TGIF!

[rere]

We made it to the weekend!

[rere]

I had a meeting the director this morning to finally check some things off my list. I'm hopefully going to fit in lunch with dd before she heads back to school. She has birthday dinners and a haunted house to attend this weekend.

Dh and I are going to a good friends barbecue and they are having a band. It's for a 50th birthday party and should be fun seeing my friends. We've all been scattered lately with travel and family.

[sdlaura]

My two middle boys (ages 10 and 7) have fall break next week, so DH is taking them camping in Death Valley national park. I originally suggested that he take them to visit his parents/sister and family on the east coast, which would have been easier for him, but they are SO excited to go camping. DH has used it as an excuse to buy new camping toys, like some shade thing that goes on the back of the Rivian. Hopefully electric car charging logistics work out. DH has a bit of a prepper personality/is always thinking about the worst case scenario, so I trust him to make sure the car is charged enough and everyone is safe. Both boys will play their morning soccer games tomorrow and then they’ll head out. Camping for 3 nights and then a motel with a pool for 2 nights and they’ll be back Thursday.

I’m very much looking forward to having just DD and DS3 for several days It will feel so luxurious to have two kids rather than four! She is making big plans for stuff like going shopping. Which is not necessarily easy with a 4-year-old little brother, but easier than if two more little brothers are also there. She also wants to take DS3 to gymnastics open gym and the library. One of his preschool friends has a bday party Sunday afternoon. And I can still get my workouts in since DD can watch DS3 for short periods of time.

[mae0111]

It was a long week, and I'm happy that it's Friday!

It's a weird day. DD2 doesn't have school, but DD1 does. DD2 is at a birthday party about 30 mins away, and I somehow ended up driving like 1/2 of her class. After my hair appointment today, I'll go back and get everyone, pick up DD1 at school, and hopefully hop in the car and head to our beach house for a quiet weekend alone.

DD2 has a couple of soccer games. After this weekend, she has 2 very soccer-heavy weekends in a row, so I'm glad to get a quick break. Dh will have to manage everything.

We are struggling with one of DD1's teachers. He's very resistant to communication. DD1 is excellent at advocating for herself, and he's repeatedly brushing her off, ignoring her emails, etc. He has also been resistant to implementing her accommodations, like extra time on tests. It's maddening. So a few more big issues popped up yesterday and I asked DH to handle it, because I'm rapidly approaching mama-bear-burn-it-down status. It took some "encouragement", but he's handling it. I'm happy to have it off my plate.

We had DD2's parent teacher conferences, and the feedback was 100% as expected. She's doing well academically. She's very kind and in-tune with her classmates, and goes out of her way to be inclusive of everyone. AND... the kid can't stop moving or stay on task. We're in the process of waiting for testing results to see if she'll respond better to another ADHD med. But her teachers were all framing it as "We want to help DD2 to be successful - do you have any ideas about how to make that happen?" And we all brainstormed to try to come up with good solutions for her... I love that about her school...

[twinmomma]

This was a crazy week since we got back from our trip Tuesday night, so we've been playing catch up. One thing to catch up on is laundry and it appears our washer is on the fritz. Before vacation DH asked me who to call for repairs. I gave him a name of a great guy I've used before and who is well known and trusted in our town. DH responded with "oh, I called this other place instead." Why did you ask?! Other place came out, did absolutely nothing, charged us a service call fee, and now the washer is even more broken. Now DH has to find time to call his guy back and demand they come out and fix it for real and fight for it to be free this time since they did nothing last time. And DH keeps saying he's not sure when he'll have time to do that. I'm super annoyed that he didn't just call my guy to begin with.

This weekend is going to be crazy busy. DD2 has tech rehearsals all weekend, so lots of driving her back and forth to the theater that's 30 minutes away. DH has to work tonight and all day Sunday. Tomorrow my group of college friends are all getting together and I thought I'd have to skip it because of kid activities. But DH told me he'd figure it out and get the kids where they need to be so that I can go. I am so grateful that he is basically forcing me to attend since I see these friends so rarely. None of these friends have school aged kids, so they have no concept of the chaos that is a kid weekend with activities in the mix and how tricky a Saturday brunch would be for me.

Next week is going to be rough. I'm in the office every day, DD2 has her performances at night, I've got a big leadership meeting one of the days, a party that I'm in charge of planning another office day, and the school just sent out a message that next week will be spirit week. Because of course! Thankfully the kids are old enough to handle it themselves if they care that much. DD2 is practically vibrating with excitement over her show - and the fact that she'll get to come hang in my office one of the days in between performances!

[186momx]

No major plans this weekend. I don't know if I'm catching a cold or my body just can't deal with all the weather changes but I feel so drained and have a nagging headache and can't stop sneezing.

DD and I see the chiropractor at 1 so hopefully that at least makes the headache go away.

This week seemed to have 57 Mondays all rolled into 4 days. TGIF!

[supertrooper1]

We booked a free room at a local casino tonight. We'll have dinner, a couple drinks, lose $20 in the slots, and then enjoy the dry sauna. We'll leave from there in the morning for our two day road trip. We have a rough idea of where we want to go, but no hotels booked. It's supposed to snow today on both mountain passes we're driving over and then turn to rain, so some of it may be weather dependent.

[soccermama]

supertrooper1, that sounds like a fun time!! Gah we need to have a fun little getaway like that! Unfortunately we do not have any casinos near where we live.

I hope y'all have a good time!

[soccermama]

This felt like a super-long week. I'm sure I would feel better by Friday if I was getting more sleep but yeah, not the case today. Hopefully I will get some rest tonight, I'm gonna need it for tomorrow!

DD has club volleyball practice, then gotta rush DS to his soccer game. DD has homecoming dance tomorrow night, which also includes pictures, dinner out & they wanna go bowling after - good grief. (my H will be on shift so I'll be the driver!) My friend & I are taking them to a local mexican restaurant for dinner, and we are eating there so I am super looking forward to that! That is my excitement for the weekend, haha.

[callmekd]

Heading home from FL today - it’ll be nice to have the weekend to get organized but it’s hard to leave the pool and resort behind.

[polecat8]

Tonight is trunk or treat at taekwondo.
Tomorrow DS2 has a soccer game in the morning. Then I think we will head to the monster pumpkin festival so we can watch a giant pumpkin drop from a crane into a kiddie pool. We love watching the pumpkin smash in a million pieces! I'm hoping we can grab dinner at a local German place after.
On Sunday I'll work a shift at the hospital. I'm hoping for a quiet shift so I can more trip planning for Italy done. We leave in 5 weeks and I still have to book some train and hotel tickets.

Somewhere in the midst of all that I have to get some hard training done for my taekwondo form. I am competing in a national tournament next weekend and I just don't feel ready or compelled to get ready. I probably won't place but I chose to compete to give myself a challenge and be a good example to the younger students. Also, I'll be competing in team sparring which means I have to do individual sparring too.

[k3am]

DD has her first middle school dance tonight. It sounds like just about all of her friends are taking dates, but she doesn't like any boys and will be going solo. Her friends have apparently all reached the "sexy whatever" costume stage - she's going as a (regular non/sexy) football player. We are going to try to make it cute for the dance, but definitely won't be anything sexy about it. (She'll just do the jersey and leggings for the dance - for actual halloween, she's also got the tights and helmet).

Sadly she's starting Saturday morning private lessons again since her rink sucks and it's the only time available that she can make that isn't overly crowded, so I have a 5:30 wakeup call tomorrow to get her there by 6:10 - DH will take no part in this shenanigans. We have DS's walkathon and two birthday parties on Sunday.

I still haven't heard back from the job I applied for (they were supposed to reach out 'later this week' to schedule interviews), and one of the companies I talked to earlier this summer has reached out again. I still have about 8 months worth of severance/PTO payout saved up, but if we ever start this construction project, I am not going to want to be at home (or avoiding home) 5-6 days a week.

[librarychica]

I took a half day to help monitor obstacle courses and the girls’ school fun run today. I could technically go back to work now if I wanted, but nah.

Tomorrow DD2 has her skating test to see if she advances a level. Then I’m going to take both girls to my parents to hang with my dad while I go with my mom to her first EVER pedicure. Sunday we are scheduled for a family shift at the food bank.

I also want to get the house and yard in extra good shape since next weekend we have two Halloween parties so I’m sure we will get nothing else done.

[sdlaura]

k3am DD’s first middle school ‘dance’ was more of like a carnival type thing. No dates. There was a DJ but also games and like a tug of war with a giant rope. My DD is also still more into normal clothes and judges some of her friends for being boy crazy.

Yesterday I drove DD and 3 of her 7th grade girls flag football teammates 30 minutes to their flag football game (one parent couldn’t come and two others worked closer to the game so met us there). All 3 of the other girls have older siblings, and it was very eye opening how mature they are/act. I did learn some new popular music I’ve never heard of before 🤣

[dglvrk2]

This week was rather annoying, which I expected going into it.

At work, we had a shift in management over the summer that resulted in me getting lass meaningful work while my colleague who was promoted got more. I've approached my manager with some constructive feedback about this situation. I feel I been half heard.....

Yesterday, my promoted colleague totally cut me off during a meeting. I called him on my drive home and addressed my frustration with his action and overall concerns about the direction of our work group. We both agreed it was a necessary and beneficial conversation. I do feel better after talking with him.

My work wife is temporarily transferred to another department. She's really upset. However, she'll be working with some great people. Still so much upheaval at work is draining for both of us.

My family is chilling tonight. H has ski patrol refresher classes tomorrow and Sunday. DD2 has her final soccer games of the season and a birthday party tomorrow.DD1 and I will spend tomorrow morning with my sister. We plan to do a nice hike Sunday afternoon.

[macmars45]

I finally got to see my mom tonight for the first time since early September! She and my dad follow the leaves (from WA state) so they headed to North & South Dakota with stops in other states on the way there and back. My dad is oot babysitting my niece and nephew so I haven't seen him yet.

Work was busy and good, per usual. I taught my kinder groups how to do The Dab which was hysterical. One of the words we were working on this week was dab. Next to the word was a dog standing on it's hind legs doing The Dab. It was awesome; highlight of the week.