So I bought a cool convertible couch thing for DS. Little did I know that I was entering the world of pinterest moms. There's facebook groups about this damn couch, and it's so beyond much of what I'd do. LOL!
This is what it is, in case you wanted to fall down the rabbit hole - nuggetcomfort.com/
My sister bought one for her twins for Christmas and that thing is awesome. It's mid-February and everyone is still playing on it for hours every day. DD would love one but I think she's really a little old for it at 7.5.
Although, for as much as DD adores making forts and as much as I loathe forts, it might not be the worst purchase. So much easier than a fort I end up having to help assemble.
I got my kids one for Christmas and they love it. I let them make their own creations though. It is currently stashed in the basement while we potty train though. I do not want her peeing on that expensive thing, haha.
The people that own like 4 or more of these things blow my mind though. They are huge and expensive!
My sister bought one for her twins for Christmas and that thing is awesome. It's mid-February and everyone is still playing on it for hours every day. DD would love one but I think she's really a little old for it at 7.5.
According to the Pinterest moms, even tweens love it! Frankly, I'm looking forward to using it myself.
pugz , I'm amazed at how many moms ask for configurations for the thing. Isn't the point of the thing to let your kids make their own play? But what do I know. LOL! ETA: and yes to owning 4. I guess it's just the same as owning a bajillion $$$ wraps, or poopcatchers, though.
My sister bought one for her twins for Christmas and that thing is awesome. It's mid-February and everyone is still playing on it for hours every day. DD would love one but I think she's really a little old for it at 7.5.
According to the Pinterest moms, even tweens love it! Frankly, I'm looking forward to using it myself.
pugz , I'm amazed at how many moms ask for configurations for the thing. Isn't the point of the thing to let your kids make their own play? But what do I know. LOL! ETA: and yes to owning 4. I guess it's just the same as owning a bajillion $$$ wraps, or poopcatchers, though.
Yes it totally reminds me of that!
I'm in only one Nugget group and they have albums where you can see different configurations. The only fancy thing I've done is turn it into a Christmas tree on Christmas, haha. www.facebook.com/groups/785209015257790/
Dang. DD2's birthday is next month and I've been trying to figure out what to get her. She LOVES making pillow forts and I bet she would adore one of those. It's tempting.
But it is a lot for something that may have a relatively short shelf-life (she's turning 10, DD1 is 12). OTOH, my kids both still use their anywhere chairs to lounge around in, and that couch seems like something that would continue to get used to lounge on for reading or tween/teen movie nights.
Heck, it would've been a hit at my church middle school/high school youth group when I was growing up.
That looks awesome! My 7 & 5 year olds would love it!
Apparently I've become a sports mum. Boys had a golf tournament last night (4 weeks of tuesday afternoons, yesterday was the last one). DS1 has a swim meet Thursday to Sunday and DS2 has a soccer competition on Saturday-Sunday. I had said no golf competitions but this was a school one and they needed them to make the numbers for a team so I gave in. The good thing is with all these sports, the parents are very supportive to each other (especially the mums) and we all look after each others kids if someone can't be there. We all seem to get that most of us are balancing kids and work and can't be at everything.
The cutest thing was my boys were paired together yesterday and had their best day! Apparently they are a good team - they came 2nd out of 12 pairs and were the youngest pair!
We have been potty training since Saturday and I broke the rules and put her in a pull up to run errands today, but she hasn’t pooped since Monday so I am not risking it!! Also potty training house arrest is the worst!
We have been potty training since Saturday and I broke the rules and put her in a pull up to run errands today, but she hasn’t pooped since Monday so I am not risking it!! Also potty training house arrest is the worst!
Costco pizza is in my future!
We’re still working on it too. DD picked up peeing pretty quick when we started over a long weekend, and is pretty good about using non-home bathrooms to pee. But we’ve only had one poop in the potty. And she’s only peed at daycare two or three times - she’ll sit on the potty for them but usually won’t pee. So do I just send her in underwear and then she’ll get it? The staff is stretched a bit thin at the moment so I hate to make more work for them, but she really needs to figure it out.
Being confined to the house really sucks. The first weekend we trained her, she picked it up quick so we decided to go out for pizza to finally get out a bit. I spent most of the outing in the pizza place bathroom with her while she sat there and said she didn’t need to pee after all, and then screwed around in the sink instead of washing her hands. I had a pretty bad breakdown on the way home because I was so frustrated.
Also, DD (2.5) has picked up an accent/dialect somewhere. She says “pah-nts” for “pants” - my sister suggested she may have picked it up from Peppa Pig, but we don’t watch that at home and (to my knowledge) daycare doesn’t show her any videos at all.
jamaicam, I know it's a lot. My mom was a single parent with two kids in sports. I was on two soccer teams (club and school) and my sister danced, so she had really intensive recital weekends and stuff like that. I know it was a lot for her to manage, but I have the best memories and friends from all those years. Kudos to you for figuring out how to make it all work for your boys.
I think I might get my boys a Nugget as a combined gift for their birthdays this spring. It's been on my radar for awhile now and looks like a great product. They'll be 3 and 5 this spring, so it seems like they can probably get a ton of mileage out of it. And it never hurts to have an extra spot to sleep, especially once they start having sleepovers.
mbcdefg mine figured it out at school thankfully! I've been sending her in pull ups the last couple of months. Going to send her in underwear tomorrow with some extra clothes in her backpack just in case. And she naps there so will ask them to put her in a pull up for that, hope they remember....she just does nap there once a week.
mbcdefg mine figured it out at school thankfully! I've been sending her in pull ups the last couple of months. Going to send her in underwear tomorrow with some extra clothes in her backpack just in case. And she naps there so will ask them to put her in a pull up for that, hope they remember....she just does nap there once a week.
DS2's teacher refused to put him in a pull up for nap. I was not cool with it, but was like whatever, you're the one cleaning him up. Somehow it actually worked. He has an accident maybe once a month or so now. It's kind of crazy. If it were me, I would have kept him in a pull up for nap for ages until I was sure he was good. Now he just wears them at night (definitely still necessary).
My sister bought one for her twins for Christmas and that thing is awesome. It's mid-February and everyone is still playing on it for hours every day. DD would love one but I think she's really a little old for it at 7.5.
Although, for as much as DD adores making forts and as much as I loathe forts, it might not be the worst purchase. So much easier than a fort I end up having to help assemble.
My boys are almost 6 and 8 and they love their nuggets (we have 2) they are begging for more. They were initially designed for college students, it’s a chair, it’s a couch, now it’s a bed! We’ve had them since December 1st and they’re used almost daily in some manner.
Hmmmm. Grandparent gift? Darn you people. I only have so much to go around! lol.
jamaicam it sounds like you're making it work. My Mondays are hideous. GD1 has ROTC after school until 5 then Robotics from 6-8 and GD2 has dance from 8-9. GD2 has ROTC every freaking day. She also has Youth and Government from 6:00-7:30 on Wednesdays. GD2 has it Wednesdays after school so she can take the activity bus afterwards which gives me a breather.
GD1 just got her retainers last month. Already "broke" an upper (which may or may not be. We can't find it. She "threw it away but didn't tell me" but when I went through the trash it mysteriously wasn't there.) but had the lower in her case. I gave her a new set (thankfully I bought three spares, which should have lasted THREE YEARS for the spares - at least.) Took it to her moms, AND NOW SHE CAN'T FIND THE CASE OR SET I GAVE HER. Again, thankfully, I had taken the lower from her case when I gave her the new set and mysteriously, an upper was found on her desk when I went into her room at midnight Monday night (I picked them up at the ferry at 7:30 p.m. so it was lost somewhere between her mom's house and ours, and sometime between 7:30 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. The upper is either the one she claimed was broken (she now says it wasn't broken after all but merely "lost" and she didn't want to admit she lost a retainer so soon because I would be mad) or part of the new set and she now can't find the upper from the first set and the lower from the second set, or she lost the second set completely. Either way, we went from half a set missing/broken less than three weeks after receiving them to replacing them on Friday and having a COMPLETE set missing on Monday evening.
At $250 for one or $400 for the set. Apparently "these things are fucking expensive so treat it like gold" means "I didn't bother packing but threw it in my backpack and it might have fallen out somewhere but I don't know or maybe we picked it up and put it somewhere while we were cleaning mom's trailer and GD2 packed it because I was washing the dishes (even though I actually only washed two because there was something "gross" so I stopped and went to play on my phone." Oh, and dumbass (I say that here with all love) is sixteen and wants to get her license and a job, and is wondering what we're doing for spring break even though we're going to California (business vacation) in June and Florida in September (son's wedding), she wants a $300 dress for formal dances for JROTC and YAG, thinks she's going to New York with her choir (which I'm irked about because she's been taking orchestra for the past three years) for $3000 even though she failed English last semester and in making up English she quit paying attention to the other classes I told her not to ignore and is currently struggling or failing those classes because "I did my home work but just didn't turn it in" is a valid excuse.
My daughter is out of town this weekend visiting my mom so DH and I are childfree. I'm seeing Mean Girls tonight and tomorrow we're going to Atlantic City. I'm so excited. I'm also excited to see DD again on Saturday, but not too excited to get back to the daily grind next week.
bronxgirl Mean girls is soooo good! Saw it in Boston at the beginning of this month!
H and I are at an adults-only all-inclusive this week. We’ve gotten more updates from the kids’ daycare emails than from his parents whole are staying with them. #annoyed
bronxgirl Mean girls is soooo good! Saw it in Boston at the beginning of this month!
H and I are at an adults-only all-inclusive this week. We’ve gotten more updates from the kids’ daycare emails than from his parents whole are staying with them. #annoyed
You want his parents to be emailing you about your kids the whole time you're at an adults only all inclusive? Dude. Why? Please tell me I misunderstood or there's some backstory there?
I really want to buy DD the nugget because she is constantly making forts from our sectional couch cushions. She's 8 and it would be a daily occurrence if we let her. But so expensive.
She came home from school today with a sore throat. No fever. But she was home for a day two weeks ago with this. I just want all of us to be healthy.
I really want to buy DD the nugget because she is constantly making forts from our sectional couch cushions. She's 8 and it would be a daily occurrence if we let her. But so expensive.
So here's how I justified the expense - that's about how much I would pay for a dog bed that size. LOL!
bronxgirl Mean girls is soooo good! Saw it in Boston at the beginning of this month!
H and I are at an adults-only all-inclusive this week. We’ve gotten more updates from the kids’ daycare emails than from his parents whole are staying with them. #annoyed
You want his parents to be emailing you about your kids the whole time you're at an adults only all inclusive? Dude. Why? Please tell me I misunderstood or there's some backstory there?
Not the whole time! But we didn’t get any updates from them about the kids. They are 4 and 3, and it’s our first time being out of country and away from them. Anxiety, I guess. Daycare always emails pics throughout the day
tessalb it was the same when we travelled! We were like "hey you need to send proof of life each day please!" and we got the weirdest pics of our kids, like getting snacks out of the pantry or something like that, lol.
Today is Pajama Day at daycare. Only one other kid besides DD was in PJs at drop off and the rest were in street clothes. It made me think of DD as that little boy in the Photo Day Meme wearing the Spongebob pajamas and scowling.
Today is Pajama Day at daycare. Only one other kid besides DD was in PJs at drop off and the rest were in street clothes. It made me think of DD as that little boy in the Photo Day Meme wearing the Spongebob pajamas and scowling.
LOL and <3
Our daycare does themed days every week. We ignore those 99% of the time.
I really missed my kids when I was out of town this week, but now I'd like to trade in my 15 year old. She is making me NUTS. My oldest only stressed me out about grades. This one is doing ALL the things. And I found out today that her newest boyfriend (can you even live more than a month without a boyfriend, child?!?!) was suspended in December for being high at school. I was such a good kid in high school that I don't have the empathy for this shit. Just go to school, hang with friends, do some homework, and play a sport. How hard IS IT?!?!??!
I really missed my kids when I was out of town this week, but now I'd like to trade in my 15 year old. She is making me NUTS. My oldest only stressed me out about grades. This one is doing ALL the things. And I found out today that her newest boyfriend (can you even live more than a month without a boyfriend, child?!?!) was suspended in December for being high at school. I was such a good kid in high school that I don't have the empathy for this shit. Just go to school, hang with friends, do some homework, and play a sport. How hard IS IT?!?!??!
Being bad is no fun. It's actually stressful as shit. I wish kids got that. I was good in high school and then briefly bad in college and then got over it by senior year. It's so stressful! Like cops and shit! Shady bullshit! Weird people doing weird things and realizing you're in a bad situation but also shitfaced and have to call a friend in a panic...NOT FUN LONG TERM. DONT DO IT KIDS.