Monday? Tuesday? IDK

[rere]

I don't know if we can handle anymore long weekends.   I celebrated from Friday through Sunday.  By Monday, the kids were like, can we please just stay home.  DH got to come out Sunday night.  He was still in holiday mode yesterday, and we were all in chill mode.   


I am having a hard time getting in gear today.  I have a big meeting with local superintendents tomorrow. However, everyone was supposed to RSVP to me and I only have 3.  I have heard rumors that others are attending, but we are not going to get much done if there aren't the right people on around the table.  We have doodle polled and everything picking the day where everyone could attend.  I am not going to be very amused when school starts back and I have teachers and principals calling me up wanting me to address the huge vaping issue in their school when I have tried to put a comprehensive plan together and no one is showing up.  

[twinmomma]

The long weekend was great! Lots of birthday celebrating with the kids and just general laziness and relaxing. I took a nap, read almost an entire book, and barely spent any time indoors. Total success!

And guess what?! I finally joined a dating site and have a date lined up for Saturday! We've been texting back and forth every day for a week now and are really enjoying chatting with each other in the evenings. You ladies were right. It is fun to get back out there. ExH was so nasty and distant for so long, it's fun to talk with someone who actually wants to interact and make a good impression.

[mae0111]

So if you spent the weekend at a friend’s house, and for 2 of the 3 days you were there, someone if your party was vomiting, you would offer to throw the bedding and towels in the laundry before you left, right? Especially since you’d already used the washer and dryer for your own things, so knew how everything worked.

Asking for a friend...

[mustardseed2007]

I spent the whole weekend working on my house with breaks for a grill out at the neighborhood pool, first swim lessons of the summer and seeing Alladin (meh).

I decluttered the built ins in my living room and all the side tables and mantle. Got the china out of my china cabinet (decision made) and found the china cabinet a home, then decluttered my kitchen, bathroom, chest of drawers and closet in my bedroom and then last, decluttered my bathroom.

Sadly, we still have a ways to go. We need to do my kids room, rest of the living room, part of my bedroom, and my *gulp* office, and the playroom.

Good progress though.

[soccermama]

Even though it was a 3 day weekend, I sure could've used an extra day! Isn't that always the way it goes?? We had lots of pool time, RV shopping, and I did get the grocery shopping done and some chores in the house. However, there were more chores to be done and I did not get any personal errands done (that are way overdue). I'm like, how is it that 3 days was still not enough time for me??? Fun weekend tho!

[2chatter]

Took oldest on her 15th birthday trip as school ended Friday and she is much better health wise now. We went to the beach and VRBOd a condo, spending the weekend kayaking, surfing and eating. Some shopping and lots of walking. It was pretty amazing - she’s a great kid and it was a laid back long weekend.

Got home and grocery shopped, made the kids dinner, showered and ready for camps today. Except ... DS’ three day camp actually starts tomorrow and DD’s three day camp started today, so kind of annoying. Luckily oldest will help today/Friday (much more with the seven year old today).

DH took middle shopping and she got a denim skirt and checkered T with matching mini backpack. I walked in the door and she was standing there on her (new, just got it) phone and she might be the size of an eight year old but she looks for all the world like the almost 12 year old she is. Unreal.

[traveltheworld]

May 28, 2019 9:39:35 GMT -5 mae0111 said:

So if you spent the weekend at a friend’s house, and for 2 of the 3 days you were there, someone if your party was vomiting, you would offer to throw the bedding and towels in the laundry before you left, right? Especially since you’d already used the washer and dryer for your own things, so knew how everything worked.

Asking for a friend...

Uh...I would (a) never have stayed the weekend and would have checked my family into a hotel; or (b) if I was so sick that moving the family into a hotel seemed daunting, offer to pay for a cleaning service to come by and clean/disinfect.

[sdlaura]

It felt like a very long weekend since we left Thursday night for our kid-free trip and then still had 1.5 days with the kids when we got back. Yesterday was a beautiful day. I took all 3 kids to the beach by myself and it actually wasn’t super stressful. The older kids are old enough to go in the water by themselves and the little one was willing to stay in the shallow water with me nearby. Then they were all willing to leave when I said it was time to go and were cooperative with washing off the sand. Maybe we’ll go to the beach more often this summer. It’s only 2 miles away from us but usually so much work to take 3 little kids.

[supertrooper1]

mae0111, I hope that your H never lets those "friends" stay with you again.

twinmomma, I'm glad the dating app looks promising!

I'm in the camp of needing an extra day. DS and I had such a nice weekend together. We went to our local parade on Saturday and got soaked from the rain, but it was a good parade. We spent Sunday at my parents' house. My brother is dating a new girl with four kids, but only two of the boys were there. They were little jerks and I hope it doesn't last with the mom and my brother. Monday, DS and I ran errands and went out for lunch. I was just starting to feel like I was caught up on the day to day chores and was starting to get projects done around my new house. I'm down to two boxes in my dining room area and got the laundry room free of boxes to put up shelving for my "pantry" since there isn't a pantry in the house. Tonight will be hanging curtains.

[callmekd]

I could also use an extra day - preferably home alone. I almost forgot that today is Tuesday (and DD1 swims on Tuesdays). thankfully I remembered to pack her swim bag last night and bring it with.

[callmekd]

I'm also getting use to my new commute (our location moved 3 miles). I love my new office (lots of windows).

[twinmomma]

mae0111, I hope your husband is super apologetic and dealing with the clean up fall out of this weekend. What a mess, I'm sorry!

[xctsclrx]

mae0111, Those "friends" would not be welcome at my house again.

I am only working 2 days this week and then I am off for 5. I CAN"T wait. We shall see how many phone calls I get.

[covergirl82]

Such a busy weekend. DS had a baseball tournament Saturday and Sunday. Baseball was done by 2:00 on Sunday, but then one of the families invited everyone over for a pool party. We got home around 6:30. Monday we went up to walk around our new land that we bought. The ticks were out in force (despite bug spray), so I washed all our clothes when we got home and we all took showers. DH forgot he had chapstick in his pocket, so that meant putting detergent on all the spots on all the clothes and then soaking them overnight and washing them again this morning. The good news is that it looks like the stains came out. I was none too happy about having to do that.

We saw my parents yesterday. (Their "cottage" is about 15 minutes from our new land, so they came over to check it out.) I asked them about coming to one of DS's baseball tournament games on Saturday, and my mom said that they probably can't because she has to get food ready for their small group on Sunday. So she needs a day and a half to get food ready?? She can't just get some pizzas and tell them she did something easy so she and my dad could go to their grandson's baseball game? I'm sure they would understand. When they come down on Friday, I'm going to offer to help her do some meal prep so they can come.

This week will be busy at work. Lots of meetings today and I have a lot of work to cram into 4 days.

[covergirl82]

mae0111, those "friends" would be added to the "never get to stay as houseguests again" list. They have some nerve. I offered to take the sheets off the beds we used when we stayed at my aunt and uncle's house for spring break, and we were all healthy.

[callmekd]

mae0111 echoing what everyone else said. ugh.

[186momx]

Weekend was long. It started with celebration at school Thursday and me volunteering from 3:30-8:30. I put in almost 10k in steps just during that time. DH did step up and got DD from practice as the secretary screwed up my volunteer availability and didn't include DH as a volunteer at all. Friday I had lunch with DD because she was upset she didn't get to talk or spend time with me on Thursday. The rest of Friday was me having a chill day which was needed since I haven't been sleeping well.
Saturday was errands and home improvement store. WE set the posts just before it started to pour. Had a movie afternoon while it rained. Sunday we took the neighbor and his nephew with us to the safari park. DD and I read in the back seat down and back and I got some quiet time as DH was being extra attentive to DD because we had company with. Got home about 3 and then put up the stringers and started attaching the boards.
Monday DD woke up not feeling good. We went to Get Air where she had multiple meltdowns so I cancelled the pool playdate. DD then took a 2 hour nap, lounged on the couch and went to bed at 6:30 so I think she was just really tired and not feeling great. We finished the fence Sunday night.

[waverly]

Monday morning was good. The afternoon was terrible- 2 tornado sirens luckily nothing touched down. In our basement in probably the worst storm since I was a kid. A gigantic tree limb fell, but luckily not on the house or the cars/garage. The kids were terrified and frankly I was scared too. It looked like a hurricane outside our windows. Everything in town is flooded and tree branches down everywhere and a nursery got hit pretty bad. Way better than Ohio though since our rotating winds did not turn into a funnel until they passed us. The transponder blew and we lost power until 2am. I slept about 3 hours last night.

[mustardseed2007]

waverly , OMG so scary! I saw some pictures and it looked horrible. I'm so glad you're safe! 

[rere]

waverly, Our weather was so weird this weekend. We were all at a friends pool Sunday and saw clouds roll in and heard thunder. Made the kids get out, went to their pole barn to wait it out, so not much protection. These rolling black clouds come over with a pretty good storm. Scary part is they think a tornado touched down on the other side of the county. Our phones didn't go off, no sirens, nothing, and we are all in a metal building with our kids - 50 yards from a basement, that we didn't realize we needed to be in.

[polecat8]

We had a wonderful weekend with friends visiting. They stayed in a hotel, which was good because their son ended up with really bad diarrhea on Saturday night. But it seemed to be a random thing because no one else got it and he seemed 100% better by morning.
Our plan was to just hang out and let the kids play. When the kids got a little bored, we got some ice cream and went to a playground. It's been a long time since we saw them and we just picked up where we left off.
When they left on Monday, we were all pretty bummed. I haven't told DH yet, but we are headed up to a state park by our friends in July for a few nights kid-free for DH's 40th birthday. Our friends already know and I'm hoping we can hang out again while we are there.

[mustardseed2007]

Random DDOT -- I have multiple lunches this week with outside attorneys that suddenly want to have lunch with me b/c I'm the GC. I dont feel comfortable at these, at all. I hate chit chat and I hate chit chat over lunch in a networking environment. And I hate when I'm the only one from my company having to chit chat with someone.

plus I know they're going to want to know about my GC leaving and I don't know what to say.

[k3am]

My weekend is officially over - DH has a week off between jobs, so we sent the kids off to school/DC yesterday, and I took the day off work. We went for a hike in the open space preserve behind our house, did some errands, had lunch, and then went wine tasting at a local winery.. the winery was one we'd never been to, never heard of, and googled as we drove into the area to select at random and it was really good. Of the 5 wines they poured, I actually liked all 5 of them.

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[186momx]

Work grumble. The eye place next door is adding on to their building. They are the only business on our street that actually has a parking lot. Well parking lot isn't accessible due to construction. So all of the employees are taking up the street parking that our clients would normally use. There are 4 other business on this block that have lots of come and go clients; us, the dog groomer, nail lady, and insurance guys. We are all getting really annoyed that the eye guys are hogging the parking in front of our places for the entire day and causing our clients to have to park blocks away (small town so normally not a issue). Now I do have parking behind our building along with the tenants above us. All the construction guys have taken over our parking area and are parking like idiots so by the time I arrive at 8 the area is a mess and I'm squeezing in. They just started construction so this is going to be frustrating for a while but I feel like I can't complain because we aren't in busy season so it isn't affecting our clients that much as we don't see as many right now.