Working Moms Check In

ramfan05

Good morning ladies! Happy Friday! It's been awhile (it was Thanksgiving, then I forgot to post last week, sorry!) How are you all doing?

Celebrations/Successes:

Struggles/Challenges:

Me Time/Family Time (has it been happening? It's such a busy time of year!)

Weekend plans:

ramfan05

I feel like an imposter, because I'm on break right now. I'm just here for the support this week Hope you all have an awesome Friday!

hammysmommy

How are you all doing?  Tired.  BabyG hasn't been sleeping well for...I don't know...months?  He started sleeping better this past week, but then this cold/cough thing he's got (now) showed up...  Now he wakes himself up coughing all night long, or rather gets up on hands and knees to cough a bunch and just kneels there (eyes closed & whimpering) until I come over and give him his lovey (a&a elephant lovey).  After that he basically face plants and sleeps until the next coughing fit.

Celebrations/Successes: babyG, who's 9months old now, saw Santa and did rather well!  Also, dsd made the honor roll for her first quarter; babyG made it through the entire 1.25 hour long school concert and managed to sleep through the second half of dsd's rec league basketball game.

Struggles/Challenges: my mom is flying up on Christmas and will be alternating houses between mine and my sisters - so we're trying to clean, but it's hard being back at work and exhausted.  H is annoyed with me bc I'm "not helping much"; he apparently still expects me to be up with babyG all night, work all day, take over when I get home from work (dinner/play/bath/bedtime), make dinner for the rest of us, and then still have energy/desire to do housework!  Oh yeah, and I have virtually no money to help with Christmas gifts this year.  My paycheck goes to the every month expenses (mortgage, cable, cell phones, electricity, car payment, health insurance, day care, groceries, diapers, formula) and doesn't even make ends meet most months.  H helps out a lot (propane for heating&cooking, electric when I can't, daycare {we're shooting for him paying for 1wk per month}) but he's self employed and in his slow season (lawn care/property maintenance).

Me Time/Family Time (has it been happening? It's such a busy time of year!)  Not so much on the "me" time, but we've had a ton (too much?) family time lately (i.e. 8 hours at my ILs for thanksgiving, which was <2weeks after spending the day with them for H's bday).  We've got school events, school BB games, rec league BB games, DSD's turning 12 (bday party tomorrow), Christmas and my mom's visit.

Weekend plans: DSD's Bday party, apparently hanging with the ILs too, the F14 gift exchange (I still have no clue/clues), church.  Hopefully making some kind of ornaments this weekend with babyG's hand prints