Monday Monday...

[mae0111]

What’s happening this week?

[iknowthismuchistrue]

I am teaching online all day to blank/muted screens. Teaching is soooo lonely these days. 😢

[twinmomma]

I'm trying to focus on work and get my projects for today done, when really, I just want to clean my house and put out all my fall decorations. I had hopes of doing that last night, but I was beat by the time the kids were in bed and didn't.

[mae0111]

Sunday night messes bled into Monday morning. DD1 spent the day outside playing with the neighborhood kids. She didn’t come home when I called her, so she missed dinner. That was fine... but then she left a huge mess of toys and crap on the front lawn, so we made her clean it up... and she had a test today which she insisted she was ready for, but wasn’t... all while she was 100% fixated on printing out a photo of her new cousin to take to school... Which we wouldn’t let her do until she finished her must-dos... which she didn’t do...

So she woke up this morning still fixated... wouldn’t pack her bag... wouldn’t brush her hair... wouldn’t get shoes on... made us late... DH ended up printing the photo to just move the day along and I wanted to set him and the photo on fire.

Happy Monday!

[waverly]

DH is getting a covid test today. I think it is allergies since he hasn't seen anyone really and it is all snot which isn't much of a covid sign. I think of covid as being a fever/ cough which he doesn't have. He is warm but not feverish.

The school messed up our hybrid cohort already. DS was supposed to continue e-learning, and they have him in person. DD got the cohort I wanted which was Wed/ Fri. I wanted it because then she would have more time with the nanny.

My mom left this morning. The kids are with the nanny, and we are headed back home soon.

[phdmomma]

The learning management software is crashing this morning, so I can't grade homework. I hate Canvas with a passion. I suspect that it is because too many people are on it right now. But still, I hate it.

We all have coughs, but got tested for Covid, and it came back negative. The positive test rate is pretty high around where we live, and the public health department told everyone to assume that they have been exposed.

[mustardseed2007]

I've got so much to do. Our HR director is leaving so as a corollary to that I was allowed to interview and hire an attorney even though stuff is crazy in the world. We made an offer last week and pending drug tests and whatnot he's set to start October 12. I genuinely wish he was here right now.

On the other hand, how does one onboard someone during a pandemic. We are allowed to work from home but also being allowed to be in the building so it's all a bit weird.

Our new HR director starts today so I came in. She used to work for us and I think she's fantastic. I feel so sorry for her coming in at such a weird time.

[186momx]

I woke up to ants all over my kitchen! My kitchen is pretty clean as I've been battle gnats for the last week so have it way cleaner than normal because of the gnats. Our pest guys were supposed to come the 11th but cancelled due to air quality. Now I have to call for an emergency visit.

Oh it is also the first day of school, wish me luck

And my dad is off the next two days so I'm running the office solo (with DD) and we haven't been really open the last 2 weeks because of the fires. (He had these days planned in advance for his anniversary).

Manic Monday for sure!

[rere]

Cleaning up the mess from staff working on call this weekend. I can't tell what cases were worked, what was not, who was covered. So lots of emails going out asking what is done. Sometimes it is just easier to do it myself. Plus the schools are burning up my phone with possible staff and students testing positive.

[traveltheworld]

mustardseed2007, we've onboarded 2 lawyers during the pandemic. It's a bit weird, but can be done effectively. Everyone in our group made an effort to IM the new lawyers frequently, and we did a few virtual social events (wine tasting, virtual tour of Moma etc.).

We had a good weekend camping, but now our house is a disaster. I'm happy though, as our friends, whom we haven't seen in over a year, commented on how nice and kind DS is. No one would have said that about DS a couple of years ago. He was always the smart but temperamental (or "difficult") kid; but now he's actually pleasant to be around. I'm so proud of him.

[k3am]

mustardseed2007, I can't remember the numbers, but I want to say that something like at least 20% of DH's company has been hired since the pandemic started and people have been working remotely. That's crazy to me.

[supertrooper1]

Beau and I spent the better part of the weekend at my parents house where he put in new windows. He hasn't done residential windows (only commercial) in 20 years and was disappointed in how long it took him with each window. He still has 3 more to go. But I think it looks great and my parents were very happy. I wish I could have helped him more than being a "go-pher" but there was nothing for me to do but watch. I'm a little bummed that was all we did this weekend, but we had nothing else to do anyway.

[mellym]

I was having back spasms and couldn't lift my head up so I was confined to the bed and recliner all weekend. So thankful our girls get along well and the two older kids helped entertain DD3. DH took DD1 to her first soccer game in over a year and she scored three goals. I'm bummed I missed it.

It's going to be a long two weeks keeping DD3 quarantined. We received multiple calls from Public Health when DD1 was quarantined from school a couple of weeks ago and we haven't heard anything yet for DD3. I'm taking it as a sign that they're being overrun.

[mustardseed2007]

twinmomma, that's interesting about the socials! The weirdest thing I guess is that it's just him and me as lawyers. We have a paralegal and a secretary in our department as well. Maybe we could do a virtual social. Hmmmm.

[186momx]

DD made it through school this morning without and issues and have already finished all her afternoon work before we ate lunch. Class got over at 10:45 and we ate lunch at 11:30.

Now the tech issues are happening. Phones not working, internet flaking out, ugh Monday!

[mommyatty]

Sunday there was an outside ice cream truck party for a classmate of DS’s. DS is madly, totally, head over heels in love with a girl in his class. She’s adorable. She was at the party, and he marched his little 6 year old booty up to her and said, “I have something to tell you and a question. First, I have a crush on you. And I want you to marry me someday.” She said, “Okay.”

Today he had to do his journal with the prompt “This weekend” and his was “This weekend I went to —-‘s party. I proposed to ——.”

I’m dying. He’s a brave little dude.

[sdlaura]

Good, normal, pretty boring weekend. Had friends to swim and eat Saturday evening, big kids did skate park camp at the Y on Sunday morning.

Today was the first day of in person school for our ‘A’ cohort, and apparently it went well. My kids go back for their first day tomorrow.

We had DD’s 8-year-old well visit with the pediatrician today in between her pod and skateboarding enrichment at the Y. Somehow she’s still 94th percentile for height, even though DH and I are 5’7” and 5’3”. Pediatrician was excited that she’s going back to school in person, and was more concerned about her not wearing wrist guards for skateboarding than the risk of her getting or transmitting covid from masked, distanced in person school in our area.

We discussed how the school wants kids to get tested for any symptoms whatsoever. He said we should lower the bar this year on when we go to the doctor/get a covid test, but he doesn’t think it’s necessary to test for every cold symptom and there’s no way they’ll have enough tests if we do.

[waverly]

rere, DH felt sick yesterday. I had him get the rapid Covid test today and he tested negative. He also tested negative for strep. They said he is just sick or allergies. Symptoms are sinus pressure and congestion.

Can I go to work in person tomorrow? He is working from home. Also can the nanny come over? And kids go to sports?

[rere]

Sept 21, 2020 16:49:02 GMT -5 waverly said:

rere, DH felt sick yesterday. I had him get the rapid Covid test today and he tested negative. He also tested negative for strep. They said he is just sick or allergies. Symptoms are sinus pressure and congestion.

Can I go to work in person tomorrow? He is working from home. Also can the nanny come over? And kids go to sports?

[br

Did he have any known contact with anyone?

If they checked him out and feel it is just allergies and he is negative and did not have any contact with a known positive, you are good to proceed. There are few and far between false tests, but rare. You have done what you needed to check it out.

I swear I think I have it a day every other week with my allergies.

[waverly]

Sept 21, 2020 18:50:06 GMT -5 rere said:

Sept 21, 2020 16:49:02 GMT -5 waverly said:

rere, DH felt sick yesterday. I had him get the rapid Covid test today and he tested negative. He also tested negative for strep. They said he is just sick or allergies. Symptoms are sinus pressure and congestion.

Can I go to work in person tomorrow? He is working from home. Also can the nanny come over? And kids go to sports?

[br

Did he have any known contact with anyone?

If they checked him out and feel it is and he is negative and did not have any contact with a known positive, you are good to proceed. There are few and far between false tests, but rare. You have done what you needed to check it out.

No known contacts. Thanks!

[librarychica]

I love that we’re using rere as, like, our personal public health gut check now.

[waverly]

Sept 21, 2020 19:36:34 GMT -5 librarychica said:

I love that we’re using rere as, like, our personal public health gut check now.

I figure she knows better than the people trying to make the rules at my job since they have no experience with HR or public health!

[rere]

Sept 21, 2020 20:17:13 GMT -5 waverly said:

Sept 21, 2020 19:36:34 GMT -5 librarychica said:

I love that we’re using rere as, like, our personal public health gut check now.

I figure she knows better than the people trying to make the rules at my job since they have no experience with HR or public health!

As well as I can thanks to the CDC and everyone else, things change by the day.  

[waverly]

My job clarified for me that if the secondary person has a non Covid diagnosis, then people can come to work.

[k3am]

For DD's birthday, I bought myself a frou frou spa membership. The world shut down 12 days later. I've been paying monthly for services I can't use ever since. They are finally OPEN! I have two massages booked in the next month. I can't wait.

It does, of course, come with covid restrictions, so no hot tub, no spa, no sauna, no quiet room, no showers, etc. But it will also have the most important "no" of all. No anyone asking me to do anything for a couple hours.

[campermom]

Gahhhh! Please see My update on my thread on ML about my son and ADHD.

You guys why does everything have to be so fucking hard?

[vasc]

campermom YGPM

[mommyatty]

campermom, I couldn’t find it on ML. So I’m sorry it seems like things are going poorly. Feel free to cut and paste stuff over here.

[k3am]

campermom, I'm no help on the ADHD side of things. But with both kids, we had issues with doctors not taking us as seriously as they should.

With DD, it was with her seizures. We ended up keeping a log of every single one she had, circumstances, response, etc. I was looking at it the other day (someone was having questions about their child having seizures), and it's amazing how long it took to get a true diagnosis.

With DS, it was with his breathing. We had apointment after apointment of well child visits where he was "sick" and I kept saying he's ALWAYS sick. And the doctor kept saying.. "it SEEMS like he's always sick." So out came my trust log, and at the next appointment, I was able to say "in the last two months, we have had ZERO days that he had no symptoms and was able to breath well" which got us an immediate referral to ENT, only to find out that his adenoids were so enlarged that there was almost no space between them and his tonsils.

You are his mom and his advocate when doctors are ignoring you and your concerns. It is frustrating and exhausting as all hell. You're probably ahead of the game because of your ocupation - you know something is wrong, while most folks would just be thinking somthing is wrong. I hope you get some movement on getting him the treatment he seems to desparately need.

[waverly]

I agree with k3am. Keep pushing and advocating. Don't let them beat you back.

Audiology and ENT at the children's hospital referred me back and forth to each other constantly saying come back when there is no fluid (news flash there was never no fluid). The ENT was very slow to do tubes and have the tonsils out (only after a sleep study) even though they were so large they were touching and it looked like no air could get through. The ENT also didn't know if he needed hearing aids, and I had to push for those and eventually I switched ENT's to a far more practical one who had a concrete treatment plan rather than just oh whatever- waves hand.

DS's pediatrician would refer us to PT, but the other pedi referred us more to a child development center which I wasn't into (far drive and too woo for me). So I had to go to an orthopedic pediatric doctor then do PT and OT at a pediatric center. He could benefit from going back to PT and OT, but I am not going to worry about it during Covid. PT and OT are also good starting points for kids with ADHD, so might be something to look into (especially OT/ sensory).

Surprisingly, his natal issues and heart surgery were more concrete and actionable.