I know we have a Confessions thread and FFFC, but what about for our rants?
I'll start it off: My son's daycare just started a lesson on transportation. He has been proudly telling everyone "My dadda drives a big truck!" so I set up that MH would bring his box-truck from work to the daycare to show the kids. I sent an email to the owner on Sunday saying that I wasn't sure what time he would be by, but it would definitely be Friday afternoon, here's his number, call/text him to set up a time that would work for the kids' schedule and his. Then, almost EVERY DAY at drop-off and pick-up, I would say something about how much fun it will be when Dadda visits daycare to all the girls working there and the owner. MH talked to the owner of the company to make sure he could take the truck off-route and went in early to get all his deliveries done in time. So at 2pm I get a text that my son JUST went down for a nap. Now, I have discussed this a MILLION times that if he naps too late in the afternoon, he can't get to sleep and that he should be napping right after lunch. So, that already grilled my cheese, but I respond "Oh, did Dom already stop by with the truck?" and the teacher sends back "Oh. No one told me he was coming by today." WTF?! We talked about this about 450 times! So I called my husband and he was just pulling up to the daycare and of course all the kids are asleep. So the poor guy went out of his way to do something super nice for his son and it gets all bungled up! To make matters worse, I get another text from the daycare provider saying she needs to drive her kid to some class and I need to pick up my son by 4pm. So, my plans to go grocery shopping after school are out the window. And my kid will just be waking up from his super late nap and need a snack, diaper change (because they have not been consistent with the potty training I started at home), and there is no way I am dragging a post-nap toddler to the grocery store. GAH! I am fuming right now!
Re: Rants!
I am 33 and the only of my friends to not yet have a kid. About two weeks after I found out I was pregnant my college roomie (who has a kid already) decided she needed to go to the obgyn who of course told her the risks of having a child over 35. She is also 33 and went on a two day rant about how she can't have a kid now but just has to. This upset my husband but me, knowing she's always been rather self absorbed, didn't get bugged.
Flash forward to today when she's texting about how she hopes this is her last period of the year. It just infuriated me. I know I'm being selfish but I want one stinking trimester of my own to be celebrated. I spend years supporting them and now not even 7 weeks into my pregnancy she's making it all about her. Just arg!
Thanks for the vent.