Back to Monday again...

[mae0111]

How was your weekend?  What's up this week?  Good luck to everyone starting school this week - I think there are a few???

[mae0111]

The weekend was rough. DD2 and I are both sick with colds, and DD2 has a double ear infection on top of it. DD1... I posted in the SN thread on ML... it's been really rough when she's been home. DH worked most of the weekend when he wasn't dealing with camping gear.

Yesterday was better, and we celebrated my mom's birthday (76) with my sisters, BILs and some nieces and nephews. My BIL wasn't looking great yesterday which has me a little concerned. He loves my mom's cooking, and she refused to let us cater the day or make anything, so she spent 2 days cooking a huge Italian feast... he ate nothing but a salad. DH went to take BILs plate when he finished and BIL dropped everything. He's coming off an infection at the surgical site from his brain surgery about 6-7 weeks ago, but has not started radiation yet. He seemed down, wistful, talking about how much he misses his grown kids (2 out of college, 1 junior in college, 1 junior in high school)... I hope there's nothing else going on...

This week the kids are in camp. DH is digging out after his week off, so I'm trying to help him with that. He's got a trip mid-week which will put him deeper into a hole, so he will work again all next weekend.

[librarychica]

First day of 4th and 7th here! A bit of an IT crisis with the middle schooler’s laptop this morning plus she woke up on her period so she was a bit flustered but they are off. Fingers crossed for a good day 1.

I took Friday off for a day of volunteering at/attending meet the teacher and then visiting my parents. Some drama going on with my brother’s neverending move and I suspect he knows I am at the end of my rope with him bc he’s started texting H directly.

Otherwise quiet weekend. Double date Saturday night, some last minute school errands, laundry and cleaning. I’m not all-in on work yet this morning so I’m cleaning my desk and sorting my messy inbox so far.

[waverly]

Kids go back to school Thursday. Usually it is the Wednesday, so I don't know why we all have to wait an extra day. We already did locker day, and meet the teacher is Tuesday. I am going to be exhausted after rounding the halls with 2 kids with meet the teacher. DH says he wants to go and will help, but I have to leave work early anyway for DS's VIP access (students with IEPs), so I don't know what DH is going to do anyway, and of course he can't give me an answer yet.

Saturday was a big rest day for us, and Sunday we did a beach day. I have yet to even get into a swimsuit this summer. DS was super weird last summer about going swimming, so I really didn't bother this summer. Finally I thought well we have a free weekend lets either do pool or beach and the beach sounded better. DS seems to have partially outgrown his swimming aversion and spent 3 hours playing catch, vollyeball and monkey in the middle in the water with his sister. They were super tired.  The kids had gone swimming at their camps this summer so it isn't like they haven't gone at all, I just hadn't taken them.  

[twinmomma]

Our camping weekend was fine, but not anything special. My mom led us all to believe this was a campground that they had been to before and liked. Turns out, it wasn't. They had never been, she had just googled it and it seemed like it got good reviews. I'm a little annoyed that she didn't just pick a place that she and my dad love and had vetted before. This place had really run down facilities and the "kid activities schedule" was super lame and not at all what it sounded like on the website. Basically the kids swam in the pool for the entire weekend, we sat around and supervised, and then went home. Not the experience we were all hoping for and planning on.

This week theater camp continues for the girls. DS was supposed to be in soccer camp, but apparently his mom cancelled it without us knowing because it was inconvenient for her. So he's just sitting around the house bored.

I'm so ready for summer to be over. July was fun. August is just a slog to the finish.

[rere]

Great weekend. I had no real motivation to leave the house. Dd safely got to Wyoming and Ds pulled in the driveway about 8 Friday night. We spent Saturday with the chicken barbecue lesson with Dh, his friend, Ds, and one of his best friends. My contribution was to sit in the lawn chair enjoying the day. I did get a good run in, which was nice since it had been a while.

Sunday, ds joined me in my front porch coffee and just chatted. He has really matured in the last couple of years. He and Dh tinkered around on his old truck, which is his main activity for this leave. We cooked some steaks later.

Now I am at work with 1000 emails, grant applications and reports due. I am not amused

[macmars45]

Two more weeks until DS(8) goes back to school. One week until I have my two staff work days and then my first contracted day the day before kids start on Tuesday the 27th. I am beyond ready! Bring on work and school.... 10 weeks off is way too long.

H and I have 3 days that we both work before school starts. I just arranged childcare for two of those days and am waiting to hear back about the 3rd day. My parents are watching DS one day and my next door neighbor's 16 year old daughter took one of the other days. She might be able to do part of the third day but is waiting to hear back on volleyball tryout times that day.

[dglvrk2]

Our weekend involved a lot of transportation:). H and I picked the Ds up from camp Friday afternoon. We met up with one of H's cousins who took us out on his boat. Super fun!

Saturday morning, H and I did a longish road bike ride -i used to be a rather serious road biker, but now ride like three times/year. H kicked my butt.

DD2 and I made our way to Portland from Seattle Saturday afternoon. We overnighted in Portland. It was supposed to be a fun evening of shopping and dining out, but DD1 was feeling lousy.

We made the 12 hour drive home yesterday. Got home to a power outage. While I was turning on the generator - an unnecessarily complicated task- DD1 took a Covid test. Sure enough, it was positive....ugghhhh

I'm sure she got it at camp, so I have to inform camp today.

I'm home with her. I'll go back to work tomorrow and had to cancel plans with my sister (doctors appointments) to be home with DD.

What a drag

[supertrooper1]

The weekend was ok. Saturday morning we were on the road at 7am for riding in Canada. We had never been to this off road park and I wasn't impressed. They had every trail marked with the skill level, but I didn't think they were very accurate. My bike is lowered a couple inches for my height, and I hit every rock and root with my pegs, which isn't normal for most trails that we ride. Beau had to help me up some step ups that we not in my skill level. We only scratched the surface on the number of trails we rode, so we may try it again and hope that there are some better trails for me. We had hopes because without border traffic, it's only a little over an hour from us and would have opened up a lot more riding options.

Sunday was a relaxing day. The only thing we did was walk to a new to us brewery and try a new food truck. Beau is off today and tomorrow, but he's still working to move all of his personal tools and equipment to the shop bay that we rent for our trailer and bikes. His boss decided to give up the lease on one of their two bays of the shop, and he has employees building a wall to divide the bays for a new tenant. We only went to the gym once last week, so this week will be getting back into our typical routine.

[186momx]

Weekend was quiet. DD made chocolate crinkle cookies yesterday and we tried out copycat cheesecake factory bread which turned out amazing.

My work week is really quiet until Thursday when I will be swamped. It is just how the dates fall this week. DD has ortho on Wednesday at 8:30 and I'm debating if I want to just take the day off.

I really miss paddling but can't find the motivation to get myself up early to go out before the wind and people flood the only local spot. The reservoir near us is battle blue/green algae so locally that leaves me the canal.

[sandandsea]

Both kids had bday parties on Saturday so we divided and conquered and took care of stuff around the house. Sunday we went to church then Dh went to work for the rest of the day. The kids played outside while I did some patio maintenance and then we worked on organizing and cleaning the garage so it’s less of a hazard.

[erbear]

We had a terrific weekend. We didn’t really do anything, but the weather was gorgeous and we just hung out outside and watch the Olympics and had a really lovely time. I am at the beach this whole week with my teenagers and one of their friends. My husband is coming down on Wednesday and my older daughters, buddy and his parents are coming on Thursday to stay through the weekend so that should be fun. Preseason starts next week, which means I have to go back to work in two weeks and I’m not happy about that.

[mae0111]

UGH... we had a very Mondayish Tuesday morning today. I woke up at 230am and laid awake until 530am, then finally fell asleep until my alarm went off at 630.

Kids would not get up for camp. DD2 got up and just could not focus on eating her breakfast, so that took forever.

DD1 then told me that DD2 was a total nightmare at camp yesterday. Disruptive, disrespectful, purposely causing messes and extra work for the counselors. I had requested to keep the kids separate, but they ended up in a group together for one activity. DD1 is a senior CIT, which put her "in charge" of DD2. She wasn't just disrespectful to DD1 though - it was all of the counselors.

So we had to have a discussion about appropriate behavior. She knows she was wrong and she got very uncomfortable when I spoke to her. She was very defensive, but more trying to justify her inappropriate actions rather than deny anything.

With all of the issues we've had with DD1, she is incredibly respectful and compliant outside of our home. I never have to worry about behavior outside. DD2... ugh... I'm really bothered by it because she absolutely knows better and knows she was wrong. She is perfectly capable of controlling her actions and emotions, and made a decision to act inappropriately. Hopefully today is better...

[erbear]

I’m at the beach all week, which is glorious. Right now, I have my two kids (13 and 15) plus 13 y/o’s bff. DH is coming tomorrow (I hope — it’s our 20th anniversary and it would be nice to be together, lol) and the family of the friend here is coming Thursday for the weekend (their son is one of DD1’s besties). Weather is gorgeous.

That said, it’s DH’s family’s place. His sister and her family were here last week. They left the place at total shit show. I had to spend an hour cleaning yesterday because it was so gross. They also managed to break a coffee table, so had to clean up a whole bunch of glass, and they broke the air conditioner, so I have to spend all day here waiting for the AC repair guys. I’m trying not to let this annoy me too much but I’m annoyed.

[twinmomma]

I just got looped into a technology project at work that I can clearly see is going to be a complete and total shit show. But I wasn't involved in the process until after the contract was signed. We are onboarding a new technology provider. When I found out the name, I googled it, obviously. They don't even have a website! The exec who chose them says it's because "they're just a new start up" but that it's great for us because we can "customize it however we want with whatever we want." I am ready to cry. There were other providers for this service that offered out of the box options, with video content already created. Instead, we are going to have to build everything ourselves from scratch and upload it to this mystery portal that's "totally customizable" AKA "doesn't actually exist." I already flipped on my boss (CEO) about it, but he said it was a project he didn't have any involvement in and that I should talk to the exec who vetted he. That exec clearly has no flipping clue what is going on or how to vet this kind of tool if this is what he chose!