A Very Monday Monday

[mustardseed2007]

whelp. Another Easter thing that happened yesterday is that my kids were playing in the back yard and my daughter was holding the large stuffed lizard that the easter bunny brought her and my dog jumped up on her (stole the lizard) and put a scratch down the side of her face. It bled a little and didn't look good, my daughter was whaling and my son was furious, but didn't look hospital worthy.



But I spent yesterday researching dog training places. We have been training her with a trainer who comes to our home once a month and this is now not enough in my mind. I called a place today that does boarding school and also kid classes and just normal weekly classes.



Today the cut looks awful. Longer and the skin pickers when she smiles. I have the name of a plastic surgeon that has been circulating in local mom facebook groups and texted him and now I have an appointment at 11:30. This is a very Monday Monday.

[mommyatty]

I’m getting DS an appointment with a pediatric allergist. I can’t deal with any more puking episodes with this poor kid. I’m also considering changing pediatric ophthalmologists. Ours wants DD to see a very specific doctor in their practice because her eyesight is going downhill fast. I guess he’s an expert in using some drug to help prevent eyesight from deteriorating quickly in kids. His first appointment is in August because apparently he comes to the clinic in our city one day a month. WTF. Once a month?

[mae0111]

mustardseed2007 - our puppy went to a 3 day boot camp last week - left overnight - and I can’t believe the difference. It’s not perfect, but there has been a significant improvement with jumping on us and others. Sadly, he has figured out that he’s tall enough to reach the counters, so now we have to figure that out. He’s stealing everything.

Tough to get moving today after a long weekend, and the kids have a short week this week due to a couple of teacher training days midweek. We have window guys here for the 3rd time trying to finish the job of replacing the windows, and once again, they showed up without necessary materials because corporate didn’t send instructions to the installers. Every time they come we have to take down all window treatments and rearrange furniture. Hopefully they can get the trim they need to finish.

[librarychica]

mustardseed2007, I just got our 1.5 year old chihuahua-Jack Russell mix from a board and train. Like you, I had a tipping incident (ours was with a neighbor) where I realized I couldn’t handle the dog. It was humbling! I’ve had dogs all my life and considered myself and experienced amateur dog trainer.

It was so worth it. Her issue was strangers (she was rescued as an adult) but she also walked so poorly on a leash that I could not counter-condition the stranger anxiety. Now she walks decent (it’s a work in progress) and we are making good progress on her stranger-danger reactions. It’s not an instant fix but it got her and us to a level where we could work with her.

I called in sick today. Easter was exhausting, lots of driving, an uncharacteristic number of kid meltdowns. Home late and then my brother called me at 12:45 am to tell me to get my butt to the CVS website and join him in making a vaccine appointment — which I did! Yay! But I was so tired when the alarm went off and H was like “call in, go back to bed.” So I did. Now through I am AWAKE so I am laying here with coffee trying to decide whether to go to work for the rest of the day like a responsible person, or clean my house like a responsible person. A little of both? Damn you, adulting.

[mustardseed2007]

I'm definitely hoping for those kind of results. And a place that will take her ASAP. An injury to DD is bad enough but how do we have her friends over knowing this happened? I really feel terrible. Especially since yesterday I saw it as a dog emergency but didn't see it as a medical emergency and only this morning I realize that I misjudged that cut. Thank goodness for this plastic surgeon who just hands out his cellphone to moms who then repost it in facebook groups!

[soccermama]

I'm in a foul mood today. I (we) were having a pretty good Easter despite my husband having to work, but then my kids had to ruin the whole day by fighting and acting horrendous last night (mostly DD, who is old enough to know better). I am still pissed off about it.

Of course this is spring break and I told my H the kids need to go to my mom's house for a couple of days, it would give me a little break. He doesn't want them to go, for no apparent reason. I told him HE can take off to stay home with them, at least for tomorrow because I am over it.

[rere]

Easter was...eh... woke up in a great mood cooking breakfast. For some reason Dd was up early and highly offended I hadn't set the baskets out.

Dh and Ds got into a huge fight this weekend about Ds taking a test for the Army. He wants to miss 2 days of school to do it. Dh doesn't trust him to do due to the fact his grades have suffered over the last year. I'm with Dh, however, he was in a terrible mood, feeling bad from his shot, and did not need to be talking about anything. He basically just barks, so even if he has a valid point, nobody wants to hear it. I ended up telling him to knock it off, because he barked at me when I asked what happened. he felt he should not have to explain.

I also get where Ds is coming from. He's very specific in what he wants to do and needs to do well on this test, so he wants to get it over with, to start his plan.

So basically they just walked around each other Easter, and I avoided as much interaction with Dh as I could because I do not allow people to bark at me without barking back, which I did.

[186momx]

Why is everyone so needy today? Clients, DD, the dog, dad everyone wants a piece of me and all I want to do is scream.

My sister is livid with DD's teacher. She has a ton of teacher friends being a teacher and all of them agree with her that no one should treat a child like how DD is being treated. One of them is retired who worked in our district, was on our district school board, and now is an activate for IEP meetings and she is going to bat for DD. I screen shot her the seesaw messages from DD's teacher to DD and was told if DD is requested to stay after on a zoom I need to record it.

DD had her weekly check in with the school counselor and told him what went on last week. He did not sound happy and her weekly vent session turned into a he will work on being a liaison with Mrs D on how bored and frustrated DD is. Counselor's goal is to get DD through the next 11 weeks of school without her blowing her top.

DD was dreading logging into school this morning.

[mommyatty]

186momx, this is super lawyerly, but be careful about what you record. I’m not up on Oregon law, but some states have very specific laws about whether you can record someone without their knowledge or consent.

[supertrooper1]

The weekend was ok. We went dirt bike riding on Saturday with Beau's son and two cousins. It went well minus trying to ride in some snow and then the last trail was too hard for me. I hadn't crashed all day until the last trail where I kept getting stuck on roots and going down on fallen tree branches. I was very tired and sore from the day. But we got to try out our new (used) toy hauler which went well and got to see Beau's cousin's new bike.

Yesterday we were trying to figure out what to do when Beau's son called saying he was broken down on the side of the road with his newly fixed truck. We towed him home and then dropped off his grandson's Easter basket. We went to a brewery to try a new food truck and sit outside to enjoy the sun. I think the beer helped Beau open up about some issues bothering him. We didn't resolve anything but we got some stuff out in the open which is progress. I'm a problem solver and I hate seeing him struggle with problems that I don't know how to fix.

[polecat8]

I am exhausted for the weekend's activities.
On Saturday, we hosted FIL and SIL, BIL, and their 2 kids for an early Easter dinner.
On Sunday, we hosted my parents, 3 brothers, and their spouses and families for Easter.
It was a lot of excitement for the weekend and I am just plain tired. The kids are off school today and somehow still balls of energy after playing with their cousins all weekend.

[twinmomma]

Beau had his physical today. He actually goes to the same practice I do, funnily enough. And he got the same lecture I did last week. So, he came home and we threw out all the junk food - extra Easter candy, extra desserts from yesterday, ice cream in the freezer, etc. It felt really good to just fully remove the temptation. All that's left is the little specific stuff for the kids in their baskets. But also, what a lame Monday thing. As he put it "we just threw out all the fun in our life." He might have been a bit melodramatic...

[186momx]

mommyatty, truthfully I don't think I could get my act together to record anything since DD and I aren't in the same room. Class gets out at 10:45 and I'm knee deep in work and since spring break class doesn't' seem to get done on time at all. Today they were still all in school zoom at 10:55 and then DD had to enter another zoom for PE at 11. I told DD to just be polite and she can say no to staying after class.

I'm ready for the school year to be over and I hope for a much better 5th grade teacher.

[traveltheworld]

As I've said in my other thread, we found out that one of the dads from our bubble families have covid. We saw the wife and kids on Saturday. We all tested yesterday and all came back negative. But this morning all 3 of them came down with symptoms.

We were together outside for 90 minutes. Everyone was masked but the adults were talking to each other pretty closely (definitely not 6 feet) and the kids were chasing each other around.

I'm now super stressed, and scared. We are all healthy, but....

[waverly]

Outside and masked are pretty good mitigation measures. Sat would be considered day 0, so test again on Thursday/ Friday. Also you would be considered presumable close contacts and need to quarantine.

[traveltheworld]

Yup, we'll quarantine for sure. We've had a few different exposures throughout the past year that had us quarantining, but this is the only one that makes me feel like there's a high probability.

[sdlaura]

traveltheworld I will be super surprised if you got it while outside and masked! I hope you all stay well.

We hosted our very covid cautious friends for Easter dinner, who we haven’t seen much this past year, and it was great! But exhausting. Friends passed down a small bouncy house to us. So the 7 kids (their 3 and our 4) spent the evening running between pool and trampoline and bouncy house. Well, I guess baby wasn’t running, though he does love hanging on the bouncy house and trampoline.

Then my sister flew in today with her two boys and her good friend (who is the younger sister of one of my good friends, so I’ve known friend since she was like 3 years old). BIL was already going to stay behind for work and my niece stayed behind too due to an exposure, to quarantine.

Tomorrow is my second Pfizer shot! Wednesday is an insane work day for me (not stuff I can skip/phone in - leading a 3-hour board meeting for a client that only meets quarterly, on which the founder of my firm is presenting, and then immediately after I’m doing a finals presentation for new business) - all on zoom at least. So I’m really hoping I don’t have side effects 😬