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Whine Wednesday
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Re: Whine Wednesday
WE have been so busy, the kids have been tired. DH is pushing me to take DD to an event on Sat so she entirely misses her nap. I have been up all hours of the night and DD has been going to bed at 10:40 because she is off schedule. I'm the one who has to deal with the kids 24/7, so it really irritates me how everyone else finds it so easy to give me a hard time about missing naps.
Also I don't know why so many shirts for kids have to say stuff like Diva, Rockstar, I Get What I Want, that kind of thing. My DD is 4, sorry, she's not going to wear a shirt that says Diva. It is tough shopping in the older girl's section (instead of toddler/baby).
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I am DREADING that transition. I don't understand wanting to make our little girls grow up so fast!
My whine is that I have had stomach issues for 2 weeks now, and nothing the dr recommends is working. And the email mailing program I use for work is not working correctly, and it's just generally on my nerves today!
I hate this in the little girls sections, I can't imagine going up. I don't understand why shirts all need to have words written on them. I hate the Lil' Slugger and Princess nonsense. It is just a little silly. We have a few things that say "I
Mommy" or "Daddy's Girl" but I generally make a point to avoid shirts with words on them. Guess I will have to look a little harder as she gets older?
I dread this too, I think it'll only get worse with time! My DD is only 2, but before we know it we'll have those limited choices! Ppl complain that kids "know" too much too young these days, and have more attitude at a younger age, well, look what they are exposed to! I'm in your boat, no DIVA shirts for my girls!
MH is the topic of my whine today! As most of you know we've got 3mo triplets and a 2yo! So obviously I need all the help I can get. So feeing babies, and changing them, yes, that's helpful. But DH, please pick up your empty water bottles and their tiny lids that DD likes to put in her mouth and nearly choke on. I have 3 babies and a toddler to get up in the morning, I don't want to have to scan the house for your crap so that DD isn't put in harms way! Basically he just makes more work for me. I say something, and of course I'm a big B, and he'll work on it...Oh and I ask him to do simple things like bring the laundry down stairs. Our laundry piles up (his and mine) cuz I do the kids stuff everyday and run out of time to do ours! So there's a huge stock pile, and if he brought it down it'd be one less thing for me to have to do, I'd have to make like 7 trips, he could do it in 2! (Strong man that he is
) HELP ME!!!
I feel like even though I'm back to work, we are still so broke! Daycare is costing a fortune, and part of the reason I decided to go back to my old company is because they had a childcare reimbursement (paid 55% of childcare cost up to $5000/year) Well- we just found out they are taking the benefit away come January. (I wasn't eligible to take advantage of the benefit until I was employed 90 days, which is the end of December)
So- now I don't know what to do! Part of the reason I picked the daycare center was because of the benefit. It had to be a licensed center to be reimbursed. I really didn't focus too much on cost, since I thought half of it would be paid for. Now Evan is in a center he loves (and we do too), and is just starting to feel comfortable. But it is one of the more expensive centers in the area. I don't want to pull him out. I just wish I would have known ahead of time... I would have probably had my friends aunt (who runs an in-home center) watch him for way less money.
My MIL's 60th bday is this weekend and DH wants to go visit her in PA (they are having a little party). It is about a 4 hour trip, which means we will have to stop at least once to feed DS. He just started STTN and I don't really want to travel with him and screw that all up (Columbus Day Wknd, DH was a best man in a wedding in Ithaca and we spent the weekend there...it totally threw off DS's schedule and it took a week to get him back to some type of normal) Besides traveling this weekend, DH's entire family (mom, dad, 2 brothers and his finance) are coming to Buffalo next weekend for the Bills game and staying with us. I feel selfish for wanting to spend the weekends with DH, DS and myself, sometimes I feel like that's the only quality time we have with eachother....
I talked to DH about it and told him that I was stressing but he told me it was really important to him so we are going to go.
I want DH to find a job. It is so hard on us and usually I do ok but every so often I freak out and get scared of the future. Then I am mopey and depressed. I just want to feel secure for longer than a few months and then something bad happen. Right now I am in a scared freak out week. When his unemployment runs out I really don't know what we will do if he doesn't have job. If I try to work really hard I could maybe get my own store next year or the following year but that won't help us out right now. I just want to not be the breadwinner for a little bit. I want DH to make more money than me and take care of me.
Ethan's independence is wonderful but if he doesn't get to do something then it is a meltdown. Everything is mommy I help or mommy I do.
I happen to know a really nice place you could stop. Just sayin...
I could pretty much live without seeing MIL for a looooong time after our trip.
There was, of course, the steak incident I posted about.
Then she had a problem with some park tickets expiring so went into the Magic kingdom so she was in a bad mood. I had a feeling she'd want to stir the sh!t- which she's famous for. We had wanted J to watch his cousin get a pirate makeover but SIL/BILs tickets worked so they went ahead of us- no big deal. DH and I walked in with MIL and he made a joke about them "ditching us at the gate". We caught the end of the makeover but headed outside when we saw goofy walk by (Justin LOVES him). Well 2 seconds later SIL comes stomping out and proceeds to "tell us off"- yelling in front of Justin. She says MIL demanded we have a family meeting that night since DH and I were so mad at them for always ditching us and that we were furious at them and called them rude. Needless to say- DH and I confronted MIL in front of SIL and BIL we are "mad at" which turned into a yelling match for all of them... at Disney World... classy. Then MIL walks away in fake tears saying she was only trying to help. BIL (with good intentions) says we should apologize to her since she spends a lot of money to bring us all there and didn't mean to cause trouble. WHAT?!?!? Apologize to someone who put words in my mouth, lied and did all this behind my back??? Oh sure. No problem.The day was pretty much ruined from there.
I'm being cordial but I'm still fuming.
I work from home in Buffalo, but my office is technically in Syracuse. Today my internet at home is down, so I had to drive across town to our little sales office in WIlliamsville and then will have to get home in time for the bus...with no idea if the internet will be back up. (On the plus side, I'm grateful that I showered today. Working at home, I don't always shower...but that's probably more of a FFFC.)
After C's birthday party this weekend, 2 days of "grandma time" this week and this coming weekend when it is MIL's birthday, I am all MIL'ed out. Seriously, if we don't see them until Thanksgiving that would be just fine. She coos "Baby Girl" to C all day and calls her princess and gets her the most ridiculous things and doesn't know what is and is not appropriate to feed C and in what amounts, and it all just makes me want to scream.
My house is dirty and I don't want to clean it - WAH! Those darn cleaning fairies won't stop at my house.
One of the reasons why I'm glad I have a boy, though I don't particularly like seeing so many shirts with skull and crossbones and the like on them.
My whine is I really hope that Ian outgrows his tantrums sometime very soon. Last night was a disaster. We were supposed to carve our pumpkins last night, and I was trying to clean up the kitchen after dinner so we could get started. He asked for ice cream (which he's been allowed to have a bit too often lately, I admit, from spending a couple nights a week at my parents' for dinner), and I told him no. He started his crying fit, which I tried to ignore, but then he started stomping and screeching, and when I sent him to his chair in the living room to calm down, he flat out said to me he wasn't going to, so needless to say, he was in bed by 8pm with no pumpkin carving and "his shows" (we let him watch 1 program on NickJr after bath). The connections still aren't clicking with him, and I'm probably expecting too much from him by thinking they should, but it is so frustrating to deal with the meltdowns.
That stinks! Try this......1 part dawn dish soap to 2 parts hydrogen peroxide. I have been able to lift all kinds of stains with that this week! Pet stains on carpet, a few stains on clothes, etc. Zout laundry stain lifter also works great, got bacon grease out of dh's shirt.
Thanks Goosh!!
My whine is about Dhs work..he requested a week PTO- well there has been some fire or comething- every. single. day.- I know he's the CFO and there are some issues he alone has to deal with- but seriously, PTO= paid. TIME OFF...
his boss called and asked me how it was going and I was like it's an adjustment (and I wanted to say it would be an easier adjustment if you would stop calling my husband so he could help me)