Weekend Thread

[mommyatty]

I got all industrious today! I ordered new shelves for our playroom and made some incredible strides in taming our horrible, terrible toy room. I also bought fabric to make new curtains for our family room since our old curtains clash terribly with the new furniture we got a couple of months ago.

I told DH that each month for the rest of the year, I want to choose a room and just tackle it. Get rid of anything that doesn’t have a home or doesn’t work for us, reorganize, and clean. He was annoyed with my suggestion (I’m challenging his hoarding tendencies, which makes him twitchy and obnoxious), but he was very helpful today. So I’m hopeful. 

Now tomorrow we will shop for groceries, and I hope we will get some family pool time. Plus I have promised to make DH meatloaf, which he’s wanted for weeks. Now I just hope my back doesn’t hurt too badly tomorrow. I’m already sore. Hello, muscle relaxers!

[freezorburn]

Worked a rare Saturday today. Probably inflated upwards of 80 balloons. Might have been more if I hadn’t had to take breaks to re-stock ribbon.

[waverly]

We had a lot of fun at our date night. We only had two beers but that took two hours so then we had to get going for dinner. We have a dinner place that is good, and quick though. Kids had fun at the nature camp.

Today we have to face time with SIL on flower girl dresses. I don’t know why we can’t just take pictures? And then send her back the dresses she didn’t choose. Like just pick one. But whatever.

mommyatty- we are tackling the upstairs of the garage today I think. There has been an animal that got up there and it’s really gross. But I don’t know why I can’t just ignore it because it’s goung to be a lot of gross work. I’ve done the whole purge organize thing but my rooms need more. Like if I do the kitchen we really need our tile backsplash already.

And that kind of stuff takes money. And DH bless his heart is all in on investing and saving for retirement and kids and then when I mention credit cards he’s all like pshew other peoples money- wut? This must be that dumb genius thing striking again. At least we are done with the IRS for now anyway.

[xctsclrx]

My son officially has taken five years off my life. He jumped in the pool yesterday without his floaty. ( We were at my MILs house)

No one in the pool noticed. I did. I was across the pool fully dressed with the baby in my lap. So I ran over not thinking with the baby to jump in, but luckily me screaming get him get him spurred his uncle to notice right before I got in.

I have never been more terrified in my life.

I'm also irrationally angry with DH because he took the floaty off of DS ( so DS could take a break) and left to go to the bathroom and didn't say anything to anyone about leaving. he was the one playing in the pool with DS

[mustardseed2007]

xctsclrx, OMG!!! Terrifying. I'm sorry and I'm so glad you saw him. Just. Terrifying.

We're going to the beach and I bought all new flotation things for the kids just a few minutes ago. Ugh.

[rere]

Back from vacation! It was beautiful! We had a great time and got to see some beautiful sights we have never seen. We went over the mountains, hikes around some lakes, toured the Stanley, ds's request since it's supposed to be haunted, had wonderfull ice cream, went up Pikes Peak and through Garden if the Gods.

Vacation vent however. I am exhausted. Now I realize the benefits of a no kids vacation. As mom, everything is you problem. Who has a headache, will they eat the food, who is tired, who wants to do what, who doesn’t want to do anything.

I am tired and would love a few days to go where I want to go, when I want to go, for as long as I want, eat what I want.

I realize that I didn't fully appreciate my 20s, which is the one time I really was just in charge of myself. I was too busy trying to graduate, get a job, get married, get a house.

[supertrooper1]

I was paid extra in my paycheck this week, as were coworkers across the nation according to the agency FB page. No one knows why and everyone is afraid to spend the money. I texted a coworker and she said an email came out from our local scheduling office to not spend the money. I can't believe how often payroll makes mistakes for 50,000 employees. I hope it wasn't a mistake.

[traveltheworld]

We were/are comfort camping for the weekend. I should have known better. The deal that has taken over my life at work for the past 3 weeks continues to haunt me. Most of yesterday was ok as I only needed to follow a bunch of email exchanges, but today I was given an hour notice to jump on a multi-party call. We were at the beach. So I took the call there. But cell phone reception was super choppy, so I was walking all around the beach trying to get better reception and finally ended in the lake, knee deep in water. Even then I kept dropping off. So we left the kids with my parents and I made DH drive me back into town, where he deposited me literally on the side of the road.

Good times.

[covergirl82]

That's terrifying, xctsclrx!!

mommyatty, I like that approach of tackling one room a month! What a great idea (I'm totally borrowing it, btw)! That feels like a much more manageable way to approach organization, as opposed to trying to do it all in a day or weekend.

I just applied for that job I mentioned in the TWERKS thread! I'm hoping I'll at least get a call from the recruiter.

[mustardseed2007]

traveltheworld, omg something similar happened to me last time we went to the beach. One of the owners of our company called me and talked to me for literally hours while my kids played in the sand. Thankfully I did have good cell reception but it was windy and hard to hear at times. Eventually my boss asked where I was and I told him...I'm sitting on the beach. He said "oh." And then kept talking, of course.

[mae0111]

rere preach sister. I’m so tired from our vacation. I could not take one more day of whining or fighting. The kids took turns being whiny jerks for the duration of the week. Sometimes they worked together for evil.

I hope it’s OK to vent about SAHing for a minute...

You guys, I have not been without my kids, save sleeping and one 2 hour dinner, since June 7. JUNE SEVENTH. No breaks. DD1 is working through what I believe to be PTSD after her awful year, and DD2 does not like the extra attention that DD1 is getting. Fighting and whining constantly. I’m exhausted. I finally cried yesterday and asked DH for a day. He gave me 3 hours and he didn’t understand why that wasn’t enough.

The kids are going to camp tomorrow for 3 hours. Thank Jesus. I need to get prospect meetings in this week, because DD1 will be Home next week and DH is traveling.

[erinshelley21]

Now all of a sudden my brother is concerned about being in town to help his wife who is 6 weeks pp because when she needs him is the same day as his stupid golf league. We have 3 more meetings and our deadline is this week. The fact that I am just now hearing about a Tuesday afternoon conflict when I brought up having 2 meetings on Tuesday is precisely why I can't work with him anymore. He has zero respect for my time and the fact that I can spring a meeting that has a 3 hour round trip drive at any moment.

[callmekd]

Solo parenting 17 month old twins and a 5 year old for 3 days (plus having a cold) has me done. I love my kids. They are great and cute and fun. But holy crap they are so much work.