Monday

[mommyatty]

We had a nice, fairly uneventful weekend.

DD, 12, is seriously on the adolescent roller coaster. One minute thinking she’s too cool for everyone and is being a sassy pants. The next minute being so sweet and grateful. Like she was very “ugh I can’t believe you would even make me shop for jeans even though I’m only allowed to wear jeans next week to school and I keep saying none of mine fit and omg those are so ugly I won’t try them on and no you cannot see any of them I can tell if they fit or not” but then during field hockey practice I brought her a fresh bottle of water (it was over 90 degrees, three hour practice, in full goalie pads, and she had gone through two full reusable water bottles) and she was like “thanks, mom, I appreciate all you do for me.” Wtf, kid.

DS has been getting over strep. He’s still not fully recovered, but both kids did a parkour class at our parkour gym and both rocked it. And loved it.

[twinmomma]

Our weekend was good. Me and another mom took the kids to the amusement park for the Halloween stuff, including haunted houses. We had five twelve year old girls and two ten year old boys. The kids were great! The girls all survived their first haunted house and had so much fun. It's a small park so it's a great place to give them some independence. We let them go off on their own and check in with us every so often while we did the stuff the boys wanted to do. DS and I had fun just the two of us in the arcade for a bit, which was really nice. He and I don't usually get one on one time.

Last night I stayed up until midnight finishing my book, so I am dragging today. It's also dark and rainy out, so that's not helping me snap out of it. I'll probably take a lunch break nap since I'm working from home.

DH and I leave for vacation on Friday! We've both decided that we don't care at all if it rains while we're in Mexico. We will be in a different place with free drinks and food and no one to bother us and that's all that matters! I've already declared that we will not discuss the restaurant or work at all the entire time. It's banned.

[mae0111]

We had a decent weekend. DH and DD2 kind of went out of their way to make up for a crummy birthday. So that was nice.

DD2 had tons of soccer (3 games and a tryout) and will have a ton more this week (she has 5 games scheduled this week, possibly a 6th, but she can't make it to 2 of them). It will slow down a little after this weekend. The kids went to the varsity soccer games with friends on Saturday evening, so DH and I had a quiet dinner at home. We've been finding pockets of time to talk. One of the positives that is coming out of this mess is that we're being very open with each other. DH is usually a closed book, so it's been nice to actually get him to talk to me about how he's doing.

Sunday was DD1's birthday. It was quiet - she had a friend sleep over to celebrate last weekend knowing that DD2 had an out of state soccer game early on her actual birthday. So we went to dinner at her favorite restaurant.

This week will be a typical week. This weekend will be busy with lots of soccer and a couple of birthday celebrations, but we will have fun!

[rere]

We had a good weekend. We went out for pizza Friday with Dd and came home to watch a movie. Dh and I had a ball golfing. He appreciates my take on the game, the rules in some instances are more suggestions, don't keep score, and oh, was that ball in the weeds? Because somehow it ended back up on the fairway.

We packed up dd with 2 things of soup, and groceries Sunday. Dh went out and bought her cake mix, icing, and cake pans Sunday morning because Saturday night she talked about how much she liked cake. I told him that's why I married him. My dad would have never went out of his way to do something like that just to make me happy. He wasn't bad, but just not one to do anything special.

[vasc]

School was canceled all last week for hurricane recovery. We spent 5.5 days without power. It came back on Wednesday afternoon.

At the same time I came down with the fever-cough virus that my son had two weeks ago, so it was a crummy week to have no power, minimal food, and a husband working out of town. Thankfully I have wonderful neighbors, my kids played with all the neighborhood kids up and down the street each day, and everyone stayed fed somehow.

Kids' school is closed today and we will hear this afternoon if they're planning to open tomorrow. I guess they're assessing day-by-day at this point. Today was a planned school holiday for my district and tomorrow is a planned teacher workday.

[waverly]

We had an OK weekend. DH's week was stressful last week due to layoffs. He feels like a lame duck because he is still in his old role and half his stakeholders that he was running the project for were laid off, he does his transfer the beginning of November.

I had an issue with an employee, and want to do a PIP. I need to see when my boss wants to do it since Mondays are busy, and we have a strategy meeting this afternoon.

We had DS's birthday party Friday night. Saturday the in-laws came for his birthday and immediately started demanding things. Many times, they are demanding stuff while we are in the middle of trying to fullfill their last demand. They ask dumb questions like can his aunt visit him while he is on a school trip? Um, no I don't think the school chaperones will be happy if a random adult joins the school trip. Once they stopped demanding stuff, then I guess the visit became a little better.  They literally called DH's sister while they were here, and demanded I talk to her about holiday plans.  Um, no.  I handed the phone to DH.  It's his family, he can deal with them.  We were literally in the same room.  This was the first I heard that DH's sister needed to know something right that second, plus I also had already told her as much as I knew via text. 

Sunday, DS felt sick and now he appears to have a stomach virus. Kind of sucks, but at least he got his birthday party over with first. I hope he is well enough for his school trip, but I am assuming he will be since he has 3 more days.

[librarychica]

We had a lovely Saturday. DD1’s migraine was gone when she woke up Friday so she was up for the planned movie. We all saw The Wild Robot and it was very good. Somehow we’d made it 12 years of parenting without taking the girls to a movie all 4 of us. They’ve gone with my parents, each other, and once I took them with my brother but never all 4 of us. We met some friends and had lunch before all going to the movie together.

Sunday was storm prep and general chores.

We are getting another hurricane. Ugh. Our main residence is on high ground but our vacation rental is already out of commission from the previous storm. I’m so glad it’s not our main income and that we can float my in-laws if needed. I am done with these late-season storms. Maybe it’s time to find a new home state.

[supertrooper1]

The weekend was pretty good. Saturday was a first birthday party for Beau's cousin. Sunday we went riding with Beau's son and grandson and a couple cousins. The cousins ended up breaking away from us after the first kiddie trail.

I have a scratchy throat and think I'm getting sick. I'm supposed to go into the office on Wednesday for our monthly in office day and meet with the IT guy to get new software put on my computer. But I can't go if I'm sick. I've been trying to get this software for months, so I'll have to figure something else out if I am sick. Plus, I can't go and chance getting my coworker sick who is only a few months post chemo treatments.

[waverly]

librarychica, I was just coming to this thread to ask you about the hurricane, since it seems to sort of be headed towards your area moreso than the last one.

[186momx]

supertrooper1, I also woke up this morning with a scratchy throat and a plugged-up head. I wonder if it is due to the weather.

I pulled my garden yesterday due to the rats eating all my red tomatoes. Every single red or slightly orange tomato had rat bites out of them. It makes me sad and I'm contemplating not doing a garden next year as this has happened the last 3 years.

DH worked on a house project and got a friend to come over and help him hold boards. I could have done it but I was busy doing other things and it would have really hurt my back/shoulders as I would have been lifting plywood over my head on a ladder and then holding it in place while he screwed it on.

[supertrooper1]

186momx, I really hope it's the weather or allergens such as mold right now. But Beau's son has been sick and now his family is sick. They don't know how to stay home when they're sick so I have a feeling it came from them. However, it's going around DS's school, so while he hasn't brought it home yet, I'm waiting for him to get sick too. I'm loading up on Airborne now.

[sdlaura]

Ugh vasc , you have had a rough time lately - hang in there.

We had adult friends celebrating birthdays both Friday and Saturday nights this weekend, so we went out both nights - which is really rare for us - and had babysitters. Both celebrations were at local bars/restaurants that we pass all the time but had never been to. We moved here sort of after the going out and partying stage of our lives and then spent 12 years having babies and toddlers. Now that the youngest is 4, maybe we can explore more It was a lot of fun.

After the soccer game and baseball clinic Saturday morning, I went to take DS1 and two of his friends and DD to the local escape room. When we got there, they said I had to chaperone, so I also brought 7-year-old DS2 and 4-year-old DS3 into the escape room. The kids had fun and then we got ice cream after. Yesterday DD had a softball practice on the beach, so I brought the 3 boys before it was over so they could play on the beach, and then we went to lunch and to a trampoline park before I had the dog's training class. DS3's preschool is inexplicably closed today for teacher training - I think maybe they intended to close for Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day next Monday and got the date wrong? Who knows. So DH has him this morning while I work, and then I'll have him in the afternoon. His school is open next Monday when I can have a slower workday with the holiday.

[librarychica]

Oct 7, 2024 11:28:28 GMT -5 waverly said:

librarychica, I was just coming to this thread to ask you about the hurricane, since it seems to sort of be headed towards your area moreso than the last one.

We live where people evacuate to so we are safe, well inland and away from rivers and lakes. My roof might have some issues, and we will surely have power outages, but overall we should be fine. I am concerned for my in-laws and wish they’d come stay with us instead of my sister in law, who is only marginally higher ground, but she’s not in a evac zone. In the past they’ve all come here but have decided not to this time for some reason.

[k3am]

We survived our vacation!

DD had her (hopefully) last sync competition on Saturday. I was halfway convinced she’d have enough fun that it would change her mind, but afterwards she just said she’s so glad she’ll never have to wear that costume again. She still has to tell her coach, so I’m not fully convinced she won’t back out.

I think she is nearing the end of the line for skating in general.. the rink revised their schedule and despite having SIX sheets of ice, they have NO ice time in the week for her after school, we can’t commit to going before school, and her coach can’t do Saturday at 6am, so she’s limited to one half hour private lesson a week and a group class. I suggested she reach out to another coach, but she’s not there mentally yet. (She did rightfully bitch that the rink is now limiting freestyle time in the evenings to those who have landed axels, but if she can’t get ice time, how is she supposed to get her axel?!?)

[sandandsea]

My mom left this morning but it was great having her here for a week to take the boys places during fall break. Due to the heat 3/4 of our weekend soccer games were cancelled and now the next 2 weekends will be crazy with soccer due to rescheduling. We are a week away from our big crazy deadline at work and I feel like things are moving so slowly as I want to check off everything but it’s all waiting in the final 1% before we can be done.

ETA. We had dss cardiologist appt last week and his heart seems all good, confirmed murmur due to his iron deficiency anemia but got the clear for sports as expected. They think he has exercise induced asthma so will have to do a treadmill test to confirm it but they’re pretty sure is not cardio related which is a big relief.