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March 2014 Moms
B*fest Monday
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Re: B*fest Monday
I'm contemplating taking some of lo's gas drops... jk...kinda
Evelyn - 3/15/14
RIP Dr. Irving Fishman - 10/1/19-7/25/10 - thank you for holding on for me.
You made my wedding day complete.
I was planning to resign from my job after leave but my company was awesome and offered that I could work from home PT. I was still hesitant but DH convinced me to stay.
My mom was also awesome in that she agreed to watch LO while I worked and even refused the money we tried multiple times to offer.
However my mom is really struggling with LO and it is frustrating + breaking my heart. I partially feel like an ungrateful b*tch because I know she is really trying but despite multiple attempts to instruct her she:
* tries to feed LO whenever she fusses because she doesn't know how else to calm her
* can't get LO to go down for naps at all. Multiple times I've just had to get her to go to sleep myself because I couldn't listen to her hysterical overtired screaming anymore. (Today it took me 15 mins to calm her down, as she was shaking/wheezing/hiccuping and then finally passed out from exhaustion
* doesn't understand how to play with her. She said that when I was a baby she could just put me in my swing watching Sesame Street and I would be happy but this doesn't work with LO. LO likes to be active when she is awake (and I'm glad of that) but I don't think mom completely "gets" concepts like tummy time
LO has been in somewhat of a routine, but after mom taking care of her last week, it took about 2 days to get her back on track since she had gotten so worked up and overtired.
I know a lot has changed since when we were little, and I love my mom to death, but I'm starting to feel like it's a wonder I turned out as well as I did. And it breaks my heart to hear LO screaming so much since she's generally such a happy baby.
I am half tempted to just quit my job after all since I did it more for DH than for me. Or to hire a nanny but I'm sure that would make my mom feel bad and use most of the money I'm making working. Maybe she just needs more time to get used to things, but in the meantime it's been tough
(Sorry this ended up so long)
WRT job: I think I do kind of want to quit. That had always been our plan, but on the night before I intended to call my boss to tell him that I wasn't going to come back, I got cold feet. I felt guilty about quitting because my boss had always been great and I am the most senior person he has on staff. Also my DH had just started going back to work recently so I was dealing with some SAHM loneliness.
I expressed the fears of loneliness/lack of intellectual stimulation to DH and he suggested I ask about working PT from home. (He expressed his own concerns about our finances if we lost all my income...we had been planning for it and could do it, but it would be tight and having extra money would be awesome.) I never thought they would go for the PT from home plan because it's not usual company policy but amazingly they did.
My DH is thrilled we have some extra income, but now I'm having regrets and feel my decision was based on temporary fears rather than how I truly felt. Of course now after work has been so accommodating, I'd feel even more guilty quitting. Blargh.
I'm so lost. I am the worst at remembering who wrote what and now with FB I don't even connect TB and FB names so to me it's justs different people.
Except @FarmBoysWife I'd be extremely dumb if I didn't make that connection