My very quiet weekend is coming to an end soon - DH and the kids will be back in a few hours. I truly did almost nothing, and it was so needed. I can’t remember the last time I really had a good break like this. I had 3 days last August and I spent it scrambling to do a full purge and decompressing after a string of awful behavior. My plans to escape for a night over the spring never worked out - between a COVID exposure leading to zoom school and DH just simply ignoring my plans and being unable to scramble to cover. I was so worn out and I really needed this.
So there will be a metric ton of camping laundry when they get home. I have some calls before then and am supposed to meet someone that will puppy sit for us when we go on vacation. I will spend this week with the kids, running around for different appointments before DD1 leaves for camp on Sunday. DH starts traveling this week - first time since Feb 2020. The kids won’t react well so I have a few things planned.
I did the ultimate in "coparenting model behavior" and spent Father's Day at an amusement park with our three kids, my exH, my new boyfriend, and exh's fiancé. ExH predictably flaked on doing any actual parenting the entire time, so it was exhausting. Today I'm holed up in my office peacefully recovering, complete with an already scheduled therapy session and an iced coffee I treated myself to because it's a million degrees out.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Jun 21, 2021 11:51:39 GMT -5
This weekend we dropped DS off at camp. It was uneventful other than I cried. He didn't though, he was excited and happy. You might recall that he was ill the week before camp, but that ended up being a nonissue as he was almost back to his normal self except for a lingering cough. The negative covid test helped.
DD declared that she would miss him but probably not until Thursday because before then she'd be too busy watching whatever she wanted on tv and playing with all his toys. Nice sis.
Over the weekend a few unexpected work crisis came up and that's what I'm working on today. Good times.
Unfortunately with all that going on, I didn't really focus on fathers day like I should have. So we took DH out to dinner after we dropped off DS. Luckily he was also so engrossed in dropping DS off that he also didn't really notice.
Post by supertrooper1 on Jun 21, 2021 11:51:55 GMT -5
I ended up having an extremely busy weekend but it was fun. I had the last minute 3 day weekend so Beau and I scrambled to get ready for camping a day early with our new trailer. We had already planned to go riding that evening, so I towed the bikes and he towed the trailer to a campground near where we go riding. It was booked for the rest of the weekend, so we only stayed the 1 night. But as it turned out, we had to leave anyway to take our trailer back to the dealership because a fuse burned up for the hot water heater. The manufacturer installed some parts incorrectly which causes the pilot light to overheat, almost started a fire and blew a fuse. The dealership was amazing, dropped everything to fix our trailer in 30 minutes, ordered a new door where the scorch mark was and we were back on the road to a different campground.
We quickly set up the trailer at a new campground and went to pick up DS and Beau's grandson and headed back to the campground. We had fun playing and took them swimming. Saturday night we had Beau's 17 year old cousin's birthday party an hour away and stayed way too late, but it was fun. I hadn't played volleyball in almost 20 years but impressed everyone with my serving skills. Sunday, we checked out from the campground, took DS swimming again and dropped the trailer off before making our Father's day rounds. First to see Beau's son and then to my parents house. I'm exhausted but it felt good to have a normal busy weekend.
Like I mention DS had bike camp (mastered the bike-yay). Then we drive 5 hours plus charging the Tesla. Got in around 12:30am local time.
Saw my dad and sister’s family. Dad seems improved or at least not fabricating crazy ideas that day. Had a good 3 hour visit at a park. Saw the in-laws at a fancy restaurant. They like to be fancy sometimes.
DH wanted to walk along the river walk and since it was Father’s Day he got to choose. Then we drove back. Had to charge a couple more times to get back because of our river walk detour.
It also seemed like a normal weekend with the exception of seeing dad outdoors since my kids and he is not vaccinated. My sister says that he is not strong enough to be vaccinated, and I think that is likely the case. I would like him to get it when he is strong enough since he is in assisted living.
twinmomma wow, good for you. Is ExH's fiance seeming mentally stable?
We had a really nice weekend. DD's softball team was in the district tournament, and really they should have won one more game and made it to the state tournament, but they narrowly lost. It was bittersweet, because as fun as that would have been for the team, it would have been over July 4th weekend, so the entire team including us would have had to modify family/vacation plans and figured out arrangements to go to the middle of nowhere for the tournament. She's played softball all but a few days in the last 6 weeks, so I'm also glad to have some our evenings back for the summer. This week she's doing baseball camp at the YMCA, so I'm sure she'll keep working on her skills and she wants to play fall and spring rec and will hopefully have a shot at all-stars again next spring (there will be more competition since she'll have to move from 8U to 10U). I was really worried about the softball schedule when she made the team, and it was crazy and did require a lot of modifications to our family life, but we're so glad she did it.
Yesterday afternoon we went to the Padres game. We took just the two older kids and my parents, and were able to sign up in time to go on the field after the game to play catch and run around, which was really cool. The kids loved it, and all of us just really had a nice time. It's weird and amazing that our older kids are old enough to sit still that long now and really understand what's going on. And I was strangely overcome by emotion when everyone was doing the wave, of all things- it just made me happy that so many people could be together again on a beautiful day for an event. And I'm not even normally a person who likes to be around lots of other people!
Took DD to ride on the beach yesterday. DH doesn't like the coast and was a butt the whole time. He did take pictures of us while riding. He didn't ride as he doesn't like horses. DD loved it and we ended up having a solo outing as everyone cancelled due to normal coast summer weather.
DD had her well child visit this morning and added another stock market point on to her growth chart. It really does look like the stock market and not a gradual growth chart. She grew 4 inches last year and put on under 4lbs (she dropped 20% in weight and doctor was okay as she is full of muscle). I took today off. I'm sitting in the house and being quiet. Put in 4 bid requests for a roof, call St Vinnies for info on donating my old car, talked to my sister.
My mom is annoyed that DD wants her to just take her home after her camp and not go to grandma's house. DD will be home by herself less than 2 hours and she just wants to sit and be quiet at home. My mom is upset because she doesn't want to come over. Thing is my mom WFH so DD has to entertain herself.
Oh and a tornado touched down about 5 miles north of us, and I totally slept through the tornado sirens. DH heard them but didn't wake me. So I guess we would have all been dead since we didn't take cover if it was 5 miles south. Thanks for saving us, DH /sarcasm.
sdlaura, She seemed ok. She generally seems just kind of spaced out and like a silly big sister (which... makes sense). I'm sure it's partially from medication and partially from age/maturity.
TWERK: picked the kids up at 2:58 again. I almost never see any other parents at pickup. Chatted with the director for a bit while the kids were waiting for snack to be served since they wanted to take it to go.. most parents aren't showing up until 3:05 or later, so I guess there is some kind of informal grace period. I asked the director if it was okay to come a little later so the kids could get snack served and it's not a problem.
Punctuality is a trait that both DH and I inherited, so the idea of purposefully coming late makes me shudder, even though they've confirmed it's okay. (And the kids.. they've inherited it too. DD maaaaaaay have told her teacher that if you're on time, you're late. Her perpetually late teacher who already hated us probably wasn't impressed with that one.)
The heating element in my oven exploded last night. Beau was heating up food, opened the door, and it was sparking and flaming. It's over ten years old and we replaced the heating element a while back once already. So I guess I'm buying a new stove. And the ice maker in the fridge is busted. It keeps freezing over. Ugh. Bye money.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Jun 22, 2021 7:39:33 GMT -5
So far every camp photo of DS is him in his swim suit, including the sorting ceremony....I hope he opens some of those prepackaged outfits I packed him. At least one.
Today is my Monday since I had yesterday off. So Monday Vent! I have 1 client that is being a pest today. I deal with owner's wife 99% of the time and she is a gem. Both owners are pestering the living daylights out of me today for random stuff. Wife knew I had yesterday off and would deal with the final check 1st thing this morning but owners started pestering me for it at 7am and then asking questions about the July 5th payroll on top of it. I just want to scream let me talk to 1 person instead of 3 people all wanting different stuff. Ugh
We are on the final hour driving home from a 12-day road trip that spanned five states, a mix of hotel stays and camping, a state park, a large Children’s Museum, HersheyPark and Hershey Chocolate World, and a tour through some underground caverns in the Shenandoah Valley. We are all pretty tired of traveling and will be happy to be in our own beds tonight, but H and I are proud of ourselves for cobbling together a pretty good, well-rounded trip.