Silence of the SPAMS...

GraceInCA

candynicole26 said:

@lioness13‌ sorry for your loss and prayers for her angel and husband. @GraceInCA‌ oh my lord. I cant. I agree with your husband "lay down play dead". I would stop responding to her email. Does all the moms share emails?

Some of us email each other, for play dates and such. I don't know who else she emails. I'm guessing more than just me, based on some things she has said in her emails.

lioness13

GraceInCA said:

Rant ahead, go ahead and scroll past because it is a FWP.


There's a mom at my LO's school that I want to smack in the face.  Which might just help her relax, since her face is perpetually screwed into a worried look. That is her only face. Even when she smiles, it's a worried smile. She has been concern trolling the shit out of the class, and badmouthing the teachers nonstop.  Last week she said something to me along the lines of, "I told them that Jimmy has to eat his snack at 2 pm on the dot or else it throws off his whole schedule, but they said he was having too much fun playing and they didn't want to interrupt him, so he didn't get his snack until 2:15! Well you can just imagine how bad the rest of my day with him was!"  No, crazy lady, I can't imagine.  "Do they do this to you too? Are they as horrible with your child?"  Um, actually no they're just fine. They attend to her every need. "Did you see how much makeup Teacher Kathy was wearing?? I'm worried about it rubbing off on my child!" I'm sure she's not going to wipe her face vigorously on his shirt, so relax. 

You get the point.

I really feel like saying something to her, but I don't want to escalate it into something stupid. I just nod my head and look dumb whenever she talks to me. The problem is that she's taken to emailing me (and I'm guessing other parents too) about her "concerns". 

GraceInCA said:

The problem is that she emails that some horrible thing has happened to her child, and asks if it has happened to mine too. The answer is never "yes".  She told me a couple of weeks ago that her child cries hysterically when she gets him ready for school in the morning and then he's terrified when the show up and she brings him into the room.  I've never witnessed this at the school, so I don't even know if she's telling the truth.  She seemed to imply that something sinister was happening at the school and that's why her child was so reluctant to go.  Well my child goes running out of my arms and straight into the classroom to hug a teacher, so clearly we are not having the same school experience. Right now she's paying the full time program fee, but she only brings him one or two days a week, tops.  I don't even know why she bothers. I can't even imagine what a nuisance this woman is to the teachers.

ilovemarfa

I agree with @NurseMommy13‌. My husband is a doctor and works in several hospitals and I'm not worried at all about ebola. I was working for us immigration in Toronto when the whole SARS epidemic was going on and I wasn't infected. I came into contact with many, many people from Hong Kong, and I never was concerned. I just practiced good hygiene and wore gloves when I was handing passports and documents (I wore them anyways as people would come up to you with their passports in their mouths- yuck.) SARS is an airborne illness. As long as you don't go near somebody who has ebola and is vomiting or pooping, etc you will be fine.

lioness13

megsw85 said:

Who was talking about being colour blind? https://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/are-you-actually-color-blind

It was me. My DH is color blind.

ColieAnn31

dmlk413 said:

I seriously think my boss should let us all leave early so we can watch the Royals game.  Nobody is going to be able to get anything done.

 

@lioness13 I'm so sorry for your loss.  I'll be thinking of your friend's family.

Agreed. I want to be at home watching the game so bad. I hope they can pull out this last win!

bumpuser7846882

Caught up on the words.
Sorry for your loss, @lioness13‌
@riansmommie‌ Benjamin freaking LOVES playing in the kitchen and cutting up toy fruits and veggies. That's pretty manly. Knives. Q.E.D.
@GraceInCA‌ I would totally disengage from that mom. She's probably making it a lot worse by taking him inconsistently. Benjamin did so much better at daycare after we switched to full time from twice/week.

On a sadder note, I found out this morning that the younger brother of one of my students committed suicide last night/today. They were very close. I didn't know the brother, but teachers I've talked to about it were really surprised and said he seemed a lot more 'with it' than my student (who is very sweet, but aloof). I have no idea what to do when/if he comes back. I wonder if he was the one to find him, and I can't imagine living in that house afterward. A lot of the neighborhood kids went home early today when they found out.

I just want to go hug my baby.

riansmommie

@subliminalrabbit‌ neither! Cold stone for the win!!

dmlk413

subliminalrabbit said:

DQ vs Culver's:  discuss.

For ice cream, Culver's.  I love me some blizzards but Culver's frozen custard is amazing.  Their food is actually edible too. 

 

WasNotWas

@lioness13‌ I'm so sorry. Big hugs

WasNotWas

Awing school pictures!! Ty was not happy but he looks like Bradley's security as usual

WasNotWas

@violet1183 said:

CL8badB said:

subliminalrabbit said:

DQ vs Culver's:  discuss.

Never had either of them. :-S

I MAY have had DQ once in New Jersey. Never heard of Culvers before this board!

Huge Red mango fan though. They have a self-serve one here and my H says it looks like an 8 year old's sundae when I'm done.

Red mango is the absolute best!!! Greatest of all time

ColieAnn31

And the Royals are going to the world series!

cynthia2007

@lioness, praying for your friend's family

ColieAnn31

34blondie said:

ColieAnn31 said:

And the Royals are going to the world series!

With Ned Yost! I'm staying on the bandwagon.

I'm going shopping this weekend for our world series shirts! The Royals have seriously impressed me. I can say that I am proud to be from Kansas City.

ColieAnn31

majwv8 said:

ColieAnn31 said:

And the Royals are going to the world series!

Time for the Cardinals to do some work tonight! I'm sure the networks would hate an I-70 series.

I want an I-70 series!!!!

dmlk413

ColieAnn31 said:

34blondie said:

ColieAnn31 said:

And the Royals are going to the world series!

With Ned Yost! I'm staying on the bandwagon.

I'm going shopping this weekend for our world series shirts! The Royals have seriously impressed me. I can say that I am proud to be from Kansas City.

I will be doing the same thing! What a game!

lioness13

I'm on my way to have a few saki bombs with some friends! Anyone else drinking tonight?

cynthia2007

my friend just told me that she's getting a divorce and signing papers next week. Feel so bad for her. She told me a few months ago that they were arguing a lot but now its official. No kids. I wish I could go visit her and have some girl time!

musicalsilver

Box wine!  All kinds of classy klassy up in here.

itsStackie

All the alcohol... In my NyQuil

GraceInCA

I will be drinking a couple fingers of Bourbon. Repeat as necessary.

Cricket81

Dear October,
It's 80 outside. All the doors are sticking because of the humidity. My allergies have kicked back in. Go home, you're drunk.
Sincerely,
The girl who lives for sweater weather in New England.

riansmommie

sctiger said:

Thinking of all the angel babies today on Infant and Pregnancy Loss Day. Our sweet babies will never be forgotten.

I had my candles going for my angel babies in the window today.

WasNotWas

Dear Wednesday,
why aren't you Friday tho?
Xoxo,
Workin for the weekend

daffy2k

Apparently since the east is all messed up! I just got to my dad's place SW of Montreal and it was no joke 26 C out this afternoon! Uh, I didn't pack for this shit. When I left AB it was like 10 C.

daffy2k

I don't want to jinx myself, but so far Madeline has fallen right onto her normal schedule, but on EST. Hoping it lasts all week and then transitions back smoothly at home. The travel day kills her so it was easy to get her to bed 2 hrs early, lol. Me, not so much. Here I am bumping at 11:11 pm.

musicalsilver

@kari5186‌ I mostly feel the same way about bourbon/scotch/whiskey but am slowly reforming. Honey whiskey is my gateway drink!

daffy2k

Oh my lord! These eye teeth are by far the worst coming in. Not to mention we are traveling. I doubt I'll see another full night's sleep until they are all in/we get home. Lovely...

daffy2k

What do you guys do to soothe teething pain in the middle of the night. During the day she is mostly content if she gets a dose of Advil here and there and a washcloth to chew on, but at night she has no interest in chewing anything and the Advil barely makes a difference. I am at a loss to keep this little girl asleep past midnight.

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numbersgirl08

@melOHdy‌ Same here. Everyday there's some new scrape! Right now it's one on her cheek - definitely noticeable!

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amberdt03

Went to sleep at 3am, and guess who decided we needed to get up for the day at 5:30 instead of our usual 8am? I have a quiz today and need lots of caffeine.

numbersgirl08

I need some advice.

So I've complained on here before about N and daycare napping.  The daycare we go to is pretty new, and they are waiting for licensing to visit again so they can open up another room, and then they'll have room for N in the toddler room.  Right now she is going back and forth between the infant room and toddler room, with all naps in the infant room.  She does perfectly fine with play time and meal time in either room, but it's been over 3 weeks and she has made no progress on the nap front.

She typically naps in the infant room, and about half of the time gets no nap at all and the other days gets about 30 minutes.  I pushed to get her to nap in the toddler room, and the first day she tried that, she fell asleep right away and slept for an hour (and they said she would have probably gone longer but she had a dirty diaper that woke her up).  Then they tried her in the toddler room again this Monday and she didn't sleep and kept some of the other kids awake.

It was last Wed. that she napped in the toddler room well, so I figured she would nap there again yesterday, because they have the same number of kids every Wed. and the ratio would work out.  I noticed on the webcam that she was in the infant room for nap time and asked the director.  Her response was that, because she kept some of the other toddlers awake on Monday, they didn't put her over there today because some of the toddlers HAD to nap.  That response made me kind of ragey because at this point I feel like she HAS to learn to nap herself, and that should be a priority too, given that she should be in the toddler room anyways!

I've tried to be very diplomatic with the director, and understanding since they've had issues with getting licensing to visit, even though when we first started at daycare we were told as soon as she hit 15 mos she'd be in the toddler room full time (that was a couple of weeks ago).  But I wasn't quite as nice responding to her last email.  I hate being the pushy mom.

I just don't know what to do.  Sometimes I feel like I should just say, to hell with it, I'll just get used to a toddler who doesn't nap and is a melting-down mess every evening.  But it's not fair to her! 

So anyways: any suggestions on strategies to get her to nap in the infant room/toddler room?  Any other ideas?

WasNotWas

y'all...I just got my 5 year anniversary badge...the question is, am I bragging or complaining?

WasNotWas

has anyone heard of the website Twice? I want to order stuff but need to know if it's legit

ilovemarfa

@WasNotWas‌ one of my friends uses twice to buy and sell clothes. She's always putting on facbeook how she loves it.

daffy2k

Thanks @subliminalrabbit‌ . I sure hope they come through soon. Between teeth and traveling around to grandparents, she has not been getting much sleep, which means I don't get much sleep. I'm ready to get home and back to our routine.

@libberlulu, it was the same for us.  She was tossing and turning practically all night after she got up at midnight.  We were up for at least an hour then.  I'm sharing a room with her while we are visiting family and she would not lay back down in her travel crib with me in the room.  But she also would not lay in bed with me.  So I had to sit on the couch for 45 min watching her shift on the monitor until she finally fell asleep.  Then she woke up the minute I climbed back into bed.  She ended up sleeping with me at that point, but it was awful.  

numbersgirl08

@steamboat123 She just can't relax with so many people in the room doing different things.  It's really bad in the infant room because not all kids are napping at the same time, the lights are on, and lots of things are going on while she's trying to nap.

cynthia2007

@numbersgirl08, in the toddler room, do they get to have anything bto sleep with? When A moved from the nursery to toddler room, they switched to sleeping on cots and let them have blankets from home. That helped. I've seen some babies have a snuggle buddyor whatever they nap with at home there so they nap better.