I have a DDOT. Out of nowhere I keep sprouting weird hairs out of my chin and they are making me CRAZY. I’ve always had an occasional one pop up, but now it’s like I have a couple that have decided this is their new permanent abode. It’s maddening.
Post by covergirl82 on Feb 13, 2020 9:23:38 GMT -5
DDOT: The school superintendent should've called a snow day today. Roads were not great and we're supposed to get snow throughout the day, with temps falling into the teens, so salt will stop working. Plus we haven't had a snow day yet, and it's the middle of February. Time to give the kids and school staff a break.
mommyatty, If you are over 40, I would chalk that up to the weird things that we were gifted with after. The flawless and tinkle can take care of that pretty easily.
Check up for DS tomorrow. I think he is close to 5ft 7inches, so about 5 inches from last year. His voice is starting to change which is pretty funny. Sometimes it is deep, and other times he has a high pitch scream like a 3 year old girl.
DD is counting the days until braces. Yay.
We heard a rumor that the hermit lady is moving back in next door. This can be good news. Her nephew thinks that there is something in the will keeping them from lotting off their land and selling it off. Makes sense since there is a cemetery on it. That may be good for us. It is 22 acres. As long as they stay on the other side of 22 acres, where the house and everything is, hopefully it will not affect anything near our property.
Beginning of a TWERK with more to come later: We scheduled DD's follow-up MRI for 3/3. This year they want her to try it without out sedation, so hopefully that goes smoothly. Just when she was getting used to all the hassle that goes with it and I'd been prepping her for it, now I have new stuff to prep her for. Fingers crossed for boring brain pictures. As boring as a brain that looks a bit like swiss cheese can look, anyways.
Still sick and very much want to take a nap. Spending today on the couch, under a blanket, with my laptop trying to crank out some work. DH is out of state (again), so I will have to drag myself off the couch to pick up the kids later. My skin actually hurts. But if I don't get these 3 proposals completed and out the door, the potential clients will go elsewhere.
Kitchen demo was pushed to Sunday, thank the Lord. I couldn't not handle any more packing.
I can't remember if I shared this or not, but after a year of searching, DH hired an employee. He's a great fit and I'm excited that a little bit of pressure will be off DH. DH will have really reliable back-up and someone to take a couple of projects off of his plate, and DH can focus on his larger clients and on selling a bit. It also means that I'll have a bit of consistent work coming my way from DH, which will be nice.
Kids are on vacation next week, and we are not going to visit MIL as planned because of the sickness. So I need to come up with some things to do.
DDOT: I'm trying to finish up this 2016 tax return for a teacher. Lady is great but god is she a scatterbrained mess. I've been asking for the same 3 pieces of info for over a year. These documents will greatly decrease her tax owed amount.
mae0111, I vote that you all just stay home for most of next week. Between being sick and the kitchen reno stress you need home time not running all over the place.
TWERK: DD's teacher meet with DD and the two friends that were having drama. It was a crying mess from the one girl who basically threw DD under the bus saying she was making it up because she needs all the attention while she sobbed under the table. A couple other kids backed DD up and apologized for going along with sobbing girls plans. Teacher told the girls not to play or talk to each other for the rest of the week. I asked DD to continue avoiding them this week as it really seemed to help or at least I didn't hear about all the drama. Last night DD said she has been hanging with a few different kids at recess but still eating alone which is okay with her. DD also said that she and the other girls are on the waitlist to meet with the counselor to try and fix things.
Post by traveltheworld on Feb 13, 2020 13:13:22 GMT -5
mommyatty, I have chin hairs popping up all the time now too, drives me crazy!
My other DDOT is that we are going on a cruise in 10 days, and the whole coronavirus / cruise ship quarantine issue is making me anxious. We are going to the Caribbean so I'm not actually worried about contracting the virus, I'm more worried that someone would show similar symptoms and then the cruise would be denied entry back. And for a cruise with 5,000 people, it'd be hard to say definitely that no one has symptoms that are so similar to just your normal flu/cold. I can't cancel at this point since that'll cost me $7K+.
Oh, and I am presenting at my kids school on vaping for parents tonight. My prediction is we may have 20. If we are lucky. It's hard to get parents out in the evening. However, there will be catering of tacos, so its a win for me.
rere, It's so hard! I know when I was on PTA, we would constantly struggle to get people to come to stuff that the kids aren't invited to. The SAHM set that ran PTA didn't understand that no one wants to try to track down a babysitter after working all day and deal with that. Thankfully for big presentations like yours, our district typically wrangles some high schoolers to provide childcare for those who need it on site.
mommyatty, I have a single chin hair that I pluck and it just keeps coming back in the exact same spot. Drives me insane!
I have always had chin/random dark face hairs, so that's nothing new Most of the hair on my body is blonde so at least they're easy to see. My favorite place to pluck is in the car - better visibility in the natural light.
traveltheworld, a cruise would also stress me out right now. My parents just got back from an Australia/New Zealand cruise and they were fine.
I have lost 16 lbs since the 1st. Lightest I have been since DD was born. 12 more to go before I am done with DD weight and can move to loosing DS weight!!
Kind of a TWERK? I'm bracing myself for a flood of miserable updates via Facebook friends today/tomorrow. I think I mentioned that the girls told me ExH bought a ring for GF? He still hasn't proposed, but they're on vacation this weekend together, so I'm assuming it's coming today. Which means as soon as he posts something, I'm going to get bombarded with messages from all of our mutual friends and family members. Ugh.
Kind of a TWERK? I'm bracing myself for a flood of miserable updates via Facebook friends today/tomorrow. I think I mentioned that the girls told me ExH bought a ring for GF? He still hasn't proposed, but they're on vacation this weekend together, so I'm assuming it's coming today. Which means as soon as he posts something, I'm going to get bombarded with messages from all of our mutual friends and family members. Ugh.
Can’t they just ... not say anything? I don’t think I would ever bring up news like that to a friend because what would be the point?
I vote you turn off all Facebook notifications and ignore for a week.
@twinmomma I would take the messages, no matter what they said, as a celebration, congratulations that you don't have to put up with his nonsense anymore in terms of being his spouse and his new wife can gave that "honor".
librarychica, You would think so... But I already get random messages sometimes from mutual friends (not close friends, but ExH and I went to high school together so our circle spans a wide radius) with "WTF, is he for real?" type tones. So I can only imagine what this kind of news will bring. I also know exMIL is going to lose her ever loving mind over it. So that will be fun. And my mother is still FB friends with exH to see pictures of the girls. She's going to be blowing up my phone as soon as he posts something.
Post by librarychica on Feb 14, 2020 8:48:45 GMT -5
TWERK: the new babysitter is... okay. I am WFH this morning due to an issue in my building and she took two personal phone calls outside while the girls got ready and forgot to help them get water bottles (which I realized when I popped out for coffee to my barely 5yo standing on a counter). Like, yes, independence good but take the water bottles down from the shelf for her.
My oldest, just turned 8, is having a lot of issues. There’s drama in her class that is just around her, she isn’t directly involved other than she’s being picked on by the one girl a bit. But the class lost its Valentine’s Day party for disrespect, the teacher has moved the seating chart all around 3 times in 4 weeks and it’s just upsetting to her. Add in a tentative diagnosis of precocious puberty (her bone age is measuring two+ years ahead) and her embarrassment over having hairy legs (sorry babe, have you seen mama’s arms?) and she is a self-conscious mess. We see an endocrinologist soon for a hormone test but she is just struggling. This morning the girl who has never cared about clothing tried on three dresses, cried about her hairy legs, had me braid her hair, cried about her hair and then cried that she was ugly before wearing her only maxi dress (so you can’t see her legs) to school.
librarychica dd had darkish hair and asked to shave at 10. I dont know what your stance is on shaving, some parents wait until a certain age, but I bought her a little electric razor, for women. She could not cut herself or didn't. She was happy and felt better and could take care of it herself.
librarychica dd had darkish hair and asked to shave at 10. I dont know what your stance is on shaving, some parents wait until a certain age, but I bought her a little electric razor, for women. She could not cut herself or didn't. She was happy and felt better and could take care of it herself.
I have thought about it. I was shaving and plucking my unibrow by 11 and wearing an underwire bra by 10 (and should’ve been wearing one earlier) so early development isn’t unusual in our family but 8 seems so young! OTOH if she was crying over her hair in the mornings I wouldn’t be like “no haircut for you.” I am going to talk to her more about it.
twinmomma- could you warn your mom and maybe just post something preemptively saying you would really appreciate not getting updates on your XH since you’ve happily moved on with your life? My god, I cannot even imagine how much this sucks for you.
But yeah, steal the hell out of his thunder when it comes to your mom.
PS if the asshole can afford vacation, he can afford his share of summer camp.
mommyatty, right?! Here he is telling me how he can't afford to take vacation days to deal with the kids and then he tells me he's out of town right now? UGHGHGH. That's all I can say in response to him, ever. I do need to give my mom a heads up. She's going to flip.
librarychica dd had darkish hair and asked to shave at 10. I dont know what your stance is on shaving, some parents wait until a certain age, but I bought her a little electric razor, for women. She could not cut herself or didn't. She was happy and felt better and could take care of it herself.
rere, thank you for the tip about the electric razor. DD just turned 9, and unfortunately (for her) takes after DH with having dark body hair. (DS takes after me with arm/leg hair (fair/blond)...I wished it was DD who had ended up with that trait.) I foresee this summer or next she'll start shaving.
Post by supertrooper1 on Feb 14, 2020 13:09:29 GMT -5
I'm back from snowmobiling and back to work for one day this week. I had a blast with beau. We stayed two nights in a cabin at a hot spring. It was nice to unplug as we didn't have cell service, running water or electricity. The only downside was having to use an outhouse. I had never been snowmobiling and loved it. We stayed on groomed trails and I was doing 60 mph quite a bit.
librarychica, covergirl82, I started shaving with an electric razor and stuck with that for a long time. DD has asked a couple times about shaving she is almost 9. I told her once she starts that she can't just stop because it takes too much time. Right now she just has lots of leg hair but it is still pretty fair but it stands out more in the summer when she gets a tan.
Any good places to buy sports bras for little girls. DD wears them daily as then she doesn't have to worry about going upside down at school. She needs and XS and the ones I got her for Christmas just don't fit right because there is just too much fabric for her tiny torso/chest. I also didn't realized how ripped her shoulders/abs were until I saw her running to the bathroom yesterday morning in just her sports bra and leggings.
186momx - I’ve gotten sports bras for DD1 at Walmart and Target. She needs them for basketball so that she can just wear the uniform shirt without a t-shirt.
I'm pasty pale with dark hair. My mom refused to teach me how to shave/let me shave. So one day I stole my sisters razor and did it anyways. I wiped the hair off the blade with every stroke. I didn't realize at the time that every time I did that, I was cutting my thumb. It was really bad. My mom couldn't even punish me over it since we all were so grossed out by the state of my thumbs and that was punishment enough.
That being said, if/when DD feels like she needs to shave, she's got options. At this point, she and her leg hairs are blonde, but who knows what puberty brings. I would potentially even be willing to shell out for laser hair removal if she asked for it once she's old enough.
ExH update: He's engaged. Put it on social media last night. As soon as ExH called to tell me he had posted it "so I wouldn't find out online" I called beau and showed up at his house to turn off my phone and hide for the night. He took it totally in stride and was great about it. Since then, not a SINGLE mutual friend has liked/commented/congratulated him at all. Only a couple messages from people so far, so I think I'm in the clear.
twinmomma, How are your girls handling the news? I'm glad you were able to hide out at beau's place last night and all your mutual friends are being considerate so far.
186momx, I won't see them again until tomorrow, so I'm not sure. Apparently they helped pick out the ring, so I'm sure they're ok with it. They love her, which isn't surprising since she was their fun teenager babysitter before all this. They don't see her as a parent at all, she's just super cool.