FFFC

kleigh926

It's almost Friday, so let's do it.

I go back to work on Monday. I have been off for 4 months. And I only work 1 day a week. But I am still dreading it. I don't feel like packing everything up for the kids and waking them up early. I don't even really like my job that much. I don't think I'm that good at it (which might sound bad coming from a nurse, but I have a PRN position and am kinda shuffled around wherever they need me, which makes me feel like I don't get a real good handle on some things that I rarely do). I wouldn't care if I never worked another day in my life and instead just raised my kids and volunteered. But that's not really practical right now as we are trying to save money to move, so..... back to work I go.

tamarar5

I've been planning lessons for C all day, and am excited for the next couple of weeks. And I'm wondering why it took me so long to make lesson plans. These past several months could possible have been a whole lot easier...

jenniferraborn

@uncaripswife I am jealous! Hope you have a great time :-)

Rynleigh

Back when we found out we were having twins, DH stressed that he wants to be sure that they both have their own cakes and their own parties for their birthdays. I am totally down with that when they are old enough to have friends and want to make a big deal out of it all.... but I seriously talked it over with my sister and best friends this week, and we've all unanimously decided that all of our children, all but two of whom have winter birthdays, don't get big parties this year. We've decided that we shall schedule one huge Very Merry Unbirthday in the dead of summer, far from all the birthdays, with a bunch of cake and ice cream and just one gift from each family for each kid. It will be liked second Christmas, and it will save us all the pain in the ass of coming out for all the kids parties all fugging winter long. 

I have no regrets. 

wineandcake

I work the long term care wing of a hospital. And I have horrible gas lately (oh the joys of pregnancy). If I happen to fart and then a coworker comes by, I have no problem blaming the smell on a patient so no one thinks I'm disgusting lol. I just say something along the lines of 'well *insert old person name*, I think we should probably get you to the toilet' or if one of them walks by I make a comment about needing to check their brief.... Yep, I know I'm an awful person.

holly321

Dh and I had date night planned for tonight. Well, the kids are sick, so we are going to try again next week.

So, dh is going it with his friends, theoretically after the kids are in bed. I plan to order in a cheeseburger sub and onion rings, followed by a bubble bath, gelato and Netflix.

Don't tell dh, but I am pretty excited for my evening.

SummerLove21

DH goes back to work on Monday.  I secretly am excited.  It's not that he hasn't been helpful, because he has, but it's all on his terms and it's not always so helpful.  Add that DS has had nothing even resembling a schedule or consistent...anything for three weeks and he's been kind of a terror.  DH has had to leave a couple of times and it is like a switch flips in that kid - he goes from being crazy, demanding, whiny, and clingy to a independent, sweet, helpful kid.  I think we all are craving normalcy again.

Wait until the next FFFC...I may be eating my words.

tamarar5

@Rynleigh‌ I've always said to save on birthday parties, we would only do parties with friends on "even" birthdays (with the exception of 1 and 5, being big years). That's all awesome and fine until I realized... I've got two kids, both celebrating even year birthdays, birth SEVERN DAYS APART. FML #-o

We kind of talked about sabotabout doing evens for girls and odds forfor boys — which still puts two birthday parties in the same year, but they're all six months apart. And we'd have to make exceptions for 16 and 18.

Rynleigh

We figure that between our twelve collective kids, who's birthday's run from late October to the end of February (with the exception of one May and one June), we'll just plop one big party right around August. I priced it out and we can do a party at ChuckE's for around $250 even with all twelve of them being added on as "birthday" kids... that saves us having to find entertainment that will keep them all busy, it reduces the amount of clean up we have to do, it doesn't force any of us to host... I just make a couple cakes, grab a big tub of ice cream, and let the mouse do the rest. 

MalRiggs

I got a new phone. And now have the bump app. It was seriously then first app I installed. I even may actually get to post a picture

tamarar5

@byebyebooze‌ We still celebrate every year, we just have "friend" parties every other year. . On the odd years, we have family parties and usual presents are bigger.

tamarar5

@fishes‌ My ds does this too!

Poppy523

My confession is I don't want to potty train because I have a fear of outhouses and public bathrooms and the thought of taking a toddler in them makes me cringe.

wineandcake

To avoid public bathrooms we hve a little potty that stays in the car and we just throw a towel underneath it and set it on the seat of the car.

TarheelMama202

Poppy523 said:

My confession is I don't want to potty train because I have a fear of outhouses and public bathrooms and the thought of taking a toddler in them makes me cringe.

Um, YES. I am not even considering potty training until 2.5. That's the earliest I will let the thought cross my mind. Public bathrooms with a toddler sound like a complete and utter nightmare. 

Poppy523

wineandcake said:

To avoid public bathrooms we hve a little potty that stays in the car and we just throw a towel underneath it and set it on the seat of the car.

Brilliant- doing it

ally2011

Bare butt on all the potties for life!

Rynleigh

byebyebooze said:

Maybe I'm spoiled (that can be my confession), but I would have been so, so sad if I didn't get to celebrate my birthdays as a kid. Once DD is old enough to get it - I'm guessing next year, judging by friends' kids - we will be having at least cake, balloons, and friends.

All the older kids get small parties where their friends from school are invited each year, and all the kids get to have a small cake and pick dinner on their birthdays. We're just completely 100% over having to attend parties for all of the kids in our extended family. Having 10 birthday parties (that's just for 10 of the 12 kids between us... we also have 4 adult birthdays during the winter) while also planning Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and Valentines' Day is completely absurd - and will only become more ridiculous over time as two of the families intend to have more children. So we moved the family celebration for all the kids to one big party this summer, so that we aren't hopping around all winter long. 

kelly321

FFSC: I had a little twinge of ha-see-what-it's-like this morning when I woke up the girls at 11am (4am my US time) to start getting them back towards adjusting to the time.