I went and got my blood drawn for my follow up TSH labs this morning, and then stopped by the fun coffee kiosk on the way home. I asked what sort of over the top creations they had going on and the barista said they weren't really doing any right now, "just some Halloween decorations" if I got a drink with whipped cream. She recommended an apple butter iced coffee, which I ordered, and she then proceeded to give me this:
I think our definitions of "over the top" are very different. LMAO!
C had a fun run fundraiser at school yesterday. She was so excited for it, and she really ran! She did 35 laps without stopping for water. When I picked her up and asked her how it was, she said, "When do I get the money?" She thought the money she raised went right to her! I explained that it went to the school as a whole. She thought about it for a minute and said, "Well I would have stopped for water if I knew that!" OMG this kid
DS is doing a fun run soon. I asked him to tell me why he was running. Meaning what is the school planning to do with the funds. His response “I want to see the principals get slimed.” If they raise X amount the principals get slimed by the class with the most laps
Parenting is just kind of breaking my heart lately and I am tired. Does anyone else have a 6 year old who is just super grumpy? It's really wearing on me. I just feel like nothing I say or do is right and I am met with salty responses to everything I say. Its really triggering for me and I want to tell him to knock it off but he's also allowed to experience his emotions so of course I won't do that, but ugh its so annoying. Maybe it's just the transition to Kindergarten still? He's happy when he is getting 1:1 attention from us or of course when he is doing preferred activities, but everything else just seems like such a fight with him.
I am very clear with my 8 year old (and have been since he was 4-5) that he is allowed to have his emotions, but he is not allowed to inflict them on other people. Same goes for H and I. If we’re feeling grumpy, we excuse ourselves to a quiet place until we can turn it around. If he wants to talk out his feelings he is always welcome to ask for that, but he is not allowed to snark at us for no reason. It’s age appropriate to start building the skills to not emotionally manipulate others and to take responsibility for your own feelings.
Thank you, I love your way of phrasing this. I'm going to start implementing this!
Another random other than me just bitching about parenting... I completed my 1500th Peloton strength workout today. I tried to do a live class to get a shout-out and alas, didn't get one this time and I'm kind of bummed, but still super proud of myself!
I am in the office and someone is coughing a ton. I know she just started here last week so I don't really blame her for being on-site anyway, but she probably shouldn't be. At least we still wear masks I guess.
I woke up at 4am today and could not get back to sleep. I finally did around 6:30 and slept until 8:30. So my whole day has felt messed up. I am really tired but have class tonight so won't be home until almost 9:30. Ugh.
I turned in grades last night for the course I taught and it felt really nice to finish a job! Usually when I finish something at work it's just on to the next thing, so it is a nice treat to know I did everything I was supposed to and now I'm done, if that makes sense. I think want more of that!
Our younger dog is such a little rule follower. As you may recall, I had left a 7 lb box of biscuits open at dog level and she only stole one.
At night we had been crating her in our bedroom but now that’s she’s two I thought we could start leaving the door open to her crate and maybe work toward not crating her at all so we can get the crate out of the bedroom.
My husband went into work really early and put the dogs back to bed while I slept. This morning I slept late then was hanging out in bed for a while and heard her rattle her crate a little. I figure my husband must have forgot and locked her in her crate. Nope! She was just in there waiting until I told her it was okay to come out. Like what? What kind of dog doesn’t just come over and wake you up?
I guess she just got used to us having to go over and let her out in the morning and hadn’t figured out that she is free to roam now? What a nerd.
My SIL & BIL had a dog that was part Lab, part German Shepherd. When he was a pup, they'd "crate him" by putting him in the kitchen and then putting up a baby gate at the door. He eventually got big enough that he could have just stepped over the gate - never mind jump it. But he never did! He had just accepted that he couldn't get out of the kitchen when they were gone!
I have a picture from when my lab was around 6 months old. We had a rough time figuring out a sleep routine when we brought her home because my older dog was used to sleeping freely in the living room, and we wanted to have the puppy sleep in a crate or play yard in the living room, so I planned to sleep in the living room with them until they got used to it. But the older puppy kept waking the lab puppy up and then we'd have to go out, and it was a mess. So I ended up moving the play yard to the guest room and sleeping with the lab puppy in there. Well, the picture shows the puppy on the bed, and the play yard was the exact same height as the bed and was right up against it. And I posted, I wonder how long it will take Rose (the lab puppy) to realize that if she can jump up onto the bed, she can jump out of the play yard and sleep up on the bed with me at night? And she NEVER DID. She now sleeps freely in the living room with our older dog too though.
Parenting is just kind of breaking my heart lately and I am tired. Does anyone else have a 6 year old who is just super grumpy? It's really wearing on me. I just feel like nothing I say or do is right and I am met with salty responses to everything I say. Its really triggering for me and I want to tell him to knock it off but he's also allowed to experience his emotions so of course I won't do that, but ugh its so annoying. Maybe it's just the transition to Kindergarten still? He's happy when he is getting 1:1 attention from us or of course when he is doing preferred activities, but everything else just seems like such a fight with him.
6 is hard. 7 is hard. My kid had a rough go with full day kindergarten. He got up super early and was very worn out by the end of school. Very normal.
Parenting is just kind of breaking my heart lately and I am tired. Does anyone else have a 6 year old who is just super grumpy? It's really wearing on me. I just feel like nothing I say or do is right and I am met with salty responses to everything I say. Its really triggering for me and I want to tell him to knock it off but he's also allowed to experience his emotions so of course I won't do that, but ugh its so annoying. Maybe it's just the transition to Kindergarten still? He's happy when he is getting 1:1 attention from us or of course when he is doing preferred activities, but everything else just seems like such a fight with him.
6 is hard. 7 is hard. My kid had a rough go with full day kindergarten. He got up super early and was very worn out by the end of school. Very normal.
We had a talk after school about how I am hurt by the way he talks to me sometimes and that I am not going to accept it. In turn he asked me to stop asking him so many questions after school. I know I pepper him with questions about how the day was and he just wants to decompress. I have officially turned into my own mother, omg.
6 is hard. 7 is hard. My kid had a rough go with full day kindergarten. He got up super early and was very worn out by the end of school. Very normal.
We had a talk after school about how I am hurt by the way he talks to me sometimes and that I am not going to accept it. In turn he asked me to stop asking him so many questions after school. I know I pepper him with questions about how the day was and he just wants to decompress. I have officially turned into my own mother, omg.
My DS6 (1st grade) just said the same thing to me for the same reason recently.
The smoke from all the fires is so oppressively bad right now. According to the Purple Air maps the AQI is about 330 (I've been watching it rise all day). Our whole house smells like smoke, and I got winded going up and down the stairs in our house a little bit ago.
I just want to vent. I have a headache, a sore throat, and I'm losing my voice because of the smoke.
Friday and the incoming rain can't come fast enough.
I’m still in disbelief but DS1 had a baked dairy allergy challenge today and he passed!!!
It was a high risk food challenge in hospital with all his doctors on call as none of us thought he would pass. And he did. He was born with a dairy allergy so this is beyond huge for us. After the horrific trauma we went through with this allergy and diagnosis, this feels so healing and it doesn’t even mean he can eat full dairy yet. But this is a huge, huge step.
I will sob about it once the kids are in bed because this is so, so emotional for me. I haven’t cooked or baked with dairy in nearly 3 years.
How exciting! We were an allergy family and it was like a 2nd job. After being told for years that he would ever outgrow all of his allergies, DS outgrew his tree but allergies, did the dairy ladder and OIT for eggs and peanuts and is in maintenance. It’s been slow but many steps to celebrate. ANY progress is a weight lifted! Enjoy the baking!
Ended my day in tears thanks to my boss' semi-annual "you suck and here's why" talk. It had been a good while since he made me feel like total shit and in front of his deputy no less! Wheee!
I basically just looked at him and said "well if you think I'm the problem, then it's good thing my resume is updated and I'm applying."
His deputy tried to talk to me after, but by then I couldn't hold back and was just a mess. Like WTF? Part of the issue is my boss is remote working from ALABAMA and everyone wants to know where the fuck she is? I don't know, she didn't even tell me she wasn't going to be at work this week (or next week for that matter).
Post by wesleycrusher on Oct 19, 2022 18:56:47 GMT -5
My one year old cat unexpectedly passed away today. He'd been acting a little off, but this morning he seemed more sick- the regular vet squeezed him in and took an x-ray and said pneumonia and sent us home, but an hour later he took a sudden turn and I brought him to the emergency vet. DH didn't come with me cause we thought they'd give him oxygen, IV antibiotics and he'd maybe be admitted, but within an hour they said he was in heart failure and wouldn't survive. It was so sudden- he was fine last night, was on my husband's lap for a few hours being petted and sleeping. Then we had to tell the kids since they had no idea this was all happening while they were at school. Ugh, It just sucks.
I’m still in disbelief but DS1 had a baked dairy allergy challenge today and he passed!!!
It was a high risk food challenge in hospital with all his doctors on call as none of us thought he would pass. And he did. He was born with a dairy allergy so this is beyond huge for us. After the horrific trauma we went through with this allergy and diagnosis, this feels so healing and it doesn’t even mean he can eat full dairy yet. But this is a huge, huge step.
I will sob about it once the kids are in bed because this is so, so emotional for me. I haven’t cooked or baked with dairy in nearly 3 years.
How exciting! We were an allergy family and it was like a 2nd job. After being told for years that he would ever outgrow all of his allergies, DS outgrew his tree but allergies, did the dairy ladder and OIT for eggs and peanuts and is in maintenance. It’s been slow but many steps to celebrate. ANY progress is a weight lifted! Enjoy the baking!
court26: can I ask how old your son was when he outgrew the tree nut allergy? DD2’s ige blood test levels had been steadily dropping but we just tested again (hoping they were low enough for a challenge this time) and the went up slightly. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. I’m trying not to get discouraged and am hoping there is still a chance she will outgrow it. Her levels at diagnosis were 5 (whatever units) and 2.5 years later they are around 1-1.3. We were hoping for <0.5 to challenge. I have to remind myself that it’s good they dropped at all I guess. She only 4 so hopefully still a chance.
Ok douche, go ahead and call it mud. My husband DID have halitosis. We addressed it after I talked to you girls on here and guess what? Years later, no problem. Mofongo, you're a cunt. Eat shit. ~anonnamus
I'm so sorry Nonny and others in the Seattle area. I'm so excited you get rain starting Friday! I empathize. The smoke was bad like that in central WA last year. It was soul crushing for the air to be poisonous for so long (it was bad here from August-October last year).
I wrapped up assisting one of my coordinators with a proposal that I've been trying to get done for over a week. A huge weight has been lifted. I still have to get it submitted, but despite her incredibly lackluster performance, I think I've done enough that she can manage to handle that part. Which means! Tomorrow is my Friday! Yay! I am so excited to take an extra day off and be able to enjoy it.
There are many, many other things that need to be done, but I can worry about those next week.
It is amazing how our bodies react to the seasons. It has been cold the past couple days. Also it is getting darker earlier at night. Everyone in my household has reported sleeping suuuuper heavy each night and really struggling to get up in the mornings. It is like we have all gone into hibernation mode. Also I am instantly way less productive. I just want to curl up and not move for 5 months lol. I am sitting here right now thinking I could really just crawl back in bed and sleep. That is not normal for me.
Thankfully the weather is return to normal tempts today.
Safety check... do you have a CO detector and are sure the tiredness is not a carbon monoxide issue?
I couldn't let myself sleep tonight without asking in case something serious could be going on.
I’m still in disbelief but DS1 had a baked dairy allergy challenge today and he passed!!!
It was a high risk food challenge in hospital with all his doctors on call as none of us thought he would pass. And he did. He was born with a dairy allergy so this is beyond huge for us. After the horrific trauma we went through with this allergy and diagnosis, this feels so healing and it doesn’t even mean he can eat full dairy yet. But this is a huge, huge step.
I will sob about it once the kids are in bed because this is so, so emotional for me. I haven’t cooked or baked with dairy in nearly 3 years.
How exciting! We were an allergy family and it was like a 2nd job. After being told for years that he would ever outgrow all of his allergies, DS outgrew his tree but allergies, did the dairy ladder and OIT for eggs and peanuts and is in maintenance. It’s been slow but many steps to celebrate. ANY progress is a weight lifted! Enjoy the baking!
That is really awesome! He has 11 allergies so this is definitely a huge weight lifted. And, for once, now I have hope that he can outgrow maybe some of the other ones.
How exciting! We were an allergy family and it was like a 2nd job. After being told for years that he would ever outgrow all of his allergies, DS outgrew his tree but allergies, did the dairy ladder and OIT for eggs and peanuts and is in maintenance. It’s been slow but many steps to celebrate. ANY progress is a weight lifted! Enjoy the baking!
court26: can I ask how old your son was when he outgrew the tree nut allergy? DD2’s ige blood test levels had been steadily dropping but we just tested again (hoping they were low enough for a challenge this time) and the went up slightly. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. I’m trying not to get discouraged and am hoping there is still a chance she will outgrow it. Her levels at diagnosis were 5 (whatever units) and 2.5 years later they are around 1-1.3. We were hoping for <0.5 to challenge. I have to remind myself that it’s good they dropped at all I guess. She only 4 so hopefully still a chance.
Those are great numbers and them going down is such a great sign.
DS1’s dairy number is 21.6 and he still managed to pass baked dairy! Our allergist is open to food challenges and defers to me on deciding. Sometimes numbers can go up simply bc of when it was done/if she’s been sick recently. I’d check numbers again in 6 months and if you’re comfortable with it, I’d ask for a challenge. And 4 is definitely still so young!