We don't even have a bed frame over here. Box spring and mattress on the floor, lol. I do prefer coordinating stuff over sets, anyway.
We've been talking about getting a "real bed" for a while but I don't think it will happen until after my unpaid maternity leave. We have a dresser and nightstand that were mine before we got married that I still like. DH uses the nightstand now...there's not room for one for me but I don't mind.
Thank goodness I went to bed early. X was up at 2:50 and couldn't breathe. He's now done his nebulizer and is settling down on my shoulder to sleep more but I don't know if I'll be able to get any more sleep. I hope this baby kicking him in the back doesn't wake him up.
X just woke up coughing so hard he couldn't breathe in between. Last winter his pedi suspected asthma. He asked for water and he did his nebulizer which seemed to help a lot for now.
I'm calling the pedi first thing in the morning and we'll go to the ER if we need to in the next 4 hours. I don't have a rescue inhaler for him. What else can I do for him? What should I watch for? Any advice?
My gut says skip both. I'm assuming this is for a term policy?
I'm pretty sure #1 is built into my policy too. But like PP mentioned, it seems like it could be a pain to actually follow through on in practice. Unless I'm mistaken, they're asking for $45/year to insure against your premiums (I imagine less than $1k/year) which seems steep.
I'd skip #2. If you don't want whole life coverage now, I don't think you'll want to pay for the possibility of choosing it later. The only reason I could think of for this would be if there's some reason you may NEED insurance 20 years from now once the term expires, but I'd imagine just getting a longer term policy now would be a better value.
Thanks for posting this. I know I've asked random people wearing red in Target questions before, and I'm not surprised that kind of stuff happens much more frequently to people of color.
I haven't worried too much about this since G is a cautious kid. At this point I'm most afraid she'd agree to ride something then panic after it was too late to get off. She rides horses, which I imagine is probably more dangerous.
I don't remember if my parents wouldn't let me go on the craziest carnival rides or if I never wanted to...I'm not a huge fan of thrill rides. I'll have to revisit this with X since he's much more of a thrill seeker. I'll definitely let him go on the smaller rides, but will have to see about the crazy spinning around and dropping rides as it comes up.
I got some sleep last night! X still woke up MOTN and climbed into my bed, but G slept the whole night in her own bed! She's been waking up MOTN and having diarrhea for the last 3-4 nights so we both really needed the extra sleep. I hope her tummy troubles are better for now.
So glad you and mrsniq survived and your mom now has her own place! You've done so much for her, not just financially. Babyniq#1 is so big now!
DH has had several CTJ talks with his parents over the last few years, but so far they're mostly still ignoring him. I hope we'll eventually be able to get through to them before a crisis situation, but I think the odds aren't that good at this point.
bebeetmoi I hope everything goes well with your grandmother.
Loco Coco I love her! Sorry about the no sleep thing though
Thanks, I definitely cried about it this morning. she's supposed to still be in sleepy newborn mode! Even G and C gave me like 2 weeks of fairly good sleep before they went crazy colicky! Luckily she doesn't cry for long but she just wants to be held/nursed constantly. And the nights she's up all night was to more incision/tummy pain the next day.
I'm already scared for this stage. X woke up and climbed into my bed at midnight and G needed me to wipe her butt at 2:30am...somehow I don't think practicing sleeping in 2 hour stretches makes you better at it.
I hope you can get a break today and a little sleep!
muppetinma , new car because of the car accident last week? What did you get? It always sucks to have to make a quick decision on cars.... like when you HAVE to get a new car right now vs wanting one and being able to wait for what you want.
Yup. My old car is totaled. We were talking about my car soon anyway, so I had an idea of what I wanted. I ended up with a 2016 Kia Soul.
Liking for the new car, not for the circumstances.
I was a sophomore in college and was back on campus two weeks early for a seminar. The RAs came and woke us up as news of the first tower being hit spread -- at first we thought it was a scenario the poli sci seminar was enacting, but then we went downstairs to the common room to watch the news just before the second tower was hit. At first we were all confused if it was a replay or a second attack. They cancelled classes but later that day our (computer science) seminar met to discuss the attacks and just to talk, then there was a multi-faith church service that night.
I didn't realize until later that my dad was in DC that day for meetings and saw the smoke rise from the Pentagon. He was stranded for a day, then all of them rented a van and drove home.
DH left last night for his business trip and will be gone until Saturday. Even though X and G both woke me up multiple times last night, we still managed to make it to church on time and to swimming. Now both kids are napping in the car in the garage. I really want ice cream but doubt I can eat it before one or both wake up so I'll enjoy sitting for a bit.
Spent the morning watching the kids and DH ride bikes at the park, visited the ducks at the duck pond, then went to the playground for a bit. We tired them out enough that they both napped in the car. Early tomorrow morning DH leaves on a work trip until next Saturday so I'm especially glad we had a fun family day today.
I never know what to post in these types of threads. I grew up in an area with overt racism and do my best to regularly call out my dad and brother for comments they make in private. I understood about systemic racism/bias, but did not initially recognize microaggressions and the fact that my intent really doesn't matter. It's not about me and my place of privilege. I particularly appreciated reading the "what can you do" thread and the one on resources for children.
We now live in a much less racially diverse area, where school districts are much smaller. Thus while we'll enroll our children in the local public schools, there's no diversity to be found, economic nor racial. I'm not sure what to do about it, though hope to continue having conversations with them about these issues in age appropriate ways over time.
I read that article a while back. Not only is the status quo discouraging, but the fact that we seem to be moving backwards instead of forwards.
I went to successful integrated schools in NC in the 1980s and 1990s, but they no longer exist, victims of politicians, not parents. Where I grew up, they put the special academic programs and additional enrichments in the schools in the poorest neighborhoods, reserving a percentage of seats for the "base school population", thus preserving economic and racial diversity in those schools. Rather than busing the poor children away, they sent buses from the wealthy suburbs to the inner city. They attracted parents/students with the additional programs and eventually the best teachers ended up there. I rode an hour each way to school -- my parents (and later I) thought it was "worth it".
It wasn't a panacea...my advanced classes tended to be mostly white and Asian kids while the basic classes were predominantly black/Hispanic. But there was a lot more opportunities available to all students, especially the poorest ones. We also learned from/about each other just by proximity. And my high school even made the US News and World Report top 100 list for 5+ years, with the majority of students being of color. I didn't and don't understand why more of these programs weren't replicated elsewhere.
In the last 5 years, the programs in the schools I attended have been mostly disbanded. The politicians argued that struggling students should be concentrated in just a few schools so that the resources to best serve them could also be concentrated in those schools. More likely they wanted to be able to concentrate these students in a few schools they could then ignore. They also wanted to pull the extra funding away from these schools. They succeeded, I guess, and now these schools are back to being underenrolled and "failing" just like they were in the early 1980s before they implemented the original magnet school program.
I used to commute via ferry and express bus (2.5 hours each way). On days I couldn't get home, DH covered when necessary. We also had talked to a neighbor who would've been happy to be our backup in a true emergency. That said, I usually had at least some suspicion ahead of time that I might need to leave early. I was able to work from home occasionally in those circumstances. So...it didn't end up being a problem for me. A transit commute is MUCH nicer than driving through traffic so I'd take that route anytime it was available, even though it could lead to occasional scrambling.
We live in a semi-rural area outside of Seattle and I now use Consumer Cellular, which uses AT&T's network, while DH switched to Google Fi. My ILs are also on Consumer Cellular with me (we cover their cell phones). DH has better coverage where wi-fi is available, but I have better coverage when driving places.
Even with two bills, we're now usually around $100/month for 4 lines, versus $180/month with AT&T.
I tracked my glucose twice a day for 10 days in a row hoping to avoid the sugar crash test. But I didn't pass enough of them. So now I'm an hour into the 2 hour test and starting to feel dizzy. Hopefully the next hour passes quickly.
I'm sorry! I hope you feel better and get through it!
Thanks! Only 25 minutes to go.
I hope you start to feel better soon and that your recovery goes quickly!