It's Friday of the longest week ever...

[mae0111]

How are you doing?  Any good plans for the weekend?

[mae0111]

It was a loooooong week. We started with DD1 meltdowns on Sunday, and those kind of continued all week. DH can't drive for the foreseeable future. I knew it was coming, but it still sucked when it happened. My kids got into a physical altercation at school yesterday... like, with each other... so that was a really neat thing to find out about at pick up.

BUT... the weather was great, it's sunny for DD2's last soccer game of the season today. I had a very productive week work-wise and holiday planning wise.

We have NOTHING planned this weekend, and it's glorious. DD1 is meeting friends for dinner tonight near our house after they all stay late at school for an activity. I'm sure they'll want to see friends. I just have to be careful about spreading myself too thin. I need to clean out several closets this weekend - I feel very disorganized around the house, and with all of the soccer over the past few weekends, I haven't had a good block of time to do that.

The kids are off Monday, but DH and I are working, so we'll need to figure that out. There are a few things next week that are creating conflicts with driving, and my parents are away, so I'm hoping I can figure things out.

[sdlaura]

mae0111 good luck again with being the only driver. My kids have gotten into it with each other at camp before…pros and cons I guess vs getting into it with another kid 🤷‍♀️

We have a pretty normal weekend activity-wise, but no travel softball games so that will make it a little more laid back. Basketball practice for DS1 and softball hitting lesson for DD later today. Soccer games for the two older boys tomorrow and then the end of season lunch for DS1 that I organized (need to go pick up 3 coach gifts today). It is my older kids’ turn to hang out with my parents this weekend - the plan is Dave & Busters/dinner/sleepover Saturday. The next series of the dog’s obedience training starts Saturday afternoon. Sunday is a DD softball practice, DS1 basketball game. One of DD’s friends is going to do some soccer training with DS2 this weekend to help him feel more confident for the club soccer tryouts in a few weeks.

The kids are all off Monday. DS1 has been wanting to go to the ymca skatepark and we also need DS2 to have an activity on a day off from school because he’s so high energy. So the two of them will do skate camp at the Y on Monday.

[polecat8]

I am exhausted. Between trying to meet a deadline at work, volunteering at the election polls, and ramped up taekwondo training for my black belt next month, I am toast.
Plans for tonight include laying on the couch and doing absolutely nothing.
Tomorrow I have a therapy appointment and DH and I are going to a comedy show (which will be a good distraction).
On Sunday I will be working at the hospital.
Somewhere in there will be more taekwondo training and doing more work.
All I know is that in two weeks I will be on a plane to Italy where no one will be able to reach me - and I can't wait!

[librarychica]

Oh, man, mae0111, that is rough.

It was a long week here though the kids had their “only one parent home” manners on. H was out of town all week. We are a blue-purple county in a red state and there been some election-related friend and school tension, mostly with the middle school kids specifically groups of boys feeling their machismo and leading Trump chants and starting arguments. DD1 has zero patience for this, thankfully. DD2 has a friend who completely cut her and several other friends off and has been refusing to speak to any of them for weeks. She’s supposedly still coming to her birthday next weekend so that will be … interesting?

So it was a long week. H got home last night and everyone was still up because there was no getting anyone to go to sleep when they knew dad would be home soon, so everyone was tired this morning. Tonight will be a quiet one here.

Our big goals for the weekend are to finish getting the yard ready for a party next weekend and take down the Halloween decor and replace it with the Thanksgiving decor, maybe go try this new hot pot place. That’s it, that’s all. Just a chill weekend.

[librarychica]

Oh and H brought me coffee and toast in bed this morning. He is the best husband.

[supertrooper1]

It's been a pretty good week. Beau and I went to DS's school conferences with two teachers. They both had glowing reviews of him. He got straight A's for his first quarter of middle school. His math teacher said he only missed 1 question so far this year. I was worried about his transition to middle school and to see if they saw any signs of bullying that may have followed him from the elementary school and none is evident so far. He had also done a speech earlier that day at their Veteran's Day assembly and he did great. Ex-H sent me a video.

My new permanent supervisor was announced today and it is a great pick! I have been worrying since the position opened in April because one of the candidates was my temporary supervisor for 4 months, and he is terrible as a manager. One of the biggest micromanagers and time wasters I've ever had for a supervisor since being in this job almost 6 years. My new supervisor is brilliant and someone I go to for help quite often. She filled in for a month or so the last time we had a supervisor vacancy and she was the perfect amount of meetings vs let me do my job.

After months of not getting hives, they showed back up yesterday so I'm headed to the doctor this afternoon for a Xolair shot. Beau's grandson is spending the weekend with us and he's debating on whether to have his 2 year old grandson come too. Beau declared that we spend too much on our screens, which I agree, but told him to come up with a plan. So far it involves Chuck E. Cheese. The weather is supposed to be rain all weekend, so riding is out of the question.

[rere]

Weekend plans are up in the air. Dd and Ds are both home, so I'm just playing everything by ear. Will we go out to eat? Put up Christmas? Make chili? Who knows. I'm just getting dressed and waiting for my assignment.

Vent. So ds didn't get off as early as he thought. So he didn't get to the Charlotte airport until about 1 hr and 20 before the flight, couldn't find a parking spot. For all this, he calls ME! I'm not going to make it. Not looking good. This isn't going to work. I'm driving so we get to the restaurant and I'm losing it, about to throw up. But he gets on fine. Both kids feel better when they unload on me not Dh meanwhile I'm a mess.

Vent 2. I don't know if it's because he feels like his buddy is home, but the entire drive back from the airport, Dh got his fun from picking at me like I'm stupid. I'm not going to blow while they are here, but tread lightly Dh. I'm not stupid as evidenced by my position, by where I have lead us in life, so you will not get your fun by poking at me. Because you will find yourself alone freeing yourself from my "stupidity ".

[waverly]

I have a snack and chat tonight which is like a sip and shop, but no alcohol I guess. This is with work people, and I am providing the snacks, so I guess that is why no alcohol. Some will go out to dinner afterwards, but I will probably skip that to hang with my family.

We have a blissfully open weekend after that because soccer season is over with. I need to start reaching out to friends to start scheduling stuff, but I do kind of feel like maybe they could reach out to me which is silly because they don't know that my weekends are free now. So I am just being lazy or unmotivated or something.

I'm continuing to do a ton of work on setting boundaries and I think it will be better. I just wish my friendships didn't necessarily need them, but when I have a person who fancies ourselves a "village" constantly asking for stuff but then excluding my kids, then I need to set boundaries. We didn't carpool this year because my kids are not doing after school clubs this semester, and it is so so refreshing!  I just needed that break! Some of those boundaries are also that I can't leave work early 5 days a week, so if my kids get out at 4, then they will just have to wait until 4:30 for me to pick them up.  DH can probably do 2 days, and I will do the other 3 or something like that. 

[k3am]

We have no real plans this weekend. Our normal Friday wizza night at the neighbors, 6am practice for DD, and a date night for DH and I on Saturday. Both kids know there is 0% chance of us being talked into having friends sleepover the first weekend that our house is a disaster. Sunday we’ll probably watch the game at the neighbors house or find a sports bar to post up in.

I got EVERYTHING packed up by yesterday night. Granted the last few boxes are very cobbled together, but it’s done. And of course, our POD is.. somewhere. So the demo they were hoping to do today can’t start, but they’re making progress on what they can. Everything in the garage is a disaster. I’ll probably spent some time trying to get things organized better so we can live with it for the next many months.

We’re also hoping to do some car shopping this weekend. Not ready to buy, but want to figure out what I want so that when this car is undrivable (by April or sooner) or we find a good deal we’re ready to go. Right now we’re debating between a Kia Telluride and a Toyota Grand Highlander hybrid.

[soccermama]

This has been a super looooong week! So glad its Friday. I had a really productive check-in with my boss this morning, and the rest of this day has gone very well also.

We don't have any major plans for the weekend, but we definitely have chores to-do and I hope we fit in some FUN also! We do have plans to go to a new'ish bowling place with our friends (our kids & their kids are BFFs) so I'm looking forward to that. It has the neon lights bowling, plus tons of other games to play, food & drinks so it should be a fun time.

[186momx]

Friday was long. DD has a 4 day weekend and Friday was chiropractor and doctor visit. OMG doctor we saw was great and spent 20min with us. Added to the labs that the Dietican asked for and was surprised we hadn't done labs before seeing the Dietican. Lab took 6 tubes of blood from DD so quick and she had DD laughing her head off the entire time. DD skipped practice as she was feeling woozy after the doctor and she didn't eat much all day.

Weekend is some random projects that depends on when the rain comes.

[macmars45]

This week felt like the longest year every. H is having a mental health crisis so I stayed home with him yesterday to get him to the dr for assessment and meds. My life for at least the next few months will be carrying most of the family load while H's brain chemistry returns to something more normal. This shit is scary and hard.