Yay for Friday!! It's been a good week for me to catch up on a lot of loose ends. But I'm still glad it is Friday.
Tonight, I am going to a girl's magarita night at a friend's.
Dd is camping and going to amusement parks with friends all weekend, so I am not sure what else Dh and I are getting into. There has been some talk of hitting golf balls, his BIL and sister are in, so maybe hanging out with them.
Problem being, we just had his family over for the 4th. We really would like to hang out with just them and not the rest of the family. It was fine, but his dad is ready to leave as soon as he gets here, his other SIL comes across a judgy about parenting, drinking, life in general. We are just very different people. I came from a place of disfunction and had to claw where I am. She, from what she says, was always very catered to, and and seems very easily overwhelmed by life. Which I have no patience. Not that either of us are terrible, but very different approaches to life. Plus our last weekend was high jacked by a non emergency from his mom that took up Friday and a ball tournament that took up 3xs as long due to weather. So we need a chill weekend.
Happy summer Friday! We had a ton of vacation the past month, but after getting home from Yellowstone Sunday night, how we’re home for the rest of the summer.
My first meeting isn’t till 11 am today, so I’m on my way to do a long run along the coast. The area where I normally park is full - must be summer. Last night a local fancy hotel had a party that they opened to the public and it had lots of free food and drinks and gorgeous views - a friend saw it advertised and invited me, and that was fun.
My college best friend flies in this afternoon from Atlanta so our daughters can go to sleepaway camp together starting Sunday. She and her daughter are staying with us in DH’s office in the backyard. We really rarely have anyone stay with us because we already have 6 people in a not large house - so hopefully that goes ok. We’ll probably do beach/pool tomorrow, and I booked a babysitter and dinner reservation for tomorrow night so she and I and DH can go to a kid-free dinner.
Post by supertrooper1 on Jul 14, 2023 11:14:36 GMT -5
Tomorrow night we're going to Beau's cousin's 18th birthday party. There was also talk about going out to breakfast this weekend with Beau's family before his aunt flies home early next week, but I don't know if it's Saturday or Sunday morning yet. In between those events we'll be hitting the gym. We've also talked about going riding and going across the border to Canada for some good Chinese food that I've been craving.
Tomorrow we pick DD1 up from sleep -away camp. Sunday DD2 is going out on a boat with a few friends and 1-2 parents. This will give DD1 time at home to decompress without her sister.
WPs, what do you think? DD1 was not scheduled to go to a camp next week, but a CIT space opened up at a local day camp, so I enrolled her yesterday. Her camp this week does not allow parents to call. Kids may call home daily, but she hasn't, so I didn't get a chance to talk this over with her. Two girls she gets along with at school but with whom she does not hang out outside of school are also signed up. I signed her up for this week for two reasons: 1. I would like to see her connect with more kids. She has one fantastic friend at school, but she expressed interest in branching out. This could be a low streaks way of doing that. (The kids are not in school; they're at day camp.) 2. I also don't want to have to structure her days -AKA Camp Mom- so she's not on her phone or watching TV. Am I being too pushy? I'm not trying to engineer friendships, just putting kids in her lane, I think.... I hope she's receptive going to day camp next week. I'm sure she's looking forward to some quiet time next week, but five days is too much for her and me.
dglvrk2, if she is receptive then I would go for it.
Not sure if she will be. She is also signed up to be a CIT at this day camp the following week, but no one she knows is signed up. This week has been planned for several weeks H and I intend to let her sit the second week out if she's not having fun this week.
I went to a funeral this morning -- the dad of one of my former students passed away. She spoke at the service and it was really sad, but also really lovely. Also, I must have missed the memo of wearing beautiful bright colors and hats, because I wore a black wrap dress and was vastly out of place.
No plans for tomorrow. It's hot as hades here so maybe just a quick trip to the farmer's market and some pool time. DD1 is taking the referee clinic on Sunday (all day...supposed to be stormy and very rainy) then kids are going to MIL's for the week!
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
DH and I had our 21st wedding anniversary yesterday. Our gift to ourselves is to go on a kid-free weekend getaway in the next few weeks. My parents have already agreed to take the kids when we go. Tonight we are going to dinner at the local hofbrauhaus with my parents to celebrate. The kids will stay home with FIL. Not sure what we will do tomorrow. I should go to taekwondo so I can start learning a new form for competition season (which starts in early September). But it has been a long week and doing nothing sounds great too. Sunday is DD's 14th birthday. She wants to go to a local ropes course that is inside of an old church with a few friends. So we will do that and then get some ice cream.
Post by librarychica on Jul 14, 2023 18:35:26 GMT -5
dglvrk2, I don’t think you’re being pushy at all. It’s not like you signed her up for 8 weeks. She’ll probably enjoy it, even if she’s reluctant at first.
Post by librarychica on Jul 14, 2023 18:59:53 GMT -5
Tonight we are cleaning half the house and tomorrow morning we will get the other half because their cousins are coming to stay with us either Saturday or Sunday and all next week. The girls are super loud! Not fighting, just every conversation is at a shout. We can’t ask where the toilet cleaner is in a normal voice. I’ve had a headache pretty much all week, it’s sweltering, and so I am now hiding from them with a nice glass of ice and ginger ale.
Hanging with the cousins is pretty much the plan for weekend. I’m supposed to meet my parents Sunday morning to help train their dog, but mom butt-dialed me this afternoon and I overheard them yelling at each other. This isn’t typical for them but it’s been a very long week and if they’re fighting I don’t really want to deal with them, so I’m no longer looking forward to that.
Tomorrow is relaxing and packing because they leave for sleepaway camp 2 on Sunday.
I’ve had a terrible week at work and then DH decided to pick a fight and I don’t even know what we are fighting about. Apparently I’ve discounted what he does but all I said was I had a crappy week and then he was judging that statement and I asked that he didn’t. He started competing about work weeks like who had it worst and I’m not here for that. Apparently only he’s allowed to have bad weeks. Pretty much the lamest fight about nothing. But I’m apparently only here to be happy all the time and not allowed to have bad work weeks?
Happy Friday Heatwave here and no real plans. DH is in a cranky mood and pouting because we have no plans but he won't plan or suggest anything either. We are dog sitting this weekend, and this dog loves DH and he is avoiding the poor dog for no real reason. DD had plans to build/play Legos with my brother Sunday.
Dd2 and I came back from our beach house last night. We were going to stay until tomorrow afternoon but the weather looks gross there and nice here. But now it’s looking iffy here and better there… oh well!
I started today with a 4 mile walk with my neighbor. I need to finish cleaning DD1’s room before she come home next Saturday. I have some errands to run, and dd2 wants to have a friend over.
Tomorrow is my niece’s 1st birthday party at my parents’ house 30 mins away. DD1 has her 2nd camp phone call during the party, so I will sneak off to talk to her.
Back to work this week. Dd2 has club training on Monday and soccer camp Tues-Thurs mornings. We may skip the last day and go back to the beach house. We will see!
We are married! The weather ended up holding out for us. No rain, so we had the ceremony out in the yard, ate a ton of food all day long, and lounged around on the deck. The kids played with water guns and slip and slide for hours. Now we’re all relaxing and ready for bed. It was a perfect day! As low key and fun as we wanted!
We are married! The weather ended up holding out for us. No rain, so we had the ceremony out in the yard, ate a ton of food all day long, and lounged around on the deck. The kids played with water guns and slip and slide for hours. Now we’re all relaxing and ready for bed. It was a perfect day! As low key and fun as we wanted!
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
We are married! The weather ended up holding out for us. No rain, so we had the ceremony out in the yard, ate a ton of food all day long, and lounged around on the deck. The kids played with water guns and slip and slide for hours. Now we’re all relaxing and ready for bed. It was a perfect day! As low key and fun as we wanted!
We’re at the emergency vet. Poor Indy.. I THOUGHT he had a collision with another dog we know at the park, but turns out he got bit. We were on the fence about bringing him in, but the vet saw pics and said the flap was large enough to potentially cause issues healing at home… hopefully it doesn’t take all night. It’s already past my bedtime.
k3am, in my experience, vets get emotional about loss as much as we do. I worked a summer as a veterinary assistant. I saw several teary moments with the doctors. Occasionally they'd retreat into their offices after publicly dealing with an animal passing. My own vet had tears in his eyes after we put my 20-year old cat to sleep (five years ago). How is your kitty doing?
k3am, in my experience, vets get emotional about loss as much as we do. I worked a summer as a veterinary assistant. I saw several teary moments with the doctors. Occasionally they'd retreat into their offices after publicly dealing with an animal passing. My own vet had tears in his eyes after we put my 20-year old cat to sleep (five years ago). How is your kitty doing?
True! I’m just not even cut out for being at one! Such a ninny. Being a vet (or any profession) that regularly has to deal with loss takes a special kind of person.
He has two big puncture wounds they had to stitch up. He thankfully didn’t need any drains, which they initially discussed. He’s still hopped up on their sedative and just stands and stares into the distance.
I’m annoyed. We only let him play with dogs we know.. we’ve never particularly liked this dog, and they’ve been known to snap at each other, but man.. I’ve always joked that there’s no doodle on earth that would cause much damage and I was really, really wrong.