It’s a kind of crazy weekend for us! Tonight DD has a sleepover at school. Kind of a camp out but in the gym. She’s very excited. I’m very nervous because she still sometimes wets the bed (she’s going to wear a pull-up under her clothes she will sleep in) and because her only sleepovers to date are with her grandma. Tomorrow DD has an early baseball game and DS has one just after hers. Her game is so early that we will pick her up from the sleepover, come home long enough to put her uniform on, then go to the field. But that assumes we don’t get rained out. There’s an 80% chance of storms, and I’m over here like “bring on the thunder!” Then, right after the second game, we are going to a birthday party for one of DS’s friends.
Sunday is blessedly clear. I have a feeling we will all stay in our pajamas. Then Monday I’m off to get an eye exam and do our taxes.
Its supposed to rain buckets all weekend. I'm at the office both days for long days and will be staying late tonight to try and finish up my own taxes. DH isn't going paintballing this weekend so is home all weekend. No idea if DD will be joining me at the office or staying home with dad. May try and talk DD into having DH take her to rec swim again just to give them something to do that revolves around her.
It has been a very busy week that I'm glad it's Friday. We had something every evening this week. On top of that, I have a stupid cold. We have zero plans tonight and I told DH that I was not doing anything! Tomorrow, we have a soccer game for DS1, a possible softball scrimmage for DD, and are going to see a children's theater show with DH's sisters, who are in town for the weekend. Then we are heading back to FIL's to order pizza and hangout. I think DH's sisters wanted to do something on Sunday too, but no one has made a decision yet. How about we just let the kids play together at our house? Every minute of every does not need to be planned! At some point, I need to get some reports done for work.
Post by erinshelley21 on Apr 5, 2019 14:23:18 GMT -5
We have a pretty standard weekend planned! And I am so excited since last weekend was spent getting ready to go out of town and then being out of town and the 2 before that were spent packing our friends house and moving them while their kid was in the ICU.
DH works tomorrow. DS has baseball practice tomorrow morning. After I'm going to run errands with him and DD and pick up groceries. Probably go see my mom while she is at my brother's babysitting.
Sunday will probably be church and cleaning whatever I don't get cleaned this afternoon. DS has a birthday party from 4-6 about 30 minutes away. I'm hoping by the time I get home or DH gets home from taking him, all that will be left to do for the week is put laundry away!
I have two kids camping four hours apart and it’s possibly tornado weather. Awesome.
I plan to organize. I moved the living room furniture around, changed the dining room set up when we got new floors, and now I need to tackle my room - aka I have too many clothes and not enough storage. I’m betting tons spark animosity and will disappear.
I want to read a book, get a pedicure and tackle my to-do list. Waaay too overly ambitious but I am super excited about a weekend with one kid and no sports.
I made a list of things for DH to do (from my list) and he questioned every one. (Why can’t you mobile deposit the FSA check? Are you sure the limit is $2500? Why can’t you go to the bank then?) He irked me to the point that I ran actual numbers for the first time and I could keep the house, car, pool company, yard guys, nanny, house cleaner, etc without him. I’d sacrifice on clothes, eating out, regular savings and travel. Which then made me kind of panic because before in my head I could not but now I can and weirdly I don’t want to??
I survived my first week back from ML! I have no plans for this weekend, and I couldn’t be happier. My mom will probably come over for a few hours at some point and I’m considering an attempt at getting DD and I to church on Sunday morning, but other than that we’re just hanging out at home. I’m sure there are plenty of things around the house that I could be doing right now, but I’m really enjoying just sitting and watching Netflix while DD naps so I’m going to pretend that my house isn’t a total disaster right now. lol.
Nothing planned tonight. DD2 and I are waiting for her check-up to start, and then we will sit in traffic forever trying to get home. So quiet night once we ate there.
Tomorrow DD2 has tennis, and DD1 is supposed to have her first softball practice, but the coach waited until last night to schedule it, and it conflicts with a birthday party. We accepted that invitation a month ago. Birthday it is.
Saturday evening DH and I are going to a gala fundraiser for the kids’ school. It’s a huge money maker, but OMG I feel like we shell out so much already. We bought our tickets, and will probably buy a few raffle tickets, but I don’t see us bidding on many of the auction items. As a frame of reference, a 5 course meal for 8 prepared by 3 dad’s who are chefs went for $24k last year. Do not have $24k to spend on a dinner party. So.... raffle!
Sunday I’m hoping to visit my dad for a little while. He had his knee replaced a little over a week ago, and I haven’t been able to see him much due to all the sickness in my house. No one wants norovirus while recovering from surgery.
Off today. Ds finally did a spring clean of his room, and he did a good job. He tackled the closet and somehow found a 4t GAP shirt. He's 15 and wears a mens M. Nice. Both kids helped with the mulch for both the front and back landscaping. I am going to make some stuffed mushrooms and sit by a fire tonight.
Tomorrow, I promised Dd a shopping trip. We are looking for bathing suits and I need something her graduation. I also need something's for a trip to the horse races in a couple of weeks. I am thinking a romper if I am not too tall. Saturday night. we have a benefit for someone who's water broke at 25 weeks and will be in the hospital until her due date.
Sunday we have a birthday party for my cousin's 1 yr old.
Baseball practice for DS tonight. DH will take the kids. Girls night for me.
Tomorrow we are supposed to drive the 5 hours to family for SIL's 3rd wedding reception (Sunday). SIL just bumped us out of lodging so that's fun. I think its an ego play by her mom since her mom probably didn't have any input into her actual wedding since it was destination cabin type thing, but it's so infuriating to have to go to all these parties so far away. She invited my mom and my mom guilted me into going. I was planning on being sick. MIL does treat us well, I guess. Lately they haven't really been around much to be honest. I think they visited in Oct and Dec, and the Dec visit was her telling mean stories about her kids for like an hour. So I mean there is some history of her being nice, but not recently. SIL as you know from reading all my posts eats crackers for me.
Post by librarychica on Apr 5, 2019 15:41:22 GMT -5
Everyone is just wiped at my house. I had ambitious evening fun planned but DD1 is currently eating sorbet in front of the TV and her sister put herself to bed and passed out. I hope she isn’t getting sick because my parents are taking them to a water park Sunday.
Tomorrow H is working and the girls and I are going to Dd1’s horse riding lesson, lunch and then maybe blue berry picking. Sunday H and I are supposed to spend grown up theme parking with my brother, who scored us some tickets, while the kids water park with my parents. I’m sure it will be fun but I find theme parks exhausting and he and H adore them so I’m bracing myself.
I don’t know when I’ll fit in my usual weekend stuff. Trying to force myself to clean and laundry now.
DH took our older kids to see his parents on the East coast. So it's just me and the almost-2-year-old, which feels like a vacation. I'm still putting my house back together from termite tenting (I'm paranoid and put a ton of stuff in a pod in the driveway), going to Mexico for 4 nights with the kids, and a work trip yesterday. I'm looking forward to a weekend with no t-ball or soccer or birthday parties. I have a lot of fun plans with friends where I get to only watch one kid, and his 2.5-hour naps and 7:30 bedtime should be great.
We have make up soccer today and then games on Saturday and Sunday. We also have church Saturday and I have 2 work projects to do as well as my own taxes. I’ve already worked 60 hours this week and just want to sleep.
I would love to have a month where DS2 isn’t hurt. He’s 2.5 and 6 weeks ago fell at in n out and hit his head, 2 weeks ago pulled a tabletop off an crushed his finger, and today he comes home from school with a huge bruise on his ear after a swollen bruised knee yesterday. Please tell me this is normal. My oldest son wasn’t nearly as accident prone.
I asked DH to put in a TV dinner into the oven so when I got home it would ready. I asked 15 minutes ago. He can't find and was going to drag DD out to the store now when I'm getting ready to walk out of the office thinking my dinner would be done in 30 minutes when I get home. I told him to forget it and I would just figure something else out. I'll be really pissed if I go home and pull it right out of the freezer.
Mine both go through spurts where I finally tell them to stop hurting themselves before people think I beat them.
A good friend of mine has two kids who match mine in age. When our littles were 2, in 10 days her daughter fell backward out of a chair onto the concrete patio and split her head open, walked into the corner of the kitchen counter and almost knocked herself out, giving herself a black eye, and then decided to pull the “rag doll” as her mom was holding her arm while putting her into her car seat, which somehow dislocated her arm. All three required doctors visits, and my poor friend called me, sobbing, saying “They are totally going to report me to CPS.” This mom is like the sweetest, most loving mom ever.
I may have jam packed my weekend a little too much...
Brunch with SIL followed by a baking class with friends today. Running straight from class to gymnastics sign ups. Apparently I have to camp out hours in advance to get the weekend class. It's my first year trying but I've heard it's a relatively social, fun day despite the pain of wasting an afternoon standing in line.
Then tomorrow I'm heading to a consignment sale for the kids in the morning. That will be followed by a ton of errands, since I volunteered to go buy all the raffle prizes for a work event. I think my sister will tag along with me so at least I'll have company.
It's supposed to be warm and sunny all weekend so I'm hoping to crack the windows and clear out the stale winter air!
sandandsea - I go with our orthopedist’s view - I could have sedentary kids or kids who aren’t all in. I’d probably be perfectly happy with them, but given the choice, would I choose to have active, all in kids? Well, yeah. He said he doesn’t see kids who aren’t active. So if I want to see less of him take them out of sports.
DD had so many accident reports from 2-5 that all three programs she attended met with me on their request to make sure I knew they were not abusing her or putting her in bad situations.
The Methodist program taught me to put vanilla (pure extract, Aldi has the best price near us) on bumps to prevent bruises. It totally works and is also soothing (I alternate ice and vanilla, or put vanilla on the paper towel between the ice pack and the child).
So DH insisted kids stay at his parents despite no more beds so they are bringing their sleeping bag fine. But we get here and the adults are sick like have fevers wtf. I don’t know what to do insist they sleep in the living room, our hotel? DH will act like it’s no big deal and then not stay home with them while they are sick. Will grand jury let me out to care for them if they are sick?
waverly - I vote that the parent who will be taking care of them if they get sick is the one who should get to make the call about them getting exposed. Tell him that if he makes the choice to treat it as no big deal, he’s dealing with the fallout!
I don’t know how they are going to handle it but luckily my MIL is there and seemed sensible to my concerns. They were discussing other stupid sleeping arrangements which was no one using the bed ( which made no sense), so hopefully they figure something out.
DH is starting a new job 4/15 so even if I wanted to stick it to him I also want him to make a good first impression.
I know nothing about grand jury but hopefully they are open to working around illnesses. It’s just the unknown that is making it hard.
And my team is going to the title game!!! I’m so excited! In the middle of the game, my watch informed me that I had doubled my move goal, lol. Um, yeah!