Happy Friday and a Q

[waverly]

I am working, but could potentially leave early.  DD has a pool party from 6-8.  Should I make DS go along because he hasn't been very social all week?  He may see someone he knows or just play in the pool.  He would be irritated, but would have fun playing.  It is a Girl Scout pool party, so it has nothing to do with him.  The pool is still open to the public though, so there might be another 11 year old boy there or not- who knows.  

OR he could ring his friends doorbell around 5 when I get home from work or maybe 4:30 if I leave early, but then I need to leave for the pool party at 6 anyway.  I don't know if friend is available.  

Or I could tell him ring the doorbell but if friend is not available come to the pool.  (I'm leaning towards this option, so he can try both options since they are at different times).  

DH will be home at 6, so DS will be home alone from 1 until 4:30/5 when I get home.  

[rere]

Today we are headed to the airport. I hope DS'S social calendar allows for us to get dinner.

Saturday, we have a pool party. The kids will be in and out with their various friends.

Sunday is Father's Day and Dds bday. She didn't give me many ideas for a present, so I got various things. She wants an icecream cake, homemade, and pizza, DH wants to put something on the smoker all day, so the menu should be interesting.

[k3am]

waverly, in just about any scenario where the choice is having my kid do something active/social vs. sit at home and likely watch TV, I usually drag the kid along. If I had contact info for the person who's doorbell he'd ring, I might text and see if they're around and see if he was welcome to hang out though, but I wouldn't bring it up if it weren't an option.

[mae0111]

waverly, would you be comfortable bring DS and his friend to the pool? I find it to be so much easier to deal with kids in the pool if there are friends available.

I'm trying to wrap up some work, but things just don't seem to be going my way. I'll probably work over the weekend, even though the office is closed on Monday.

I'm having dinner with friends tonight, then nothing really planned for the rest of the weekend. DH and the kids are camping until Monday afternoon. I'm hoping I'll see my dad on Sunday for a little while. I'm doing a deep clean of DD2's room, and I'll do DD1's room when she's away at camp. A long walk with my neighbor, which we haven't done in about 8 months due to crazy kid schedules.

Mostly just trying to get my head right.

[twinmomma]

Happy Friday!
Tonight we're going to a minor league baseball game. It escalated from our family of five to both entire extended families. Both sets of grandparents, all the aunts and uncles from my side and beau's, beau's niece. And this afternoon beau's mom decided she didn't want to deal with driving home later, so we're getting two hotel rooms at the place that overlooks the field and has a pool. So we'll head there early to let the kids swim before the game and then spend the night there. It has developed into quite an excursion!

Then tomorrow I'm taking the girls to see Wicked with my mom, sister, and sister in law. We're all so excited for them to see their first BIG show! And on Sunday, we're heading to a Juneteenth/birthday/Father's Day cookout that beau's best friend is throwing. 

I'm already exhausted thinking about it, thank God I have Monday off.

[waverly]

Well his friend is out of town, so that solves that. I don't know if his other friend is a good swimmer or not to invite him.

[supertrooper1]

Today is DS's last day of school. There is a strawberry and cheese curd festival tomorrow that I want to go to. I don't know if we'll pick strawberries or just buy some and I have to get some fresh cheese curds! Beau laughed at me when I suggested taking DS and his grandson strawberry picking and asked if I ever had to pick berries as a kid. Nope, I wanted to (put myself through that torture as he put it) but my parents said no because I was needed to do work on our own farm as a kid. Then we have a graduation party for his cousin.

Sunday, DS goes to his dad's for the majority of the day. We'll probably head to the gym, my parent's house for lunch and then home for DS. I have Monday off but Beau is working. I got a summer bowling pass for DS so I think we're going to try it out. It's supposed to give DS 2 free games a day and then a family pass was $30 for the summer. I hope it's not a scam since it's a third party seller at a local bowling alley.

[mustardseed2007]

I just got my hair done and the stylist made my highlights a lot more all over than I expected. It's a pretty big overall lightening of my natural color and I don't think I love it although I don't think it stands out as bad. My very helpful and supportive sister told me to turn around and go back to the salon bc it's crazy whereas I was thinking I'd sit with it for 4 weeks since i have to go back that often anyway b/c I'm totally gray.

DS is going to sleep away camp and I think it's starting to feel homesick already. It doesn't help that his BFF can't see him before he leaves like we expected. That kind of sucks.

[waverly]

I can't get in a product essential for work. The customer service representative is clueless and has no sense of urgency. Then follows it up with an email that says the "line doesn't get shorter unless you are in it." AYFKM? I ordered the beginning of May and they never communicated one thing to me. I had to call twice and now it's mid July. The first time I called they said June 10.

[mommyatty]

Our house is insanely dirty/messy/cluttered and I cannot take it anymore. So today I’m off work and cleaning/rearranging our living room. I’m getting rid of a piece of furniture and surprise! DH isn’t putting up a fuss. It’s a storage cabinet that housed games and puzzles in our living room but we have so many blanket solutions (my whole family loves blankets and cannot seem to part with them) that you can’t get to said cabinet. And I’m getting rid of about 10 fleece blankets that have babyish things like Doc McStuffins and Paw Patrol on them. I’m hiding the blanket giveaway from my kids, who will never notice but would freak out if they knew.

[twinmomma]

Our weekend was going pretty perfectly - baseball and hotel was fun, Wicked was amazing. And then last night beau and I got in a massive fight. It was just so bizarre. Not even really a fight, he just flipped out. He called me on his way home from work and was venting about how he’s exhausted, wants to just sleep in his own bed, but he knows his son wants to sleepover with his niece again and he doesn’t want to upset his son so they’ll be crashing at grandma’s to make that happen. I jokingly said something like “just remember, you’re the grown up and you can say no” and beau flipped out. He’s just trying to make the kids happy, no one tells him what to do, he makes his own decisions and doesn’t need me telling him otherwise, I’m trying to change his personality… it was really strange and caught me so off guard. I clearly hit a nerve without realizing it. I’m hoping today he’s in a better mood and we can smooth things over when he gets home.

[traveltheworld]

Well, father's day started with a multi hour tantrum from DS and we missed our father's day brunch because of it. So that has been fun.

We have friends coming over tonight and I told DS that under no circumstance is he allowed to get into a fight with said friends' kids and ruin the evening for us. If he starts, we are going to drop him off at my parents' empty condo nd leave him there for the remainder of the evening so that DH, who is a saint when it comes to DS, gets to have ONE night of relaxation.

We shall see how it goes.

[mommyatty]

DH and I went out to dinner last night for our anniversary. The food was amazing, but I really wish we could not go to the exact same restaurant for every major occasion. It’s a very fancy steak place with wonderful food, but I would really like to change it up. At least I convinced DH to do the tasting menu instead of the exact same meal we get every time we are there. 

Today has been low key.  We took McDonald’s breakfast to MIL’s house since the kids spent the night there. I’m making turkey burgers for dinner, at DH’s request. He’s outside puttering in the yard and around the pool. I made a nectarine cobbler for our dessert, and our house smells divine.

[librarychica]

Weekend is going nicely here. We had some friends over for chili, pool and s’mores last night. In addition to family friends each girl had a school friend. Fire pit oversight with 9 kids between 3 and 10 is an adventure.

Today a miracle happened and somehow H and I slept until 10:30. I got up to take the dogs out thinking it was like 7:30, 8 only to ask myself “why is it so hot already?” and realize I was off by 3 hours. Father’s Day snuggle pile, lunch at H’a favorite deli, some pool floating and he’s been visiting with his dad on the phone while the kids and I putter and do various animal chores. Leftovers tonight and I’m going to make myself a cocktail.

[waverly]

DH decided to install the faucets today, well actually reinstall correctly because something happened with the first ones- they were backwards as in turn the wrong direction to turn them on.

One wouldn’t come out so he had to reciprocating saw it out. I had to hold it so I’m picturing it go through into my stomach and the hospital in my future, but then he had me switch sides so he was sawing away from me thankfully.

Then he had the gall to complain nothing was planned. I planned 5 different things loosely like ideas not actual reservations, and he missed everything with his Mr. Fixit act so he’s got no one to blame but himself. It was stressful but at least it’s done and we are home now. Eyeroll.

Anyone else have an OCD husband that can’t stop doing things?

[sdlaura]

We made it through our three totally insane days Thursday-Saturday. Pre-k promotion was adorable, it was fun to celebrate the end of elementary at the beach, and DD had fun at her district softball tournament but didn’t qualify for states, so I don’t have to rearrange our July 4th travel.

Today, DH decided to be even more involved with the kids than most weekends days, so that was fun. We went on a hike in a new place this morning, then he played board games with them during the toddler naptime, and then played with them in the pool for a long time.