I showed up an hour early for DD2's OT appointment. So our Monday is off to a solid start too.
But, beau's son went off to day camp for the first time ever with no tears this morning! First time he's been in a structured setting since covid! He had a meltdown last night and didn't want to go, but today went well during drop off. Fingers crossed the day stays positive for him.
I feel frazzled. After a summer of having my family just be lazy, today feels really packed. A friend of DS’s is coming over. At the same time his mom is dropping him, my cat has an emergency appointment for a hurt paw. At the same time as both of those, I have a work call. Then this evening I have a dinner with a firmer coworker who is a current client. I have a strong feeling he wants to talk about moving to my current firm. I need to leave for the work dinner right about the time DS’s friend’s mom is picking him up.
Well due to the political climate in other countries; looks like I will be job searching soon. It probably won't be too bad. I have already looked on my company’s website and found 3 I am more than qualified for and a few that are a promotion for me. I think with my boss's backing I would be in the running for those as well. Luckily for me, my boss is known for expecting excellence so if he vouches for you his word is respected. Hard to work for sometimes but, he is a good person to have in your corner. I want to stay at my company, but really want to stay on my team, however If I stay on my team I have to take a step backwards to my old job. No pay cut, but responsibility cut.
It's my last week of summer break. I have the DDs home with me all week. We'll see how this goes. They didn't want to go to any camps etc this week, but they may get stir crazy. On a more positive note, H is on a work trip so the house will stay clean!
Both DDs and I visited my family in my hometown, several states -and long plane rides - away last week. Overall, it was a great trip. The weather was fantastic and we had a good mix of play and downtime. DDs are still jet lagged but can catch up on sleep this week.
Perhaps some of you can offer perspective here... My mom can be pushy, especially when it comes to plans and food. (This has been ongoing since I was a kid. I learned to deal, but it's harder now that my dad is aging quickly and my kids are involved.) She really wants everything on her agenda, even though hers is often more complicated than most. Example: she'd rather make two trips to the store in a day because some products *may" be better earlier or later in the day. Anyone else going through this? Food is even more of an issue. It always has been. DD2 is a very picky eater. DD 1 and I aren't, but both stop eating when we are full. (Except for chocolate, and wine for me😎) my mom kept pushing more food on us at or between meal times. I could tell she was often hurt when we declined, but I'm not going to force my kids to eat (hello, cause of eating disorder!!) or face indigestion to accommodate for her feelings. I wish she wouldn't be so pushy/take a hint. Has anyone else delt with this?
Post by mustardseed2007 on Aug 16, 2021 11:36:42 GMT -5
Well our beach vacation was a success. The nanny isn't back from her vacation yet so my sister is watching DS and DD is with a friend, then tomorrow MIL will watch both of them. Then Wednesday and Thursday I'll work from home and the nanny will be back.
I also had organized a little pool party for DS' class and it went really well. The two new kids in his class are adorable and sweet and best of all their parents seem really nice, so all is well!
Also, school is bringing back extra curriculars and I can feel the schedule puzzles and rest of the rat race entering back into my life and I don't like it.
My kids slept late. Both have been up together for 6 minutes. They’ve been fighting for 5 minutes.
DD1 has an ear infection and she’s been crying for the majority of the weekend. DD2 has exactly zero sympathy toward DD1.
DH has been gone for a week and a half and I don’t know when he’s coming home. Trying to hold it all together. 😬
Did I miss something? What do you mean you don’t know when he’s coming home? Hugs.
Oh nothing crazy. The kids and DH were camping last week. I met him to pick up the kids, then he went back, packed up the site, and went to visit his mom. His friend was also having a 50th birthday party near his mom, so he went to that. Now he's back to work, and he's just trying to figure out a 5-6 hour window when he can drive back without having to be glued to his laptop. He will likely have to take calls the whole way, but hopefully he can keep that to a minimum since he will be towing a camper.
We made it back from the East coast very late Saturday night (we were scheduled to get in late, plus 1.5 hour delay), and then yesterday was DD's softball tryout in the morning and her birthday pool party in the afternoon. DH and I got in multiple arguments yesterday, including him not being as nice to me as he should have in front of other parents at DD's party, and I'm still pissed. He can be such a jerk when tired/stressed. He is acting contrite - we'll see if a real apology or conversation is forthcoming. DD had a good day though and checked off the items on the birthday list she made - which wasn't too difficult since they were things like "drink a Fanta" - since we don't normally let the kids have soda. I was reading the birthday cards her friends gave her this morning and they are so adorable.
Today was DS2's first day of pre-K at his same preschool and he was SO excited. It's the last day of summer for my two older kids (normally they start on a Monday, but this year it's randomly on a Tuesday). My friend organized a basketball lesson for an hour this morning while I work, and then we're doing a rental pool cabana at a fancy pool resort this afternoon with friends. I'm ready for a routine again - we haven't had a normal work/school/camp/daycare day since July 30th.
dglvrk2 - yes, my mom is very much like your mom. She's very particular about food, where she shops, what she eats, etc. I feel like I have a very limited menu to work from when she comes for dinner.
She is different from your mom in that she pushes food, but then will be very vocal about people eating too much/gaining weight. No women in my family have a healthy relationship with food.
I'm afraid I don't have a lot of advice, though. I just kind of roll with it with her. It's easier than trying to swim against the tide.
OMG. It's been a couple hours of him being there, and beau's ex is ranting and raving via text about all the terrible things wrong with camp and why beau shouldn't have brought him this week. Gems include: she's not the top emergency contact even though she is 1,000 miles away, she has researched the fact that plane air is better circulated, thus safer than indoor air at a school, and that they don't know what they're doing with an epi pen (which is patently untrue). She's going to have this kid so freaking paranoid about returning to school and how it's not safe. I just know she's going to grill him and ask leading questions tonight that make him think he shouldn't go back to keep mom happy. Jesus take the wheel, because I'm ready to fight her all over again.
My Saturday started with my first routine mammogram (yay for getting old!). I'm so glad I went on a Saturday because I was done with the whole thing (including changing) within 15 mins. Then I did some grocery shopping and headed home. Somehow I agreed to volunteer to help with DS2's soccer program. Instead of having games, they do an academy to teach the various skills. They were looking for some volunteers to help run the clinics, so I signed up. The good news is that the curriculum is already done, the volunteers just have to show up and set up the stations. So I spent a few hours digging up my clearance documentation and taking some child abuse prevention training for the soccer association. The rest of the day was doing some work to try to get ahead. Work has been so busy because we are trying to release software in October to a customer for a contractual obligation and re-certify with the governing body in Europe. On Sunday, more work. This week is already busy - swim lessons for the boys, soccer meeting, grad class planning, and dinner for my mom's birthday. I'm tired just thinking about it!
Thanks sdlaura. Her BS just kills me. She is an expert at twisting things to fit whatever narrative is convenient for her at the time. Last week beau said that maybe they should discuss transferring him to our town because we have stricter/better covid standards in place in school. She refused to even hear about it or discuss it. But then she rants and raves about "safety" concerns. It makes no sense and she's only hurting her son with her games.
Day 544674336 of Covid hell. So far today I have tracked down a Doctor, but not a medical one, giving doctor's notes to kids saying they don't have to mask, a parent who sends their kids to school because the kid threw a fit not to miss dance, and have gotten a reason from what seems like every parent on a baseball team on why their kid should not be quarantined.
And my pool quote came in around $65000 without a patio. Dh is still all 8ft or no pool. Fine, because the rehab, nervous breakdown place that I will need soon will probably cost more and have a nice pool.
We did finally get a letter from the base with all of Ds's contact information so I can write tonight. We can't go to the ceremony in October because of Covid. Of course.
Venting Jury duty is just stupid especially when you send in the paperwork and they just randomly defer you to a date worse than now. I stated that Sept 9 wasn't great because of being a self employed payroll/tax accountant and it being deadline/pay dates. The stupid idiots deferred me to March 24th! So I call and they go so we rescheduled you because you were busy with work next month and couldn't take time off. Yes, but tax accountants are freaking busy in March. I've had 4 people tell me they would love to do jury duty. Take those people.
DD's private lesson instructor is applying to law school so she told me she would help me flunk the jury selection questions as she had a whole class on jury selection. Fingers cross the world shuts down and all juries get cancelled in a couple weeks.
DH is freaking out because he has a covid exposure. At an outdoor volleyball tournament. To a player on the other team. DH is vaccinated. I am... zero amounts worried about this. He's over here talking about getting tested. Which.. no harm, but also unnecessary at this point.
This is the 2 day gap we have every year with no school or camp. Camp ends Friday but school always starts on a Wednesday.
Previously I was good about it, but this year we were like whatever and went to the water/ amusement park instead of meet the teacher night.
DD might be slightly upset but I have zero regrets. Y’all know how much I hate their meet the teacher night. You basically say hi to the teacher for 30 seconds and drop off supplies. All with 500 people, parking issues and and long back ups trying to leave the parking lot.
k3am, two other moms and their kids were supposed to come to the fancy pool with us today. One mom freaked out this morning because a grandmother of her kid’s soccer teammate tested positive. Soccer teammate kids tested negative. I think it’s unlikely that soccer kids are actually positive, and infected her kids outside, who would then infect my kids outside. We eventually talked her into still coming. I’m glad people are erring on that side vs too lax, I guess.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Aug 17, 2021 8:28:06 GMT -5
We reinstituted mandatory masks for all of our employees (instead of the honor system for masks optional for vaccinated employees - I know, I know) and at the 7 day mark our case count dropped like a rock.
It's so reassuring that masks do work even on Delta.
Post by supertrooper1 on Aug 17, 2021 12:23:58 GMT -5
I'm back to work today after 3 days off and I feel like I need another day to recover. Saturday we took DS and Beau's grandson to the county fair. They loved the rides. Sunday we went to the zoo and saw the dinosaur exhibit. The kids loved the dinosaurs more than the regular zoo animals and we were both impressed at how well it was done with animatronic dinosaurs. Yesterday I took DS school clothes shopping. It's a struggle with him growing like he is, with pants being too long that fit his waist, even with husky styles.
DH was alerted to a scammer trying to divert ACH payments from one of his clients to a different bank. They spoofed his employee's email and changed one letter in DH's email, so it looked like he was cc'd on the request.
He's so slammed with work that I am trying to figure out how, and to whom, I should report this mess...
It's really more important that he send a notice to his client, although it sounds like he already knows.
Thank you!! When I researched I saw FBI, FTC, and State Police.
The client actually called him in this case. I told him he needs to alert all clients, because it appears that they spoofed his employee’s email to do this.
I’m pretty sure the references to Accounts Receivable tipped them off. There are 2 people at DH’s company. So AR, AP, HR, Marketing, sales, etc… it’s all DH. And his clients know that.
Heard back from my PCP and I do need to get the third dose of the vaccine. But, she wants me to wait a month or so first and see if a new booster comes out or better guidance on a new booster that can combat variants better than the current dose available. I'm supposed to head back to my office for in-person work in exactly a month, so I guess I'm just in a limbo of waiting right now (like everything covid related ever it seems).
mae0111, the client should also notify their bank.
We always recommend to our clients that if they receive updated payment instructions from a vendor, they should always call a known number for that vendor and talk to them directly. And for wires, if a beneficiary is updated, I know my operations folks are required to call our customer directly to confirm that they actually did talk to the beneficiary to confirm wire instructions. (I'm not sure if we do this for ACH's though, honestly - I think ACH's tend to have a better history of being able to recall funds in the event of fraud vs. wire transiactions)
We reinstituted mandatory masks for all of our employees (instead of the honor system for masks optional for vaccinated employees - I know, I know) and at the 7 day mark our case count dropped like a rock.
It's so reassuring that masks do work even on Delta.
Same same. Honor system, lots of employees, crazy transmission rates, masks returned 2 weeks ago, much lower transmission rates.