I'm working at the office and it's a no school day. DD is doing a virtual paint class at 2 to give her something structured to do. Right now she is listening to audiobooks and coloring.
Weekend was okay. Got all my errands and house stuff done so decided to do another paint night Saturday. I find them very relaxing and I really can't beat the $10 price point. Sunday was b-day dinner with the family. I'm very glad DD and I didn't go over until 30 minutes before dinner and that we left our dog home. It was loud and chaotic. Both DD and I were exhausted afterwards. DH actually didn't seem to care that we went this time or at least he wasn't outwardly pissed off cranky pants.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Jan 18, 2021 12:02:45 GMT -5
I'm working and surprisingly kids are in school. With the schedule changes they did not get today off. DH is off and having the time of his life playing video games probably.
The weekend was low key and nice. We saw my parents on saturday. They just got their first moderna dose!!!!! For what it's worth they are doing great!
Sunday DS played with a friend and DD had a friend over. I washed and dried my laundry and it's still in the dryer.
This morning my new associate said he needed to work from home because his wife has a fever (we come in a few days and work from home a few days). I'm glad he stayed home!
Post by sandandsea on Jan 18, 2021 12:53:49 GMT -5
I’m working but the boys and DH are off so he’s taken them to the track today and I’m alone in the house. It’s amazing. But I’m so tired. I stayed up way too late all weekend and am paying for it now.
The weekend was nice. I did chores on Saturday and we had a play date and watched a movie (we can be heroes, the shark boy and lava girl sequel) yesterday. The movie was awful but the kids loved it.
We got the initial front yard design back and it’s....not our style. The backyard design is amazing but the front yard is a bit (lot) more “drought tolerant” looking than we desire. There are some easy changes to make to liven it up so I don’t think it will actually be that hard for round 2 but I feel bad leaving so many comments and basically making them do it all over. They’re really good though so I know we will get there.
I also started looking at summer vacations and dreaming about getting away. I can’t wait to feel safe booking an international trip.
We had my parents over for my Dad's birthday. We baked him a cake and DH grilled steaks. The rest of the weekend was catching up from the week so lots of laundry and chores. We decided to re-organize all of the kitchen cabinets and pantry. Thank you Home Edit. I absolutely love having everything in its place now.
My donut client just dropped me off a box of donuts and a large mocha. I love them but I'm trying so hard to stay on my challenge. I totally went off last night but ate teeny tiny portions to try and balance out the pizza and ice cream cake. My family doesn't get it and were all giving me the side eye through dinner. The donuts smell so good...
I am working. The kids don't have school which is kind of annoying considering they are only hybrid and only been back one week, but oh well. They alternate Mondays, so I guess it wouldn't be their Monday anyway.
One of my employees is moving out of state, so I have to hire for the 3rd time this year. Usually that would bum me out, and you know some of those masked interviews have gone south quickly. One person couldn't even formulate sentences, and the last one I hired everyone says she just doesn't get it. Which there would be no way for me to know that the person can't learn a job in an interview when they had an advanced degree, and they used to run an entire facility.
But I am still sort of OK with it (this might change) because that person has been needy since they started. They dropped shifts right before the shut down forcing us to close 2 days earlier then planned and forcing me to call a board member, and then during the shut down demanded I change their schedule while literally being paid to sit at home and do nothing. Which was the right thing to do to pay people, but don't demand things during this time while you are doing nothing.
I felt blah all weekend. Next weekend I work and then we have an igloo dinner, and the following one I am hoping to see my family that we had to reschedule due to freezing rain. The Covid numbers are falling in both locations, so maybe it was better we waited anyway. And neither my job nor school is requiring quarantines anymore. School's quarantine was just for winter break, I think.
I rescheduled the dentist appointments for the kids.
Post by supertrooper1 on Jan 18, 2021 15:51:21 GMT -5
DS and I are both off today. We have stuffy noses and a little bit of a sore throat so I scheduled COVID tests for as soon as I could get them, tomorrow. I really doubt we have COVID but I have to do for school.
We’re all off today, which is nice. We had soccer, a drive by (but get out and run an obstacle course) party, and play date. So far today we’ve taken all the kids (mine + adopted neighbor kids) on a bike ride, to play at the school, and now I’m relaxing a bit before we start baking treats. I’m excellent at not working!!
Today I’m off and tomorrow I start the new job. We just finished taking down Christmas, and it feels amazing to have that checked off the list! The kids are off but at Grandma’s house today. Their being gone gave DH and I the opportunity to get the tree out of the house and everything up in the attic.
I also got the computer for the new job today and spent some time with the IT folks making sure I was up and running so I’m ready to go in the morning. In my email, there was an invitation for a company-wide seminar on dealing with anxiety during these times. What a refreshing change from “hey let’s pretend anxiety and depression aren’t actual things” at my former employer.
Question for you all and since Covid testing was brought up.
I’ve tested myself 4 times for basically congestion. 1 time was congestion plus tired and I got that from DH, so I know that was a virus.
Negative for Covid all 4 times. Should I just go forward thinking congestion is from the cold air and stop testing for it? Work says test if not normal for you, but maybe this is normal for me in the fall/ winter.
waverly, My work tests me every week, or I am not allowed on campus. We are just getting over Covid at my house right now. I can't say that either of the adults were super congested. We were both coughing and had splitting headaches that wouldn't go away, but no congestion. I don't know if that helps?
waverly- I wouldn’t test just for congestion. But then I have allergies so I’m congested more often than I’m not, especially when the weather is changing.
waverly, our school and work requires a test to return if you have a cough or fever or two symptoms of a "cold", like headache, runny nose. Our HR said he's seen the gamut of symptoms from positives so I did have to test for congestion symptoms last week.
Vent.. something at our neighbors house across the street starts.. beeping. At 2am. Every 2 mins. Loud enough to hear over the crazy wind we’re having and with windows closed. Not loud enough to draw all the neighbors out to find out what it was. I probably wouldn’t have woken up for it, but DH did. And if he’s suffering awake, I must be too apparently.
Gonna be a looooong day. Puppy is 8 weeks today. We should get travel notifications some what soon (not really clear when). I need a few good nights sleep before he comes.
I'm feeling so annoyed by beau's exw today. She is refusing to even discuss the idea of letting him go back to school in person when beau brings it up. He's fully remote, but it's entirely by choice. His school is open and he could be attending in person. She claims it's because she doesn't want him to get sick. But then she turns around and flies back and forth across the country on a weekly basis to visit her boyfriend. She has taken beau's son on the flights with her a few times now. You're honestly telling me that he can't attend school but he can FLY to a city that has higher cases than us? I call BS. I think her motivation to keep him remote is primarily because it's more convenient for her to be able to travel whenever she wants and change her flights/custody schedules with no real consequences because school can happen whenever/wherever. In watching beau's son do school work during the day, the kid needs some in person school time. It's going to be a nightmare getting him back into a classroom eventually. He's become SO used to just getting to hang out with dad and do whatever he wants in between school work times. Love him to death, he's a sweetheart, but he's been an only child who has been remote schooling for half of kindergarten and all of first grade. I have a hard time believing that his mom's choices are "for his sake" when I see it from this outside perspective.
We had a crazy weekend. Puppy came home Friday afternoon and DH has been sleeping in the guest room with the puppy in the crate and doing all of the overnights. Which is amazing... but I feel terrible because he's so worn out... but he won't let me help. So I've been getting up at 545 to relieve DH so he can either work out or go back to sleep.
But the puppy is awesome. And stressful. I'm having trouble getting his food right, and his tummy seems to be upset a lot. I'm doing what the breeder recommended, but things are still gross. The good news is that there have been very few inside accidents. He's an absolute sweetheart.
Kids were off tomorrow, and DD1 had a therapy zoom, a dr zoom, and a basketball game. In between I had to pick up my grocery order, which was wrong and missing 1/2 of the order... of course didn't realize that until I got home... so back to the store... DH worked all day and is so busy and tired, but the kids were really helpful.
twinmomma, in our school district, if you go out of state, you have report it to the school nurse and then quarantine for 14 days or get a negative test to return (we are hybrid). Do you think maybe she doesn't want to deal with that aspect either if son travels with her?
This past weekend was lovely. DH and I were able to escape to a remote cabin while my parents watched the kids. We went hiking in the snow (which was actually kind of beautiful). There was a guy on the trail dressed like Bigfoot, which made us laugh. Then we came back to the cabin and chilled by the fireplace. It was exactly what we needed.
DD and DS1 were off school yesterday, so they went to the dentist. They had to go back today for a cavity (DS1) and to remove 2 baby teeth which don't have an adult tooth to push them out (DD).
Work is getting busy with a big deadline at the end of the month and my class starts tomorrow.
polecat8 , I'm sure that's a big part of it. She lives entirely based on what's convenient for her. She changes the custody schedule around all the time based on her travel plans, which in turn messes with beau's work schedule because he suddenly has a kid at home extra days and has to manage remote school instead of being able to go into work and deal with things. I just get so mad that she claims he can't go back to school "for safety reasons" when she's on a plane twice a week every week. She's even taking him away to a hotel for his birthday this weekend and putting him in ski school lessons! Clearly she's really concerned about quarantining...
twinmomma, I would be pushing back hard against that. If he can't go to school because of safety reasons? He can't be on a plane for safety reasons. And he can't be around her until she's quarantined because of safety reasons. Which messes with your childcare arrangements, but may be enough to wake her up. If she was holding fast to the rules, I wouldn't push it, but in this case, with in person an option and no health conditions? I would absolutely be pushing for him to be in school in person. I mean at least in my perfect world, not reality, where you guys unfortunately have to coexist with the miserable wench.
Wasn't she initially using covid as a way to keep you away from Beau?
k3am, Yup. Seeing me was "too much exposure." As was allowing son to go back to beau's apartment because an apartment building was too much exposure vs. her single family home. So she forced beau to agree to keep son at her house full time, and beau could go visit on his days. That only lasted until it was inconvenient for her to have beau stopping by to visit on his days so he could see his kid. Soon after she started her cross country weekly journeys. *eyeroll*
I think beau is finally reaching his breaking point and getting ready to go to battle over the school thing. Especially seeing how my kids are in school full time and have had no issues (knock on wood).
twinmomma it unfortunately just sounds like.. boundaries need to be drawn. My guess is this isn’t the only place she’s being unreasonable and he’s probably just put up with her shenanigans because keeping the peace is the easiest option. Plus a lot of men still fear that the law will favor the mother. It sucks that you guys are going through it.
k3am, Agreed. I think he's realizing it more now that he's seeing how I've drawn such strict boundaries with exH. I can completely see Exh pulling the same level of BS if I wasn't as rigid as I am. Sometimes it feels ridiculous but I know if I give an inch, he'll take a mile, so I just try to avoid that at all costs. It makes me seem like a hard ass, but it's the best thing for me to do for my own sanity. I just have to get beau to come around to the same level of thinking.
twinmomma, could beau talk to his son's teacher. Explain that he wants him in school because he feels like he needs it and would learn better but it is more convenient for mom to keep him remote so she can travel and not have to follow the school quarantine rules. It sounds like his teacher doesn't like his e-learning set up so maybe she can help push mom into letting him return to school so that he can have a more rounded education (social/mental). I don't know something to think about.
twinmomma,I would definitely advise beau to keep track of who has son on what days and if she is following the custody schedule. Unfortunately, COVID can't be used as an excuse to violate custody agreements (at least that is what PA says). I've heard of several divorced couples fighting over custody/schooling situations while in a pandemic. And the court said the same thing every time - they must follow the custody agreement. But if ex is not following the initial agreement, then he could push to have it modified. Maybe the thought of court will get her on board?
My friend has a medically fragile child and is divorced. For awhile, she got her ex to agree to FaceTime visits because ex couldn't be trusted to socially distance. Then he decided that he wanted to reinstate visits and took her back to court. The court sided with him and now in-person visits are allowed again. Except that ex has been no showing on the visits.