Valentine's Day hangover Friday

[dglvrk2]

How was everyone's week? What planned for the weekend?

[mae0111]

It was a long week, rife with meltdowns and big feelings in my house. I'm ready for the weekend...

Today I'm picking up DD2 a little early from school so I can bring her home and go to DD1's last basketball game. She's still unable to play but she really wanted me to come to today's game. After that I'm bringing her to my parents' house so she can sleep over and go shopping with my mom tomorrow. DD2 has a basketball game at 9am tomorrow morning, then nothing really planned for the rest of the day. I think DH and I might try and go out tomorrow evening.

Nothing really planned Sun or Mon. My kids also have Tuesday off, and a friend of DD2's dad rented an indoor turf soccer field for an hour. We'll head there for a quick pickup game early afternoon. The local public schools are on winter break next week, but my kids don't have it off, so they'll be back to school Wednesday. DH also head out of town on Wednesday until Friday night, so the end of the week will get busy.

[rere]

Dd is home. She's in the big feels of being socially overestimated. Plus she thinks people think she's a pushover. They have a friend group of 9 that are always at her apartment with her 3 roommates because the others live in smaller dorms.

So the weekend is devoted to her. We are going to lunch today and then just cooking and hanging at the house tonight, maybe a movie. Then she wants to go out to dinner tomorrow. Maybe some shopping. Dh has to grill up some chicken breast to take back with her per her request.

[waverly]

The kids have a long weekend and DH is taking Monday off. I'm annoyed because work used to be closed, but now it is a floating holiday that I just use whenever, and the building is open.

We only have 1 BB game, and I am super excited that nothing else is happening which probably means errands and cleaning lets be honest, and then being annoyed that I have nothing fun planned. But yet, I don't really feel like planning anything.

[macmars45]

I work at the school DS(7.75) attends.

We had a snow day yesterday and today starts a schedule 4 day weekend for 'mid winter break' that includes president's day. So a 5 day weekend. I'd rather be at work/DS be at school. My 3 day work week was good & busy. The students I work with on reading skills have made so much progress and I'm SO proud of them! It's so fulfilling to see their skills improve and their confidence grow. <3

Tomorrow we're having friends over for dinner. That will be fun. H and I need to figure out what we're making.

[supertrooper1]

DS comes home from his dad's house tonight and Beau's oldest grandson is spending the night tonight and possibly tomorrow night. Everyone will want to play Beau's new gaming computer so that will occupy the boys. Tomorrow, we're meeting Beau's son, DIL, and their 1 year old for dinner and swimming. Sunday will probably be more gaming computer time and taking Beau's grandson home if he doesn't go home with his parents tomorrow night.

DS and I are both off on Monday but Beau has to work. We'll either go see a movie or go bowling and out to lunch. Has anyone seen Migration or the new Wonka movies?

[mae0111]

supertrooper1, I haven't seen Migration, but DD1 went with her friend's family to see it and she said it was really cute. She's 14.5 but trends on the younger side of things.

[twinmomma]

supertrooper1, Our whole family absolutely loved the new Wonka movie! It is a musical, but our house is all about that. We were actually listening to the soundtrack at dinner last night. The girls saw Migration with their dad and thought it was cute. They've recently decided they love Awkwafina so that's why they wanted to see it.

No long weekend for us here, just a normal weekend with no kids. Tonight DH is working so I'll relax and do my nails in the quiet house and watch whatever I want on TV. Tomorrow we have dinner plans with some of my college friends and I'm really looking forward to it. I haven't seen them all in forever.

Sunday will be relaxing, resetting the house, and homework.

[mae0111]

A quick Friday vent... I've been on the phone with my insurance company for over 2 hours about 2 different issues.

First, both DDs are on vyvanse. There's finally a generic available, which costs... $200 per month. Each. With Insurance. GoodRX gets it down to $90.

But there's no generic available - nationwide shortage. So I need to get the brand name. For DD1, it's $390. PER MONTH. WITH INSURANCE. GoodRX is over $400. So after 90 mins on the phone with insurance and the phone rep resolving issues that I didn't have nor did I ask for help with, they were finally able to tell me that there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING they could do and to just pay the $390. OMG THANKSOMUCHYOURESOAWESOME!!!

Then I had to immediately call back because I received a bill for over $200 for my annual physical. It's supposed to be covered 100%. So I've now been on hold with them for 30 mins while they research why they're not covering, like, ANYTHING.

Did I mention that we pay $2500 a month for this amazing insurance?

I want to scream. And drink. But mostly scream.

[waverly]

mae0111, I hate insurance so much. One year I had bought it off the market when DH was between jobs. They were shutting down the insurance, I found out and only had like 60 days left until the end of they year when they were shutting down that insurance and removing it from the marketplace. They had scripts which I understand some scripting, but they literally read from a book.

My blood pressure would spike, and I literally couldn't handle it. They were an HMO but refused to approve the form that the pediatrician sent (took them 3 hours on the phone to submit the form). They finally decided to accept the form. We go to a specialist, and they didn't like how that form was filled out, so they weren't going to let the specialist see us even though we are literally in the waiting room. I called them and yelled at them to "do their job", and she hung up on me rightfully so, but also do your job. Your job, do it. The specialist office had better luck and we were approved to see them.

New insurance was starting in 30 days, so I just stopped making appointments or phone calls to the insurance because my blood pressure literally could not handle it.

[twinmomma]

mae0111, waverly, I have also screamed at insurance people before. Not proud of it, but when I had my pulmonary embolisms, insurance wouldn't do the prior authorization to get my scans done for the diagnosis. So I yelled at the person on the phone that "hopefully I don't die before you figure out your paperwork situation and approve this scan!" Apparently they do actually record and listen to calls, because a manager called me back a little later and it got resolved... lol

[rere]

mae0111 is it possible to call the drug maker for coupons? When Ds was on growth shots, the office gave us the number of the drug company. On paper they cost $30,000 per year. But after they provided us with enough coupons each year to reach our out lf packet, we paid 0.

[186momx]

mae0111, insurance companies are a rip off especially when you are self-employed. Mine denied my blood work that I had done during my annual exam saying it wasn't medically necessary. I hadn't had blood work done for 7 years and I turned 40. It was only a $40 bill so I didn't bother fighting it.

My Friday vent is my payroll client is throwing a fit that I can't do her payroll for the 20th today or over the weekend. She has plans Monday and doesn't want to have to deal with it and can't I squeeze her in today. We have appointments every 30 minutes today and I physically don't have the time to do it plus if it wasn't tax season I wouldn't even be working today or over the weekend. Vent over!

DD finished her lego robot today and has been sending me videos of it moving around the house.

[dglvrk2]

186momx,DD2 loves Legos. It's so cool to see what our kids can make

This week seemed really long. I came into it pretty tired from a weekend with my sister and parents. Lots of variety at work. DD1 had two days of volleyball tournaments, Tuesday and Thursday. Her team did much better than expected, placing in our league and regionals. DD2 had three days of skiing. My sister is coming along with brain surgery recovery. She moved into a rehab center about two hours from our homes yesterday. She and BIL are there without the rest of the family and I think they're loving the peace, so I'm letting them be.

This weekend DD1 is going to a winter camp. I sense she's wanting to branch out from her tight friend group a bit. She found out about the camp through the girls on her volleyball team and is excited to spend more time with them. I just hope the feeling is mutual. They're nice girls, but are also in a tight, more popular clique at school. I remember camps and other out-of-school activities being a more leveled playing field when I was her age. I hope it's the same for her.

DD2 and I will relax, may be ski a bit and get ready for next week. The girls have a week-long break from school. I'll take some time off and we'll be heading out of town later in the week.

[librarychica]

supertrooper1, my daughter and some of her friends went to Migration along with my 9 year old for her 12th birthday. My DDs loved it, the two other 11/12 year olds found it a bit “silly” but still enjoyed it. It was very short though.

It’s been another busy week. I expect I’ll be going at this rate for a while. Nothing unmanageable but a lot of moving parts to keep going at work. Tonight DD2 tried silks (DD1 and I have been going to an aerial yoga class at the same place) so evidently we are a family that hangs from ceilings for fun now. She liked it. Tomorrow she has piano, then we have a birthday party, then we have dinner with my now-retired mentor and her family. Sunday we have lunch at my folks, Monday I’m working but kids and H are off and he’s invited people over to play games in the evening …. Lots of socializing planned this weekend. I

[erbear]

This week was so much better than last. DH is home from the hospital, DD1 is doing better with her concussion. I had a decent Inservice PD with two actual experts today and that’s a win.

We are going to Brooklyn tomorrow. For Christmas, my parents got us a gift card to a restaurant we love. There is one in Philly where we live. But they got us a card for the one in Brooklyn. So…yay for weekend in nyc!?

[mae0111]

erbear - I missed that your DH was on the hospital and your DD had a concussion. That’s rough! I’m glad everyone is on the mend!

This evening, I received a really lovely email from DD2’s main teacher. She said so many wonderful things about DD2, what a good friend she is to everyone in the class, how helpful, how funny, always with a smile or a kind word.

She said that a classmate had an issue today and went to the bathroom crying. Dd2 asked to check on her, and the teacher invited the two girls to sit in her classroom to finish lunch rather than go back to lunch. She said DD2 was so kind and made her friend feel better.

She ended the letter thanking us for sharing DD2 with them (teacher and her team).

After a rough couple of days with the kids, I literally burst into tears when I read it. And then I showed DH, and he cried.

Amazing.

[dglvrk2]

erbear, I missed this too. Hopefully your H and DD are recovering quickly and getting quality rest.