It’s Monday. Yawn.

[mommyatty]

How is everyone this morning?

[waverly]

I’m tired today. I have some kind of Achilles injury which is super annoying might need to go to the doctor to check on it.

DH ran the local race 10 mile Saturday. I shepherded his parents around the stops because it goes right by our house. Then we had a soccer game.

DH made brunch Sunday. I made him garden because he has spent the last 2 years ignoring it while focusing on the lake house. He only got half way through and was pretty tired. DD and I got Starbucks and sat in the Sun while DH played music. It made us feel like we were at the beach. I felt like a kid laying out with my friend chatting away.

[mommyatty]

We had a busy but good weekend. Friday I flew home from a business trip and had the Uber drop me at DD’s school to see her drama class Fine Arts production. She was fabulous! She had great comic timing and got the biggest laughs of anyone in the play. She also spent the whole play whispering the lines to a girl who is a friend of hers. This girl has ADHD and is on the spectrum. She was struggling hard, so DD just handled it. I didn’t notice but MIL did. So MIL asked if that’s what she was doing and she admitted it.

Saturday DS’s school had a craft fair. He sold little wooden signs and let people personalize them. We sold all but 2 signs! And lots of stickers. So he made a lot of money for charity. But better than that was watching how DS interacts with the other kids and how they interact with him. It was wonderful! They were excited to see him. He was a natural salesman. (“Do you want to buy a vintage sign?” to everyone who passed.) He cut a deal with two groups where he gave them free signs in return for them telling their customers where they got the sign for their stands. It was really great.

Yesterday was very low key. DD cooked me breakfast. We hung around, I went to Costco and the grocery store, we went to DD’s field hockey practice where she killed it and was named the best player at practice (which meant she got to do the countdown to the final team cheer to close out practice), and then we had dinner delivered.

This week I have a ton to do at work but it’ll all be good. No travel, so that’s nice.

[twinmomma]

My Mother's Day was so nice! It was exactly the kind of day I needed/wanted. We only had the girls this weekend, DS was with his mom. DH took them out to grab me coffee and breakfast from my favorite place, plus some flowers! It was really sweet. I got in a bunch of reading on the deck time enjoying the warmer weather. Went to grab ice cream and then we played board games all evening. I was so glad to have no real plans or obligations and just chill out!

Every year on Mother's Day I am eternally grateful for DH and the fact that he recognizes me on Mother's Day. ExH literally refused to and told me that I wasn't his mom, so why would he get me anything. The first Mother's Day gift I ever received was when DH and I started dating. 

I'm trying to get all caught up on work from all the sick kid craziness. It's going to be a busy week with work projects for me and DH has a bunch of events to cater.

And Thursday is my graduation! DH, the kids, and my parents are all going to come watch.

[livinitup]

I had a busy weekend and was especially busy/happy with hosting yesterday, so I was all keyed up at bedtime last night and didn’t settle until 2 am. My 6:30 am wake up was rough.

My morning brain was so very pissed off at overnight brain and all their shenanigans.

[rere]

Great weekend. We got our garden in Saturday and did some shopping for Mother's Day. I bought myself a bougie, for me, purse.

Sunday was great. Dd and I got up for church, then I drank my coffee on the front porch. Dd took me to lunch and went by my mom's while Dh went to his. Ds sent me a nice sweatshirt from Wilmington NC and called to talk. DH and Dd got me a blow up tanning pool since I still don't have my pool. Then Dh grilled a nice supper while we sat out and enjoyed the weather.

[mae0111]

We had a very busy weekend! Friday I took my mom to lunch, then raced to pick up DD2 at school, drop her off, then raced to DD1's softball game. I only missed 1/2 an inning, so that's good. We raced home and changed to go to the school's film festival. DD1 filmed a cute short for a friend, and DD2 and her friend group submitted a crazy, really funny short that had the audience roaring.

Saturday DD1 had an early softball game, so I took her while DH worked. Then I dropped her off and picked up DD2 and headed to her early afternoon soccer game about 30 mins away. Then DH and I went out to dinner for Mother's day.

Sunday DD2 had an early soccer game (still no victories for either team). Then I took the dog for a long-ish walk and went to see my mom and sister.

Today is starting off rather... contentious, I guess? I had to send kind of a pointed email to DD2's club soccer coach, stating basically that we aren't paying $2K again for her to sit on the bench with a giant roster. Then I had a 2nd meeting with an agency and Boss #2, and he invited his daughter to the call with no heads up or explanation to the agency. He ended up telling them at the end of the call. While on the call, Boss #1 texted asking for a call - I told him I was on the agency call with Boss #2 and his DD. He was... not pleased. Then he asked me to stay on longer. I agreed to extend my end date by 4 hours. So I will have one 4 hour session with Boss #2's DD to get her up to speed.

Soooo... hoping that things turn around a bit. It's a weird week with lots of schedule changes, but I think it's going to wind up being quieter than we originally thought. DD2 had 1 practice canceled and one rescheduled to a time where we have a conflict, so I'm trying to figure that out. DD1's school softball season is over, and she has to miss her next 3 games due to conflicts, so that actually makes the schedule a bit easier. So that's good!!

[supertrooper1]

It's been a whirlwind week since last Monday. It's going to be another busy week and I woke up with a cold that I didn't need.

Last Monday, I flew out to NYC for 3 days of training with half of my team, roughly 30 people. It was a great week and I had a lot of fun in and out of class with my coworkers. It was my first time to NYC and I got to see some of the city. I never had a down moment. I flew home Friday and about an hour outside of landing in Seattle, Beau sent me a text that it was baby time. His DIL was headed to the hospital and he was off to pick up one grandson, and later the other one from school. I made it home as quickly as I could before the baby was born. She was born Friday at 6pm and is doing well. We got to see her late Friday evening and is so cute and tiny!

Saturday we still had the two grandsons and took them to the hospital again in the afternoon. They were discharged that evening and we sent the boys home with their parents. They were definitely a handful. The 20 month old is in the stage where he throws a fit if he doesn't get his way and the 5 year old wants all of the attention.

I was hoping to sleep in on Sunday since I still wasn't recovered from my trip, but Beau's family planned a last minute early breakfast. It ended up being nice, but I was still tired. We picked up pizza and drove to my parents house for lunch. We were going to stop by Beau's son's house to see the baby again but they were off to her family's side for Mother's Day. This week is going to be busy with DS doing a play all week with his performance on Saturday. The communication so far is that I need to either pick him up at 5:30 or 7:30 depending on how long auditions and practice takes, so this is going to affect me going to the gym after work. Times like these are when I wish DS had a cell phone already. My house is a mess and work is busy with my own work and covering for another coworker who went to week 2 of our group training.

[sdlaura]

Friday DH and I got home from our night away and then headed to four kids' sporting events. DD went straight from a basketball game to a softball tournament game to a flag football playoff game. For softball, other than her coach's younger daughter (he has two daughters on the team, so "daddy ball" x 2  ), DD is the youngest and newest player on the team. So we understand that she might not always get a lot of playing time in tournament games. But we were so proud of her for making the most of her time in the games this weekend. She was in right field for two innings in her Friday night game, and made two awesome catches, one of which she dove for and other parents were telling me about it all weekend (I was at DS2's baseball game during her Friday night game). Then in yesterday's really tight tournament game that her team had to win to avoid elimination, we weren't sure if the coach would put her in at all. At the very end of the game, her team was down 2-1 and it was the last inning, with two outs, and the coach sent her in to bat for the first time all game. In my head I was like "seriously, you only put her in to potentially end the game?" But she takes a big swing at the first pitch and sends it to the outfield and she gets on base. It was so exciting and I was so proud of her for being able to keep her nerves calm enough in that moment.

Saturday we hosted DS3's 4th birthday party at a gymnastics place. I went back and forth on whether to have a non-family party for him, since he really won't know the difference and it would have been nice to save the $. But I don't think I've ever seen him smile so big for so long as he did being able to run around and have fun with his preschool classmates at his party. Then DH took DS1 to his end of season baseball pool party, and I took DS2 to a kindergarten classmate's birthday pool party, and then DD had an evening softball tournament game.

The kids and DH gave me some sweet gifts for mother's day. And made me some fresh-squeezed orange juice with oranges from our tree that was really yummy. It was a pretty normal day otherwise, but DH did put all the kids to bed so I got to relax a bit. I cleaned the house up yesterday afternoon, which probably is not what most moms do on mother's day, but I was glad to have the time to do it and have a fresh start for this week!

[mommyatty]

I forgot to add that I typed my original update from the orthodontist office because DD got her upper braces on today. Her mouth is very sore and she’s very sad about that. I remember how that feels and I feel super sorry for her. Poor girl.

And DS came home with a migraine early from school. He gets these and sometimes we end up in the ER for the pediatric migraine protocol, which is three meds over 2 hours by IV. It’s really shitty. So I’m hoping we nip this one in the bud.

[186momx]

mommyatty, hugs to your kiddos. DD now takes Tylenol before each visit. No matter what because they always do something and her mouth is really sore. It also really affects her sinuses.

sdlaura, sometimes you throw in someone to bat that the other team hasn't seen so they don't have any stats on them and can't plan as well. Congrats on your DD crushing the moment.

Weekend was short and I'm tired today. Yesterday was spent outside for way longer than I planned and I got fried, but I got lots of stuff planted and cleaned up and DH was in a mood to be extra helpful. I also did all the laundry, cleaned the kitchen up from being gone for 3 days and all the other house stuff. This normal for me on Mother's Day. DH did take DD out and they got me a new kitchen aid stand mixer as my 20yr old mixer is on its last leg.

Tax school was long and the 3am fire alarm Friday morning with evacuation made for a long Friday. I was in bed and asleep before the sunset so missed the lights. My mom brought DD over on Saturday as we kept the room an extra night but she was being such a PITA over the whole thing. Dad told me this morning that he should have just drove her home and let DD and I stay as she refused to eat at the Irish Pub he wanted to go to or the Italian place and wanted chicken strips. Refused to walk the beach, go to the pool or do anything but whine. They paid for a 2 week trip to Germany/Austria in December and after this weekend is now dredging it due to her behavior. I told him he could take DD with him as she has a passport and we could just dress her up to look 55 (its a senior travel group trip). I don't feel bad about not going over yesterday to visit for Mother's Day.

[k3am]

I have an 8 year old now. Constantly amazed at how true the phrase "the days are long but the years are short" continues to be.