The craziness of our schedule continues this week. We have the girls today/tomorrow, then beau's son comes back and the girls leave on Wednesday. Then beau and son go away to the beach for Thursday - Saturday. I'm so jealous and wish I could go, but I just can't swing last minute time off right now. So I'll be home alone until they come home. Then school starts next week and we're finally back on track with normal schedules.
I'm supposed to be at an outdoor team builder for work today, but we cancelled it with the storm rolling in. Now it's sunny and no storm right now. Oh well.
ETA - As much as I want to go to the beach, I also think beau needs to learn to cool it with lots of plans as school starts back up. Last week his son was exhausted every day after camp, but beau would still want to go do stuff and hang out in the afternoon/evening with friends and neighbors. I need to remind him that when school starts, we need to just stay home and relax when the kids get home until they acclimate, especially since his son hasn't been in school since March 2020.
I have a sick kid at home. Luckily (I guess?) I have to travel for work and do work events this weekend, so it’s okay that today and tomorrow I take some time off. In good news on the sick kid front, it’s been over 24 hours since we have had actual puke. Plus he ate a bagel for breakfast an hour ago and it’s still in him.
We went camping this weekend with several friends. One friend had her 11 year old niece and a friend. Saturday night the 5 High school kids went in a golf cart ride (Freshman to seniors). This friend started talking how they intentionally left out the other girls and this always happens. Dd does not even know these kids, so it could not always happen in terms of her. Finally I had it. I told her to knock it off. All 5 of those high school kids are some of the nicest kids you will meet. It's only a 5 seat cart. They would not have left them out intentionally.
Dh thought I should keep the peace. He hates confrontation. I don't raise my voice, but I do make myself clear when I have had enough. This particular friend has had a streak of popping off lately, and I am not putting up with it especially in terms of my kid. When the other moms found out, they were not pleased either. I don't know if it is the pandemic, or DS in bootcamp, but I'm not putting up with someone else's Bs.
On a better note, Ds called at 5:21 yesterday while we were finishing up yardwork. We picked up our phone at 5:26 and freaked out we missed him. We called back and got to talk to him for 30 minutes. He was in good spirits and had some funny stories. He thinks he had COVID? He said he didn't feel well a couple of days? But he also had his first shot and gets his 2nd shot this week, so I guess he is good on that front one way or another?
We had a good morning Saturday. We went on a hike and to a small free nature museum. We say crayfish, turtles, birds, and beaver chew markings. The kids enjoyed playing at the museum.
Saturday night we went to the grocery store and when we came home our house was surrounded by police and fire. I was afraid something happened to the kids, so I rushed inside. They were fine, and they hadn't called the police or me since we have a landline, and the power and phone lines were out. A branch had fallen on the power lines, and they were on the ground live, and I narrowly missed stepping on it maybe be 2 feet or so. The kids were smart enough to stay inside the whole time. And we got there maybe 10 minutes after it happened.
My nephew has Covid again. This is his second time, and everyone refuses to get vaccinated except my sister, and her shot is probably waning. She has stomach problems so she called off work and is testing. They were notified late, so they weren't able to isolate him, and the school didn't quarantine everyone until a week later, so those time periods are getting so long as to not even be effective anymore. He also injured his arm badly water skiing.
They started to drive home from where they stayed the weekend, and got the call that her FIL wasn't breathing. They were a half hour away, so they went to FIL's cabin. Her MIL tried CPR ad the EMTs tried, but they couldn't save him.
DD1 was outside playing with a neighborhood kids while I was at soccer with DD2. Apparently after they’d been hanging out a while, the kid ran over and puked all over our garbage can. Parents rinsed what they could but was pretty full before she got over there. So I sprayed it with Microban and am crossing all things that we don’t have a stomach bug ravaging our house this week
Weekend was busier than I expected. I canned 18 quarts of whole tomatoes and tomatoes are just starting to ripen here. Took DD out shopping 2 days in a row. Got her some new clothes. I normally don't do back to school shopping but since she hasn't been to school for 18+ months I figured she needed some new stuff as she really hasn't gotten a whole lot of new clothes because I just didn't care what she wore. I basically let her pick with final veto power. She is the proud owner of 3 crop tops which hit her bellybutton and is super happy to wear them. She shopped in the girls department, juniors department, and boys department so shopping was an adventure. My mom came with us on Saturday and hopefully it showed her that she can't just ask me what size as she is already asking for Christmas lists.
Sunday the weather was really cool so I took advantage of it and gave all my big wooden flower boxes a facelift with a fresh coat of stain. They look 1000 times better.
Post by supertrooper1 on Aug 23, 2021 11:47:16 GMT -5
The weekend was low key on purpose. No matter what I do I still have shooting pain in my shoulder. I've had a steroid injection at the doctor, muscle relaxers, OTC meds, a massage therapy appointment and Icy Hot patches. I just made a chiropractic appointment (I've never been) and have another massage appointment this week. An ice pack is the only thing that is somewhat helping. And I don't even know what I did to hurt my shoulder.
Beau and I enjoyed the quiet at a campsite near a lake about an hour from us with no cell service. I had to leave for a few hours for his future DIL's bridal shower. I'm always nervous and feel awkward at those things, but this one wasn't too bad. My parents stopped by our campsite for dessert Saturday. Yesterday we came back home and just took it easy.
Weekend was good. I feel more organized than I have in a while now that we’re back in our school routine and don’t have any travel planned for a couple months (other than an overnight work trip for me this week).
Took the baby to the doctor for his 15-month well visit and he was 39th percentile for height, which is a lot higher than his last visits and very exciting! Poor DS2 is only 8th percentile for height at 4 years old. DD remains way above average at 9, while the boys are all short.
I almost got into a physical altercation in the pediatrician parking lot. It’s a small parking lot so I have to do a 3-point turn to park. So as I back up, someone honks. I immediately stop and look all around - nothing. So I try to back up again and another honk. When it happens a third time, I put my car in park and get out and see this 60-ish woman sitting in her SUV. I said ‘I am trying to park so I can take my baby to the doctor. Could you please stop honking at me?!’ And she says something like ‘you’re going to hit my car’ and I’m like ‘I have a back up camera and a sensor that beeps when I get close to things. I am looking at the gap between our cars and it’s at least 5 feet.’ And there’s this teenager standing there and I say ‘was I anywhere close to her car?’ And the poor guy looks down and shakes his head - I’m sure he was thinking ‘leave me out of this, crazy lady.’ But then the other woman says ‘fine, get back in your car.’ I was shaking. Ugh, boomers.
sdlaura, OMG that's nuts, and good for you for getting out of your car!
This reminded me about soccer today... so the kids play at a complex with 4 large turf fields. There are parking lots surrounding the fields, and paved paths with gravel in between. 2 fields are next to each other and parallel, with a walking path in between. Third field is perpendicular to the second, with a walking path in between. 4th is kind of far away.
Some crazy grandmother dropping her kid off came bombing down one of the walking paths in her RAV4 this morning. Like easily going 25-30 mph. People were diving out of her way. By the end of the path, she clearly understood that it was not meant for cars (it can barely fit a golf cart) and she looked very shaken. But she soldiered on and drove up over the gravel and into the parking lot.
I honestly have no idea how she got up there. It's... really not an easy mistake to make.
mae0111 that must have been so scary! I get the feeling that there are a lot of people out of practice with driving and social interaction and/or just so completely distracted lately, that it's a risky endeavor to leave the house due to more than just covid
Post by mustardseed2007 on Aug 23, 2021 16:49:57 GMT -5
waverly , Wow that sounds really traumatic. That's terrible about your sister's FIL. I'm sorry.
We had a play date with a friend this weekend and I realized at the end she had a very stuffed up nose and now I'm worried we all either have covid or the kids are going to get sick. She said it was allergies but girl I know allergies and she did not have allergies. FFS
Also....we got a dog this weekend. Which is insane but DS' camp trains dogs over the summer and then give people the chance to adopt them. I never thought we'd be the top bidder but....we ended up with a cocker spaniel puppy.
He is adorable and sweet as pie. Our existing dog is not really cool with it and I keep googling is this or that behavior our older dog is exhibiting toward the puppy to see if it is normal or not. Hopefully hey settle down in a couple weeks. It took the dog 6 months to work out a truce with the cat, so we'll see.
DD private lesson instructor just texted me. Her roommate is sick. They are isolating and roommate is off for a COVID test. If all negative we may be able to still meet Saturday. Fingers crossed. This is the closest COVID has come to affecting our family.
I'm seriously trying to talk DD into starting the year virtual. Our district is allowing a very flexible switch between in-person and virtual.
This week DD is teaching herself how to say hello and goodbye in multiple languages. All so she can drive her teachers bonkers.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Aug 24, 2021 15:28:49 GMT -5
Whelp, DS had an audition for a part in a play and...he threw up before the audition. He still sang for the audition and when he got home he threw up again and was sick the whole night. Today he seems better. We did an at home covid test and he tested negative but we kept him and his sister home today. He will return to school tomorrow and take another COVID test outside at the business office of the school before being able to go in.
I totally understand, but I also think this is nerves. Unless it's not.
DS said he wasn't nervous and is furious if you say that's what it was. But...does that sound like nerves to you?
Anyway the rest of the audition is going to be by submitting a video of them dancing and doing lines so hopefully he can do that without throwing up...and hopefully its not covid.
mustardseed2007 , sounds like a stomach virus to me. But neither myself or my kids have thrown up due to nerves before. I feel like I have to pee a lot prior to a performance.
mustardseed2007, it could be nerves. But it’s likely a little bug. DS saw his pediatrician today for a non-Covid virus and he said the next year to 18 months is going to be full of kids with crud since they’ve been protected from crud for the last 18 months.
I just tried to watch a bit of our school board meeting, but had to turn it off. All the anti-mask/anti-vaccine people are out in full force. I was on the verge of tears with anger, frustration, and just hopeless feeling. How did it get this bad and this divided?
Meanwhile, I'm here getting ready for dose #3 and panic attacks over returning to the office in a couple weeks because I'm high risk. And none of these people care because "my body, my choice."
I’m with ya twinmomma. I guess they are having a rally and then going to the board meeting. Thing is masks in school is a state thing here, so why go to the local board meeting?.
Also, do they all want to go back to e-learning again if kids don’t mask? Because I would do anything to avoid elearning.
Well, we are back to fighting the anti-mask morons in our school. I hate this. Why can’t they just go to public school? There’s no mask mandate there. Also, the ISD our school is in has 400 positive cases. We have… zero.
The thing I don’t understand about masks in schools is…. at our public school district with masks indoors, we no longer have to shut down a full classroom when there’s a positive case. At schools with no required indoor masks, don’t you end up with way more quarantined students all the time? Do these anti mask people want to sacrifice in person school time and have way more disruptions just so their kids don’t have to wear a mask?
Post by mustardseed2007 on Aug 25, 2021 4:15:34 GMT -5
Well DD is now very sick with terrible congestion as the main symptom. Although I do think it could very well be unrelated to DS's puking incident, I also think DD is sick so it now doesn't matter.
Ds is not congested but I don't know that they are going to let DS go back to school now whether he tests negative or not, but we'll see.
I think they find the quarantining and precautions all ridiculous and over the top. According to them, Covid doesn't harm kids and we need to stop living in fear.
I’m so, so glad we have a state mask mandate. It is BS that school districts and individual school board members are left out there to handle this in such a piecemeal way.
I also can’t understand why people are lobbying so hard for the right to let their kids get sick with a highly infectious disease. It makes no sense. But I think twinmomma is right that the prevailing belief for these folks is STILL that covid is just like a bad cold or a bout of the flu.
shakinros, They totally think that. The little bit I watched was all kinds of "data" that they were spouting off - that was just not true! It was actually kind of scary how adamant they all were that the information they had access to was obviously better than what the schools have. One guy called out that no one on the school board is a doctor, so they have no right to make the decision. Meanwhile, the guy saying that isn't a doctor either, he's just a "live free or die" yokel who doesn't want a mask on his kid. He's even LESS qualified. Ugh.
I’m refraining for now, but I am tempted to say if they don’t want masks they should pull their kid and homeschool.
We are a test to stay school because the kids are masked and 3 feet apart. I’m not doing elearning, I just can’t. And with test to stay we wouldn’t need to quarantine. We had zero spread last year, zero, with masks.
No, no waverly, you've got it all wrong. It's the crazy liberals who want the masks that need to pull their kids and homeschool. These people are not living in fear, they're ready to be out in public, guns blazing! (Figuratively and probably literally too) **insert major eye roll here**
Last year we were one of the only towns in our state to have full in person school for the entire year, with almost no quarantines. There was one 2 week shut down at the high school level and one two week shut down at the middle school level. The plans the district put in place worked! We were a model for the rest of the state! So why are the parents just ignoring that and wanting to remove any and all precautions? Wanting to "get back to normal" isn't a real reason. It's throwing a public tantrum because you think rules shouldn't apply to you. Blows my mind.
twinmomma- there’s a mom in our school who claims to be a children’s therapist. According to her website and an article at our local children’s hospital where she worked part-time, she’s actually a yoga instructor with a marketing degree and an interest in “alternative medicine”. Anyway, with her sterling credentials, she has been pedaling that masks cause suicide in children.
twinmomma - there is a video going around of a school board meeting in your state (I think). A dad puts a mask on his son and sticks a CO2 meter inside the mask, attempting to prove that the CO2 is building up to a dangerous level in the mask.
It’s met with cries of “You’re asphyxiating the children!!”
All those surgeons must have brain damage I guess…
Our school mask policy was just updated - all students, staff, visitors must mask inside.
The principal phrased it in such a way that indicates that 1. She is totally pissed off about it and/or 2. She is anticipating a ton of parental pushback.