Monday Randoms

thebanich · March 2014

How was your weekend everybody?

Lets get a good thread going today! This board needs a wake-up call.

Also- Happy Monday ~O)

AKB090609 · March 2014

It was warm and sunny so I can't complain! DD did start getting her canines and they seem to be bugging her much more than any of her other teeth did.

AKB090609 · March 2014

LoisLayn23 said:

We are contemplating finding out the sex and revealing on Easter via an egg. This sounds ridiculously corny when I type it out, but DH really wants to find out.

I think it's cute! DO IT!

thebanich · March 2014

AKB090609 said:

LoisLayn23 said:

We are contemplating finding out the sex and revealing on Easter via an egg. This sounds ridiculously corny when I type it out, but DH really wants to find out.

I think it's cute! DO IT!

That actually sounds really cute. Go for it!

thebanich · March 2014

We were working on moving pretty much non-stop all weekend. I also got DDs cold so now I feel extra shitty. But this was the view this morning from my bedroom window:

Photo: First morning in the new house. .. Nice #sunrise #nofilter #homeowner

Photo: First morning in the new house. .. Nice #sunrise #nofilter #homeowner

MRoxy0628 · March 2014

I am in a bit of a funk today and need to snap out of it. I'm back to work after a week off and while it's a bit of an adjustment, I'm glad to get back into a routine.

BeebopandBuddy · March 2014

We are putting our house on the market today. I am working my ass off to keep it in show-condition. I hope it sells fast or the stress of it may kill me. I'm excited though!

willy_gert · March 2014

We were out of town all weekend hanging out with my parents, and my siblings and their kids. Luci went to her first movie and it freaked her out. My mom acted like a small child and it made me cry, but I won't tell anyone but you guys that I did. I remembered why I prefer my SIL to be around.

We got home pretty late last night but I slept all night last night for the first time in weeks.

I did get to go see the house that I grew up in and a few other places of my childhood, so that was fun. And Luci and I went swimming and she is so damned cute in her swimsuit and she was learning to "jump" off the side of the pool to me.

MarisaKathleen · March 2014

While rinsing the shampoo out of my hair this morning, my shower went ice cold. I quickly exited and ran to the basement only to discover our hot water heater is definitely dead. It's been slowly leaking since around 2 weeks ago and of course, the Menards 11% back sale was last week.

Today I will be looking for a new one, in case anyone knows of any good deals or has any recommendations. :-)

Pokedot · March 2014

We had a great weekend! Lots of family time and we even got to play outside for a few minutes. I heard a bird chirp too! So exciting <-not even kidding!

I think we finally found where we're going to stay in Mexico which gives me even more motivation to lose some lbs.

MarisaKathleen · March 2014

cheeseandrice said:

MarisaKathleen said:

While rinsing the shampoo out of my hair this morning, my shower went ice cold. I quickly exited and ran to the basement only to discover our hot water heater is definitely dead. It's been slowly leaking since around 2 weeks ago and of course, the Menards 11% back sale was last week.

Today I will be looking for a new one, in case anyone knows of any good deals or has any recommendations. :-)

I bet Menards will still be the cheapest, especially if you do their Big Card.

That sucks. Hopefully it's not too pricey!

FFMC? Our water heater at the old house was starting to go... probably has a year left on it at most. I'm glad it lasted long enough for us to sell the house.

We've been so lucky..we've been in our house 5 years (in October) and the only thing we've had to replace/upgrade was our central air 2 years ago. Everything else we've done has been cosmetic, so I don't feel too bad about forking out $700 for a new one, I just would have been happier getting some money back since we're also ripping out the deck and rebuilding that this year.

Pokedot · March 2014

cheeseandrice said:

MarisaKathleen said:

While rinsing the shampoo out of my hair this morning, my shower went ice cold. I quickly exited and ran to the basement only to discover our hot water heater is definitely dead. It's been slowly leaking since around 2 weeks ago and of course, the Menards 11% back sale was last week.

Today I will be looking for a new one, in case anyone knows of any good deals or has any recommendations. :-)

I bet Menards will still be the cheapest, especially if you do their Big Card.

That sucks. Hopefully it's not too pricey!

FFMC? Our water heater at the old house was starting to go... probably has a year left on it at most. I'm glad it lasted long enough for us to sell the house.

We just got a new water heater. We looked at Menards and a local plumbing company was still cheaper for a 50 gal. If you need natural gas 50 gal it's about $550 plus tax. Your big card will give you 2% back. We bought one for $480 from the local dealer. DH used to be the plumbing manager actually!

MarisaKathleen · March 2014

cheeseandrice said:

We have to turn in our rental car on Friday. We're picking up the new Escape tonight. I'm worried I'm legitimately going to regret getting the SUV instead of a minivan. I love this thing!

Everyone I know who has a minivan loves it. It frightens me that one day I could love a minivan.

OceanLover26 · March 2014

We're going to Florida Friday and I had to do the dreaded shopping trip for a new swim suite. I got a tankini from Target that fits like a glove (I'm genuinely impressed about how well it fits in the breast because that's been a constant area of discomfort in swim wear for me in the past.) and I'm one Reeses Easter Egg away from this thing being too tight around the belly. I'm being an emotional eater this week. I need to get this in check.

MarisaKathleen · March 2014

IndigoVader said:

MarisaKathleen said:

cheeseandrice said:

We have to turn in our rental car on Friday. We're picking up the new Escape tonight. I'm worried I'm legitimately going to regret getting the SUV instead of a minivan. I love this thing!

Everyone I know who has a minivan loves it. It frightens me that one day I could love a minivan.

I make the minivan look sexy.

They come in very handy when we go camping. We even have matching magnets that say "Girls Camping Weekend" that we put on each van in our group. Also, this year because it was so damn cold, we also slept in the van! I would be very cramped sleeping in the backseat of my Toyota!! I'm happy that 2 of my friends have them. I don't think I need my own.

redneckmomma25 · March 2014

Crappy morning. G was whiney and crying. We have her 18mo appt today so I got out the stool to wash and brush her teeth. She stepped on the edge and it went over and G chipped her tooth on the pedestal sink. I'm so over today. I'm sure her shots will be great. I'm worried the pedi will tell me I am doing a terrible job when I know she won't and I'm doing an ok job. I just can't get past this hump of feeling like I am failing my kid.

MeatballEsq · March 2014

cheeseandrice said:
We have to turn in our rental car on Friday. We're picking up the new Escape tonight. I'm worried I'm legitimately going to regret getting the SUV instead of a minivan. I love this thing!

Is there still time to switch?

MarisaKathleen · March 2014

redneckmomma25 said:

Crappy morning. G was whiney and crying. We have her 18mo appt today so I got out the stool to wash and brush her teeth. She stepped on the edge and it went over and G chipped her tooth on the pedestal sink. I'm so over today. I'm sure her shots will be great. I'm worried the pedi will tell me I am doing a terrible job when I know she won't and I'm doing an ok job. I just can't get past this hump of feeling like I am failing my kid.

What makes you think this? Do you think you're not doing enough with her? Do you feel like she's behind or something? Or is it just a feeling of inadequacy?

redneckmomma25 · March 2014

MarisaKathleen said:

redneckmomma25 said:

Crappy morning. G was whiney and crying. We have her 18mo appt today so I got out the stool to wash and brush her teeth. She stepped on the edge and it went over and G chipped her tooth on the pedestal sink. I'm so over today. I'm sure her shots will be great. I'm worried the pedi will tell me I am doing a terrible job when I know she won't and I'm doing an ok job. I just can't get past this hump of feeling like I am failing my kid.

What makes you think this? Do you think you're not doing enough with her? Do you feel like she's behind or something? Or is it just a feeling of inadequacy?

Inadequacy. She is behind on speech. Can't help but feel it's my fault.

tinyhumantoe · March 2014

Man, I'm sick. Chills and sweats.

I "ran" this morning. BWAHAHA. Like 10 minutes. And walked for some of it. I couldn't breathe, and sadly, I think only a little bit of it was because I'm sick. :-< Running really digs deep at the lungs. I can do my elliptical for an hour and not feel that chest pressure.

Thought I had a group coming in for a 'class' on Tuesday, just found out it's Wednesday. I'm VERY happy about that. I legit thought today was April 1st.

Yesterday was the best day ever, ever. We spent so much time outside. I was swinging on the big kid swings with W facing me. She was holding on and I was holding her. I felt 500 eyes on me, and this one mom finally came up and told me to be careful after gossiping to her frandz about me. I said, "ok, you too!" and acted dumb. Give me a fucking break.

jenndub · March 2014

redneckmomma25 said:

redneckmomma25 said:

Crappy morning. G was whiney and crying. We have her 18mo appt today so I got out the stool to wash and brush her teeth. She stepped on the edge and it went over and G chipped her tooth on the pedestal sink. I'm so over today. I'm sure her shots will be great. I'm worried the pedi will tell me I am doing a terrible job when I know she won't and I'm doing an ok job. I just can't get past this hump of feeling like I am failing my kid.

What makes you think this? Do you think you're not doing enough with her? Do you feel like she's behind or something? Or is it just a feeling of inadequacy?
Inadequacy. She is behind on speech. Can't help but feel it's my fault.

You need to give yourself a break. Kids go at their own speed. All of mine started talking at WAY different ages. Sawyer just started saying more than a few words last month. It's hard not to blame yourself for every "bad" thing that goes on with them. But I don't think you're giving yourself any credit for all of the good things. You have a beautiful, healthy, happy little girl. And she didn't get to be those things by accident, you're doing a great job.

IForgotMyLogIn · March 2014

Survived week 1 of Weight Watchers with good results. So many parties, etc coming up before my BFF's wedding in May, I'm hoping to hell I can keep it up so I don't feel like total crap in my dress.

Got DS's spring pictures back and they're so cute, they even featured him on the photographer's promo poster at his CDC.

ktnicole · March 2014

Every time I think I got this parenting thing figured out- L becomes a tyrant and stops doing everything that she was doing well. You are doing great with her- she is absorbing so much from you right now.

MeatballEsq · March 2014

I must've had a naught dream about @tinyhumantoe‌ because all I remember is we were bridesmaids together and she's hot

Hope you feel better soon!

redneckmomma25 · March 2014

I know all these things but I just can't stop feeling how I do. She wants me to get her evaluated which is fine. But she thinks G shows signs of being on the spectrum. She said she's really advanced in other areas. So I have to make a few appts. She's not concerned about the tooth.

tinyhumantoe · March 2014

@meatballesq I bet we were drinking!!

danabsd · March 2014

We tried to watch The Wolf of Wall Street on Saturday night. After 1 hr and 22 mins of hookers and blow I paused it to pee. Which is when I realized it had another 1 hr 22 mins+ left on it. I had 0 interest in finishing it.

That was as exciting as my weekend got.

MrsKipper · March 2014

We're in the middle of rearranging our house, switching rooms and getting new furniture. The main thing I'm figuring out in all of this is how little storage this house has. I really need to do even more purging than we did when we moved in!

I set up 2 IKEA pieces yesterday. Granted, they were small little kid pieces for Nola but I'm still pretty proud of myself and amazed how easy it actually was!

I'm so excited that it's finally nice out and it looks like it's going to stay that way! Nola and my lungs need all the fresh air!!

tinyhumantoe · March 2014

@redneckmomma25 I'm sorry you're going through those emotions. I don't really have any advice. My first thought is that I know a lot of children who were not talking at all at this age. I'm not trying to 'downplay' it, just saying that it's quite early to jump to any conclusions or have excessive worry. It sounds like in a couple months you'll know whether to do the early eval or not, and you won't be stuck in the waiting-limbo that you're in right now.

But I can tell you this - it's nothing you're doing/not doing! They are really at their own pace.

pharmer78 · March 2014

tinyhumantoe said:

Yesterday was the best day ever, ever. We spent so much time outside. I was swinging on the big kid swings with W facing me. She was holding on and I was holding her. I felt 500 eyes on me, and this one mom finally came up and told me to be careful after gossiping to her frandz about me. I said, "ok, you too!" and acted dumb. Give me a fucking break.

@tinyhumantoe Hilarious comeback, I'm totally stealing that.

And @redneckmomma25 we're in the same limited talking boat with Cruz. I thought it was because he couldn't hear for several months (until he got tubes) but he still hasn't had much of a "word explosion" since his hearing was corrected.

Though I do have to say that after reading that conversation about starting baby signs at this age, I did watch a lot of baby sign youtube videos with the children this weekend and I feel like it helped me differentiate Cruz's sounds/word attempts more...like I think he's talking/communicating more than I'm giving him credit for. Coincidentally, I feel like I had the same feeling with Lila (who was also a late-talker) when she was about this age.

jenndub · March 2014

I really feel that McDonald's should offer fries all day. I have not yet stopped having morning sickness and those fries are all I want to eat. All day, everyday.

redneckmomma25 · March 2014

I am happy to have her evaluated and if she qualifies that is great. It can only benefit her.

MeatballEsq · March 2014

tinyhumantoe said:
@meatballesq I bet we were drinking!!

You and I together + an open bar? I'm guessing we were too!

tinyhumantoe · March 2014

Anyone have suggestions for refreshments at a 3pm formal meeting/"class", 10 people, 2-3 hours?

They are my guests/potential clients from 2 countries and 7 states, so I'd like to adequately accommodate them.

Coffee, water, soda (reg and caff free). What kinds of munchies? Cheese platter?

MeatballEsq · March 2014

@tinyhumantoe‌ all of that sounds good. Plus maybe something sweet like cookies!

tinyhumantoe · March 2014

@meatballesq yes, good idea. Cookies and cheese platter. Is adding a veggie platter too over the top?

And probably hot water for tea. I always forget that shiz for international visitors.

tinyhumantoe · March 2014

Solved. TY @meatballesq & @loislayn23

Has the tagging drop down been removed?

pharmer78 · March 2014

I always snack from veggie platters but I like the fruit platter suggestion too.

Pokedot · March 2014

danabsd said:

We tried to watch The Wolf of Wall Street on Saturday night. After 1 hr and 22 mins of hookers and blow I paused it to pee. Which is when I realized it had another 1 hr 22 mins+ left on it. I had 0 interest in finishing it.
That was as exciting as my weekend got.

We watched it on Friday. It's 3 hours of my life I won't get back. I work in the stock market and was bored. They could have summed it up in less than 2 for sure. I don't think I've ever seen that many pairs of boobs in a movie in my life. DH said he heard it was like a mini porno, kind of!

danabsd · March 2014

LoisLayn23 said:
We are contemplating finding out the sex and revealing on Easter via an egg. This sounds ridiculously corny when I type it out, but DH really wants to find out.

I think if we go for 3 I want to find out. Just to see how the other side lives. You'll have to tell me all your feelings about it before, during and after. It'll help my hypothetical decision.

MarisaKathleen · March 2014

Pokedot said:

danabsd said:

We tried to watch The Wolf of Wall Street on Saturday night. After 1 hr and 22 mins of hookers and blow I paused it to pee. Which is when I realized it had another 1 hr 22 mins+ left on it. I had 0 interest in finishing it.
That was as exciting as my weekend got.

We watched it on Friday. It's 3 hours of my life I won't get back. I work in the stock market and was bored. They could have summed it up in less than 2 for sure. I don't think I've ever seen that many pairs of boobs in a movie in my life. DH said he heard it was like a mini porno, kind of!

We watched this Friday night too. We both really liked it! I had no idea it was a true story, which is probably part of the reason I found it as intriguing. If I were super mega rich, I'd probably make really poor decisions too.

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