How was your weekend?

[mae0111]

What's up this week?

[rere]

The weekend was exhausting. I spent Saturday handling chicken and mutton to prepare to be cooked overnight for burgoo. It was hot and I burned my fingers. Dh installed a new lock on the garage door that takes finger prints. I told him I couldn't set mine up yet because I burned my finger tips off and I will have to wait for them to grow back.

Sunday I was up bright, actually dark and early. I helped set up the day and ran the cake stand. I did win a smart TV, which is awesome because we are upgrading our internet finally and need to upgrade a couple tv because they are not smart.

I'm working from home today thankfully. I need to take my lunch to clean my house. We have to pick out countertops and backslash this week. I saw my contractor at the picnic and wrote a check for half the cabinets on the spot.

I did schedule myself a message tomorrow and I'm off Friday. We are going on our annual Halloween camping trip with dd next weekend.

[mae0111]

We had a pretty good, quiet weekend. Friday afternoon DD1 and I played pickle ball for a while. She's learning at school and I'd never played. I could definitely lean on my tennis skills, but I was definitely sweating! I don't know if I like it better than tennis... but I'll try again for sure! The kids wanted to swim in the evening so we turned on the lights and they swam for a bit. I love this time of year when the pool is still warm during the day but it cools off nicely at night.

Saturday morning I went for a 4 mile walk with my neighbor, then we went to DD2's rec soccer game (they lost in a big way, as expected). She did pretty well, but it's not going to be an awesome season. Did some deep cleaning around the house, more swimming, then DH and I went to a local pub to catch up and have dinner.

DD2's club soccer game was canceled, so DH and I took the dog for a 3.5 mile walk. There was a new house built on our street just 2 houses down. It's been a 3.5 year project from selling the house that was literally falling down to this new monstrosity, so the entire neighborhood went to the open house on Sunday. It's amazing, but not at all practical and super, super expensive. But we got some neat design ideas... probably will never be able to afford them but it was fun to see!

Another busy week, but all fine. DD2 woke up with a cold this morning, so I'm thinking she probably won't go to club soccer tonight... so that will give us a little break. There's a back to school night for DD2 on Thursday. They've decided to have the entire middle school go together, whereas last year they broke it into 2 nights... both nights were packed last year, so I'm really not looking forward to this... it's going to be so crowded.

DH and I are going to our beach house for the weekend on Friday afternoon, back Sunday afternoon in time to bring DD2 to her club soccer game. I'm so, so looking forward to it!!!

[waverly]

We had a busy weekend. Friday night was the Back to School Bash. It was kind of hot and lots of bees attracted by the Kona Food truck and other food. We left to take DD to soccer practice and right before that she got stung.

Then Sat morning, she and DH ran a 5k. DD had a soccer game Saturday as well. DS still can't play because of his sprained ankle. Sunday, DD and DS both had a game local. So I dropped off DS to sit on the sidelines with his teamates and cheer them on, and DD had to play.

My friend texted me for drinks. I don't want to write too much of her personal stuff, but she landed herself in this "Friends" situationship that is not healthy. I hope she finds her way through, but there isn't anything I can say really about it if she won't go for a clean break.

DD was super snarky with us this weekend due to being over tired. She also never put her clothes to be washed and was acting like I was her servent. Um excuse me, you will be 12 soon, time to do your own laundry.

[polecat8]

The weekend was good.
On Saturday, we went to DS2's soccer game and then had lunch with my mom. Then we hung around the house.
On Sunday, I had to work at my part time hospital gig. It was a rough afternoon because I had to stop a heart device for a patient whose family removed care. It was my first experience in participating in something like that. The patient was really sick on a ventilator and unconscious and his body was failing. The family didn't want to be in the room when he passed so my coworker and I decided to stay with his 2 nurses while the machines were turned off. We said a few words about him and played some music to send him on his way. I feel honored (I'm not sure if that's the right way to describe it) to be able to help him and his family to honor their final wishes to give him some comfort in his final moments. Then I came home and hugged my family tight. Last night I had a few flashbacks to when my Dad was in the hospital and dying (which is almost exactly a year ago to the day). I accept everything that happened with my Dad and understand that it was his time to go, but I still miss him terribly.
If there is anything that I learned yesterday, it is to talk with your loved ones about what you would want to happen if you were in a critical medical situation.

[mae0111]

polecat8, I'm so sorry. That's a really rough day. It sounds like you handled everything in the best and most respectful way possible.

[librarychica]

Saturday I spent most of the day in airports or on planes to get to Phoenix. I’m here for a conference. I had a great day Sunday, went to an indigenous art museum, had solo dinner, went to bed early. Woke up early too and I am puttering around before the conference begins.

I also woke up having somehow scratched my eye in my sleep? So it’s a glasses day. It is mildly painful to blink so hopefully that will improve before my talk tomorrow. I’d prefer not to give a presentation looking like I have pinkeye.

H and the girls spent the weekend at the beach.

[186momx]

Weekend wasn't great. We had a minor data breach at work. My dad has been working on a messy corporate online QuickBooks client and has been traveling back and forth from home with a thumb drive with copies of invoices/deposits and the thumb drive went missing between the office and his house. The client hasn't applied any of his accounts receivable to payments for the last 3 years so that is what we've been fixing. It only effects 2 people and both seemed to not think it was a big deal and told us we would find the drive at some point, but it just made for a bad start of the weekend.

DH and I had a blowup while DD was at practice Friday night. Mainly over his crappy attitude and how he is taking advantage of both DD and myself. He 100% blamed the dog and that he is tired and doesn't sleep more than a couple hours a night because of the dog. I suggested he go sleep in the camper and catch up on his sleep so that no one will interrupt him. He hated the idea and got all defensive. I locked the dog in the room with me the last 2 nights so she couldn't wander and he still said her rustling around in the bedroom was waking him up.

DD and I did make 3 different batches of cookies and I have pizza sauce cooking down in the crockpot. I have a bumper crop of tomatoes this year and am running out of ideas on what to do with them. I gave my parents probably 2 flats worth yesterday because they were already canning and their tomatoes aren't doing well.

[supertrooper1]

The weekend was ok. All day Saturday was at Beau's grandson's 2nd birthday party. Sunday, DS and I went to Costco and a couple other errands while Beau and his family went riding with his 6 year old grandson for his first trip to an ORV park. I feel a little left out since I normally ride with them but didn't go since it was a DS weekend, and everyone made a big deal of it on FB. But at least I got a lot of little things done that I had been putting off and spent one on one time with DS.

This week will be our normal work and gym routine. Beau and I are taking all next week off for our last camping/riding trip of the year before the snow hits. His brother will be going for half of it and some others have said they would stop by, either for a day of riding or just for dinner. It's a lot of planning for food and making sure we have all of our gear since it's a longer trip than normal.

[sdlaura]

Weekend was also OK here. Yesterday DD had 3 softball games with her new team - it was their first time playing together, and they started out strong, but things went downhill by the 3rd game and that kind of ended the weekend on a down note. DD was exhausted after playing catcher for most of three games and we didn't really have time to wind down from the weekend since we got home at 9 pm last night.

DD tested positive for COVID Friday and negative Saturday. No one else actually tested positive despite some symptoms. DS1 came home sick Friday and was pretty miserable, so he skipped baseball and soccer Saturday, but was fine by Saturday afternoon. Everyone seems healthy now - fingers crossed.

I had booked some stuff for our big international trip last winter and then waited too long to get on it again - and now that we're three months out, some of the stuff I wanted to book is no longer available/more expensive than when I first looked, so I'm kicking myself.

[soccermama]

We had a really nice weekend (actually being out of town for a change!) We went camping at the lake with friends, basically an annual "fall" camping trip with them we try to go every year.

I felt like everything was conspiring against us, at least 2 factors...one being weather on Friday it poured the rain and the other was that her son was fairly sick all last week. The weather cleared up and it ended up being a gorgeous, sunny weekend....and her son did cough a ton, but we were outside the whole time , tried to steer clear of him and I definitely hope that we don't catch anything!

I love to be outside all weekend if the weather is great! She & I took a long walk Saturday and we all enjoyed time on the lake/campfire/etc.

[erbear]

Weekend was fun, but too short. We had soccer both days and a street festival on Sunday.

This week is crazy. DD2 and I are going on the 8th grade retreat (camping). DD asked if I could be her bunk chaperone ❤️

[twinmomma]

My Monday ended up Monday-ing hard. I don't have the kids on Mondays. But I totally forgot that I was supposed to have the girls last night because exH is out of town. I TOTALLY FORGOT! They have clubs after school and then walk to the library to hang out until exH picks them up after work. Of course, exH didn't pick them up last night because it was supposed to be me.... So at 7 PM they texted me asking if I was ever going to come get them. I felt awful! They'd been sitting there for hours, just waiting for a parent to show up. Total mom fail. Thankfully they just laughed about it and are giving me a hard time forever because I "forgot I have children." Before bed they offered up "If you let us stay up as late as we want, we can pretend this night never happened." LOL And they just keep playing the Bluey episode where Bingo says "I'm just a small, forgettable child" at me. The sense of humor and teasing is part of what I love about this age. It's hilarious!

[k3am]

DDOT, so dropping it here. DD has a mostly new group of friends in MS. One of the moms coordinated a get together for the girls that I am weirdly hosting at our cabana club (long story).. but since it was planned, DD got into a fight with one of the girls and most are taking the other girl’s side and alienating DD. I am not surprised and pretty sure DD isn’t giving me the whole story…

So now I have a pool hangout on Saturday with people she may or may not be talking to at that point. 🫣

[dglvrk2]

polecat8, your experience sounds intense. I'm sorry. It seems like you gave the patient a peaceful, heartfelt departure.

My weekend was really good! The Ds pulled it together to do some relatively challenging mountain biking for H's birthday on Sunday. We all had a good time!

Saturday both girls has games for their respective sports. My BIL, one of my nephews a d my sister came to DD1's volleyball games and we had a nice dinner afterwards.

My sisters cancer treatment is kicking her butt. She remains in as good of spirit as possible. She really enjoys being around family. Still, it's really tough to see. H had one of many needed good conversations with BIL about next steps. BIL is giving EVERYTHING to my sister and his kids. She doesn't like asking for help, but H can get through to him better than most.

[sdlaura]

Ah k3am middle school friend dynamics are weird. What is a cabana club?

I'm so sorry about your sister's illness, dglvrk2.

[k3am]

sdlaura it’s just the neighborhood pool cabana. It sounds more impressive than it is lol