Monday Morning Vents

cecilyandgautam · May 2014

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sugarbear0524 · May 2014

My son's birthday party is next weekend. I have 8 family members coming in from out of town, including my sister and her 4 kids. My house is small so I'm trying to think of things we can do so we're not all crammed in my small living room. My mom is trying to talk me out of plans I'm making f because my sister might not want to do them. I don't want to hurt my mom's feelings. She's really looking forward to us all being together (first time in 5 months) but her trying to appease my "It's all about me" sister is annoying me already and they aren't even here yet.

jf198400 · May 2014

DH is back to work today after being home for 6 weeks. DS was a crying mess this morning b/c Daddy wasn't there when he woke up. I am back to cooking every night. It's going to be tough coming home with the kids by myself and dealing with dinner and everything. DH is usually gone very long hours, so I'm dreading the evenings alone.

MommaP12 · May 2014

We moved into our house this weekend (Hooray!) but this morning was total chaos trying to cind everything and get out the door. I should have better prepared for this morning but I was so exhausted from everything all weekend I just collapsed at 9 and that was it. I also have to work all day and then go to a dinner at night which really stinks because I'd rather be home getting my house in order.

jlaOK · May 2014

We put our house on the market and spent all weekend packing and moving stuff into storage. I WFH and will have to deal with disruptions of work while selling. Praying that we get a good offer soon and don't have this headache for too many months.

mlee116 · May 2014

Mine aren't that bad compared to some of the stuff y'all are dealing with, but here goes:

My boss is being super nitpicky and its driving me crazy. Everything I turn in she wants it tweaked juuusst a little so that I have to stop, redo it, reprint it and reorganize it.

Also, my morning sickness is crazy this morning and my office is right by the door where everyone takes their smoke break. The smell is making me gag.

molisar · May 2014

I have a friend that I do regular play dates with. And I'm not sure why, but her kids are always flipping sick. Yet even when they are pretty darn sick, she still will do a play date with us and not warn me that her kids are sick.

Last week we had a play date, and her son was coughing the loudest and very horsey cough. And guess what? That night DS1 woke up hacking his lungs out. And now DS2 (4 months old) has it. PLUS he has baby asthma so coughs can be very scary for us.

Why the h*ll doesn't she warn me that her kids are sick before we hang out? She and I were texting back and forth this weekend and I mentioned both my boys were sick. She responded "Oh, I sure hope they didn't get it from my kids". And I didn't even respond. Of course it was from your kids. Mine have a nanny so didn't catch it in daycare and somehow ended up getting sick hours after the play date.

What's worse is that we have a trip to California 1 week from today. I swear if we have to get in an airplane with sick kids I will lose my marbles.

jesuisfatiguee · May 2014

DS was throwing up all day yesterday and has really bad diarrhea and a low-grade fever today. Since the person who would be my backup is still in training, I am trying to WFH instead of just taking a sick day. I feel like this was a mistake. Anyone who thinks they can WFH full-time and parent simultaneously is either not a human or delusional. Holy crap.

molisar · May 2014

sugarbear0524 said:

My son's birthday party is next weekend. I have 8 family members coming in from out of town, including my sister and her 4 kids. My house is small so I'm trying to think of things we can do so we're not all crammed in my small living room. My mom is trying to talk me out of plans I'm making f because my sister might not want to do them. I don't want to hurt my mom's feelings. She's really looking forward to us all being together (first time in 5 months) but her trying to appease my "It's all about me" sister is annoying me already and they aren't even here yet.

I feel your pain! We have a large family with tons of kids and meeting everyone's expectations is always so hard, yet our parents (grandparents) always have these high expectations of what should happen. I totally get that they want to enjoy everyone being together, but that can be so hard when you have lots of LO's involved.

jf198400 · May 2014

molisar said:
I have a friend that I do regular play dates with. And I'm not sure why, but her kids are always flipping sick. Yet even when they are pretty darn sick, she still will do a play date with us and not warn me that her kids are sick.
Last week we had a play date, and her son was coughing the loudest and very horsey cough. And guess what? That night DS1 woke up hacking his lungs out. And now DS2 (4 months old) has it. PLUS he has baby asthma so coughs can be very scary for us.
Why the h*ll doesn't she warn me that her kids are sick before we hang out? She and I were texting back and forth this weekend and I mentioned both my boys were sick. She responded "Oh, I sure hope they didn't get it from my kids". And I didn't even respond. Of course it was from your kids. Mine have a nanny so didn't catch it in daycare and somehow ended up getting sick hours after the play date.
What's worse is that we have a trip to California 1 week from today. I swear if we have to get in an airplane with sick kids I will lose my marbles.

Ugh that's really annoying. Have you tried directly mentioning it to her? Like "hey next time if your kids are sick, could you give me a heads up?" Maybe she's going by daycare standards- if they're healthy enough for school then they're healthy enough for a play date. In daycare kids are basically sick like all the time, so I can understand just going about your normal life for the most part.

molisar · May 2014

jf198400 said:

I have a friend that I do regular play dates with. And I'm not sure why, but her kids are always flipping sick. Yet even when they are pretty darn sick, she still will do a play date with us and not warn me that her kids are sick.
Last week we had a play date, and her son was coughing the loudest and very horsey cough. And guess what? That night DS1 woke up hacking his lungs out. And now DS2 (4 months old) has it. PLUS he has baby asthma so coughs can be very scary for us.
Why the h*ll doesn't she warn me that her kids are sick before we hang out? She and I were texting back and forth this weekend and I mentioned both my boys were sick. She responded "Oh, I sure hope they didn't get it from my kids". And I didn't even respond. Of course it was from your kids. Mine have a nanny so didn't catch it in daycare and somehow ended up getting sick hours after the play date.
What's worse is that we have a trip to California 1 week from today. I swear if we have to get in an airplane with sick kids I will lose my marbles.

Ugh that's really annoying. Have you tried directly mentioning it to her? Like "hey next time if your kids are sick, could you give me a heads up?" Maybe she's going by daycare standards- if they're healthy enough for school then they're healthy enough for a play date. In daycare kids are basically sick like all the time, so I can understand just going about your normal life for the most part.

Yeah I think I'll have a talk with her about it. In the past I actually didn't mind. DS1 was so darn healthy that I didn't mind that he got colds from her kids to beef up his immune system. However, now that DS2 was diagnosed with baby asthma, colds are way more serious for us. Maybe I'll just mention that while DS2 is still so young, that I'd appreciate it if she gave me a head's up if her kids aren't well so I can make a call on whether or not we should do a play date. Little colds turn into trips to the ER for us with DS2, so maybe she doesn't even realize the impact it can have.

mae0111 · May 2014

Today was just a comedy of errors. DH woke up at 5am to very noisily put down the blinds in our bedroom. Gets back into bed, decides he has to pee. His alarm goes off at 5:40 and it was set to the LOUDEST POSSIBLE VOLUME. He took a very long shower, starting to make me late. Shuts off the water, and I think, "OK, good, I can jump in"... and he turns the water back ON. Forgot to use soap, apparently.

DD1 would not get out of bed this morning, and then once she did, spent a solid 15 minutes in the bathroom just hanging out. DD2 was just a menace, emptying out all of my drawers all over my room and bathroom. Focused mostly on feminine products. There are pads and tampons everywhere.

My blackberry died today. I mean, dead. No amount of charging will bring it back. I answered a work email, and the screen went black. I'll be able to get a new one, but it will probably take weeks. So it's going to be a painful interim time.

Really, it was all just really funny.

bethughknee · May 2014

MarBee1214 said:

DD was up at 9pm, 10pm, 11pm, 12am, 1am

Teething blows (literally it also blows out diapers)

Can't..keep...eyes...open

Teething hurts me too. We were basically awake from 1:45-5:00am. Yawn.

jc&cat · May 2014

So 3 siblings in my H's family were planning a trip to Disney this June and asked us to join. We live 400 miles from his family so we only see them a few times a year but our kids are very close with them. At first we really did not want to go to Disney given that our kids in our opinion were a little small still and it really wasn't in the plans for vacation this year (either of interest or financially). Few months past and they asked and asked (and asked!) again. We took a look and decided that the opportunity to go with the extended family would be worth it, cashed in our airline miles and even asked my sister (single no kids) to join us. Hooray and happy day, right?? Now the 2 coordinating families have CANCELLED leaving my brother in law and his partner and my sister and us still going. I am beyond furious. We are ALL booked and still going but really I am so bitter and hurt. One family cancelled because of a sports "committment" (nevermind your family committment???) and the other b/c the spoiled 16 year old niece didn't want to go without her teenage cousins. My SIL needs to grow a set but thats another story. Our kids don't know that we are going yet and thankfully so that I spared them of "aunt suzy is going! oops now she isn't!" BS. Lessoned learned and I really should have known better. H's family is very unreliable. Yippe disney world.

litzo27 · May 2014

I'm late to the party. I'm still sick *cough cough. And DD still has the snottiest of noses.

I have three projects that I need to make progress on ASAP. I couldn't decide which one to start today so I'm doing project number 4. Which will only take one day and isn't due until end of May. So now I still need to decide which of three to tackle starting tomorrow morning. Procrastination at its finest.

bethughknee · May 2014

MarBee1214 said:

bethughknee said:

MarBee1214 said:

DD was up at 9pm, 10pm, 11pm, 12am, 1am

Teething blows (literally it also blows out diapers)

Can't..keep...eyes...open

Teething hurts me too. We were basically awake from 1:45-5:00am. Yawn.

Is she back in your room? We gave up after the one bad night and she's been with us since. I'm probably just going to wait until the RNP is no longer safe before I put her back in her room. It's like her teeth know what I'm trying to do.

She's in her room for the most part. When she was wide awake at 2ish I brought her in bed until almost 5. She dozed here and there. DH couldn't sleep past 5 so he took her and rocked her back to sleep in her room so I could take a "nap" I guess haha. I took a nap at 5am. #momlyfe

She was up for the day at 6ish. So weird. On "bad nights" she usually sleeps in and throws me serious grump faces when I wake her up. Nope, she woke ME up being all chatty. I don't know this baby!

cecilyandgautam · May 2014

Ah, BH/practice labor is so much more intense the second time around! Or for me, it is at least, and I had some pretty intense prodomal labor last time too, so I thought it couldn't get anymore real than that before it was "real" yet here I am, with waves of back pressure coming every few minutes for hours every afternoon. I'm here, at my desk, breathing through - I'd totally be doing the "ahhhh, ooooh" vocalization too if I were at home, but here I have to keep a lid on it.

I want a heat pack and/or a bath. Since this seems to happen everyday starting around 3:30/4, maybe I should ask to shift my hours earlier so I can be home for this stuff. It's not like I can really work when this is going on anyway.

PSU_Texan · May 2014

Totally so annoyed with Orbitz/US airways. I booked back in February for our vacation in july. Since then, they have changed our flights, me and the girls on one set of flights and my DH on another... no thank you, Orbitz. I do not want to travel by myself with the kids.

MommyAtty · May 2014

I have a love/hate relationship with maternity leave. I love the bonding time, and that DH got to be home with us for three weeks. But I have panic attacks about what I'm missing at work, so I spend far too much time on my phone and/or laptop. I'm just not cut out to be home with 2 kids. I'm both bored and boring. Add to that, I have stupid high blood pressure, which will resolve itself in a few weeks, but in the meantime the medicine makes me tired. This tiny human wakes up every 3 hours to eat, so I'm already tired. Oh, and I'm still bleeding, which is starting to freak me the heck out.

litzo27 · May 2014

@PSU_Texan - what? I had no idea they can even do that! That's ridiculous. Hope you can get it sorted out.

PSU_Texan · May 2014

@litzo27 The issue is that we had to book separately. The girls and I are staying longer than my husband so the travel plans were not technically linked. But now they are being PITA to try and fix the issue

jennyelf · May 2014

Kiddo got bit Friday at DC. I know that this is something that happens, but I'm just sad for kiddo. He seems ok though and isn't trying to bite other kids. It's not a kid in his classroom, so it shouldn't happen again too often, but apparently from the conversation I overheard between the teacher and kid's parent, this was not an isolated instance. On the plus side, I do know now that the DC is taking it seriously and working with the parent to fix it and it seems the parent is trying too.

litzo27 · May 2014

@PSU_Texan - I see. Still sucks.

cecilyandgautam · May 2014

OMG, my daily round of practice labor has come early today. There goes my theory that coffee makes it worse - haven't even had my cup yet. Off I go then.

And my daughter's become a serious whiner - neither DH or I are really equipped to handle it properly at the moment. I almost locked myself in the bathroom this morning to get away from it.

cecilyandgautam · May 2014

PrivacyWanted said:

@cecilyandgautam - any chance you're dehydrated? I was having terrible BH with DS, and it would happen any time I was the least little bit dehydrated. I had to start waking up at midnight to drink water.

Maybe that would explain this morning's activity since I was delayed in filling up my water bottle, but not my regular daily 3pm round - I usually drink 3-4 liters a day, so I can't be dehydrated everyday, right? At this point, I think I'm just destined to have weeks and months of intense "practice labor" with any baby I have. Oy.

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