Friday plans, randoms, confessions

[mommyatty]

So what’s up, everybody?

We have a birthday party tomorrow and then a friend of DD’s is coming over Sunday to swim. I really like her mom, so the adults will drink wine and eat snacks while the kids swim and play. Anyway, we are hoping these will be new parent friends. 

Random: I love making stuff. I’ve been making little pencil bags on my embroidery machine that look like pencils. I feel like this is such a dorky activity, but I still love it. 

Confession: Yesterday my about to be a first grader schooled me on the difference between a traditional fluid and a Newtonian fluid. And I tried to correct her. But she was right. And I was wrong. A Newtonian fluid is like slime, just FYI. Sort of a liquidy solid. 

[justcheckingin73]

We have a busy and expensive weekend ahead, I think.

We will be buying DD a laptop for her 8th grade graduation gift. She really wants a Mac and I almost pulled the trigger on it if she contributed to the cost but I thinkI’m leaning toward a regular PC. It feels like a luxury item to me and I told DH, if she wants one for college, then she is welcome to pay for it herself but a PC should be good enough at this stage.

Also, our above ground pool has gotten a little rusty near the pump and has sprung a leak. We knew we’d probably have to replace it this year but I was hoping it would last through the summer. We have a few more years in this house so we plan to replace it.

We also need to look at some countertops, backsplash options and paint for our kitchen remodel.

Sunday I’ll get my 5 mile run in and overall I’m looking forward to waking up without an alarm clock at 5 am!

[covergirl82]

I'm working today. No plans this evening - yay!

Tomorrow the kids and I are going on a day trip to the town my parents grew up in. We're going to pick blueberries, go mini-golfing, go to the beach, get ice cream, and spend some time with my parents. DH is staying home because he just had a procedure to kill the sweat glands in his armpits (because he sweats like crazy and wears mostly black shirts because he's so self-conscious) and has activity restrictions.

Sunday morning is church for me and DD and DH is taking DS to the tryouts for travel baseball for next year. The coaches he had this year are staying together for next year, so I'm crossing my fingers and toes that DS makes their team because they are awesome coaches and DS is friends with all their sons. Sunday afternoon I'm going to work on cleaning and decluttering/organizing.

mommyatty, embroidered pencil bags that look like pencils sounds super cute and something I'd totally buy at a craft fair!

[xctsclrx]

My son is leaving for the weekend with his aunt and uncle to go to the aquarium. It'll be just DH, DD and myself. I am excited.

DH and I are going to try and have some bedroom time. We haven't been intimate for 4 months and last night was a failure.

[2chatter]

Today is a camp awards ceremony and I have a ton to do at work but have to go. Stressing me out.

I have to finish packing everyone including safe food for DD, a ton of things that have to be printed (is CA like 1960 with the paper or something??), and find things that are missing like the tripod and the cord to my Fuel Rod. I blew up at the kids for touching my stuff this morning.

DD plays at 7:45 then the girls and I are doing face masks and nails. We leave the house at 6am tomorrow, head straight to a BBQ, swim in the evening, SD zoo Sunday then check into the house on Mission Beach. Breakfast at The Mission on Monday, La Jolla, surf and SUP that day, reserved a beach bonfire that night. Tuesday is another beach day. Wednesday-Saturday is DIsneyland.

If I can survive the next 15 hours and get everything done - including some intensely annoying things at work - at least it’s vacation.

[rere]

I get off today at 11:45. DH texted me that he may want to go for a run when I get off, so we may do that. I also want to hit one of our rather expensive boutiques because they are having a 50% sale. Still looking for a dress for my reunion. Tonight, we are hanging with the kids plus niece and nephews and cooking out.

Tomorrow are boating with mom, her boyfriend and all 5 kids. Hoping it will be fun. I love boating, but it depends on how crazy it is. Sunday mom had declared a birthday party for nephew, even though it is not his birthday. I told her we would come for an hour, but we actually have stuff that needs to get done around the house.

Random: Ds is really loving one of his clubs at school. I hope he will go for one of the leadership positions this year (very involved to make the leadership, public speaking, trips, projects). I have been told to expect a home visit from his sponsors before school starts? Really? I didn't know it was a thing. Now I am on high alert about the state of the house, at least the front yard and living room. I am always super OCD when I think someone is stopping by, especially if it will be my kids teachers and school staff.

[waverly]

We are going camping for the first time ever with kids, and the second time as a couple. I camped all the time as a kid, and honestly was over it for a long time. DH never was interested either as he is a deluxe hotel kind of guy, but he went camping with the cub scouts, and it didn't suck. And we bought a Subaru Outback so we kind of have to go. Funny how everyone around me tells me they hate camping.

So anyone it is only got 2 nights, and then we go up to the family lake house.


Update:  Also, I want to say that I achieved my goals by having DD in the other camp.  She saw her friends and got acquainted with the private school K teacher.  Private school K teacher has her in the morning, public school K in the afternoon.  They are in the same building and Private school runs pre-school and before/ aftercare.  So I think it was good, but there was lots of friend drama.  


I moved them to the same camp for the last week of summer.  I am over the 2 drop offs and pick ups, and of course DH said he was around and would help.  Being around looked like him dropping and picking up Monday yay.  Then Tues-Wed at training an hour away so couldn't help, Thursday his day in the city and see his therapist so couldn't help and Friday oh just flying in for the day to have a wrap up lunch with the team.  I rolled my eyes at that one.  Must be nice to not be the default parent.  

[supertrooper1]

Today I'm going to my mom's house to help prep food for their party. Tomorrow we'll go watch a parade in the next town over. And then Sunday is my parents 50th anniversary party. I hope everything goes smoothly.

[phdmomma]

Good question, we are supposed to go drive a state over to bury DH's grandpa's ashes in the family plot. But now DH's grandmother isn't doing well and may pass very soon. This is a big family thing, and although we live close, alot of the other folks have flights. So I'm not sure that they will cancel it at the last minute? Also, my parents are moving this weekend, and will be one town over from us. And I have no idea if we will be around or burying grandpa and then going tubing (which is another story).

[ilovelucyvv]

We are having DD's birthday party on Sunday. I need to think about how much food to order from the pizza place next to the party venue. I also need to finish getting together party favors too, but I am keeping it very simple.

[sweetptater]

Vent: My niece's bridal shower is Saturday afternoon, so DD and I going. I was thinking, okay, drive over (2 hours), attend shower (1.5 hours), drive home. A time suck, but not too bad. I found out last night that the shower is from 1-4! WTF? How can they make a shower last longer than an hour and a half??? And since it's a 21 year old bridal shower, you know there are going to be a million stupid bridal shower games. Ugh. I'm planning on using DDas an excuse to leave early. That's going to suck up my entire Saturday.

Random: I have a cut on the cuticle of my pinky finger which got infected and is making my finger hard to bend, therefore making it incredibly hard to type, since every time I try to hit the shift key or the "a" key, my stiff pinky accidentally hits the caps lock key instead. So freaking annoying. 

[covergirl82]

sweetptater, if it were me, I wouldn't feel obligated to stay the whole 3 hours. (And I agree 3 hours is a little long for a bridal shower). Definitely use your DD as an excuse to leave early.

[2chatter]

Just had to pick up DD from camp - she has again subluxed her shoulder. She can’t try out for HS volleyball. I just sent her to a $500 camp. She’s crushed. To make this even worse my neighbor was cooking in my kitchen (house flooded) and met us at the doctor. I left DD with her because I need to work!!!!!!!!! I tried to use voice notes while driving her so I could capture the salient points of a conference call.

I got things like “Billy otters” (billing authorizations) and you I butts (UI - buttons). Most useless notes ever.

Camp awards in 45 minutes. Someone shoot me, please.

Full moon, mercury retrograde - I am starting to buy all that mumbo jumbo. Can anyone explain it to me?

[mae0111]

DH has been gone since about noon on Sunday, coming back at midnight tonight. He may take DD1 to the movies tomorrow morning while I hang out with DD2. Maybe a family hike on Sunday morning before it gets too hot. Otherwise, just hanging around, grilling, swimming. The kids really missed DH. I missed him, too, but we definitely needed some time apart.

(And, truth be told, I've been bingewatching The Crown all week, and I will have to slow it down while he's here - he's not interested...)

[traveltheworld]

2chatter, sorry to hear about your DD. Your life sounds super stressful, I don't know how you do it.

I'm looking at a low-key weekend. DH is in class both days, so it'll just be me and the kids. Tomorrow I'll take the kids to the second hand sport equipment place to see if I can find skates for DD, then probably the pool. Sunday is going to be hot, so maybe we'll go for a bike ride in the morning and just hang out at home in the afternoon. Probably do some grilling too.

[sdlaura]

2chatter I sometimes think that stuff matters - like my kids do tend to sleep worse during full moons...good luck with all your stuff going on!

We have date night tonight. I wanted to see the movie 8th Grade, but DH thinks it will be too awkward, so we're seeing Mission Impossible instead.

We were supposed to have a quiet weekend, but now I have a crazy day tomorrow. One of my best friends lives in Atlanta but grew up near LA. It's about 2 hours from us, but could be more with summer tourist traffic. So now tomorrow morning I'm leaving early and taking all three kids to see her and her kids. We'll be driving for 4+ hours round-trip to see her for 3 hours, but I figure it's worth it because I only get to see her once a year. Fingers crossed that my 13-month-old naps during the drive, since he hates being confined, and that my kids don't rip apart my friend's sister's house. We have to be back by late afternoon because we're hosting two other families (well, couples and babies) for dinner. I just ordered a Rubio's taco bar since there's no way I'm going to have time to cook now.

Sunday we'll probably lay low and go in the pool. Maybe we'll meet some friends for dinner.

My friend's parents' house near Redding, CA burned down last night in the fires. I can't imagine.

[waverly]

Jul 27, 2018 11:39:38 GMT -5 2chatter said:

Just had to pick up DD from camp - she has again subluxed her shoulder. She can’t try out for HS volleyball. I just sent her to a $500 camp. She’s crushed. To make this even worse my neighbor was cooking in my kitchen (house flooded) and met us at the doctor. I left DD with her because I need to work!!!!!!!!! I tried to use voice notes while driving her so I could capture the salient points of a conference call.

I got things like “Billy otters” (billing authorizations) and you I butts (UI - buttons). Most useless notes ever.

Camp awards in 45 minutes. Someone shoot me, please.

Full moon, mercury retrograde - I am starting to buy all that mumbo jumbo. Can anyone explain it to me?

Basically anytime the world gets crazy usually involving other people since I work with the public ( but could be anything) the best thing to do is explain it in astrological and astronomy terms, shake your head, roll your eyes and move on.   

People legit get crazy during a full moon.  Now that solar eclipse last summer, we must have gotten 8 billion phone calls on whether we had solar glasses.  We are not a store, there was no reason to assume we would have solar glasses except that someone somewhere had gotten some and posted it at a place similar to ours, so thank you dumb people.  People were calling us as the eclipse was going on.  I mean.... it was cool and all, but it took us a few weeks to recovery as people were acting nuts at least for 3 weeks afterwards too.  

[waverly]

A quick google to see if it a full moon and it is, plus a lunar eclipse. www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-july

[2chatter]

The almanac didn’t say this waverly, but the best day for a vaca better be 7/28.

The volleyball coach will consider DD for manager. Relieved they already replied.

Both middle DD and DS got “Most Energetic” awards at camp. So maybe it’s not just me - they really are a lot. DS’ nickname at camp was EB - Energizer Bunny.

I’m back to being entirely overwhelmed traveltheworld. The week after vaca DD now has six doctors appointments - I may lose my mind (or my job). Some are at 7:05 and others are at 4:30 or 5:00 so in theory I can still work but I’m already stressed about it.

[k3am]

Random: DH's name is Chris. (I'm cool posting it here, because I'm pretty sure 90% of you are probably also married to a Chris.) When we had children, he was adamant that their names were not "popular". Neither kid's name has ever made the top 1000 in the US. I always thought he was slightly ridiculous.

Today, I just addressed one email to 5 variations of Mike/Michael, 3 Matt/Matthew variations, and two Dan/Daniels. (And 2 Glens, but those ones actually were kind of shockers)

I guess thanks to DH, my kids will never know this problem.

[mommyatty]

Jul 27, 2018 13:50:43 GMT -5 k3am said:

Random: DH's name is Chris. (I'm cool posting it here, because I'm pretty sure 90% of you are probably also married to a Chris.) When we had children, he was adamant that their names were not "popular". Neither kid's name has ever made the top 1000 in the US. I always thought he was slightly ridiculous.

Today, I just addressed one email to 5 variations of Mike/Michael, 3 Matt/Matthew variations, and two Dan/Daniels. (And 2 Glens, but those ones actually were kind of shockers)

I guess thanks to DH, my kids will never know this problem.

DH’s name is John. He’s a really big guy. Like 5A Texas high school nose tackle big. So he was always “Big John”. He felt the same way. I have a name that has never made it on any list anywhere. So we had opposite goals. I wanted a name in the Top 10 from the year before, he wanted something “not too common but not weird”. So DD’s was #10 the year before she was born. DS’s was #11. DS has a kid in his class with the same name. DD does not. I think we hit about where we wanted to.

[polecat8]

k3am and mommyatty, DH and I have pretty common names for our age group. My name was so popular that there were 6 in my grade (4 in my homeroom alone). So when we were naming our kids, we picked names that we were sure no one else would have. In fact, their names came from video games. We gave them 'normal' middle names so if they really hate their first names later, they can go by them.

For this weekend, we have are going to a birthday party for one of DS1's preschool friends. Then I have some Kohls cash to burn, so we'll see if the kids need any clothes for the fall.
On Sunday, we're going to FIL's house to help him declutter.
We also need to start packing and planning for our vacation - we leave one week from Sunday! My whole family (parents, 3 brothers and their families ~17 people) is going to Niagara Falls, Canada. We've already planned ziplining, the Hornblower cruise, a day in Toronto, and Great Wolf Lodge. Is there anything that I'm missing that would be good for the family?

[sdlaura]

I think the breadth of names is bigger than it used to be - especially for girls. It seems like in our area, so many people go for unique names that the unique names end up being more popular. DD's name is a top 10 name and she's never had another one in her class. DS1's name is very unique and he already had another kid with the same name in one of his preschool classes. I was shocked. Like polecat8, we gave DS1 a more common middle name in case he thinks his first name is strange (it's MIL's maiden name).

[mae0111]

Re: names, DH and I are both Irish-American with common first names. I wanted traditional Irish names for our girls - Mairead, Aoife, Catriona were contenders in my book. DH pleaded with me not to do it. His middle name is an uncommon but traditional name that is pronounced nothing like it is spelled. He said he was almost 12 when he finally learned how to spell his middle name.

So our kids have pretty “normal”, but oddly not very common around here, First names. One DD has a traditional Irish middle name and the other has a family last name for a middle name.

[mustardseed2007]

We did not choose the name Noah for DS because it was #1 that year. There has been one Noah in school with him the total, whereas he knows 5 kids with his name (not in his class, just from around).
He loves counting all the kids he knows with his name.
I find it slightly annoying bc although I'm totally in love with his name, we picked it because it was in the 20's on the list at the time. But of course a lot has to do with where you live and all that.

DH's name is Jason. His best friend in high school's name was also named Jason and his brother had 2 friends named Jason. One time we had a party and there were literally 4 Jason's in the room that had all grown up together. Also, my cousin who is DH's age is also named Jason.

It was a mid to late seventies thing I guess.

[traveltheworld]

DH and I picked out our kids' names long before we got married and had kids. They were not popular names at the time. But by the time we had the kids, both were top 10 names. We went with them anyway, but now DS knows at least 2 boys with his name and 3 girls with DD's name.

[2chatter]

I’m trapped in my office by the maid (is that a thing for anyone else??). I haven’t had anything to eat today and am out of water. Not going out there.

All three of my kids have unusual names that are easy to spell and pronounce. That was key to me so I am in agreement about the Irish names - too hard for most people.

Not one of my kids has another child with their name in their grade, and one is the only one in the school. That was pretty much my goal. Also, two of their teachers named their babies my kids’ names - which is a good sign, right?

[covergirl82]

Being the child of a teacher, I know teachers appreciate it when they can pronounce a kid's name. So that was one goal.

DH picked DS's name (Con.nor), and I like it, but it can be spelled 3 different ways. So unfortunately for DS, his named gets misspelled a lot.

DD's name has been in the top ten (sometimes #1) for the past 10+ years. But I picked it out in 2005 before it was super popular, when DH and I were dating (or maybe engaged by that point, I don't remember), and I didn't want to change when it was super popular when she was born in 2011.

[mommyatty]

mustardseed2007- when I met my husband, John, his roommate was named Shawn and their best friend was named Juan. Which are literally the same name in English, Gallic, and Spanish. Any one of them might answer the phone (we courted before texting was a thing), and all three sounded exactly alike. More than once, I thought I was having a conversation with John when it was Shawn or Juan, or vice versa. We had to have an arrangement that if I called anyone by a pet name that was inappropriate, they were to reidentify immediately. Eventually, we settled on calling them Wompy (Juan Paulo, or Juan P) and IB (for eyeball, and I don’t know where that one came from).

Any my son, the blond haired blue eyed extremely white kid, thought he was Alex Wong for the first two months of preschool. The other Alex is a Wong. Plus he thinks if his shirt just says “Alex” without a middle initial, his teachers can’t tell him apart from Alex Wong.

[k3am]

Jul 27, 2018 14:20:49 GMT -5 mae0111 said:

Re: names, DH and I are both Irish-American with common first names. I wanted traditional Irish names for our girls - Mairead, Aoife, Catriona were contenders in my book. DH pleaded with me not to do it. His middle name is an uncommon but traditional name that is pronounced nothing like it is spelled. He said he was almost 12 when he finally learned how to spell his middle name.

So our kids have pretty “normal”, but oddly not very common around here, First names. One DD has a traditional Irish middle name and the other has a family last name for a middle name.

DD has an Irish name that doesn't sound like it's spelled.. People catch on pretty quick. But it's not one of the harder ones to pronounce. I really wanted Siobhan for my second child, but then he came equipped with a penis, so that was shot.