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MRoxy0628 · November 2014

MarisaKathleen said:

I really liked the experience we had with care.com. Nancy's sitter has become like family. She loves my kids like they're hers. Nancy was 100% potty trained after 2 days with her last week as opposed to the month we've been working on it at home. I wouldn't hesitate to find someone on there again. I like that there's the background check, the picture, the bio, etc. I interviewed our sitter on the phone first, then we went over to her house and met with her and her family to see how she'd do with Nanc.

I had interviewed other people that we found on there as well and all were pretty good. Something about who we ended up going with just clicked & thank God it did, as she's so awesome with our kids. We're so very lucky to have her as opposed to the other wacko we had while she was going through her thyroid cancer mess last winter.

STUCK:
Out of pure nosiness-
Is your current sitter the one who wanted you guys to come over so she could talk to you about something? Or was that the past one?

MarisaKathleen · November 2014

@MRoxy0628, it was her. Her son got caught looking at porn on the school issued iPad and the police were called since it's a zero tolerance school. He's 13 & a really good kid. I think it's perfectly normal for a 13 year old to be curious about such things, so I didn't think it was a big deal.

We'll see how I feel about that when my kid is 13...

smb+jab · November 2014

we have only used care.com for find someone to clean our house. so i cannot offer opinions. but the girl we use is reasonable and does a decent job.

i don't know if its an option for you, but our daycare / school has list of girls that are available to babysitting. So if we ever need one and crazy MIL isn't available I plan to use one of his teacher aids as he already loves them anyways. so a win win.

MRoxy0628 · November 2014

MarisaKathleen said:

@MRoxy0628, it was her. Her son got caught looking at porn on the school issued iPad and the police were called since it's a zero tolerance school. He's 13 & a really good kid. I think it's perfectly normal for a 13 year old to be curious about such things, so I didn't think it was a big deal.

We'll see how I feel about that when my kid is 13...

Oh yes, it's all coming back to me.

melody921 · November 2014

Kissty said:

MarisaKathleen said:

Something is going on with our network at work. TB is loading really slowly, Shutterfly won't load at all. Boo.
Same thing here. Not sure about Shutterfly. TB is r e a l l y, r e a l l y slow.

Same here, although I think it might have sped up a little from this morning.

melody921 · November 2014

Pokedot said:

Speaking of cleaning ladies I hired one to come clean our bathrooms the week before B's party. I just didn't have time. I mentioned it to my mom and I could feel the judging coming from the other end of the phone.
I talked about it again last night when I picked up B. How it would be nice for someone to come once a month for the deep cleaning. Her response was smothered in judgement. "Well I worked full time and maintained a house. I think it's a dumb idea." Ok she worked FT after my brother and I were in middle school therefore we weren't home all the time and could do our own chores a that point as well. I don't think she understands how hard it is to maintain a house and work FT. I'm not discrediting being a SAHM as well. Hardest job ever but at least my laundry gets done when I'm home. I was so pissed about it.

I'm pretty sure MIL judges that we have a cleaning lady. Ask me if I care. Your house, your time, your money. Do what works for you. I never want to give up our cleaning people. They allowed me to regain my weekends.

ETA: I'm actually pretty damn good at cleaning. I just have other stuff I'd rather be doing.

melody921 · November 2014

hmp1 said:

I have been having a hard time finding a shirt I like for James to wear to his birthday party. I found these last night for both the kids to wear and I am beyond excited.

LOVE! Where are they from?

melody921 · November 2014

smb+jab said:

we have only used care.com for find someone to clean our house. so i cannot offer opinions. but the girl we use is reasonable and does a decent job.

i don't know if its an option for you, but our daycare / school has list of girls that are available to babysitting. So if we ever need one and crazy MIL isn't available I plan to use one of his teacher aids as he already loves them anyways. so a win win.

We use a daycare teacher as a babysitter too, and I like that she knows/likes my kids, has all her clearances, etc. I've not used care.com personally, but I've heard nothing but good things about it.

jayja2007 · November 2014

I think this works here

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kelbel527 · November 2014

Work is insane right now, so I am missing bump time. I have 10 minutes while I scarf down my lunch, so here's my contribution:

We have an every 2 week cleaning person (or we will again when we move back into a house) - I have boys, the bathroom gets disgusting if it isn't cleaned every 2 weeks. That's the main reason I need bi-weekly.

I don't wear a bathrobe. Our heat kicks up to 70 degrees automatically at 5:30 am.

I don't wash my sheets weekly. Usually every 2 weeks. I wash the boys more often though.

I have someone at work driving me insane these days. It's turning me into a bitch. I hate being the bitchy boss. But sometimes? You just need to do your job correctly.

Happy hump day ladies!

melody921 · November 2014

A part of me is already dreading trying to line up Christmas plans with extended family. DH's family is pretty regimented in how they handle the holidays (aka, both sets of parents assume they'll see us on Christmas Day), and mine used to always do Christmas Eve or the weekend before Christmas, until a few years ago when my mom complained about never getting Christmas Day. So I asked then if she wanted to move to Christmas Day but she said no because my bro and SIL couldn't make it then anyway. OMG, then why are you even bringing it up?

Last year, we invited everyone over on Christmas Eve to try to circumvent the ridiculousness, but even then my mom was like, "Oh, I don't want you to have to cook." This was after she said she didn't want to host every holiday. ARGH. My brother never gets this BS, so it falls on me. And then DH gets understandably frustrated bc we either leave his family hanging until the last minute to finalize plans, or we tie things up with them and I hear an earful from my mom. It's exhausting, and I feel like I'm constantly stuck in the middle, taking blame from all sides. I just want to see everyone, dammit.

tinyhumantoe · November 2014

I'm going to book a weekend at great wolf lodge. We are going on a thurs, fri, and I'm debating if Saturday would be one night too many? THoughts?

melody921 · November 2014

tinyhumantoe said:

I'm going to book a weekend at great wolf lodge. We are going on a thurs, fri, and I'm debating if Saturday would be one night too many? THoughts?

I've never been, but it strikes me as a 2-night place. Sounds like fun!

BeebopandBuddy · November 2014

melody921 said:

A part of me is already dreading trying to line up Christmas plans with extended family. DH's family is pretty regimented in how they handle the holidays (aka, both sets of parents assume they'll see us on Christmas Day), and mine used to always do Christmas Eve or the weekend before Christmas, until a few years ago when my mom complained about never getting Christmas Day. So I asked then if she wanted to move to Christmas Day but she said no because my bro and SIL couldn't make it then anyway. OMG, then why are you even bringing it up?

Last year, we invited everyone over on Christmas Eve to try to circumvent the ridiculousness, but even then my mom was like, "Oh, I don't want you to have to cook." This was after she said she didn't want to host every holiday. ARGH. My brother never gets this BS, so it falls on me. And then DH gets understandably frustrated bc we either leave his family hanging until the last minute to finalize plans, or we tie things up with them and I hear an earful from my mom. It's exhausting, and I feel like I'm constantly stuck in the middle, taking blame from all sides. I just want to see everyone, dammit.

Stories like this make me so happy that my parents don't celebrate holidays.

Pokedot · November 2014

tinyhumantoe said:

I'm going to book a weekend at great wolf lodge. We are going on a thurs, fri, and I'm debating if Saturday would be one night too many? THoughts?

I've never been there but we have something similar near by. I would think 2 nights is good. If you bring my DS 2 is plenty. He's not a very good hotel sleeper. Like at all!

Newt69 · November 2014

This morning I noticed that I lost the sapphire stud out of my 2nd hole in my left ear..I'm freaking heartbroken because DH bought me the earrings. I am a very sentimental person so if I cant find it I am just going to ball my ever loving eyes out.

This BIOCHEM class has me stressed out as well along with going out for surgery 6days before xmas and missing 3wks of work and work crap.

I guess I am just a ball of stress.

I only wash my bathrobe maybe 1x a year, but I also do not wear it a ton. I wash our sheets every 2weeks, as for DS' stuff....whenever it stinks....he goes to bed clean right.

I wish I could afford a cleaning lady, but my mom is a cleaning lady and it just turns me off by the way she talks about some of her clients. Plus I don't want ppl going thru my stuff or judging because I couldn't keep up.

DH is driving me bonkers over everything.....he obsesses over everything....its gotten to the point he talked about the Home Depot bill so much that DS talks about going to home depot multiple times a day and he doesn't even really know what it is.

kelbel527 · November 2014

tinyhumantoe said:

I'm going to book a weekend at great wolf lodge. We are going on a thurs, fri, and I'm debating if Saturday would be one night too many? THoughts?

We usually do 2 nights in these types of places. The kids are overtired by the end and usually had their fun.

hmp1 · November 2014

tinyhumantoe said:

I'm going to book a weekend at great wolf lodge. We are going on a thurs, fri, and I'm debating if Saturday would be one night too many? THoughts?

We have a gift card to use there. It's not my preferred place to stay so I have been waiting until the kids are a little older, so 3 days is too much for me unless there are other things near by that I would want to stay and do for another day.

Pokedot · November 2014

Can we just talk about Kim K's butt for a second? Everyone who isn't under a rock has to have seen this by now. Do we really need to see her bare butt on the cover a magazine? I love the meme's that are coming out. Especially the one with a centaur in it. Hahahaha

hmp1 · November 2014

melody921 said:

hmp1 said:

I have been having a hard time finding a shirt I like for James to wear to his birthday party. I found these last night for both the kids to wear and I am beyond excited.

LOVE! Where are they from?

Etsy

MarisaKathleen · November 2014

Pokedot said:

Can we just talk about Kim K's butt for a second? Everyone who isn't under a rock has to have seen this by now. Do we really need to see her bare butt on the cover a magazine? I love the meme's that are coming out. Especially the one with a centaur in it. Hahahaha

Dude. I do live under a rock. :-( I saw that her butt was trending when I logged into my yahoo this morning, but didn't bother to click on it.

tyrannasaurusjess · November 2014

Pokedot said:

Can we just talk about Kim K's butt for a second? Everyone who isn't under a rock has to have seen this by now. Do we really need to see her bare butt on the cover a magazine? I love the meme's that are coming out. Especially the one with a centaur in it. Hahahaha

Ummm... I clicked on it because I was like wtf is up with her hair??? It was like 4 minutes later before I remembered it was supposed to be about her butt. andplusalso..... photoshop. Maybe not her butt, but definitely her waist.

tyrannasaurusjess · November 2014

Who was it that was talking about wanting to do an Ugly Sweater party? Was it @willy_gert?? If so, I've found your look.....

AKB090609 · November 2014

Visiting family drives me BONKERS! That is why DH and I have decided that this will be the last year we travel for a holiday, we are going to MKE for thanksgiving this year and then we will make it know that 'our doors are always open, and your welcome to join us, we will be staying home for the holidays'.. I'm so freaking excited! DH thinks I'm a better cook than his mom anyway and I really want the kids to see our house as the place they have holidays.

hmp1 · November 2014

MarisaKathleen said:

Pokedot said:

Can we just talk about Kim K's butt for a second? Everyone who isn't under a rock has to have seen this by now. Do we really need to see her bare butt on the cover a magazine? I love the meme's that are coming out. Especially the one with a centaur in it. Hahahaha

Dude. I do live under a rock. :-( I saw that her butt was trending when I logged into my yahoo this morning, but didn't bother to click on it.

Guess I'm under the rock with you. I have no idea.

Pokedot · November 2014

tyrannosaurusjess said:

Pokedot said:

Can we just talk about Kim K's butt for a second? Everyone who isn't under a rock has to have seen this by now. Do we really need to see her bare butt on the cover a magazine? I love the meme's that are coming out. Especially the one with a centaur in it. Hahahaha

Ummm... I clicked on it because I was like wtf is up with her hair??? It was like 4 minutes later before I remembered it was supposed to be about her butt. andplusalso..... photoshop. Maybe not her butt, but definitely her waist.

Bhahaha I know. That is some butt and I agree on the waist. If she really wanted to send a message don't make it about the photoshop.

@MarisaKathleen her ass everywhere.

melody921 · November 2014

harti09 said:

We've chosen to do Christmas by ourselves this year to avoid the chaos. We always feel pulled in a million different directions and it's overwhelming. DH's family is somewhat disappointed in us for it. Whatever. When you add in travel, it's just not fun for us. We went to visit in October for a week instead. Much less hectic since there wasn't holiday hoopla attached.

We're really excited about the holidays this year and that we get to make all the calls for the first time ever.

That sounds really nice. Considering DH's family lives 20 minutes away, however, and mine is less than 2 hours, this would never fly.

MarisaKathleen · November 2014

I can't imagine doing Christmas with just us. It's "just us" every other day of the year. I love the chaos of 3 days of celebrating with our families.

All of our family is local...the farthest we travel is around 45 minutes away, so I'm sure that makes a huge difference too. If we had to go out of town, or stay overnight? Pf. Probably not as enjoyable.

hmp1 · November 2014

One of the few reasons I like living here more than TX is that we don't have different sides of the family to juggle during the holidays. We have been traveling every other year to go stay at a vacation home with family for Christmas and that has worked out really well. Best of both worlds because you get to spend the day with family but not driving all over to see different people.

kdsmith43 · November 2014

) Chelsea Handler posted this on IG.

willy_gert · November 2014

So there was seriously just an earthquake in the middle of effing KS. What the hell?

tinyhumantoe · November 2014

tyrannosaurusjess said:

Who was it that was talking about wanting to do an Ugly Sweater party? Was it @willy_gert?? If so, I've found your look.....

HOLY SHIT THAT IS HILARIOUS

willy_gert · November 2014

tinyhumantoe said:

tyrannosaurusjess said:

Who was it that was talking about wanting to do an Ugly Sweater party? Was it @willy_gert?? If so, I've found your look.....

HOLY SHIT THAT IS HILARIOUS

That is amazeballs and yes it is me! I should totally make DH do this....

tinyhumantoe · November 2014

I just booked two nights at GWL! I am so freaking excited!

Also, on the topic of staying at peoples' houses. The friends that were in town last weekend got a hotel room. DH and I had a conversation about how freaking wonderful that was.

It literally chomps away an entire weekend to have people stay with us. It's cleaning, hosting, clean-up, laundry, and basically being totally inconvenienced. We're over it. We live by campus and everyone and their brother wants to come stay with us when they come in for a game/barhopping. #OVERIT .........get a hotel you tightwads.

AKB090609 · November 2014

If we lived in the same state as family it might feel different, especially for Christmas, but as it is we have to pack everyone in the car load the car top carrier and drive for 6ish hours without kid and dog stops. Then we stay at the in-laws house and are pressured to run all over town to see all the aunts, uncles and cousins who we never really talk to otherwise. It's a pain and since having kids it is so much worse because we don't want them to break things. I turn into a huge ball of stress and it takes a week to recover once we get home.

That's part of the reason we love going to the cabin in summer and fall, once we get there we are done, we can just hang out and enjoy hanging out with MIL, FIL, BIL, SIL and our nephew in a relaxed environment.

tyrannasaurusjess · November 2014

I have a love/hate relationship with traveling for the holidays. I love going home, but 'going home' in my mind and in real life are totally different. I always imagine it being soooo much less stressful than it is. We are going to Michigan for thanksgiving to see me families. It's an 8 hour drive without kid stops or accounting for traffic and weather. I always say we are going to just one gathering, but that never works out. We are going Wednesday night through Saturday and have 5 different get togethers to shuffle to and from, all about an hour and a half from the next. We will be staying here for Christmas to spend time with H's families. It's nice to not have the long drive but somehow still ends up being just as hectic. That being said, I think I'd be bored, or feel like something was missing if we didn't do anything, or just stayed home during the holidays.

PenelopePond · November 2014

I'm so over this 4/5 year old whiney tattle tail phase. Give me all the terrible twos. Ethans driving me nuts.

MrsKipper · November 2014

PenelopePond said:
I'm so over this 4/5 year old whiney tattle tail phase. Give me all the terrible twos. Ethans driving me nuts.

Don't tell me there's something worse than 2!

On that note, I hate when people are all "wait til puberty". I feel like I would rather deal with a pubescent attitude than trying to figure out why the heck my 2 year old is freaking out for the 8266394992 time this hour.

Holly_1007 · November 2014

This thread made me feel so much better about slacking in my housework the past few weeks! I'm exhausted! Also, holidays suck. i just want to skip them this year. Since H and I have no formal custody agreement, we are already fighting about the holiday schedule

hmp1 · November 2014

PenelopePond said:
I'm so over this 4/5 year old whiney tattle tail phase. Give me all the terrible twos. Ethans driving me nuts.

James was terrible last week but has been amazing for the last few days. I am hoping we are turning a page and catching a break for awhile. Or he is sucking up for birthday and Christmas.

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