I was going to start getting sick. Then DH begged me to get shoes and socks for DS so I did, without going to the bathroom first. Got sick in the kitchen sink, and apparently I have no control and peed myself.

DH thought it was hilarious. I did not.

[covergirl82]

Celebrations: DS's team won their last basketball game, so it was a great end to a great season. Saturday afternoon the kids and I made Christmas cookies together. I am working from home today and hoping to wrap some of the kids' gifts when I take a break for lunch.

Vent: Friday night DH had a migraine (although I'm a little suspicious, because he watched Netflix on his Kindle for 4 hours in our bedroom) and then had bowling league Saturday night, so I was fully responsible for bedtime both nights.

2chatter, I hope your DD starts feeling better soon. It's so hard as a parent when you can't just make your child better.

erinshelley21, MH's parents divorced about 20 years ago and cannot be civil and will still never be in the same place at the same time. DH isn't really close with his dad, though, so it hasn't really been a huge issue for us and planning/attending events.

[mommyatty]

I just found out on Saturday that this was the last full weekend before Christmas. Oops! I’m glad I’m pretty much done. Gifts have been bought and wrapped, even for DH who is the hardest person to buy for! I got him a 23andMe kit, which he’s wanted to do for a long time.

Next weekend we are going to try to make cookies with BFF and her Hubs and son. It’ll be fun.

I made cute little sucker covers for the kids in DD and DS’s classes. They were far more trouble than they were worth! But oh well. It gave me a chance to use the embroidery function of my sewing machine, which I enjoy.

[sudokufan]

Saturday was such a roller coaster; it started at 4am when I woke to DS puking on the floor next to my bed...that was the only time all day, but that's enough. He was just kind of off the rest of the day, and mostly hung out on the couch watching dinosaur shows.

It did let me get some house hold chores done, so I decided to tackle the mildew in the downstairs tub -sprayed it down good with Tilex, went to put laundry in, and when I came back the Tilex had left nasty orange rust stains EVERYWHERE. I thought I ruined our antique claw foot tub If you ever should find yourself in a similar predicament: peroxide. The tub is whiter than white now, thank heavens.

Then H and I came down with the "yucks" as we started to call it. Just felt kinda lousy the rest of the day. By Sunday, totally back to normal. I'm so happy to have half the week off, I can't even tell you.

[meagain]

Celebration:  We had the big family Christmas and it was really nice.  I love Christmas time.  The next day my dad's girlfriend was confirmed and than she had a pizza party that night.  So back to my dad's again.  That was nice to.  Not quite as many people.

Vent:  My house continues to be a disaster.  This morning there were two bowls sitting on the floor in the family room.  Who puts their dishes on the floor for goodness sake.  I guess they expect the invisible maid to do it.  Bad new is she must of quit because my house looks like shit. LOL

On a side note, I was suppose to have a meeting this morning at 7 at the school for my youngest dd and I show up and no one is there.  So I look at my email and there was a message they rescheduled.  I never check my email on the weekends.  I really hate this school.  I really wanted to burn it to the ground this morning.  She is going in to take her finals today but I imagine that will be a disaster to.  She had an assessment for a day treatment program where they do school and therapy everyday but there is such a wait list that she the assessment was kind of an interview to see if she needs it worse than anyone else.  I was not aware of that or I would have been prepared for that.  

And I haven't heard from the job I interviewed for.  I just feel like I am kind of doomed at this point.  I am so tired of working so many hours.  I work 13 today.  I start at 8:30 and work until 11:30pm.  I have one hour in between jobs.  I woke up this morning wanting to cry already.  Need to snap out of it.  Just the phase of life we are in right now.  I know that it will get better at some point.  It has to right? LOL

Sorry for the vent.  I basically have a one track mind.

[justcheckingin73]

It was a really busy weekend but as expected the weekend before Christmas. Saturday we had DDs basketball pictures, then a game. DH recently joined a gun club and had some work hours and an orientation so when he got home I went grocery shopping. Sunday was some Christmas shopping and errands but most of my Christmas shopping was done online. Then DD and I made pecan brittle, fudge and rolo and chocolate pretzels. Ate way too much of that and feeling very bloated this morning.

[mustardseed2007]

Good: We saw star wars and had a date night -- it was AWESOME.

Bad: DD was sick and so missed her gymnastics show case. I mean, I wasn't really expecting a lot but it's kind of a bummer.

Good: DS had a GREAT time at his play date.

Bad: It was supposed to be a group play date but the other mom (and kid obvs) didn't show. Apparently this is a pattern for this family, and the other mom was REALLY offended and said so. Which was awkward. But that would hurt my feelings too after a while.

Good: I ran 10 miles on Sunday.

Bad: After the playdate and run, I was exhausted and wrapped only the presents we have to take to school on Tuesday. Ugh.

Still have to do teacher cards. Ugh.

Still have to wrap every other present.

[leap]

We had a great weekend.

Friday MH and I went to see Star Wars with some friends. Yay - date night!

Saturday the girls ice skated and then DD1 had a play date at a friend's house. DD2 and I made Christmas cookies. And then we went to a friend's birthday party Saturday night.

Yesterday the girls and I went to see the Nutcracker and finished baking Christmas cookies.

This week is crazy. Lots of work to try to wrap up before I'm off for 10 days. Normal kid activities Monday and Tuesday (Swim and dance) and then dance recitals Wednesday and Thursday. Friday morning we leave to go to the family lake house for Christmas.

[polecat8]

My weekend started off terrible.
I was horribly sick Thursday night and Friday. I had some stomach bug and threw up twice. I couldn't even get comfortable enough to sleep. On Friday, I stayed in bed away from everyone. DD had a holiday music show at school and I was feeling so crappy that I didn't go. I felt so bad. By Saturday morning, I was feeling better, but not 100%, so we hung around the house.
On Sunday, DH and I attempted to wrap some presents and finish up some homemade gifts. DS1 was a terror to everyone and everything.
I'm glad I will be starting my Xmas break on Thursday through Jan 2, but I'm not sure I can handle DS1 at a level 10 on all of those days. I'm going to have to find some stuff for him to do or he'll be spending a lot of time in his room by himself...

[katrine05]

Vent - DS, DH, and I were all sick all weekend so we pretty much cancelled all plans and stayed home.

Good - DD went to a play with my mom and stayed for a sleepover. They had a great time.

Vent - I feel so behind on Christmas prep. Still need to finish teacher and DCP gifts. Do ALL my wrapping. Buy a present for my mom and stocking stuffers for the kids. I want to make a few more batches of cookies. I have done NOTHING to prepare for DD's birthday on the 27th. And I need to start packing for our trip, we leave for Mexico on the 2nd. Of course I need to work all week so who knows when this all will get done.

[olenka]

Good: went to a mom's meetup and the women were really cool. This is a first.
Bad: my kid decided she didn't like the haircut she got and took it upon herself to DIY her own haircut
Good: we got her another professional cut and it is super cute
Bad: I am drowning in Christmas prep stuff. Wrapping gifts. Making lists for packing. Actually packing. SO wants to go to NYC while we are back east and I'm like "feel free to plan the shit out of that yourself while I do the ninety million other things"
Good: my shopping is done
Bad: I have a shitshow of a work week and it's really cramping my style

[traveltheworld]

2chatter, sorry about your DD.

We had our first "friends" dinner over the weekend with a family we met at DS's swimming class. It went off well. I'm just realizing that we only have a week before Christmas and I'm not ready!

[2chatter]

DH showed the kids their Santa gift on Friday (he had them put their backpacks in his trunk, where we hid it). So ... now Santa needs a new trick - ugh. He looked at me over lunch and said something like “I hope you can come up with something good.” Me: 😐

[186momx]

Friday was good, helped in DD's class while they made gingerbread houses and it was a lot of fun. Then ran errands, picked DD up from school and we both went to the chiro. Then grabbed dinner before heading to the college get their feet wet gymnastic meet. Saturday I made a bunch of cookies and had an at home day, DD worked on her homework packet and took a nap. DH was a jerk most of the day. Sunday DH went paintballing and was gone all day. I took DD with me to work as we got new computers so was needed to help out (joys of a 2 man office). Then I drove DD to riding lesson and then it was bedtime.

This week is crazy with DD at camp from 8:30-1. I still have things to wrap. Plus I decided to do the 12 days of Christmas with a twist for DH and he doesn't like it and is making me feel like an idiot and I'm trying to decide if I should just stop doing it. So far I've done A minion, 2 bottles of egg nog, 3 chocolate Santa's, 4 pack of fancy beer, and today is 5 golden coins.

[justcheckingin73]

OMG 2chatter. Like you need something else on your plate 🙁. 

[judyblume14]

Good:
We baked cookies, ate Chinese takeout and watched the Grinch on Friday. Had two Christmas parties (one family, one friends) on Saturday. Yesterday was gym, and then a visit with my sister when I picked DD1 up from a sleepover at her house.

Bad/Good:
Had a bit of a hangover yesterday, so go nothing accomplished. But, got to spend some QT on the couch with my girls, so it wasn't the worst thing ever. Note to self: you are not in college. You needn't swallow every drop of alcohol in sight at a party. Good Lord.

[waverly]

Bad: I came in for an hour on Thursday and was off Friday due to being sick. I guess this is a good and bad because I was off work, but being sick sucks. I was vaguely depressed on Sunday probably due to being sick and also because life seems so monotonous.

A new employee quit after 2 days because her commute is too long. We all asked her about the commute, and she said it was fine.

Good: DH is seeking help for his depression after the holidays. We are going on several trips- this is good and bad just due to the planning, but mostly good. He agreed to a vasectomy, so lots of goals for the new year.

We had a pretty good date night on Saturday night. I think that helped him to have the time to talk to me about his goals.

And thank you ladies for your advice because I had told him I thought that since he won't get help he must want to be depressed- harsh I know. And I told him I wouldn't be his therapist- also harsh. Which helped him to realize that he needs someone to talk to though.

[erinshelley21]

waverly , liked for the positive update on your H. Sorry you were sick on Friday!

[2chatter]

justcheckingin73 - I am trying to just laugh. He also just told me that on Wednesday - when I am doing science fair and hosting a party - he is taking his daughter to talk about braces because she wants them. My head spun around I think — I said nothing — and he said he will dial in and then tell her no (she has no medical need for them and near perfect teeth - I think she’s after the whitening trays). Because....I can’t do 13 families here on my own after doing chemistry with two fourth graders AND after my last day of work for the year!!

[justcheckingin73]

Dec 18, 2017 14:13:23 GMT -5 2chatter said:

justcheckingin73 - I am trying to just laugh. He also just told me that on Wednesday - when I am doing science fair and hosting a party - he is taking his daughter to talk about braces because she wants them. My head spun around I think — I said nothing — and he said he will dial in and then tell her no (she has no medical need for them and near perfect teeth - I think she’s after the whitening trays). Because....I can’t do 13 families here on my own after doing chemistry with two fourth graders AND after my last day of work for the year!!

He really lives in his own little world ☹️

[2chatter]

justcheckingin73 - he sure does. It got better for a while and now it’s worse again. I’m so frustrated.

[k3am]

Vent: I have been working on a deal at work. I was not included in the proposal process, but that's fine. Except. When you're proposing on a deal this size that's not standard, you need to get... approval to send the effing term sheet out. Which no one did. Their structure doesn't work in general and no one is going to approve it. ARGH.

[2chatter]

k3am - the WORST!! I joined a project today where they had already agreed on some things before engaging me. Well, it was super fun to share that what they decided isn’t possible. Merry Christmas to all!

[twinmomma]

The universe is so not fair. DH has an unexpected no school day due to a water main break. And nothing left on my Christmas prep list can be delegated to him at this point. The big thing I need to do is finish a quilt. A random week day off in a quiet house would be the perfect time to do that! Why couldn't I have a water main break instead?! Ugh.