mid November Friday

[dglvrk2]

November has been a rather long year so far.....but we made it through another stretch.  How were your weeks?  What is on the agendas for the weekend?

[mommyatty]

I’m kind of reeling with it about to be Thanksgiving. That feels insane. But my week was pretty good. We are all on the mend after basically having someone sick for what feels like the past two months. So that’s been nice.

[dglvrk2]

A long year indeed! I'm still unwinding from Halloween and the political s*&%show that is the United States right now. I've deleted my social media and NYT apps from my phone. I just get too much information. I'm only listening to NPR and reading the BBC website for news. I need it quieter on this front, at least for the time being.

I'm juggling a lot at work right now. It's great for keeping my mind occupied and most of the work is interesting.

Tonight, DD1 has a school dance. She's going with the two former best friends who completely and deliberately ditched her last year. She and one of them have been hanging out for the past two months. They seem fine. The other hasn't even talked to her until earlier this week, when she wrote DD1 a long text about how she missed her and made a big mistake by ditching her last spring. DD1 is not ready to rekindle this friendship, but the other friend invited both of them to get ready at her house and DD1 feels like it would be childish to back out just because this girl will be there. I wish she could branch out more with friends. She really likes some of the kids in ninth grade, but she won't be with them at school until next year. Her class is cliquey, so breaking into new groups is hard.

Tomorrow, DD2 and H will drive 2.5 hours for skiing. It should be a fun day, just a lot of driving. DD1 and I have some shopping to do and she needs to work on some audition pieces for an honors band.

Sunday, DD1 has a birthday party and I'm going to drink wine with the moms while the girls be 13 and 14 year olds

[librarychica]

DD2 is ten today. My baby is double digits! We are having an ever-growing number of children over this afternoon/evening for yard games, dinner & cake. I took a half day to finish setup. She’s had a nice birthday already with everyone waking up happy, DD1 seeming fully recovered from yesterday’s migraine, and the neighborhood ducks visiting our front yard.

Tomorrow H and I are going to a wedding and the girls will stay with my parents. Sunday I hope to do a lot of relaxing on my patio. The weather looks pretty great.

[twinmomma]

I'm currently on the phone with my health insurance company and trying really hard not to rage at the poor person who got me. But dammit, they are costing me hundreds of dollars because they're not processing my claims correctly so I'm mad! I just had to pay a huge bill to the primary care office so that they don't send me to collections and kick me out of the practice, even though they know I'm fighting insurance on the issue and have been providing reference numbers and updates all along. It's not like I'm ignoring them. For some reason, every claim is going against my deductible instead of an office visit copay, so it's adding up quickly!

This weekend we have a bunch of plans. Tomorrow night DH and I are going to a hockey game and MIL is watching the kids for us. Then we'll crash at her house for the night since we have more plans in the city on Sunday. I'm taking the girls to see &Juliet with their bff and her mom. DH is going to take DS and bff's brother to do something fun in the city while we're at the show. I'm really just hoping that DS gets it together and isn't obnoxious and whiny the whole time. That's been his default personality for a couple weeks now and I'm super over it.

[rere]

Looking forward to the weekend! I'm currently waiting on about 1p friends and we are doing a weekend shopping trip. Stay in a hotel and hitting a couple of malls. Nice dinners and lots of laughs with this group.

Dh claims he is smoking some kind of meat tomorrow and sitting in a lawn chair listening to his music. He seems happy as a clam about it, so good for him.

Dd may meet us tomorrow, or she may go to the football game. No plans with a college student.

[sdlaura]

I received a bonus today for some new business I brought in and I was hoping for more. But I know I should be grateful for what I received. I’m having mixed emotions

I think my Covid is just about gone. I wasn’t that sick so it wasn’t so bad, and actually made for a more laid back week than expected since I wasn’t going to the office and an in person board meeting.

DS3 has a soccer tournament this weekend. DS1 has a baseball clinic and basketball game. DD has two softball games and then I have the dog’s training class. So all normal stuff. Hopefully we can build in a little fun not related to kids sports.

[erbear]

November is flying by for me.

Kids have soccer this weekend, both about an hour away in the same area but one on Sat and one on Sun. DD1's team can't seem to get enough players and it's annoying the crap out of me. It's U16 travel soccer. Commit to the team, people. It's the last game and it would suck to forfeit and not play.

[madringal]

I turned 45 this week, which just seems...older. IDK, none of my other birthdays felt like, "man, this is getting pretty close to 50." But I did almost die 3 years ago, so...yay for aging!

No plans this weekend, which is probably our last free weekend between now and the new year, so I plan to fully embrace it. The rest of the month is full of swim meets, thanksgiving travel, and my baby turning 9!

[mae0111]

Happy birthday to madringal and your youngest, and to librarychica DD2!

It was an eventful week, but ended up pretty well. DD2 is having some feelings about puberty and growing up, but we've had a lot of good talks. DD1 has also been very personable and reasonable this week, and I've seen more joking between the two of them. It's not all smooth sailing, but this week was definitely better. DD1 has also been very go-with-the-flow, very unlike her, but boy has it made my life easier!

Tonight the kids want to go see a play at school. DD2 can't find anyone to go with her because most of her friends are in the play and she dropped out. DD1 does not want DD2 to sit with her because DD2 is a pest. I really, really don't want to go... we had a few extra things and extra pick-ups this week and I'm really looking forward to being on my couch tonight...

Tomorrow evening DH and I will go out for our anniversary, which falls during the week next week. I'm sure the kids will make plans with their friends during the day. Sunday no plans at all, which seems glorious and not real and I imagine things will get stacked up as the weekend goes on.

[supertrooper1]

I took today off to see DS’s choir concert without juggling work before and after. My mom came with me and we went out to lunch after. Both DS and my niece had short solos and my brother actually came too. That was a nice surprise. I ran some errands and tried to do some house cleaning but ran out of time before picking up DS.

We got DS’s psychologist report back this week and he is 2E. I’m not surprised and I don’t think it is going to change anything.

I took Monday off too since I have some PTO to burn before the end of the year. I’m not sure what Beau and I will end up doing. Riding is weather dependent and the forecast shows rain. I want to head towards Seattle and do some shopping one day. We had talked about staying a night in a hotel somewhere or even venturing to Canada for a quick trip.

[186momx]

I have tax school all day today. DD came with and is sitting in the corner with a laptop and book and is working on school stuff and chilling. DH was insisting she help him with yard work out in the rain so she choose to listen to estates and trust tax stuff.

Doctors office isn't releasing her lab results. I got they came back normal and she is fine from a PA who is covering for DD pedi. I was seeing red Friday night when I got the response who said to take her to urgent care if she still was experiencing fatigue. It's horrible to watch your kid walk around as a zombie and DD and i are arguing over eating/drinking. But urgent care isn't going to be able to do much. I need to email the Dietican to see if she got the results.