A funny thing to share. Yesterday morning I heard DS making a ton of noise early in the morning. I went in, sat on his bed, and asked if he was okay. He crawled out of his dream tent and put his head on my lap, all curled up and warm and sweet and sleepy. I was so struck by how lovely and fleeting the moment was that I said something like, “You are so perfect. Mommy loves you so much, exactly how you are.” DS rolled over, looked at me with one eye closed, and said, “I love you, too, Mama. Now stop talking.”
Today is a day off. We have no plans. We got all our errands done yesterday. I’m not sure what we will do! How exciting!!
DH and I have today off together, so we're getting our taxes done and enjoying a quiet house with no children. I was hoping to convince him to go on a movie date, but after our expensive date yesterday, I think that's off the table. Maybe we'll really live it up and go grocery shopping together?
Post by erinshelley21 on Feb 19, 2018 9:17:49 GMT -5
I'm home. In bed sick with something. My throat, chest and head hurt and I am just exhausted. I couldn't get into the Dr until 2:45 so we'll see what comes of that. I'm not so worried about me but more about the fact that I don't want to get my kids sick or any of my clients.
Post by supertrooper1 on Feb 19, 2018 9:24:13 GMT -5
I'm at work today, but it's Friday for me. I have a dentist appointment just for a cleaning today that I always dread. It's cold AF here. My doctor prescribed Zoloft on Friday. So far I think it's helping, since I've been able to get out of bed in the mornings without feeling groggy like I have for the last year or more. I'm still trying to figure out if I should take it in the morning or evening since I'm not sure if it's making me drowsy or if I'm tired for other reasons.
I am not off today but I am WFH because I am way too dizzy to drive. On hold currently with my doctor because I think the Zoloft instarted taking Friday is giving me side effects I can't handle. Nausea (but no vomiting), dizziness, diarrhea the first 2 days. I thought I had the stomach bug going around that my H had, but I have way more dizziness, and considering I started the Zoloft inn Friday, that is pretty suspicious. I'm supposed to pick up my new work car today too, so DH may have to drive me down to get it. And I'll have to find someone to pick DD up because I am dizzy just sitting down, off and on.
I have the day off with the kids. DD went to a friends last night for a sleepover and DS is currently giving me a play by play of Minecraft. Shoot me now.
We we may go the mall later since it’s raining and I could use some retail therapy.
DH is away for work, and the kids are home all week on winter break. DD2 has a cold and feels terrible. So far today, DD1 has smashed an iPhone and left a crayon in her coat, which was then thrown in the dryer after playing in the snow. Blue crayon everywhere. Both accidents, but does not bode well for the rest of the day.
We've been having some major behavioral issues with both kids. Lots of screaming at us, talking back, defiance. With DD1, it starts either when we say no, or when we ask her to do something she doesn't want to do. Saturday, it was about pants. I told her to go find her sweats for basketball. She looked for 10 seconds, declared them lost, and refused to look longer. I told her to look a bit longer, and then I'd come help. Screaming, stomping, slamming doors, I'm mean, the pants are GONE, why don't I believe her... walked into her room, pants were on her bed. We talked calmly about helping her vs doing things for her, that she needs to help herself, she's big enough to look for pants in her room... nothing is sinking in. 4 more major screaming tantrums that day. DD2 is starting to mimic her behavior, because DD1 gets attention when she acts like that.
I did not think I would be jealous of DH's 2+ hr flight then 3+hour drive to a wind farm in the middle of nowhere, but after this weekend, I kind of am...
I’m off with the kids today. We have a run scheduled at 9 with my running partner that I never get to run with anymore, then plans to do some errands and be lazy.
Offer day this week is Tuesday, so we’re trying to get a tally for how much money we think we’d have to spend on the house we like so we know what we can offer. It is a LOT of work. A LOT.
I really hope we can afford buying a construction project!
I wish I was off today. I need another day to recover. 80s Dance, I don't recall the 80s being so harsh. We didn't get in till 1:00 which is about 4 hours too late and my feet hurt. My hair yesterday morning was huge.
I paid Dd $10 to clean the bathrooms yesterday and it was well worth it. She's a meticulous cleaner for 12.
Post by covergirl82 on Feb 19, 2018 11:06:50 GMT -5
Weekend was pretty low-key because of DS being sick. We still did family pictures (20-minute session, so pretty quick and easy) and DH and I went out to dinner Saturday evening. Family pictures went the best they ever had. The kids behaved and there was minimal complaining. (The photographer is a teacher at their school, so I think that helped encourage good behavior. We'll definitely use her again!)
But DS's fever persisted all weekend (up and down from 99-102) and his cough started to get worse last night, so we took him to urgent care this morning (I just had a feeling he needed a chest x-ray and didn't want to waste time by going to his PCP only to have her send us to get a chest x-ray at the same place as the urgent care) and he has pneumonia in the upper lobe of his left lung. We got him started on antibiotics this morning. After we got home from the urgent care visit and getting the Rx, I left for work and DH is home with him the rest of today. My dad is coming down tomorrow. As long as the fever is gone and he's feeling up to it, he'll go to school on Wednesday, but I'm going to tell them no recess or gym (hopefully I don't need to get a doctor's note, that would be a hassle I don't need right now). It's times like these I hate that we both work because it makes it so much more difficult to care for a sick kid.
I need to make a decision about a job offer by 12:00 today. The job itself is exactly what I have been looking for. I think it would be challenging and help me build some good skills and could transition into even better things. The pay is good (about 20K more than I make now), but their PTO is not so good. I'm trying to wrap my head around that aspect of it. Also they want me to start earlier than I want to start. UGH. I hate making this type of decision. It is honestly making me feel sick.
We had a great weekend! So much fun skiing/snowboarding yesterday.
Everyone is off today. After being busy all weekend we are being lazy today. DH was officially off like holiday logged in the computer and everything but he has his therapy appointment (I think they are helping at least slightly) and decided to go to the office for a few hours.
DD's daycare is closed today, but the university is open and I have to teach class (still think its strange that the university daycare is closed when classes are in session), so DH is home with her. DS has school, and then Mondays are always early release, so DH will have the two of them. I think my MIL is coming over, so they might all go and see a movie.
Have you tried negotiating for more or do they have firm guidelines?
My PTO right now sucks. It was a lot better than my last job so I was thrilled and didn't even ask for more when I got the offer. Turns out I have a lot less than anyone else here.
Pretty lazy weekend here. I worked with DD on her science fair project. She wanted to do something with circuits since she saw me playing my Arduino kit (I'm a super nerd). So I had her do a circuit that randomly lights 1 LED out of 6 (kind of like a game). She put the entire circuit together while I taught her about series and parallel circuits. She did not write the code (I found that online), but I walked through it with her so she could understand it. She was pretty excited for the whole thing. Now we just have to put together a display board for it. The only sad thing is that I won't be able to see it at her science fair, because DH and I will be on vacation.
sweetptater, I did ask and was told that it was the best they could do for now. It is making my decision a whole lot harder. Still don't know what I'm going to do.
@leap- what about the rest of their policies? For example, at my employer, we don’t have set hours, so we can pretty much flex at will if we are salaried. Also, if you only miss 2 hours for a doctor’s appointment, our policy says you don’t take any time off, so I schedule my and the kids’ doctor’s appointments so that they are first thing in the morning or late afternoon so I don’t lose any time off. Really even though for starting employees the PTO isn’t great, our flexibility is.
Sleepover last night here, they made baked potato soup that’s amazing, made all the kids eggs and cinnamon rolls, packed them up to see Peter Rabbit, took them to the store, fed them leftovers and now we are baking chocolate lava cakes.
I don’t do blood. DH is out of town. I had to pull DS’ first tooth and DD told me I was very brave, and at least this time I “manned up and didn’t make her sister do it” (apparently that was my MO for her first tooth).
DH got the stomach flu Friday into Saturday and still had a headache yesterday. Our baby had her first cold all week and then a barky seal cough started Saturday night so I took her into urgent care on Sunday. Her lungs sounded fine so we are keeping an eye on it. She didn't sleep well again last night so playing the waiting game if we take her in to the Ped. I took DD1 and DD2 swimming on Saturday so we were able to have some fun this weekend. My parents stopped by last night to visit and eat supper with us. I did our taxes and got a good start on my parents' so that felt like a big win amidst the chaos.
Post by librarychica on Feb 19, 2018 15:49:53 GMT -5
Last night Library drank quite a lot of wine and today Library is wondering WTF she was thinking.
Weekend was full of work on the rental houses. I am looking forward to some future date when that is all done. Also when Girl Scouts is done and, hell, when school is done. I’m mentally pushing to late May.
Got our taxes done - and somehow we JUST squeaked by with getting a tiny refund, not owing the money we thought we would. It's a miracle! And further proves that our old CPA had no idea what he was talking about. He had predicted we'd owe thousands. So, now we can easily use my bonus from Christmas to replace our roof, instead of pay a bunch of taxes AND try to replace the roof. Just had someone come out for a quote for that, and it seems like it will all fall into place nicely with no need for credit cards to make up the difference. Such a huge weight lifted!
Post by mustardseed2007 on Feb 19, 2018 17:53:49 GMT -5
DS is set up to spend a full day on Thursday at the private school we applied to. I'm nervous!!!
Plus we just received team assignments for little league. The coach's email says 2 practices per week and 1-2 games. Gosh it seems like a lot for a 6 year old.
I'm stoked b/c we are on the same team as one of our two neighbors that we know is doing this league. Not the less athletic kid I was hoping for but still maybe it'll be good.
In talking with the mom whose son will be on our team today, I did have to let it drop that DS is probably not going to public school like all the other kids. It makes me so nervous admitting that to parents around here.
Anyway - I'm excited and nervous to see how all this turns out!
Post by erinshelley21 on Feb 19, 2018 19:50:48 GMT -5
mustardseed2007 maybe once games start practices will stop. That's how it works for our leagues unless it's a travel team.
Went to the Dr. I have a virus. Strep was negative. He was out of flu swabs but I haven't had a fever so he didn't think it was that. I am just wiped out.
MIL is keeping the kids so I can sleep this off. Going to take some Nyquil soon and pass out!
Weekend was blah. Saturday we went to the gymnastic at the college. OSU vs AZ but AZ had a ton of injuries so had very few girls competing so the meet wasn't super fun and we won by a landslide and with a top score for the season. Then we went to my brother's house to celebrate my b-day. Chilled watching TV until dinner time and ate with cake and presents. He didn't have a lighter or matches so they caught cardboard on fire by the electric stove to light the candles to sing to me. Really hilarious. Not so great side is DD came down with a cold and I ended up with a migraine by dinner time. Sunday was my b-day and DH decided we were going to make a fancy by scratch cake that we had never attempted before. This WE was more ME. Cake didn't turn out like not edible. We took DD to riding lessons even though it was off and on snowing and she had a wonderful final ride on Cloud (he has a new home starting this weekend). Then we went to Red Robin where DH or DD wouldn't tell the waiter it was my b-day so no free ice cream and I was being stubborn and didn't want to say anything. Went home no gifts, no singing, no wishes but DD did give me a b-day balloon that she had hidden in her room right before she went to bed. I was pretty bummed. Monday I WFH and planned to nap before picking DD up in the afternoon but then my dad called saying the office was flooding so I mad dashed it across town to help deal with that mess. I want a redo in May!