Roll Call!

nanabanana06

Who's here and what are you doing?

I am looking up ice cream recipes. DH wants Rocky Road and I want nutella gelato. Other than that, DH is making dinner; potato soup. He's willingly peeling potatoes since he bought an electric peeler. He's also in the dog house. He forgot our anniversary.

CMSullivan326

Watching Storage Wars.

I have a wicked headache and if DH doesn't stop whining like a child, he's getting junk punched.

wiggyslilsis

Just got done eating dinner, quesadillas, yum! Watching our DVRd shows and playing with the kiddo. She had a late nap so bedtime will be a little late. I am hoping to sneak in a glass of wine but it is the last glass in the bottle.

wiggyslilsis

Spooko:

kiraliz2:

Spooko:

I finally showered and got all of the smoke smell off of me and calmed down enough to eat dinner. It's so crazy how quickly everything can change.

Close calls definitely make you think about things in a different way. Glad everyone is okay but sorry it was so stressful for you!

I read your story. That's freaking crazy. Glad everyone is ok.

Me too. It was very stressful and shocking and it just kept changing whether they thought the house would go or not. I was on the phone with my mom (which is stressful enough bc our relationship is contentious at a minimum) and trying to get her to tell me what stuff to get out of the house. She couldn't tell me anything specific or where to look or anything. Makes me sure to keep all my important stuff in one spot just in case.

wiggyslilsis

Woah that quote got all messed up. My message is in the middle and I am on mobile so editing it just isn't worth the time or effort.

amykins1283

I'm here. DH is doing bedtime with DS1 and it is not going well which is par for the course lately. DS2 just finished his witching hour and is passed out in my arms and now I am afraid to move even though I have to wash bottles or he won't be eating tonight. So...it's fun around here right now.

robinsokj

Having a glass of Cabernet and convincing myself that it will get rid of my sore throat

robinsokj

kiraliz2:

morgann2010:

DH just left to get me FIVE GUYS BURGERS AND FRIES, OH YEAH!

And now for a food UO: I don't really care for Five Guys. 

5 guys is disgusting

Littledeer84

Here, just back from a long weekend visiting family. Just me and dd. Went great, mostly, but flying back today was bad. I was that mom, with a crying 2 year old begging me to hold her while I dragged her and her car seat through the airport.

Littledeer84

Spooko:

Littledeer84:

Here, just back from a long weekend visiting family. Just me and dd. Went great, mostly, but flying back today was bad. I was that mom, with a crying 2 year old begging me to hold her while I dragged her and her car seat through the airport.

Last year I had DD on my lap sleeping for the majority of the flight. She woke up scared and screaming just in time for decent and refused to drink anything. This led to ear pain and more screaming and the whole thing was awful. 20 minutes of that shiiit and knowing my baby was in pain but not being able to do anything to help her. Plus knowing everyone hated us at that moment.

Oh, I know, it is awful! Lucky for us she didnt have problems on the flight itself, it was just getting there. She did great on the way out, but was seriously sleep deprived on the way back. I didnt bring a stroller, but I did have her car seat. Carrying a 30 lb toddler and a car seat it almost impossible. But she was determined that I do it or suffer her wrath. And I suffered. Confession: I spent $30 at the airport gift shop on 2 toys to shut her up. 

Littledeer84

kiraliz2:

We recently decided to do a kitchen reno, and we just got the funds secured today. We already had a fight over it. Sigh.

 

Good luck - it will be great when it is done. Getting there sucks. We just did our countertops. And still need to do the backsplash. So our kitchen has a half finished look to it and our crap is piled all over the dining room and it is driving me nuts. So excited to get it done next weekend.  

SunnyMeg1

Here for now. Got sucked in to reading a spanking debate while lurking on Oct '13 and now I'm angry all over that some of those people get to have babies and I apparently can't. I can't even see how someone can pick up a belt and whip their child and think it's a respectable punishment. Jesus.

missyishere

I'm here.  I've been a crabby asshoIe today, so I decided to attempt a cocktail tonight.  FX I don't get sick from one effing drink. Balls.

 

taggiecb

I am in bed. I should be sleeping, but here I am. 

rachael_c26

I'm here. I didn't check back in to last night's roll call, but I was kind of wonky. Drinking and mentioned being a big fat failing failure. Anyway, just on the off chance anyone was curious update below. 

Turns out I didn't irretrievably break my son. Still feel guilty, but... a doctor appt for my son went much better today than expected.

As of right now, I'm bumping and trying to be quiet while MH does some paperwork...

He brought a bag of pretzels to bed. Somehow they ended up facing me and I'm the only one still eating them. And a celebratory Smirnoff.

rachael_c26

kiraliz2:

robinsokj:

kiraliz2:

morgann2010:

DH just left to get me FIVE GUYS BURGERS AND FRIES, OH YEAH!

And now for a food UO: I don't really care for Five Guys. 

5 guys is disgusting

I thought I was the only one. People love that shiit.

Make that 3 girls that don't like 5 guys.

chardonnay24

We both forgot our anniversary this year. Whoops.

A didn't nap today and he's in that run-around-like-a-crazy-person tired stage. H is trying to wrestle him into pajamas and then he's going straight to bed. It's been loooong day.

talandree

I'm here - just put Z down. She's had a rough day, didn't nap at all. She was pretty cranky towards the end of the night. 

Now I'm hoping to catch up to Criminal Minds.

Also, just found out there's something going on near y place. There's a ton of cruisers, fire trucks and a chopper flying around near my neighborhood. A little nerve wracking since I'm home alone with Z.   

Prime

morgann2010:

DH just left to get me FIVE GUYS BURGERS AND FRIES, OH YEAH!

Great now I want this

Prime

I'm getting some work done on my take home exam.  About to crack a beer.  I think that should help with my productivity.

LuckyDad

kiraliz2:

morgann2010:

DH just left to get me FIVE GUYS BURGERS AND FRIES, OH YEAH!

And now for a food UO: I don't really care for Five Guys. 

You seriously need to get out of my head sometimes.

Five Guys is fine, but not exciting compared to some other places.

LuckyDad

SunnyMeg1:

Here for now. Got sucked in to reading a spanking debate while lurking on Oct '13 and now I'm angry all over that some of those people get to have babies and I apparently can't. I can't even see how someone can pick up a belt and whip their child and think it's a respectable punishment. Jesus.

A belt? Jesus H. Christ!

missyishere

SunnyMeg1:

Here for now. Got sucked in to reading a spanking debate while lurking on Oct '13 and now I'm angry all over that some of those people get to have babies and I apparently can't. I can't even see how someone can pick up a belt and whip their child and think it's a respectable punishment. Jesus.

That's terrible on so many levels.  I'm also sorry for your losses.  ((hugs))

LuckyDad

morgann2010:

LuckyDad:

kiraliz2:

morgann2010:

DH just left to get me FIVE GUYS BURGERS AND FRIES, OH YEAH!

And now for a food UO: I don't really care for Five Guys. 

You seriously need to get out of my head sometimes.

Five Guys is fine, but not exciting compared to some other places.

I know, but there isn't much to choose from where I am. When I'm craving a greasy burger I at least want a nice one from FGBF, not McDs.

Oh Five Guys >>> McDs. But here we have Burger Lounge, In-N-Out and a couple other options I like better for a decent burger.

missyishere

Rhonda, if you're around:

LuckyDad

morgann2010:

I was pretty shocked when I was younger to find out there are people who don't spank their kids.

I was spanked a few times as a kid. Mostly my mom just threatened it, which usually signaled she meant business. I'm fairly sure her spankings were not exactly power strikes.

Prime

Somewhere over the rainbow, there's another rainbow!

gnomemom

I'm here. I didn't start my day planning on trying to let LO CIO tonight, but shiit got desperate. We started Ferber method and it works so well so far that it's a little irritating. I've spent so many nights desperately rocking and shushing him to sleep for 1 to 2 hours, when apparently all I had to do was let him fuss for 7 minutes. Sigh.

chardonnay24

gnomemom:

I'm here. I didn't start my day planning on trying to let LO CIO tonight, but shiit got desperate. We started Ferber method and it works so well so far that it's a little irritating. I've spent so many nights desperately rocking and shushing him to sleep for 1 to 2 hours, when apparently all I had to do was let him fuss for 7 minutes. Sigh.

One of the (many) reasons we decided to sleep train was because my son was crying during a nap and I couldn't get to him for whatever reason. He ended up soothing himself back to sleep within mere minutes. Since no one was getting any sleep with the feed/rock/shush routine anyway, we decided to just try it and see what happened. As it turned out, I have a rare breed of child that prefers to put himself to sleep and all he needed was a few minutes to work things out on his own. He still does that, but he hasn't cried since those first couple days of sleep training.

MrsGoodkat

I'm sorry for your loss, SunnyMeg. 

morgann2010:

Also, the things I got spanked over were pretty bad things. Pushed my cousin down a large flight of stairs, threw broken glass at her, pushed her in a creek onto rocks (okay, I really hated her and I still do) When I was 7 I pushed my husband off of a pool deck because I thought he was cute. We didn't speak again until we were like 13.

Yeah those are pretty bad, lol.

 My dad spanked my brother once (with his hand) and my brother still talks about it, lol. My dad is a quiet guy so when he got mad and would yell that was enough to scare us.

DH was "spanked" with belts, switches, etc, and what I never understood is when he would say "But it never happened in anger, he would do it when he was calm" or if his dad was away his mom would threaten and the dad would carry out the punishment when he got home a week or two later. I was like, and that was effective? By then you probably forgot what you did. I can more understand spanking in the moment when you're frustrated than being totally calm hours later and still being able to take off your belt and smack your child with it.