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  • kmawbkmawb member
    ChiMom85 said:
     
    This is us.  DD gets 2 stories.  If she misbehaves before bedtime after getting a warning, she gets no stories.  She can stall like no one's business, so we just have to put our foot down.  Sometimes I worry I'm a mean mom, but the kid adores me and I let her win things I don't care about, so I think we're doing ok.


    @ChiMom85 We do the same thing with my DD, she starts the bedtime routine with 2 books and we deduct 1 book at a time if she's misbehaving (after a warning that she's going to lose a book if she keeps acting that way) .  She's only had no books once and is quick to comply with the warning because she loves her books before bed!

    Another thing we do is that she choses the first book to read from her bookshelf and then DH or I chose the 2nd book - that way we don't end up with 2 really long books (sneaky, sneaky parents we are).

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  • helloblueeyeshelloblueeyes member
    livelaughlove88 said:
    FFFC 1: I am consistently 5 minutes late for work, but I'm salaried not hourly and I write out a time sheet instead of punching a clock, so no one really knows except my assistant. FFFC 2: My assistant is amazing and unintentionally makes me feel like I am the laziest person alive because she is just constantly looking for something else to be getting done in the classroom. Stuff that I totally could do myself but I don't really consider important enough to expend the effort. Reorganizing closets and the like. I mean I have never seen anyone with this girl's work ethic. I didn't really feel bad about it until I got pregnant, since I wasn't ASKING her to do all this extra stuff, but now I am unable to deal with some of the more aggressive misbehavior some kids display (hitting, kicking, biting, hair pulling....) so now she deals with that too. I'm starting to feel like she is the lead teacher and I'm the assistant! And I want to consider her an inspiration to improve my own work ethic, but right now I'm in a nesting mentality and can't focus on anything else very well. I suck.
    I have become very bad at getting to work on time, I just seem unable to be up and get going on time, thankfully it's usually no more then 10 min max that i'm late.  I'm also salary and the first one in my office, so i would have to call myself to say i would be late, lol. There really isn't ever anything that is ZOMG MUST BE DONE NOW! important so i don't sweat it, and i never get to leave on time so i figure it evens out. Lol. 

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  • acciovinoacciovino member

    First of all...Breaking Bad is seriously a great show. You have to get passed the humdrum of the first season but it really is good.

    Also, I have been the worst employee this week. I've literally only done enough to get by. It's a good thing my assets are closing without my help. We were supposed to have a new girl start on Wednesday to be my "back up" while I'm on leave, but I'm glad she backed out because I would be a horrible trainer right now. Instead I have been bumping and buying CDs and doing research on window shutters. Last month was a nightmare and I'm still not fully recovered.

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  • Katieryan13Katieryan13 member
    helloblueeyes said:
    livelaughlove88 said:
    FFFC 1: I am consistently 5 minutes late for work, but I'm salaried not hourly and I write out a time sheet instead of punching a clock, so no one really knows except my assistant. FFFC 2: My assistant is amazing and unintentionally makes me feel like I am the laziest person alive because she is just constantly looking for something else to be getting done in the classroom. Stuff that I totally could do myself but I don't really consider important enough to expend the effort. Reorganizing closets and the like. I mean I have never seen anyone with this girl's work ethic. I didn't really feel bad about it until I got pregnant, since I wasn't ASKING her to do all this extra stuff, but now I am unable to deal with some of the more aggressive misbehavior some kids display (hitting, kicking, biting, hair pulling....) so now she deals with that too. I'm starting to feel like she is the lead teacher and I'm the assistant! And I want to consider her an inspiration to improve my own work ethic, but right now I'm in a nesting mentality and can't focus on anything else very well. I suck.
    I have become very bad at getting to work on time, I just seem unable to be up and get going on time, thankfully it's usually no more then 10 min max that i'm late.  I'm also salary and the first one in my office, so i would have to call myself to say i would be late, lol. There really isn't ever anything that is ZOMG MUST BE DONE NOW! important so i don't sweat it, and i never get to leave on time so i figure it evens out. Lol. 
    Oh I am really bad. I am salary and the hours are 10-6. I usually get here abour 10:15 and leave around 5. I don't feel bad because my boss doesn't care as long as I get my work done. I also get emails/phone calls at night so I think it evens itself out...
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  • purpleXdandelionpurpleXdandelion member
    Thank you to everyone who chimed in on my bedtime dilemma. I want to get him down to 2-3 books NOW cuz in May we are switching him to a big boy bed, so I'd like to get the initial angriness out of the way when he is still contained to his crib. Like today, I had just HAD IT and put him in his crib, said goodnight, and left. Lo and behold, he was done crying within like a minute. Before, we used to have 2 bedtime books. Now it's like 8-10 books THEN finish with the "bedtime books." But I think it's time to just get back to the basics. Clearly. This is ridiculous.
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  • acciovinoacciovino member

    :Stuck in gray:

    Regarding the toddler tantrums. I've heard each subsequent age is worse. DD is 3.5 right now and as I've been looking forward to 4, someone told me the other day that 4's are called the "f*cking Fours". My DD is sassy pants already, don't know how much more I can handle.

    Another FFFC is I'm pretty glad I'm having a boy this time. My DD is seriously a drama queen and I don't know if I could handle another one!

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  • acciovinoacciovino member
    @literachick That's like something that happens in the movies/books. I'm seriously jealous!
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  • chrinikki1chrinikki1 member
    FFFC#1 DH comes home from international travel today after 10 days of no verbal communication (no international cell plan).  I have no intention of chatting it up when he gets home and ALL i have thought about today is his arrival and how quickly I can get his pants off.  Screw catching up- lets get dirrty.

    FFFC#2 SIL is hosting my shower which I am so grateful for.  However, she's inviting her friends whom I know but BARELY.  I told her I didn't feel comfortable with so-and-so being invited because I don't have a relationship with them other than she's my hairdresser.  SIL would NOT take no for an answer.  After 3 days, I finally re-addressed the issue stating I would feel so awkward if hairdresser 1) came because she isn't family and it's supposed to be a family only shower and 2) hairdresser brought a gift.  SIL replied, "it's GREAT if she comes, the more presents you'll get!"  UMMMM NO.  That is how SIL works, not me.  I am trying so hard not to sound ungrateful but to be an AW by inviting people who I'm only acquaintances with and 2) gift grabby is not my style.  And she REFUSES to respect me and thinks I have issues so just disrespects my requests/opinions.  My confession is... I don't EVER want to be like SIL.  Ever.  
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  • chevronsevenchevronseven member
    helloblueeyes said:


    livelaughlove88 said:

    FFFC 1: I am consistently 5 minutes late for work, but I'm salaried not hourly and I write out a time sheet instead of punching a clock, so no one really knows except my assistant.

    FFFC 2: My assistant is amazing and unintentionally makes me feel like I am the laziest person alive because she is just constantly looking for something else to be getting done in the classroom. Stuff that I totally could do myself but I don't really consider important enough to expend the effort. Reorganizing closets and the like. I mean I have never seen anyone with this girl's work ethic. I didn't really feel bad about it until I got pregnant, since I wasn't ASKING her to do all this extra stuff, but now I am unable to deal with some of the more aggressive misbehavior some kids display (hitting, kicking, biting, hair pulling....) so now she deals with that too. I'm starting to feel like she is the lead teacher and I'm the assistant! And I want to consider her an inspiration to improve my own work ethic, but right now I'm in a nesting mentality and can't focus on anything else very well. I suck.

    I have become very bad at getting to work on time, I just seem unable to be up and get going on time, thankfully it's usually no more then 10 min max that i'm late.  I'm also salary and the first one in my office, so i would have to call myself to say i would be late, lol. There really isn't ever anything that is ZOMG MUST BE DONE NOW! important so i don't sweat it, and i never get to leave on time so i figure it evens out. Lol. 

    Well I hope you are understanding to yourself when you call in ;-) DH gets on me all the time about it. "How hard is it to just get up 5 minutes earlier?" Answer: extremely. I am not a morning person. I don't even do hardly anything in the mornings, I just give myself 10-15 minutes to get dressed, brush teeth, feed animals, and leave.

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  • ksuRN09ksuRN09 member
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    Get it, girl! I am so jealous! My hubby is super conservative on that front, too.
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  • SuperTinkerhamSuperTinkerham member
    gwennie357 said:
    I have another. I stalk the July board at Baby Center every. damn. day. And I judge them in my mind. Harshly.

    Seriously, though. I get much less annoyed at anything anyone does here, because it's never as godawful as what gets said over there. Who even are these girls? There are a couple snarky ones I think must also be members over here, and a couple others I occasionally contemplate recruiting... but really, I just like to anonymously creep their posts and feel smugly superior because my board is better.

    And you women know how to spell.   

    I occasionally comment over there. I think the ladies of the bump seem like they're more educated than the Babycenter chicks? And there's a lot less "I love him, but he don treat me right" stuff that I find off putting.

     

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  • chevronsevenchevronseven member
    Thought of another one! I am currently sitting at the park with the dog (which is about a ten minute walk from my apartment) and I am wearing a non-maternity sundress that doesn't even kind of fit. The zipper came up like half an inch and I tied it and left, back wide open. It's my favorite most comfy summer dress and it's the first day we've reached 70 degrees so sorrynotsorry.
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  • mrscurlygurlmrscurlygurl member
    LiteraChick said:
    FFFC #2: Dude. My normally shy and reserved husband just .... wow.

    Okay so we met for lunch and took it back to his work to eat it in his office, you know, chilled out quality time together. Welllllllll he works with the public, so to speak  (to keep it on the DL) so I was totally shocked at what happened.

    I casually brought up that it had been 2 weeks since we got freaky with each other, so he stands up, locks his door and bends me over his freaking desk. I mean..... this guy is so on the straight and narrow, he gets nervous even getting roadhead. WTF!!! SCORE! #Ifeelsmug
    I'm not even remotely interested right now and am jealous of your Friday :)

      
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  • glitterclawsglitterclaws member
    edited April 2014
    SuperTinkerham said:

    I wore flip flops to work today on my super swollen feet. I am considering buying a pair of "dress flip flops" for the office. I'm out of fucks to give.

    Yes! My feet are stuffed sausages right now. I wore flip flops to work yesterday after surviving misery the day before in ballet flats. I'm terrified to get more swollen in the months to come!!

    Eta - I wore my turquoise bedazzled flops with black pants because I'm a fancy bitch. Of course you need "dress flops" to survive this summer!
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  • jamboree jessjamboree jess member
    I might punch my "bff". Since I got pregnant, she's been almost completely ignoring me, since I can't go out dancing and getting shitfaced with her every weekend. We have maintained a cordial, possibly pity-related weekly hangout, because we play League Trivia. 

    She's replaced me with another girl in our circle of friends, and she only contacts me (outside of trivia Wednesday) when her new friend is working. Today she sent me a Facebook message complaining how she was lonely, bored, and depressed, and feeling like no one loves her. And of course saying how much she misses me. 

    She became fairly offended when I told her that she had been making me feel the exact same way for the past 5 months. (She also said over and over "I hope you're not pregnant" before I got my bfp. Even though she knew DH and I were trying :/)

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  • jamboree jessjamboree jess member
    SuperTinkerham said:
    I wore flip flops to work today on my super swollen feet. I am considering buying a pair of "dress flip flops" for the office. I'm out of fucks to give.
    If I didn't have to wear steel-toed shoes, I would never take off my flip-flops. 
    10 hours a day in steel-toed shoes is cruel and unusual punishment at this point.

    I might buy a pair of Crocs soon. 
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  • ghostof5lettersghostof5letters member
    Also....It's Saturday, bite me. 
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  • MonkeyJDMonkeyJD member
    @ghostof5letters‌ That hat is so adorable!!!
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  • glitterclawsglitterclaws member
    @ghostof5letters‌ that's a great freaking hat. If you end up with that hat for your trip, I vote that it makes an appearance on hdbd too!
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  • alyssa719alyssa719 member
    bunny0711 said:
    For all of you with swollen feet Ugg sells really cute, comfortable and flexible flats. I live in mine. https://www.uggaustralia.com/women-casuals/
    I'm so torn, I love my Uggs, but do they actually skin dogs to make knock offs and/or have the animals alive while killing them for the real ones??
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  • chevronsevenchevronseven member
    alyssa719 said:

    bunny0711 said:


    For all of you with swollen feet Ugg sells really cute, comfortable and flexible flats. I live in mine.

    https://www.uggaustralia.com/women-casuals/

    I'm so torn, I love my Uggs, but do they actually skin dogs to make knock offs and/or have the animals alive while killing them for the real ones??


    I heard it was rabbits. But I can't imagine they'd have them alive, there's just no reason for that kind of cruelty. (Not that it would be any more acceptable if there was a reason.)
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  • PinksundropsPinksundrops member
    edited April 2014
    I realize today is Saturday but my FFFC mostly relates to Friday so it counts, right? DS had a friend over last night who said his parents were picking him up at 10pm, then changed to 11:15pm, then he didn't get picked up til midnight. Which would've been fine if we had a heads up and settled them in with a movie but no we were up til midnight waiting for his parents to pick him up any second. This morning I woke up early any way and couldn't go back to sleep. I'm a raging bitch today. The end.
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  • MonkeyJDMonkeyJD member
    @Pinksundrops‌ Who picks up their kid that freaking late from someone's house!!!!! That seems insane to me.
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  • YlvelillYlvelill member
    edited April 2014
    @‌Pinksundrops

    That is so inconsiderate! How old is your DS?
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