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  • slednecksmommaslednecksmomma member
    H's grandparents are coming tomorrow and staying for a week.  I'm somewhat nervous about them watch E all week, especially after they asked H if we had a stroller, because they want to hook the dog up to it and go on walks with the baby.  The fuck?  You are not using my somewhat skiddish, year old puppy to pull the stroller around.  For one, he is terrified of the stroller and I don't need him taking off trying to escape it while still attached, for two DON'T BE SO LAZY, push the damn thing yourself!  
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  • phunkyphishphunkyphish member
    Fuck Monday. I don't even feel like I had a weekend at all. I'm already ready to go home, and it's only lunchtime.
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    NellyBluth said:

    If we're talking right out the package, I don't wash before wearing. But if I buy the fanceh undies that don't come packaged, I wash before wearing.

    Pretty much this. If I buy them Ina store off the hanger, I wash first. But a lot of the time I buy stuff online, and it comes in little packages. I usually don't wash that first. My eww factor comes from thinking someone else might have tried them on, not someone in the factory touching them

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    NeneCakies said:
    H's grandparents are coming tomorrow and staying for a week.  I'm somewhat nervous about them watch E all week, especially after they asked H if we had a stroller, because they want to hook the dog up to it and go on walks with the baby.  The fuck?  You are not using my somewhat skiddish, year old puppy to pull the stroller around.  For one, he is terrified of the stroller and I don't need him taking off trying to escape it while still attached, for two DON'T BE SO LAZY, push the damn thing yourself!  
    -- Forgive me, but my first thought was NOT that they'd be using him like a sled dog but rather taking both the baby and the pup for a walk. You know, at the same time. But I don't know these people so if you think they're really gonna hook puppy up like a donkey, then go ahead and get your freak out on.
    Oh no, I can see them using him like a pack mule.  Grandpa is always looking for the easy way out of everything.  I am probably being over sensitive, but it makes me nervous leaving the baby with them.
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  • phunkyphishphunkyphish member
    NellyBluth said:
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    I'm thinking about getting something like this to tide me over until real winter hits. I have a feeling we will be having a very chilly fall and I don't have a warm fall jacket anymore.
    Thoughts? Anyone have one?
    I have one of these with a hood and I LOVE it! I hardly even need another coat, and it does get pretty cold here sometimes (Ga).
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  • jesuisfatigueejesuisfatiguee member
    @Hawkward - This has happened to me a few times. I just waited it out, but I ALWAYS followed up to tell them they had the wrong number.



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    Everyone in the damn building followed me into the bathroom again. They need to quit.



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  • littlestjerrylittlestjerry member
    DH is a sportswriter so obviously watches a lot of sports and so far there've been no issues without cable. He watches almost all the games/events he needs on the internet!



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  • phunkyphishphunkyphish member
    edited August 2014


    NellyBluth said:
    imageOk, but I don't think I like the looks of the hood on this fleece.


    My hood does not look like that, and the part on the chest is more straight across. I can't make pictures work at work, but it's this one... https://www.moosejaw.com/moosejaw/shop/product_The-North-Face-Women-s-Oso-Hoodie_10120043_10208_10000001_-1_


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  • theimpossibleastronauttheimpossibleastronaut member
    Holls2011 said:
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    MH finally agreed to get rid of cable!! Hallelujah, parise VL!
    I save over $100 every month by getting rid of cable and only doing netflix.  
    We were paying more than $100 a month for DirecTV. It was too much. We have antenea for local channels, and Amazon, Hulu Plus, and Netflix. Altogether, it's still like 90 percent cheaper than DirecTV was. Hubby misses sports though. I wish I could do something about that, but at least football will be on the local channels here soon.
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  • secretsoutsecretsout member
    I don't have the phone number problem, but I do have the email problem.  I have my old (pre-marriage/name change) email address forwarding to my current email.  Someone from some newspaper in NY keeps using it, and so I get all of these emails about putting things in the paper--ads, events, etc.

    I kept emailing the senders and telling them it was wrong and I even contacted her directly using an email I found on their website and told her to give out her correct email address.  It only helped a little bit, though, so I finally started ignoring the work emails, thinking maybe that would have a larger impact. 

    Most of those have stopped, but I still get stuff for Cadillac and Lexus of Manhattan and someone's tax act stuff and a bunch of political crap.  I just mark it all as spam now.  I don't know if it helps or not.

    I guess my first initial/maiden name is fairly common in New York.


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    I am really annoyed that Honest doesn't have my favorite prints in stock. 


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  • jesuisfatigueejesuisfatiguee member
    Hawkward said:
    jesuisfatiguee said:
    This has happened to me a few times. I just waited it out, but I ALWAYS followed up to tell them they had the wrong number.
    It started two years ago, and I get calls at least weekly, usually almost daily. It's creepy the amount of personal information I have about this person, like where she lives, where she banks, when and where she or her daughters have doctor and dentist appointments, the car she drives (told to me by the bank calling about her car loan), where her older daughter goes to school and her younger daughter goes to daycare...
    With that frequency, I'd just change my number. I do not like to be inconvenienced for that long. 



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  • msdrdgmsdrdg member
    @hawkward, we have that problem to.  Patricia needs to pay her damned bills and pick up her freaking prescriptions.  When I actually answer the phone I tell them that they have the wrong #, but they all always call back.  Its like they don't believe me.
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  • secretsoutsecretsout member
    jesuisfatiguee said:
    Moan: I have to come up with lunches for DS M-F now. He'll eat black beans with cheese and some sort of veggie 2-3 of those days, I think, but dang it. I am lazy and my kid is picky. 
    L is starting preschool in September and I'll have to pack a lunch for him 2 days a week.  I have no idea how this will work.  Hopefully they can have peanut butter.


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  • secretsoutsecretsout member
    I really want to go see Ed Sheeran, but my H won't commit to it because it's his car meet weekend. 

    I like that he has his thing, but it always seems to fall on the same days I want to do something. 


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  • jesuisfatigueejesuisfatiguee member
    Brilliant @NellyBluth. I sent quinoa oatmeal raisin muffins for breakfast for him. I think lunch muffins will be the way to go. 



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  • thebanichthebanich member
    NellyBluth said:


    mcbenny said:

    NellyBluth said:

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    I'm thinking about getting something like this to tide me over until real winter hits. I have a feeling we will be having a very chilly fall and I don't have a warm fall jacket anymore.
    Thoughts? Anyone have one?

    Is that velour?? Or fleece??

    I don't like the color.

    It's fleece. They have eleventy million colors. I either want this color or a purple one.


    I have this exact jacket. It is so comfy. Yes, in this color. Take that @mcbenny‌!!!! :p
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  • dashofrealitydashofreality member
    @rvasc didn't read the other replies but I just did a 6 hour round trip amtrak with 2 &3 yo. So far it has been my favorite method of transportation. The seats have chargers so we watched some movies on the laptop. I also highly recommend going to the snack car. Kids loved getting to walk around and the tables are great for snacks and coloring and they could see out the windows in those seats. Bathrooms are pretty gross try and away from them and bring some sanitizer. And if it goes horribly they serve alcohol.
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  • thebanichthebanich member
    The is going to be longish 

    I met my mom at the mall today to do some clothes shopping for the kids and it went pretty well until we sat down for lunch. Lilly ate about 3 bites and refused anymore so we started to pack up. She wasn't happy but I tried to talk her through it. As I picked her up she went absolutely bat shit crazy. Started screaming and kicking and flailing around and then slapped me straight across the face.

    I put her down on the floor before she hurt anyone else or herself. She continued screaming at the top of her lungs so I pulled her up and put her in the stroller and we walked away. By the time I got her in the stroller I was crying. I was embarrassed and I just feel like I have failed.

     For the last 3 weeks she has had at least one fit like this every. single. day. I know 3 year olds are nuts but to me, this does not seem normal. I don't know what to do.
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    CTGirl30 said:


    thebanich said:

    The is going to be longish 

    I met my mom at the mall today to do some clothes shopping for the kids and it went pretty well until we sat down for lunch. Lilly ate about 3 bites and refused anymore so we started to pack up. She wasn't happy but I tried to talk her through it. As I picked her up she went absolutely bat shit crazy. Started screaming and kicking and flailing around and then slapped me straight across the face.

    I put her down on the floor before she hurt anyone else or herself. She continued screaming at the top of her lungs so I pulled her up and put her in the stroller and we walked away. By the time I got her in the stroller I was crying. I was embarrassed and I just feel like I have failed.

     For the last 3 weeks she has had at least one fit like this every. single. day. I know 3 year olds are nuts but to me, this does not seem normal. I don't know what to do.

    How stressful - if it's a public place and they have ramped up to Defcon 5 levels of insanity, Pack Your Shit and Hastily GTFO seems like the most reasonable strategy to employ at that point. There is no reasoning with an actively tantrumming child.

    You can talk it over in the car once they've simmered down...what are the triggers for the other occasions? Is she tired / hangry / not getting enough transition warnings, etc? If you cna maybe identify a possible trigger that is setting her off, then you can try to circumvent the meltdown.

    She was tired but not out of the ordinary tired. We said several times that we had to go, talked about a fun thing to do at home etc... I guess there was no way to avoid it that time?

    More than anything I think the level of anger she exhibits just terrifies me.
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  • thebanichthebanich member
    mcbenny said:
    The is going to be longish 

    I met my mom at the mall today to do some clothes shopping for the kids and it went pretty well until we sat down for lunch. Lilly ate about 3 bites and refused anymore so we started to pack up. She wasn't happy but I tried to talk her through it. As I picked her up she went absolutely bat shit crazy. Started screaming and kicking and flailing around and then slapped me straight across the face.

    I put her down on the floor before she hurt anyone else or herself. She continued screaming at the top of her lungs so I pulled her up and put her in the stroller and we walked away. By the time I got her in the stroller I was crying. I was embarrassed and I just feel like I have failed.

     For the last 3 weeks she has had at least one fit like this every. single. day. I know 3 year olds are nuts but to me, this does not seem normal. I don't know what to do.
    During all this, did you tell her anything? Was there a consequence or punishment?
    The leaving itself was a consequence. Neither of them were eating lunch and she was whining about something else. I warned her that she needed to stop whining or we would have to leave. She didn't stop and so we packed up.

    After she started the tantrum I tried to talk to her but it was pointless by then.

    She kept alternating screaming and crying while we were walking so she had lost her daily viewing of Curious George by the time we got to the car.
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  • secretsoutsecretsout member
      The weirdest things get to me.  I need to provide a towel or blanket for L for preschool rest time, but it is making me all sorts of crazy.  What kind of towel? Would a blanket be better?  What size?  What color?  There are too many choices.

    How is my baby going to preschool?  And how is he going to be three in November?! 
    :((


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  • dashofrealitydashofreality member
    shinyredsmartazz said:
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    I tried swaddling again last night, he screamed bloody murder and worked one of his arms out. I need to check out the video, the one time the doctor swaddled him he went right back to sleep. I just seriously do not know how H and I are going to keep up with every 2 hour feedings at night, especially considering we have to keep him upright for 15-20 minutes after feeding. I'll obviously do what I have to, but damn. I was hoping for MORE sleep, not less.

    shinyredsmartazz!

    Do you have to do 2 hours at night as well? That what we were originally told and then we saw another pedi she said that she didn't recommend that and we should do 2 hours during the day and 3 at night, I hope you can at least get to that point soon.

    It may not work at all for you, but between me cutting out dairy, baby probiotics, and colic calm, we had a new baby. I know I just wanted something to make the crying stop, so I shelled out like $50 for biogaia  probiotics (sp?) as I was grasping at straws.

    Don't worry, in the relatively near future you will have an asshole toddler and you will actually look back on the newborn stage with some fondness.

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    TyrannosaurusLex said:
    @thebanich I am *not* a parent of a 3yo so take that with as much salt as you like, but I am a daycare teacher with my fair share of meltdown experience. Every kid is different and sometimes you need to find their calm down button. Some kids respond really well to a stern voice and look, others to a loss of privilege, and others to the idea of time out. Some don't feel swayed by those methods at all. Sometimes a successful method with those kids is to think of them as incredibly big buckets of emotion - when they feel things, they feel them with every ounce of their soul. It's literally like experiencing the most tragic grief to them when they suffer a disappointment, or like the ultimate betrayal when they feel angry and like there has been an injustice. While it's really hard to do in front of people, particularly in public, sometimes it's quite effective to just get down to a crouch, hold them and hug them and repeat their feelings to them. "You don't want to eat anymore. You're done eating. I hear you. I hear you saying you're done eating. You told me you don't want any more and I'm listening to your words. You're all done." Then, when they feel like they've been heard, you can negotiate. "You can be done eating and sit close to grandma in the booth. Everyone else is going to eat until they are full but you can be done and sit." Is your daughter really sensitive in other ways? Does she get sad for others when they are hurt? Does joy just burst out of her when she's happy? Does she worry?

    This is actually what we have been working with. My mom held her for a few moments (she is her caregiver during the week so I try to keep her involved) but it may have been past the breaking point already. She does not respond well to time outs at all.

     I think she is pretty sensitive , she tends to get her feelings hurt easily.She does ask whats wrong with other children when they cry, I don't know if it is out of curiosity or concern though. She is full of all the emotions, there are just a lot of negative ones these days. Her reactions (sad or happy) are generally pretty strong.
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  • dashofrealitydashofreality member
    thebanich is there possibly something else going on? My DD has uncharacteristic behavior when she is upset/stressed about something else going on. She started a hitting stage when she was at new daycare she didn't like, and stopped almost immediately when we moved her.
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    dashofreality said:
    thebanich is there possibly something else going on? My DD has uncharacteristic behavior when she is upset/stressed about something else going on. She started a hitting stage when she was at new daycare she didn't like, and stopped almost immediately when we moved her.

    We haven't had any major changes since it started that I can think of. She goes to morning schools but it only runs late August- May so that hasn't started back up yet.
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