- Pregnancy
- Baby & Toddler
- Parents
- Getting Pregnant
- Baby Names
- Product Reviews
-
Registry
- Community
-
More
Want a personalized experience?
Download the free app
September 2012 Moms
tinyhumantoe
member
Friday General Chat
tinyhumantoe
member
Is 4pm too late to start this? I have stuff that doesn't belong in other threads 
This discussion has been closed.
Re: Friday General Chat
I think if I were a SAHM I would make time to go to the gym every day and let W play at the daycare there. I would do some library stuff, museums, and all kinds of other things (as well as stay at home sometimes). Parks in the summer, indoor things in the winter. I felt so happy just being with her and dawdling around. It made me realize that all of my life stress is honestly work related.
The first 2 showed up at 11am. Long story short, I ended up going to pick up O'Charley's takeout for everyone's lunch because the chic was 5 seconds pregnant and didn't want to eat anything we had. I forgot ranch dip so she came to the grocery with me, and threw a gallon of whole milk, pint of blueberries, and a yogurt parfait in my basket. She doesn't really speak English (she's from Columbia), so I awkwardly paid for her $15 of stuff.
The other people texted at 7pm!! and said they were going to dinner, then showed up at 830. They stayed like, an hour.
So 10pm rolls around and the first two here are still camped out on my sofa. They asked DH if they could just stay at our house. DH got up and went to work at 7am, and I got to awkwardly feed breakfast to the pickiest fucking woman on the planet. They left at 11 today, and blankets are all over my couch and my sink is full of dishes.
Last time DH gets to plan anything. Anyone want to come over for chili and sandwiches? I have MOUNTAINS of food.
I would totally sit in the sauna then enjoy a long gym shower every day if I stayed at home with the girls. Glad you get to rejoin next week!!!
I got a bunch of boy hand me down clothes. It's great. I have a good start on clothes. 6mo wardrobe done and a good start on all other sizes up to 2T! I do not like boy clothes as much as girl. I don't find them as cute or fun.
They were both beasts last night. Sophia threw a fit for 20 minutes because she wanted to come downstairs but didn't want to walk. Julia threw a fit for all of dinner because she's decided she's too old for the highchair. I don't know how we'll safely institute a booster for her yet though...
DH was so happy to go to work last night, and I worked my stress out by undecorating from Christmas and deep cleaning my house. Amazing how much decluttering can help you feel like you have a semblance of control in your life again!
This. Ethan started rejecting us feeding him by 8 months and the highchair shortly after. We bought a booster with a belt that goes between his legs and have been using it ever since.
@tinyhumantoe I get that SAHM feeling creep in anytime I'm home with the boys for a long break like this and especially summer break.
I've declared tomorrow Family Fun Day. We are going to to SOMETHING(movie, bowling, skating) do a Target run, and then make homemade pizza for dinner as it's our last Sat as a family of 4.
MIL passed away on Tuesday pretty unexpectedly 1200 miles away. DH doesn't fly so we headed out immediately. After rummaging thru her apartment and handling arrangements I am an exhausted mess trying to hold it together for him. I am just so sad for him, my daughter, and stepdaughters.
Right now I am so thankful for the support we have at home and just grateful. Grateful for life. Rant over, in case anyone was wondering if I was still alive.
Glad to hear all your holidays were so successful.
I'm so sorry for your family's loss.
Yeah, I lucked out with Sophia... she didn't ever give the highchair much of a fight, so when we moved her to a booster, we just got the Prince Lionheart soft booster with no straps. I don't think she'd be able to even reach the table in a comparable one with straps since she's so petite height-wise. Our highchair is a graco 4 in 1 that can have the seat lift off and become a chair booster, so I guess that would be the next try, and see if just getting rid of the tray would be enough for her.
Today she was fine at dinner because we really worked on her self-feeding with silverware skills, which made her feel big and forget that the highchair makes her feel small.
The perfect life for me would be to go back to teaching. I loved everything about it; I think it lets you have a good family balance. The level of stress with that job was very manageable for me. It was "lower stakes" than my current job, just like being an ER doctor would be higher stakes than my current job, for me personally. I feel like I could appreciate everything about it after this job.
I never really know what to say when the responses to my (admittedly endless) work vents are - tell your boss no / don't do it / etc. It's just a weird situation all around- I am a company owner and will eventually be a majority owner of the company. My family is involved, which is a whole different fuck basket. I have an interest in the success of the company and a level of responsibility there. It's new technology so that brings other weird problems, and the places that use some of our equipment can't have it go down because of public safety.
Most "self-inflicted stress' isn't because I don't have the nuts to tell my boss no, it's because it has to be done and it sometimes literally comes down to me. We're all working like dogs, it's not just me. I feel like when I start to explain the situation a little, it makes me come across as really self-important. It's not that I'm super duper or something, it's just that there are a handful of things where I'm literally the only person who can do them, mostly because we're a small company with new technology. Small companies are stretched thin during periods of growth and we keep thinking there's a light at the end of the tunnel, but we've doubled every year for the past 6 and can't seem to catch our breath.
I'm kind of a bulldog at work out of necessity (I can be stern for the good of my company but struggle with it personally? Psychoanalyze that, ha), but I have to assume that some percentage of my stress falls within my personality. Someone who frets for days over what to say to a neighbor trying to sell them advocare is surely manufacturing some type of unnecessary stress at work, too. My guess is it's around 75/25 real vs manufactured. I would say in my personal life it's the inverse. 75% of my personal stress is due to lack of nuts.
@amandad715 you wil LOVE the nosefreida!!