We made it to Friday! Woooo!

[mae0111]

How was the week? What's up this weekend?

[mae0111]

Another long/weird week with me working and the kids home on vacation. It felt very chaotic and like I was running around a lot more than usual. I'm behind with stuff around the house and I'm looking forward to catching up.

We don't have a lot planned today. I didn't work yesterday so I'm going to try to catch up a bit today in between meetings and hair appointments for the kids. Both want to have a friend over today, which is fine, just hoping the logistics work out. Tomorrow the weather is supposed to be terrible - start off icy, then inches of rain, then back to slippery. DD2 has her last indoor soccer game tomorrow night, but that's about it as far as plans go. I just keep looking around the house and adding to my list of things that have to get done...

I got several bits of sad news over the last few days - people in my past passing away under tragic circumstances. I'm reeling a bit. Even though I haven't seen or spoken to these folks in many years, they were people that had an impact on me, and I'm feeling sad about the way their lives went. I'm hoping a nice walk and my therapy appointment this morning will get my mind right.

[waverly]

I’m off today and working all weekend which I am annoyed about.

I’m also annoyed that I’ve had to address issues with 2 of my employees this week. One of them doesn’t know how to communicate so everything she says comes out aggressive and she does not get it.

The other one flapped her lips about trying to go full time and so someone else ran to the boss and told them all the reasons that she shouldn’t go full time. That is none of her business. They don’t work together and are not in the same department. Also full time is not on the table anyway due to the budget. So a lot of drama for no reason. This person is not perfect either that ran to the boss. I wish the employee would have just not said anything. If they were in talks then don’t spread it around.

[mommyatty]

I’m limping into the weekend. I have the flu, I’m pretty sure, and have since Tuesday. I’ve had a busy week at work, so I’ve just worked through it and taken a couple of hours off each day, basically when I’m at the point of collapse at the end of the day. But now I think I’m getting a sinus infection on top of the flu. Pretty sure my body is telling me it’s done with the high stress bullshit I’m putting it through and it’s time for me to stop for a minute.

In good news, DS seems to be loving his new school. His teachers are lovely. The other kids seem okay. DD is her normal unflappable self. I signed her up for overnight camp today, and she’s really happy about that.

I interviewed for a job Tuesday. I should hear if I’m moving forward in a couple of weeks. It would be a really great job and would let us move out of Texas, which would be great.

[librarychica]

mommyatty, please get some rest. Your employer isn’t worth making yourself more ill over. Glad DS is doing well in school!

[mae0111]

mommyatty, the like was for your DS and school, and your DD and camp. I hope you're starting to feel better, and that you can take some time to rest up today and over the weekend!

[librarychica]

We’ve had a good week here. It’s very rainy today — made it hard to get out of bed. I love sleeping in the rain.

The kids have been at my parents’ since Wednesday and H and I have been free to have some solid, somewhat serious talks. We’ve been in mild conflict (internal and with each other) about whether we should move. And, if so, whether we should leave the state altogether, move across town, or move to where my parents are. I got H to come with me to the kids to my parents and we drove around to where the newer houses and new schools are. I realized that for all H’s talk of “wanting a piece of land someday” that he doesn’t really. There is “nothing” out there (untrue, there is a McDonald’s, a diner and some cows) and while he would make the lifestyle adjustment for me but I don’t think he’d like it much. The man is a city person for sure. Also, there is no way of knowing whether the high school has improved enough since my time there until DD is actually in it and if it hasn’t, we would not have many alternative options. There isn’t a private, non denominational school nearby, or any magnets, and I am not comfortable with an evangelical high school. So we’d be driving an hour likely into the city for a private or magnet school.

I will explain to my mom that I am not moving home. She will understand. She wants what is best for the kids and it’s not that far, really.

We aren’t moving out of state either. As much as Florida makes me grrrr these last many years, I will not leave our families. H understands this. I offered to look closer to most of our friends (we moved here for my work years ago and now I am remote) but he decided that it wasn’t worth disrupting the kids comfortable position and going to the effort of moving to what has become a more expensive and competitive housing market just to save some driving time when we want to visit. It is key that HE made that call. For years the narrative has been that “Library is making us live here.” Now it’s a decision we reached jointly.

So our compromise is that we go no where and instead retile the bathrooms and and start planning out a couple updates for the next several years. Lol.

Anyway! As long as that all was to write out, I am content with our decision.

We have a double date with some friends in the rain tonight! I think we’re doing dinner and an arcade. Sometime this weekend I’ll go collect the kids and that’ll be another spring break in the books.

[polecat8]

It is has been a long week and I am exhausted.
DS2's birthday was this past Monday, so we went out to dinner with my mom and FIL. On Tuesday and Wednesday, I picked up some extra taekwondo teaching hours to help out the staff since Master is out of town. I was on my feet and sweating for 5+ hours on Wednesday and I am still feeling it today. Yesterday was my bioengineering teaching evening at the local university. I was so glad that we didn't have much material to go over last night so I was able to get home an hour early. On top of all of this, I still have a day job that has been pretty slow right now (thank goodness).
We have no plans this evening or Sunday. Tomorrow I'll teach taekwondo for 2 hours, take a kickboxing class and then come home to get ready for DS2's birthday party with his friends. We are having it at an indoor ropes course that is in an old church. The staff there is fantastic and I'll be able to relax while they take care of everything.
The kids don't have school on Monday, so I took off work too. I think we'll head to the new museum of illusions since DS1 has been begging to go.

[supertrooper1]

I drop DS off at his dad's tonight for a week and half due to our spring break schedule. Anything longer than a week is always hard.

If you haven't checked out the app Too Good to Go, I highly recommend it. Tonight I'll pick up a box for $5 from our local bakery for the second time. The first time included some cupcakes and a turnover and it was delicious and very much worth the money. There are a ton of restaurants that use the app to get rid of overstock and you can pick up some good stuff for a fraction of what they would normally sell it for.

Tomorow is my birthday. So far we only have dinner planned with my parents. I may go get a pedicure. I was a little disappointed that Beau didn't want to go with me so I haven't made an appointment yet. The weather keeps changing but I'm hoping the current forecast of no rain on Sunday holds so we can go riding.

[twinmomma]

I am so ready for the weekend, even though it's going to be crazy busy. Coming home from 8 days away on Sunday night and diving right back into the work week was rough. Not to mention, my final capstone project class for my MBA started this week.

The girls have their school play tonight and tomorrow afternoon. On Sunday I'm taking them to go see The Prom at a local theater, which sounded really fun when I booked it but now sounds exhausting after all the other theater stuff we have this weekend. Thankfully it's a matinee so plenty of downtime to get ready for the work week after.

I'm kind of avoiding real work today to get caught up on school work. There's a ton due this week and the professor says it won't be this much every week, it's just laying a strong foundation. I hope so, because I already feel stressed! Only 7 weeks until graduation!

Oh, and I booked an appointment for the new tattoo I want. I'll be getting it after our spring break trip so that I don't have to deal with it healing while we travel.

[rere]

I get to work to the homeless woman sleeping outside the break room door again. I called the shelter 2 doors down to see if they may know her from the description. I feel bad someone is sleeping in the cold on concrete, but can't figure out why she wouldn't go to the shelter. When one of the guys got in I was going to go down and say something. But she was gone before 8.

Dd is home this weekend. She's recovering from a bad cold, flu, something so we are going to chill tonight. She wants to go to Hobby Lobby and get a pizza.

Saturday we are taking her out to eat and she is going to a play at her old high school to see a friend in it.

[186momx]

Happy birthday eve supertrooper1,

I'm exhausted and starving. I ate a small bowl of ice cream at 8:30 last night for dinner and crashed hard at 9:30. I'm hangry and feel a little hung over from the Nyquil I took last night. I also feel like I have a 5lb disc weight sitting on my face.
Weather is rain and cold for the next week perfect for our spring break. It will make working this weekend easier.

The button to make the shower work died Wednesday night. I dug out the parts from the last time so DH could go get new parts to fix it. It is a basic fix and the plumber who did it the last time in 2008 saved the pieces so we could fix it ourselves. After multiple trips and DH insisting he needed to wait for me and I telling him to just go buy the parts for the shower. It is fixed and I got to take one after 3 days and I jumped in before anyone else so I could actually take a shower with hot water. I may have been a bitchy wife last night and didn't want to hear his excuses or how hard of a day he had.

[sdlaura]

I’m currently sitting in the sun in my backyard trying to enjoy my last few minutes before I’m with my kids non-stop for the next 10 days 🤣 Today was their last day of school before a 2-week spring break. They’ll do camps the final four days of break (we fly back from the east coast on Monday - the day after Easter).

This afternoon/evening DS2 has a baseball game and DD has a basketball game and a flag football game. Tomorrow DS1 has baseball, DS2 has arena soccer, there’s a softball league egg hunt, and then DD is working as a junior umpire for a softball game for her first paid job ever, then she plays a softball game.

My BFF/coworker is flying in today with her family from Portland. We’ll get together with them and their friends who will also be here for spring break tomorrow evening for dinner. Then we fly out early Sunday to Charleston, SC. We’ll spend 4 nights at a resort there with my sister and her family, then we all fly to Maryland next Thursday for 4 nights, to see all the extended family for Easter. All our family lives there except my immediate family, and we haven’t been back all together in almost two years. I’ll also get to see a couple girlfriends I grew up with, so that should be good.

I flew yesterday for a work day trip and overdid it since I’m not yet 3 weeks out from surgery, so I’m going to try my best to take it easy on this trip.

[dglvrk2]

This week was good. No major hiccups - until this morning-  or accomplishments, so....

H and I got into an argument this morning about DD1 's eating habits.

For over a year now, I've been- carefully- encouraging DD1 to eat healthier foods. She eats a lot of empty calories and has gotten a little doughy. I wouldn't call her overweight, but worry. We've made a lot of accomplishments with portion control in the past several months. For lunches, she just likes snack food. She has a short lunch at school and kids generally walk around. She makes her own lunches on weekday mornings. While she's making lunches, H is inevitably laying on our bed, scrolling through his phone. I'm trying to get out the door while confirming the Ds have everything they need for the day. H takes them to school, but the prep work is on me.

This morning, H stepped out of our room, looked at her lunch and commented aggressively that she only had junk food. She snapped back that she didn't have enough time at school to eat anything else. He retorted with a comment about all she eats is junk food. She stormed off to her room.

I then firmly explained to H that I've been trying to work with her on her eating habits for several months. He proceeded to get mad at me because I didn't tell him that. This sent my blood boiling. I haven't told him because he's never around when I am encouraging healthy eating. (Actually... He's hardly ever around on the weekends so...) I told him that, in the bigger picture, we need to be talking to each other more about the kids, both are struggles and our hopes for them. He kind of rolled his eyes at this.

I am at volleyball practice for DD1 right now. When I get home, I am going to ask that he and I just go out together tomorrow night. If he makes up some lame excuse about why we should spend tomorrow night with friends- we have a somewhat standing friends dinner every Saturday night- I will have some words with him

It should be otherwise a pretty relaxing weekend. H is ski patrolling both days. DD1 babysits all day tomorrow and DD2 has a Girl Scout event.

[dglvrk2]

librarychica, kudos to you for thinking seriously above a major move and arriving at a decision that works for you and your family. I grew up in a very conservative state and have high school friends there grappling with what to do next. All decisions have taken time and challenge to make.

mommyatty, good luck with the interview process!!

[macmars45]

The week was mostly fine until yesterday when I came down with DS' cold. I felt like hot garbage and autistic DS ended the the school day with a meltdown. Since school was over but I was still working it was on me to work him through it. It could've gone better.

I'm looking forward to M-Fri. It's conference week. So kids for half days only. My team and I can get stuff done and it's a calmer slower pace. I need it.

[callmekd]

We left for spring break on Friday - and are getting a blizzard at home. It’s been the weirdest winter - absolutely no snow - and now a 6-12 inches. Hoping it’ll all melt by the time we are back home Saturday.