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SAHM check-in 10/28
Meghan14
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I really look forward to Tuesdays. I hope I'm not alone.
What were your successes this week?
What was your biggest challenge or struggle this week?
What helped save your sanity?
Topic for the week: SAH & Being a role model. How do you feel about SAH and an example it could set for LO? Do you feel that it sends a positive message about putting family first? Or do you worry about it teaching gender stereotypes? (As we read each other's answers remember they are speaking for their family and not all of society or womakind.)
GTKY: So as of a few weeks ago, network Saturday morning cartoons are gone 
( ( What were some of your favorites as a kid?
Feel free to bring up any other thoughts, feelings, or concerns you are having.
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Re: SAHM check-in 10/28
What were your successes this week?
Everything is running pretty smoothly, just super busy.
What was your biggest challenge or struggle this week?
ILs! DH and I had planned to take a nice long walk to our favorite bar (smoke-free & surprisingly kid friendly) and back on Sunday. ILs called Fri and were shocked and disappointed to learn we already had plans for Sat and insisted on seeing us Sunday. Then when we were out, they got H to commit to plans next weekend for FILs Bday. By the time we got home it was too late to walk or it would throw off LO's schedule because he's fall asleep on the way back. I was super pissed.
What helped save your sanity?
I drove to the bar, DH walked LO and met me there. Then we all came back in the car. Not only did I get my beer, I got 45 mins by myself to enjoy it and read my book while I waited for the boys.
Topic for the week: SAH & Being a role model. How do you feel about SAH and an example it could set for LO?
I worry a bit about the message this could send to a toddle/ pre-school aged LO. Right now he's so young it's fine. I will be going to back to work sometime before he is in 1st grade. I hope the modeling of work/home responsibilities he will see for most of his life will make-up for anything early on. I've also begun trying to use some more gender neutral terms: mostly "parents" vs. "mommies."
GTKY: So as of a few weeks ago, network Saturday morning cartoons are gone. What were some of your favorites as a kid?
When I heard this the first one I thought of was Ghostbusters. I think this may have been a favorite for my brother and me. I also remember TMNT as being a really big deal for us. And not a cartoon, but Saved By The Bell was obviously the best show ever.
I don't remember them on Saturdays, so maybe they were weekdays, but Inspecter Gadget, He-Man, and Scooby Doo were my all time favorites.
Feel free to bring up any other thoughts, feelings, or concerns you are having.
@Meghan14- Glad you got some alone time before DH & baby met up. Sometimes that is the perfect medicine. Sorry things didn't work out with your IL's!
What were your successes this week?
Made it through without eating any candy...until yesterday.
Also managed to organize and put away some stuff in our bedroom finally so the room actually looks nice and put together not "recently moved into". I had to tell DH before he noticed but he was happy once he did.
I also got a "job". Working election polls next week so I definitely won't be on here. I get $100...pretty pitiful pay for 2 hours of training and a 14 hour work day, but money is money!
What was your biggest challenge or struggle this week?
LO still has stuffy/runny nose from teething. Which makes it hard for him to breathe, eat, and sleep some nights. (Last night was rough).
Also his sleep schedule is totally screwed up since Saturday for multiple reasons. So he's been extra cranky by 7pm and bedtime is around 9/9:30...ergh!
What helped save your sanity?
Gym time. It really is nice to get out and focus on me, and have a 1 hour break from LO. It helps the days go by fast.
Topic for the week: SAH & Being a role model. How do you feel about SAH and an example it could set for LO?
I think being a SAHM will hopefully portray to my son the values that we believe religiously (I'm a Mormon), in that the family is a crucial unit in society. I don't know that I'll never want to return to working, but if I got a job, I'd want one that allows me to be home when my kids are home from school. I hope my son (and any other kids) can see that we put family first, sacrificing my wants and financial gains for me to be home and hopefully nurture them and guide them as they learn as well.
GTKY: So as of a few weeks ago, network Saturday morning cartoons are gone
( What were some of your favorites as a kid?
We didn't have cable growing up. My dad was in and out of work- pretty much on welfare for the first 10 years of my life. But I did enjoy Mr. Rogers neighborhood and Sesame Street if that counts (90's stuff, not the old school or awful modern today stuff).
*edit: spelling...typing too fast as naptime is closing I can feel it!
What were your successes this week? Knowing when to say when and how to take care of myself; I feel like I'm doing better being in the moment with LO and really enjoying him without stressing out about housework, schedules, etc.
What was your biggest challenge or struggle this week? Stomach flu. Two weeks ago was strep throat, then Friday I woke up with the flu. Thankfully Friday is LO's day at DC, but on Saturday, DH expected my help. By Sunday, I was better but still exhausted, but I was back to full duty.
What helped save your sanity? Having my mom visit which coicided with a night DH worked late.
Topic for the week: SAH & Being a role model. How do you feel about SAH and an example it could set for LO? Do you feel that it sends a positive message about putting family first? Or do you worry about it teaching gender stereotypes? (As we read each other's answers remember they are speaking for their family and not all of society or womakind.) I haven't given this much thought. I think a lot of this will depend on DH's response/attitude to me being at home (even though I'm only home PT). If DH treats me being at home as something that is as important and vital to our family as his paycheck is, then I think our children will respect that. I think it will also teach LO how to approach his own family situation when he's a grown-up, whatever that may look like. I work really hard to make sure DH knows he's an equal parent. He'll occasionally say that he's "baby-sitting." I always, always, always correct him -- because he's not baby-sitting; he's parenting. I hope this will show our kids that mom isn't the only one who parents -- Dad has that job too.
GTKY: So as of a few weeks ago, network Saturday morning cartoons are gone
( What were some of your favorites as a kid? I don't remember watching many cartoons. We weren't allowed to watch that much TV, and we were only allowed to watch certain things, like Disney (which back then was a paid premium channel!).
Feel free to bring up any other thoughts, feelings, or concerns you are having.
@meghan14 thanks for running this again!!