Spring Forward Monday

[supertrooper1]

I hope everyone had a good weekend.

[supertrooper1]

I've been very forgetful the last few days! I started out this morning forgetting DS's school books and laptop when I dropped him off at before school care, so I had to run home and get them. We made a pie to take to my parents yesterday and I forgot that too.

This was the first weekend in over a year that actually felt somewhat normal, yet we still remained COVID safe. Beau and I watched his 2 year old grandson Friday night and gave DS his birthday presents. He was excited about his guitar. Saturday, we dropped off the grandson, picked up the trailer that Beau bought from his cousin and went bowling. Only 2 people per lane are allowed right now at 25% capacity, but there were only a few other people at the other end of the bowling alley. DS was excited to get his own lane. DS had a free birthday cupcake at Barnes and Noble, so we stopped there and let him pick our a few books too.

Sunday, we went to my parents for pizza and then to the movie theater to watch the new Tom and Jerry Movie. It was nice to have the whole theater to ourselves which allowed Beau's grandson to run around when he got bored. DS thought it was so cool that we "rented a whole movie theater" for his birthday and thought it was a joke at first.

[186momx]

Weekend was okay. DD hung with my mom all weekend to keep her company. She is getting lonely with dad and I working all the time. DH was in a cranky mood. No idea why as he got to do whatever he wanted.

Saturday the weather was gorgeous. I ate my Subway outside to soak up some sun.

[k3am]

Today was the first day I've had to wake up the kids in the last several years that I can remember... excluding a couple rare occasions where we've had to wake up before 3am for whatever reason. Which is weird, since making them up at 7 was the "old" 6, and we usually have to force them to stay in bed until 6.

I'm currently working with three different sets of attorneys, if that tells you how I expect my week to go...

[186momx]

supertrooper1, I also am forgetting stuff and just seem to be really spacey. I'm blaming it on being tired and it's my body way of telling me I need to stop stretching it so thin.

[twinmomma]

The parents meeting this weekend was a success. The kids got a real kick out of both grandmas being in the same place at the same time.

Ice skating and tubing tired the kids out and meant we got some good relaxation time too, just lounging around the house. I think it was 100% necessary for beau to get away and take a break before this week of chaos kicks in with the re-opening. The inspection is today, so we're just crossing our fingers that nothing totally random pops up.

I'm pretty sure I ate something with gluten accidentally yesterday, so today I'm laying low and recovering. I can't figure out what it was, but I've been sick since we got home last night.

[waverly]

My mom got her second shot, so she came to visit us. We drove to a beautiful state park and did a 4.5 mile hike on Saturday. It was 60 degrees and sunny. Sunday was windy and 40, so we just chilled at home did a puzzle, watched a movie etc. I think it was a good weekend. DH was irritated, but he normally is so oh well.

[sandandsea]

I’m frustrated. I’m tired too. But the weekend was lovely. . I need more weekends.

We have to order the new fridge but I need Dh to help me pull out the fridge to confirm we have a shut off value so the new one can be installed. He doesn’t have 5 mins to help. So I tried to do it myself and messed up one of his tools so he’s annoyed. Dude, I wouldn’t have messed it up if you helped!

I get on a 30 minute call for work and have 22 new emails to sift through after. Which explains why I feel like I’ve been behind all year. Expectations are through the roof.

We had ds’s parent teacher conference. He’s doing well because expectations are low but he’s building forts and sitting in his bed vs sitting at the desk. We can’t watch him because we have our own work to do. Distance learning sucks. Still. Again. Broken record.

We need to replace our garage door and front door and back sliding door and that takes time and effort which are lacking. If I could just go do it alone I could cross it off pretty quickly. But Dh wants to be involved and doesn’t have 5 mins to help me move the fridge. So nothing ever gets done.

And his parents are now vaccinated so they’re pressuring us to rebook the trip from last year that was cancelled and keep asking us when we will be vaccinated. We’ve told them approximately 8 million times we are going to be last. We are young, healthy, and can work from home. Best case is May worst case is idk. Please stop asking. We also have kids who won’t be vaccinated for at least a year so going to an AI in Mexico or a cruise is probably a no go at this point.

Did I mention that distance learning sucks? Ugh.

[waverly]

sandandsea , a cruise? Geez that was on my not to do list before Covid, and now it is a million percent not doing. 


During the first shut down my dad kept emailing me to visit him in Columbia, S.A. and the Galapagos islands.  Why?  There aren't even any international flights in and out of Columbia- it made no sense. 

[186momx]

sandandsea, just a heads up the garage door may take a while. DH's company is struggling to get doors and operators. DH ordered a very special ordered door for his friend back in November. ETA was January no biggie as the building hadn't started getting built yet. Then it was backordered and scheduled to come in end of February. Latest is it is supposed to be here the 5th of April so DH will have to be gone the weekend of the 10th of April to install because now friend needs it done ASAP so they can finalize the use permit and the door is the only thing holding it up.

DD has been watching Carmen Sandiego on Netflix. She was finished with all school assignments 15 minutes after class was over (she worked on them during the two 5 minute recess breaks). I talked her into researching a country to go with the show. She choose Argentina and wants to be on Buenos Aries time today.

[sandandsea]

Yes. Everything takes forever. Thankfully nothing is a true emergency yet and we’ve been in the “making do” realm for a while. It just sucks to have to manually open the garage door that weighs 5000 pounds and defrost the fridge with my blow dryer every Sunday.

[rere]

sandandsea we were in the same boat. We wanted to do all inclusive to the Dominican Republic or Bahamas for Dss graduation. We decided that we we didn't want to take our chances with the kids not being vaccinated and getting quarantined out of the country. We just booked in the states where we could drive if we had to, which would suck.

[erinshelley21]

The weekend was mostly productive but yet not productive enough since I still have 3 loads of laundry to fold. I also woke up with a splitting headache that was nearly a migraine if that tells you how much I didn't relax. So that's interesting lol. I think my headache was from not eating enough yesterday. I didnt do it intentionally, but I just wasn't hungry until right before bed and thought it was because I was bored.

Kids are adjusting to the time change. Try got up 30 minutes earlier than normal, which is an hour and 30 minutes earlier than the old normal. They were surprisingly pleasant tonight.

It's going to be kind of a busy week. We are giving DH's extra family over tomorrow night for dinner (wouldn't be surprised or mad if they gave to cancel), Thursday I am helping with a fundraiser pick up at school and Friday I have a dermatologist appt. I missed my annual skin check last year because of covid, so I'm trying to not get nervous. I had 2 precancerous spots in 2019 so I'm glad I am able to get checked out this year.

[mommyatty]

erinshelley21- thanks for the reminder I need to make a dermatologist appointment. I’m pale and freckled so I get the annual exam. I skipped last year.

[librarychica]

I’m so very tired. I’m just overwhelmed at work but I don’t have the luxury of working a couple late nights and unplugging from home responsibilities. H is verbally supportive and if I actually get up and go to the facility, he steps up, but I feel like otherwise I’m taking on more of the load. I’m becoming bitter. 2020 was going to be the year I focused on my job — I got the long-awaited promotion, I should have been traveling and strengthening my team, instead all hell broke loose and as usual H managed to have the bigger work crises, bigger career event, and I just wanted one year to prioritize my career, damnit! Instead it is now 2021, I don’t have any travel budget even if I could go (and budget cuts abound despite my employer making giant piles of money), I’m somehow doing my new job during the day and bits of my old job many nights and I was going to take this week off but of course then is when HR announced I could begin onboarding my new employee, 100% remotely, which predictably was a total cluster.

The weekend was fine. We hung around, I cleaned, it is all trashed now.

I need a Fing vacation. Even if I don’t go anywhere.

[erinshelley21]

mommyatty you're welcome. My mom had melanoma 11 years ago and caught a glimpse of a spot on my arm 5 years ago that didn't look right. I had 4 spots removed at my first appointment and I've been the crazy sunscreen lady ever since.

[erinshelley21]

It's a good thing I checked to see if we were still on for dinner. They mixed up their days and now it's pushed to next week. I've already decided I'm going to take the blame with the kids, especially DS because he was really excited, this one time. And from now on, I just can't tell the kids when plans are made with them.

[campermom]

PDQ

Hey guys i have a PDQ post on ML if ya don’t mind. You “know” how he works

[rere]

I tell Dh that we have a rough week. Kids need to be picked up from school, Ds needs to get to and from work. Ds has a hearing at 9 on Wednesday to see if he can get his liscence back. I had to totally move things around for that. Dh hears that he needs to schedule himself an eye appointment on Tuesday so he cant drive fir 2 days. They wonder why I am nuts.

[mae0111]

DH is away at his mom’s dealing with some house stuff. Which means I’m home dealing with kid’s craziness and unruly puppy alone. Which is fine, because it means that, for a short period of time, I’m alone in the house. That hasn’t happened since AUGUST.

DD1 is home today. She needed a break. I’m happy I’m around to let her have a break but I JUST WANTED TO BE ALONE.

[k3am]

I am probably being paranoid, and I try to do it in general anyways, but I’ve started leaving excessive notes in all my files so that if/when someone else has to work through my portfolio they’ll know what’s going on.

This sucks. I hate feeling like my job is on the chopping block when I didn’t do anything wrong. And I want to be able to just say screw it, but at the same point.. I don’t want someone else to stress out wading through a mess, and I want my clients taken care of, even if I’m not the one who is doing it.

[mommyatty]

DD and I built a 7 ft tall cat condo/tree that I ordered from Amazon. It was actually really fun except when the cars would decide we were done and try to attack our hands because they thought we were playing with them.

[campermom]

I’m meeting him tonight at a notary to sign the revised, revised agreement. I’m bringing a family member.

[mae0111]

campermom - I’m happy to hear that you came to an agreement, and I hope it’s what you deserve.

[twinmomma]

campermom, I hope it was a safe, easy sign off meeting and that you didn't have to concede too much to him.