Can we do Monday vents please?

MickeyM04 · August 2014

This was the weekend from hell. I know it's all first world problem-ish but I hate that our entire weekend was such a shit show.

1. DH, DD and I all had HFM. And of course DH was the biggest baby about it the entire weekend. And even though it's like pulling teeth to get him to stay home if DS is sick or if he has a doctor's appointment or if DC is closed, naturally he's home today because his blisters hurt. Yeah, I know they hurt. Your daughter and I both had them and miraculously, we are still alive.

2. I don't know what the F happened but somehow DD destroyed my nipples this weekend (possibly HFM related? Not sure if her latch is weird because of the mouth sores?) so every time I nurse or pump I feel like I have a newborn all over again.

3. We did NOTHING this weekend other than a quick Target run because 3/4 of the house was sick. And I didn't even feel comfortable going to the park or anything since we were all contagious and I wasn't sure if DS was incubating HFM or what so it just seemed like a horrendously unfair thing to do. So it was like an entire weekend of being quarantined and feeling like garbage.

4. DH and I had a huge fight because his parents are having a bunch of his mom's family in town Labor Day weekend, and we had decided (or so I thought) that we weren't going to go...long car ride with a 2 year old and a 4 month old, me not being the most comfortable with nursing around others and not wanting to have to leave the room every 2-3 hours or wear a cover all weekend, logistics of sharing a hotel room with an infant who will wake up during the night and a 2 year old, etc. etc. etc. Then he tells me he's decided he is going to go after all and he'll just go by himself. And he waits to tell me this until I'm having an ugly cry about how I'm so upset that we're all so miserable and that I feel guilty for being so sad about it considering I just found out my aunt is dying. He thought that would be the most appropriate time to tell me he's going out of town for 3 days. ???

5. To add insult to injury, I cleaned the house like a crazy woman 2 weeks ago before I went back to work because I didn't think I would have much time once I came back. But guess what I did during my one hour of free time when both kids were napping this weekend. Cleaned the crap out of the house because we all have HFM and I'm trying to keep DS from getting it (good luck, right?)

GAH.

MickeyM04 · August 2014

Oh no! Puking kids are so sad. Just be glad you didn't see it because there is NOTHING sadder in the entire universe than watching your child throw up and look at you all confused and sad, crying, etc. because they don't understand what's going on. And c'mon, I do understand what's going on when I puke and it's still awful. I'm impressed you made it 17 months, you should be proud!

Sorry about your phone and your fall. And the puke smell. Resolve carpet cleaner has served us well for that in the past. The smell of that crap is so strong you can't smell anything else. Of course it will probably give us cancer....

Virgo17 · August 2014

Damn, it sounds like everyone had a rough weekend. We have what seems like the never-ending head cold going around at my house. There is snot everywhere and lots of coughing, but no puking and HFM, thankfully.

@MickeyM04- I can commiserate with the DH sickness. Every time mine gets heartburn, he thinks he's dying of a heart attack. Take an f-ing zantac and move on with your life. I had raging heartburn everyday with all three of my pregnancies, there is no sympathy here!

sparklingdiamond · August 2014

Sorry for the rough weekends ladies :-( DS is going through a growth spurt and a wonder week and has been waking up every 2-3 hours at night for the past week. I am so exhausted and just want sleep :-( And he was so fussy this morning.

MickeyM04 · August 2014

Haha @Virgo17! I know, I was super irritated. I'm like, you know who else has HFM? EVERYONE IN THIS GODDAMN HOUSE. And yet we are all able to not be whiny little bitches about it. I mean we realized today after we learned that DD is the only baby in her room at DC to have had it that when DS was home Sunday and Monday with a fever and his mouth feeling "owie" that he likely had it already and that's why we all got sick four days later except for him. So I said to him, DS had it and we didn't even know, DD had it and has acted completely happy and normal for 4 days, and I had it and went to work and cleaned the house and did all my usual stuff all weekend, and you have it and are like dying. Isn't that a little weird? And he goes, Well I obviously had the worst case of everyone. Face. Palm.

Leap08 · August 2014

It is hot. It has been hot - like nearly 100 or more - almost every day for a month now. It does not cool off at night so I can't open windows. Our AC is not doing a very good job cooling off the upstairs where our bedrooms are so none of us are sleeping very well. I am tired and cranky. MH is a wildland firefighter and is on an assignment in Oregon. My 2 year old has asked every day when daddy is going to be home and I don't have an answer for her. This happens every summer. MH is gone a lot and I get really tired of doing everything by myself, it's hot, and the kids and I are cranky and tired. I hate this time of year. I'm ready for Fall.

dashofreality · August 2014

@MickeyM04 that sucks, hope things get better soon!

@K3am that also sucks and I know that pain. This is what I found gets rid of the puke smell: https://dashofreality/clean-vomit/ it is oh so fun.

My vent is I am so sick of being in limbo. DH was told that his early retirement package would be decided on within 30 days. Of course the military won't just send you an email, you have to check the status on a website. That is updated very sporadically. Checking has become my obsession, so that we can hopefully start planning for the next phase of our lives. Well after not updating for the last 4 days, still no update on day 32. Grrrr

kmh2201 · August 2014

DD puked at 10:30 pm Saturday night. We had just pulled in the garage and she puked in her car seat. I hate cleaning up puke anytime, but especially at night when all I want to do is sleep. Luckily it was only once, so I'm hoping that means it was just car/motion sickness. I guess we'll find out over the next few days.

I started posting items for sale to a Facebook garage sale group for my area, but I'm realizing that it takes a lot of time and effort to sell stuff, one item at a time, for a couple bucks. This may be a short-lived effort. I may just have to go the old-fashioned route and save up my stuff and sell in a real garage sale.

kmh2201 · August 2014

One more... I went to Panera this morning, and ordered one of their breakfast souffles. There was literally 4 of the kind I wanted when I placed my order. By the time the cashier went to grab the souffle I had ordered, someone else who came in after me had bought basically all the souffles that were there. So I had to order something else, and all I got was a half-a**ed apology and no offer for a discount or refund for my purchase.

MickeyM04 · August 2014

@kmh2201, I was super pissed this one time I went to an awesome cupcake place near the office to get some mini cupcakes for DS (and me, if we're being honest). Well they had 27 of them (I didn't count them but read on to find out why I know) and I wanted half a dozen. Well they tell me that the woman next to me just ordered two dozen, so I could only have 3. I sort of looked at her pleadingly as they were putting my 3 measly mini cupcakes in a container, like, do you really need all 24 of those cupcakes, business woman lady? And she looked at me with a smile like, "Ha ha, I got here first, sucks for you." I also got no apology or anything like, can we get you a free regular sized cupcake since we can't fill your order? I was so irritated, but you know my fat ass bought those three stinking cupcakes anyway.

jtmomma13 · August 2014

I had had a horrible weekend as well and to top it of LO is having a MAJOR sleep regression. He wasn't even this bad as a newborn. I've been awake since 1030PM...he basically thought his crib was a torture chamber and H only helped me for about 45 minutes before he threw in the towel and said LO needed to cry it out...and we don't do cry it out. I don't know how many times I need to explain to him that you don't just let LO cry it out because you don't want to deal with it. We aren't sleep training or using the cry it out method so why would I just let him sit in his crib and scream at 1AM?! So I am tired and bitchy and I don't feel well. And I just really want LO to start walking so we can start sleeping again.

* I have NOTHING against cry it out- it's just not something we have started doing at this point and I don't believe you just start doing it at 1AM on a random night when you're not planning on doing it the next night.

shakinros · August 2014

MickeyM04 said:
And he goes, Well I obviously had the worst case of everyone. Face. Palm.

AHAHAHAHA!!!

Classic. My H is exactly like this. Every freaking time there's a cold going around the house: "I wonder why I always get it so much worse than you." I don't know honey! Maybe because you're a giant baby about it?!

jtmomma13 · August 2014

shakinros said:

And he goes, Well I obviously had the worst case of everyone. Face. Palm.
AHAHAHAHA!!! Classic. My H is exactly like this. Every freaking time there's a cold going around the house: "I wonder why I always get it so much worse than you." I don't know honey! Maybe because you're a giant baby about it?!

This is my H as well. My stomach will be sour- so his stomach is even more sour. The baby gets sick so he automatically gets sick. Ugh. It's like taking care of two babies and sometimes I think it's all in his head!

mae0111 · August 2014

I took Friday off because my nanny was on vacation. I made a conscious effort to NOT check my work emails until the kids were resting. There was an absolute sh!tstorm of emails about a project I'm running. Long and short of it is that someone that has been ignoring my pleas for participation for months finally realized the scope of the project, and freaked right the f out. Complete with screaming at agencies, making everyone panic, ignoring multiple conversations I've had with him (and my colleagues have had with him) attempting to guide him through the process.

So because of this, I canceled my vacation day today to come in and meet with him, give him hair pats, and talk him down. At his request. Except that I can't find him. And he will stroll into my office at 4:55 and want to chat. Newp.

I can only imagine the lines of bullsh!t he's feeding our manager on the topic.

potbellypig · August 2014

Just reading all of these now - wow hope everyone feels better

Monday vent: I said something unintentionally but legitimately upsetting to DH on Father's Day and he waited until yesterday to bring it up. I'm glad he brought it up and I'm sorry it happened, I just wish he hadn't waited 6 weeks to tell me I had upset him.

Also - I am trying to grow my hair out. Went to local salon to get rid of the "mullet", told her to match the back to the front, and she chopped everything one inch (it needed maybe 1/4 of an inch), which is about 2 months of growth.

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