DS’s school had a fire sprinkler pipe burst during our crazy cold snap before Christmas. They found it right away and started the cleanup and repairs. Originally they said it would give the kids one extra day off. That turned into a week, so DS still isn’t back in school. They are supposed to return Monday. I’m not holding my breath. I love a lot about the school. But omg they are scattered as all hell.
mommyatty, a pipe broke at DD's school over break too. Originally, she was supposed to be remote this past Tuesday and Wednesday. Then it turned into the whole week since supplies were delayed. DD is so over remote learning and is ready to go back on Monday (fingers crossed).
While I was glad to be off between Xmas and New Year's, I have been swamped all week at work. Things are getting backed up because I can't get my backlog cleared. So I'll probably be working over the weekend to get caught up. This is in addition to my class planning since that starts on Wednesday.
This week has been insanity. Tue: Kids went back to school. DH left for WDW. Wed: snow day Thu: all 3 kids sick. DD1 only had an ear infection so she went to school. Fri: I flew to WDW (just got here). My parents are with the kids. Thankfully everyone felt well enough to go to school today. 🤞
We had a weird week at school too. Kids were supposed to go back Tuesday, but the principal decided to make it a planning day, so they pushed to Wednesday, which was a scheduled 1/2 day. Then Thursday I kept them home to go for their interviews at a potential new school. Now they're back today.
Tonight DH and I are going to my work/client holiday party. DD1 has a basketball game that I was supposed to coach at 8pm at school 25 mins away. It was scheduled for 8, then they moved it to 6, so I arranged for my dad to take her... then they pushed it back to 8pm yesterday so now my dad is taking both kids out to dinner instead. 8pm is too late for DD2 because it means getting home at 930-945, and I couldn't find a sitter. DD1 is mad, but she's mad at me about everything all the time, so we'll just add that to the list.
Tomorrow morning DD1 and DD2 are playing basketball at the same time, so we're dividing and conquering. Then DD1 has another game at 2pm. Sunday we have nothing planned, so I'll finish taking down Christmas.
I'm supposed to meet with a new therapist today. She said yesterday she'd call me at X time. She just emailed me to change it with "sorry I have a meeting, I'll call you at Y time instead." I'm feeling... not great about it. It feels a little breezy about blowing me off.
I've worked M-F this week and am dragging today. DD went back to school Wednesday. She asked to skip school today because there was no point in her being there. This is only the 2nd time this school year, which is a huge improvement from past years, but I don't have the mental energy to deal with this.
Federal tax update zoom class tomorrow for 6 hours. Then DD and I are promptly leaving for my brother's house an hour north of us. We will cook him dinner and crash at his place. DD has to be at the host meet gym at 7:30am so we need to leave brothers house at 7. She is getting so nervous about the meet and her coaches aren't helping at all.
Beau and I are gearing up to spend the weekend re-organizing the stuff that's already in the pod and then packing and adding more. The kids called a "family meeting" the other night and were grilling us on when we're moving to a bigger house. It was hilarious. They listed off their requested items for said new house (yard with trees, each in their own bedroom, family room for kid hang out space, a pool, a dog lol) and want a timeline for when it will happen.
The realtor said we should shoot for April 1, so we can get everything ready, take pictures, and I can get back from my big work trip and we can then immediately list and start shopping. The timing should be good for houses to be on the market then.
Beau let me know that his mom is going to gift us down payment money for a new place. That kind of blows my mind. It's not something my parents could ever consider doing. And I'm a painfully independent person, so it feels very weird to accept a large amount of money like that, especially since I will have a good profit from the current house to put down. But, I'm extremely grateful!
And apparently the girls are very happy about the engagement. They've been telling everyone at school about it. I had to drop off something they forgot today and the entire staff in the front office congratulated me and asked to see the ring. And one of the teachers texted me the other day to say congrats. So it makes me happy that they're happy with it all.
I’ve had a really good week at work. We got notice that we won a couple of big proposals, got invited to interview for a couple more, and were awarded some task orders under an existing contract. So 2023 is already looking better than 2022.
We also increased DS’s antidepressant this week. He’s doing so much better than he was, but he still has sad periods where he has scary thoughts about hurting himself, so we figured it’s better to increase it a bit. He’s still on a very low dose. In fact, the dose he’s now on is considered the lowest therapeutic dose for kids who aren’t on the spectrum.
And speaking of that, I’m becoming more and more convinced that DS is not actually on the spectrum and what the psychologist was seeing was a combination of his ADHD and depression. Literally all of the behaviors she said were concerning are gone now that’s he is on the antidepressant. He doesn’t have a flat affect, he converses instead of just answering questions, he’s using his hands and gesturing, he makes eye contact with us and with strangers. So I’m not really sure what to do about that.
Post by supertrooper1 on Jan 6, 2023 13:02:58 GMT -5
It's been a trying week. On Tuesday and Wednesday, my coworker that covered my client emails for the week I was out between Christmas and New Year's had several discussions with me on how I handle one of my needy clients. We had over an hour-long discussion on Wednesday, and he drug in another coworker into our call. He kept referring to me as a new employee, but I've been in this job for almost 4 years, so then I started wondering if he was insinuating that I should know more since I'm not so new anymore. Of course, I don't have as much experience as he does in this job, but I feel like I do my job and do it well. I was pissed from that conversation and then Beau made me even more upset. We were at the gym and I was texting Beau to let him know he could have the only stair stepper when he was done with his weights. He came up behind me and touched me, so I knew it was him and quit texting. He thought I was hiding a text from him even though I said I just sent you a text. He didn't bring it up again since he knew he was wrong, but it took me longer to get over it.
I'm not sure what we're doing this weekend since our plans had involved Beau's son and family, but they're sick. I'm a little surprised that they actually cancelled due to being sick since they usually don't care and will show up and spread it to everyone.
I am dragging. Between Dh and the dog, there seems to he a conspiracy to keep me awake at night. Dd just brought me Chic Fil A, so that perked up my day.
Tomorrow Dd, Dh and I are going shopping a town over. Dh is going to get the boots I got him for Christmas. We are going to a really good pizza and wing place for dinner.
Sunday, I am helping, entering a soup/dessert cook off fundraiser. I am making chicken nacho soup. It's probably not a winner, but it's good and for a good cause.
I took today off to recover from my booster shot. Luckily only a sore arm and a little tired. I can’t believe it. The last 2 shots I had chills/ fever/ body aches and it was dreadful. This one was Pfizer instead of Moderna so maybe that is the difference.
Post by librarychica on Jan 6, 2023 16:09:28 GMT -5
This has been a very long short week for me as well. I went back to work Tuesday, kids back at school Wednesday. Wednesday our super old cat woke me up sick before 5AM, when I got up dogs followed me and wanted to go out, I find DD2 already awake and tell her to try to sleep a little more. She does not but does refuse to get ready for school when the time comes leading to a fight with her sister, who very much wanted to go.
Thursday was okay I guess. This morning H got called into work at 5AM (poor H), then the kid’s toilet overflowed. DD1 left a cap loose and when I went to shake a bottle of kefir for DD2’s breakfast it sprayed all over me and the floor. …DD2 was downright rude when I got her from school and she is now having some chill time in her room. Adjustment week for sure.
Anyway! The weekend. We have some kayaking planned and a trip to a special observatory event that was our Christmas gift to my parents. I am very much looking forward to it.
My older kids were still out of school this week, but they went to camp, and luckily the toddler’s daycare provider reopened Tuesday. He’s a really fun 2.5-year-old, but 11 straight days of no childcare for him (except for like a few hours of babysitting a couple times a week, in our house) seemed like a lot for this working mom who has always had full-time childcare (minus early pandemic, when I nearly lost my mind). I was still trying to work some while he was home, so I felt so amazingly productive this week when I only had work and not childcare too during the days.
My older 3 kids are in camp with friends so we’re carpooling, which is great. But the other two moms want to get the kids at 3:30 everyday, when camp is open till 4:30. Not sure why when they also work, but it’s made for some shorter workdays than I’d like this week. Oh well.
This afternoon our old regular babysitter is bringing her baby by to say hello. He’s like 11 months old and we still haven’t met him! I got him a little early first birthday present. I would be fine with her bringing him if she ever wanted to babysit again, but I think she’s stopped babysitting since having him. I’m looking forward to catching up with her today. I think she’s bringing her husband, who we also know and like (they both came on vacation to Hawaii with us and helped us with the kids and then did a babymoon when she was pregnant).
Otherwise sports start up a bit this weekend and we have an early dinner date night with good friends on Saturday. Oh, and DH got me rollerblades for Christmas at my request and I’m going to try them out near the ocean this weekend on our rail trail. I used to rollerblade for exercise pre kids and I’m excited. My friends were teasing me about how they want pics of me in a crop top with the 20-year-olds rollerblading on a boardwalk - no crop tops for me thank you
We worked Tuesday through Thursday morning this week and drove to Lake Tahoe yesterday for a long weekend in the snow. The road was closed off and on through the mountains and chains were required as we drove through blizzard conditions but we made it safely and to the hotel at a reasonable hour. Today we are sledding and swimming and tomorrow we will hit the slopes. So far it’s been nice to have a minute to relax and refresh.
PDQ: I had an update on ML about Guinea pigs but here are my…highlights?
-he got married. Doesn’t know I know -he’s been recording the kids. Like he will ask them a question and hold the phone and like ask them to repeat things. -scripts for how to communicate that you don’t want to be recorded are happening in therapy -told the kids they could keep (their step-brothers) Guinnea pigs if I took them and said he’d give me the cage and food. Then they FaceTimed the next day upset that I “won’t let them keep them” but that seems to have subsided
-Court Prescheduling hearing is Tuesday. Mediation (again) is being ordered. -He filed to reduce CS even though his salary went down only a little but his claim is I got a significant increase which is wholly untrue. -interrogatories have been sent and he needs to specify who he lives w, how much they pay toward living expenses etc. Wife owns a 1.5 million dollar house. He’s trying to reduce CS by 9%. He also needs to prove involvement in medical and education. I have no idea what he would even have for that. -he wants shared legal, currently it’s sole for me which is what he chose -he claims I didn’t “take his transportation needs into account when enrolling the kids in extracurriculars” they are doing the same ones they did before divorce -he wants me to split the drive EO weekend since he moved an hour away. And he lived there at the time of the agreement
So. Here we go
This weekend I’m printing stuff like his texts that say he didn’t think 5th grade graduation and band concerts and conferences were all that important and if our 11 year old wanted him to come she could ask.
We had our second week of holiday break. We took a random but fun road trip. Just got back last night. I'm hoping for a quiet day today. I have a bunch of work to catch up on before tomorrow....I'm not feeling motivated yet. My parents were here for about five days after christmas.it was really stormy weather, so lots of games, movies and visiting. Question for all of you: is it weird that I don't like other people - besides my husband and children - cooking in my kitchen? I finally admitted this to myself while my mom was making -delicious- cinnamon rolls. I've been irritated by others in my kitchen too. Messes and them asking for things I don't have (in my one butt kitchen) are two of the biggest triggers here. if you don't like others using your kitchen, how do you work with moms and other well meaning guests who are eager to help?