This weekend DS has a tee ball game though DD’s team will have too few kids to play their game. Other than that, we are FREE!!!
Next week is Spring Break for our kids. I’m taking off part of the week, and I think we are going to hang out with a couple of families we like. Also, we are doing a massive reorganization effort. DH is a hoarder. There’s just no denying it, and it’s getting worse. We are getting rid of his shit or I’m getting a divorce. My mom was the same kind of low- level hoarder, and I lived with the shame of that as a child. I’m not putting my kids through it. He can decide if he loves his stacks of crap more or less than he loves living in a nice house with a wife who supports his sorry, hoarding ass.
I have been battling a low level cold all week, and now it is in the annoying stage. Go Away cold. I want to be happy instead of being like ugh home, ugh work, and I think the illness and weather are part of this.
Tomorrow is dance class, followed by St. Patty's parade. Both kids are in the parade and my kid just invited another kid to come, so not sure how I am supposed to hang out with this other family while also walking in the parade. Then we have date night tomorrow. I even got Starbucks this morning and still not excited.
DS had bronchitis- while he was finishing up his antibiotics he caught a cold, so if he is still coughing how do I know if he is cured from bronchitis?
Post by covergirl82 on Mar 8, 2019 10:59:07 GMT -5
Yay for Friday! It is sunny here, and supposed to get into the 40s this weekend. Next Thursday is showing a forecast for the high 50s, so I hope that stays.
Today I'm WFH because the kids have a half day. DH is also WFH in the morning. We're going to all go to lunch, and then DH is headed to the other side of the state for the weekend with his cousins and a couple friends for the state bowling tournament (they do this every year). I get a little nervous when he goes on this trip, as there have multiple years where me or the kids have been sick, and my parents were gone too, and it was horrible. So far, the kids and I seem to be healthy going into the weekend.
Tonight DS has baseball practice and while he's there, DD and I are going to get groceries. Tomorrow my friend and her DD are coming over so we can chat and our DDs can play. Sunday is church in the morning and small group in the evening. I need to do the kids' laundry this weekend, and I'm going to try and sell some stuff on my local FB yard sale site.
mommyatty, my parents and sister are low-level hoarders too. I'm trying to not be like them. (I'm worried about what I'm going to do when they are gone because I can't even fathom going through everything. My mom inherited her dad's house, which was his parents' house, and there are literally 4+ generations worth of stuff there.) I would say MH has given me quite a bit of mercy around clutter, because that's what I grew up with, and I honestly struggle with managing clutter on a daily basis. I've really been trying to declutter over the past year, but I am slowly doing it due to the time and energy it takes to tackle it. So I understand where both you and your H are at.
I wish I had a low key weekend, but alas... Tomorrow, we'll head to the gym. Then I am going to a bridal shower for DH's cousin with my SIL. Her H and kids will hang with DH and my kids while we are gone. Then we'll catch some dinner together before they hit the road. I was hoping to enjoy the 60 degree sunny weather on Sunday, but I have to work. We are so behind on this software release so the product manager asked us to put some time in over the weekend. I have a few things that must be done by Monday, so I'm hoping for an easy win. If not, I'll be taking a run during lunch.
At some point DH and I need to figure out a meal plan for DS2's bday party next Sunday. I think we'll only have about 15 people (mostly family). I need to think of something that I can pick up or just throw in the oven.
Low key here too so far. We are volunteering at the school fish fry tonight and the kids will hang out there. Tomorrow, DH is going to a college basketball game, so the kids and I will need to find something to do. I am hoping Sunday is warm enough to get outside, but I am not counting on it. I have a bottle of wine so I am doing some positive thinking that I will get a chance to have a glass one night.
Post by supertrooper1 on Mar 8, 2019 11:48:33 GMT -5
It's DS's birthday weekend. Tonight, STBXH, DS and I are going out to dinner. It's STBXH's weekend, so I'm stopping by his house tomorrow on DS's actual birthday. Then Sunday is his class party at Michael's craft store. So far I've received 5 out of 14 RSVPs. I wish I knew how many were actually going to show up. I have plenty of chocolate coins for favors.
I’m super hostile at work because I am so buried. And I have barely seen the kids because I work all day and all evening.
I’m taking two kids with strep on a road trip. They are medicated and at school and all that but I’m nervous I am going to go down. Oldest vomited last night and is going to the doctor with her Dad today.
DD (middle) was in a special dance at the morning end of nine weeks assembly. She’s been practicing for weeks. I had to meet with the 504 coordinator so oldest can return part time to school. I know she knew I would not be there. But ALL the other girls have SAHMs without any medically complicated kids. So I know from her comment “I know, it’s work and my sister” that she’s feeling not great about it and that sucks.
mommyatty, this is DH with stuff from his parents house. We can't use it but we can't sell it or donate it either. Giant china hutch full of crystal and china, hasn't been used since his grandmother last entertained. I can't use it or display it. Hutch is taking up the entire wall in the spare room. After DH's dad died he brought home a good 2 dozen photo albums or boxes of photos. He bought nice Rubbermaid totes to store them and they are all stacked in the garage. I've asked a number of times for him to go through them to reduce the # but no he isn't ready or can't I do that for him.
The big home show is this weekend. Going to go probably Saturday night to talk with home heating places and to try and set up estimates for after tax season or just pick up a lot of brochures.
I'm working all day at the office on Saturday and probably on Sunday too. We are so far behind that WFH on Sunday just seems like more hassle than driving the 20 minutes into the quiet office.
Read night at school last night was fun. It was interesting to see DD interact with the teachers. DD also plopped down and read in basically all of the quads that had free reading. I got to talk to both 3rd grade teachers and right now I see DD having a really great 3rd grade year as they both seem to awesome. It was a late night as we didn't get home until after 8.
Tomorrow I'm taking DD skating. We're signing her up for lessons starting in April and they recommend having them familiar with the boots there so that any size/fit issues are sorted in advance. The last few times (at a different rink), their boots have been pretty crappy, so it will be helpful. Plus we needed an activity for the day, since we also have no big plans.
I'm contemplating getting DS on skates too, but I'm not sure how he'll feel about it. The former ice skater in me says that almost 3 is a great age to start, but he's hit or miss with a lot of stuff.
I had some blood work taken this week, and one of the results came back abnormal, so now they are running it through a bunch of tests. With the short version being that I may or may not have an autoimmune disease. Honestly, I just want to feel better, so the fact that they found something other than vitamin D deficiency on the pile of blood work they drew is good. I just don't like waiting.
This weekend we have swim lessons for the kids and then some out of town friends are going to her parents' house with their new baby, and we are going over to meet the new little one. Hopefully the kids won't be too bored.
DH has 5 drawers full of socks and 3 drawers of underwear. So all his clothes he actually wears are in my gigantic bathtub. Why? Because his drawers are full of hundreds of pairs of socks he’s never going to wear. I told him after next week, he will have a single sock drawer, a single underwear drawer, and no more than 30 pairs of sneakers. Currently he probably has 120 pairs of sneakers. This is after I made him clean them out a couple of years ago. I’m not doing this anymore. I wanted to force him down to 5 pairs of sneakers, but I don’t think he could do it.
DH has 5 drawers full of socks and 3 drawers of underwear. So all his clothes he actually wears are in my gigantic bathtub. Why? Because his drawers are full of hundreds of pairs of socks he’s never going to wear. I told him after next week, he will have a single sock drawer, a single underwear drawer, and no more than 30 pairs of sneakers. Currently he probably has 120 pairs of sneakers. This is after I made him clean them out a couple of years ago. I’m not doing this anymore. I wanted to force him down to 5 pairs of sneakers, but I don’t think he could do it.
Holy stuff! He needs to binge on Marie Kondo and find the three sneakers that spark joy.
I don't know that DH is a hoarder so much as unorganized. He is completely master over 3 locations. The top of his dresser, one cabinet in the kitchen, and the detached garage. These places are complete disasters. Some kind of weird nuts/pine combs in the cabinet, a 100 cords to who knows what, 3 half boxes of Christmas cards, bags of nuts, gum, bills, insurance booklets, lunchboxes, lotion, various glue. On his dresser there are about 20 receipts to various places, 2 things of change, various socks, carpenters pencils, tooth flossers, hopefully unused. In the detached garage, I have never found anything I have tried to look for in 20 years. 2 workbenches piled with old tshirts, tools, a Waylon Jennings cassette tape? chalk, toys, cans of oil, fertilizer, softball gloves....non of which has been useful for 15 years.
DH has 5 drawers full of socks and 3 drawers of underwear. So all his clothes he actually wears are in my gigantic bathtub. Why? Because his drawers are full of hundreds of pairs of socks he’s never going to wear. I told him after next week, he will have a single sock drawer, a single underwear drawer, and no more than 30 pairs of sneakers. Currently he probably has 120 pairs of sneakers. This is after I made him clean them out a couple of years ago. I’m not doing this anymore. I wanted to force him down to 5 pairs of sneakers, but I don’t think he could do it.
And here I thought DH was bad with his 3 dozen pairs of underwear, 5 dozen socks, and 40+ t-shirts. Oh I can't forget the couple dozen baseball style hats. I tend to purge his stuff when he takes off for a paintball weekend. He never notices things are missing either. Oh, I just purge out the holey torn stuff but a few years ago I got rid of all shirts that had dates on it going back to 1998 to 2010.
We are at Disney, and tomorrow is our last day. We have breakfast at Cinderella’s Royal Table tomorrow, then some good Fastpasses lined up. We will probably swim in the afternoon and then wrap up the evening early. We are traveling Sunday and have to be at the airport early. Losing an hour of sleep is inconvenient.
Sunday is DD2’s birthday - she will be 6. So I will grab a cake when we get home and maybe ask my parents to come over for takeout or something easy.