Monday B*tchfest | 9.18

eggplantface · September 2017

I don't think we've had a bitchfest in a couple weeks...

julievdm12 · September 2017

My toddler has a cough (which I feel bad for her about) but she woke up crying 6 times within an hour last night....add that to the peeing wake ups and the waking for no reason..... I can't even remember how many times I was up....

the magical second trimester energy that I had with my second can kick in aaaaaany day now.....

SunflowerMama428 · September 2017

Oh well today.....I am on no sleep because you know..pregnancy. Then my SIL took 45 mins in our bathroom when all 3 of us have to get ready to leave, including my 3 yrld who can only hold it for so long. So I finally get in the shower, no water. I take a duck bath and get ready for work. MIL brings DS back inside because he has to use the bathroom..again. DH is late to work. Never gave DS a lunch. I'm putting a pizza slice in his lunch box and trying to explain to him this is only because I'm losing My mind. Then my lyft is late and traffic is horrible and I can't get my one and only morning coffee. And it's Monday which is my office day. I have to stop at the grocery store on my way home and I'm buying, pizza to make for dinner because I don't have time for anything else before DH goes to class tonight.

magnolia305 · September 2017

@SunflowerMama428 You are a busy mom. Don't be too hard on yourself--we all have those days. It sounds like mornings are busy at your house, anyways--so I feel like just getting to work is a win today! Also, everyone loves pizza--so I feel like that's a great choice for dinner

edit: grammar

meatballs37 · September 2017

@SunflowerMama428 confession: we eat a lot of pizza too. It's just so darn easy.

My BF. It's Monday, and I'm tired from working the weekend. And DD is refusing her first nap. I'm screwed. All I want to do is lay down. Currently she is emptying her entire kitchen play set.

RSaini · September 2017

SunflowerMama428 said:

Oh well today.....I am on no sleep because you know..pregnancy. Then my SIL took 45 mins in our bathroom when all 3 of us have to get ready to leave, including my 3 yrld who can only hold it for so long. So I finally get in the shower, no water. I take a duck bath and get ready for work. MIL brings DS back inside because he has to use the bathroom..again. DH is late to work. Never gave DS a lunch. I'm putting a pizza slice in his lunch box and trying to explain to him this is only because I'm losing My mind. Then my lyft is late and traffic is horrible and I can't get my one and only morning coffee. And it's Monday which is my office day. I have to stop at the grocery store on my way home and I'm buying, pizza to make for dinner because I don't have time for anything else before DH goes to class tonight.

My DH hates pizza...I order it if I am desperate, which has been quite a lot this pregnancy. I applaud you for doing it @SunflowerMama428!!

julievdm12 · September 2017

@SunflowerMama428 as pathetic as this might sound: pizza often feels like a win at our house because it's one of the only ways my daughter will consume veggies.

SarahFoley725 · September 2017

DD is in her 18 month sleep regression. Her wake up times (I kid you not) are like 3:30, 4 MAYBE 5 if we get lucky. Today she slept until 7 but I did that mom thing where you wake up 100 times freaking out. She also had her 18 month appointment today. She got Hep A vaccine and we both got flu shots. She fell asleep on the 15 minute car ride home and now thinks she doesn't need a nap. I'm going to cry because I'm tired. Exhaustion tears. Being tired makes my MS that I still freaking have way worse too so I'm miserable and grumpy.

smorzandoj · September 2017

The "math instructional coach" has asked me at least 972 times how the schedule for testing should be for 7/8 grades. Dude. Just let me make the dang schedule bc you're wasting my time repeatedly asking me the same freaking question.

RSaini · September 2017

My BF - my ILs hoping the baby is a girl...I just want a healthy baby whether it's a boy or a girl...their exact words everytime "it should be a girl"...like who the hell are you? either way I am done with having babies after this one...so if it's another boy, they will have to come to terms with that..

psm2462 · September 2017

What's really grinding my gears today is the excessive red tape that comes with trying to make doctor's appointments. I need to be seen for a rash on my belly (that I don't think is PUPP, because it's not itchy), got transferred between like 16 different receptionists to finally make a derm appointment. My options are either this Thursday or mid-October (because apparently derms keep next to no "sick" or "urgent" appointments open, and options a month apart are somehow viable?) and I'm obviously not waiting until mid-October since my midwife is escalating to the derm in case it's something that could have "adverse effects for the pregnancy." Of course, the Thursday appt is at the same time as DS1's physical, which his doctor has rescheduled THREE times over the last 6 weeks (this is all within the same hospital system, I think my head might explode). So now DH and I both have to take Thursday afternoon off so we can get to all our various medical appts.

mayapple44 · September 2017

@ sunflowermama428 and @meatballs37
I completely feel you guys on the pizza thing! But at this point im even sick of eating it! There has to be a better way to get dinner on the table! I am so over making a meal plan, going to the grocery, and cooking everynight! Suggestions welcome!

winnie1122 · September 2017

Had a super crappy day yesterday with various family issues related to my parents' recent divorce and I am so drained and exhausted. Our schedule was all wonky yesterday due to all our running around so DS was all thrown off and woke up at 2:30 this morning wide awake. He wouldn't go back down in his crib so I brought him to bed with us and he just kept trying to sit on our faces and play and couldn't fall asleep for at least another hour, maybe more...I lost track. I treated myself to Starbucks on the way to work this morning and have been seriously struggling to be productive today even though I have a mountain of projects to grade. I need a nap stat.

SunflowerMama428 · September 2017

...thanks guys for making me not feel like a horrible parent.

@psm2462 I feel you on doctor appointments. I just made a new midwife appointment because I finally decided to go for a vbac!!!!!!! And it took me 2 hours and a million transfers. They kept trying to get me to an OB once I said Vbac. No thank you ma'am good day!

psm2462 · September 2017

@SunflowerMama428 the "good day" meme just made me laugh out loud in my office, I needed that. I hope you like the new midwife, and that she is worth all of the phone transfers!!

SunflowerMama428 · September 2017

@psm2462 that's my favorite meme. I laugh every time I see it. I'm glad it made you laugh too!

babybro218 · September 2017

My BF: I had to take a 1/2 emergency sick day, which means the office staff had to scramble to find last minute coverage for 2 of my classes. Having coverage sucks. I get it. No one likes it, but we also understand we wouldn't have to do it if there wasn't an emergency. That being said, showing up 15 minutes late for coverage when there are kids in the room and a teacher having an emergency is NOT ok.

sugarcoateddonut · September 2017

@SunflowerMama428 I am not a parent yet and I have trouble finding the energy to make dinner. Pizza sounds incredible to me!

All you ladies inspire me!

babybro218 · September 2017

@SunflowerMama428 I see no problem with this. You have all of the important food groups in one delicious slice.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/lj/rvyqghja63zl.jpg

SunflowerMama428 · September 2017

@babybro218 I know right? His pedi said I could give him slices of cheese to get him to have more dairy so this is basically the same thing

smorzandoj · September 2017

babybro218 said:

My BF: I had to take a 1/2 emergency sick day, which means the office staff had to scramble to find last minute coverage for 2 of my classes. Having coverage sucks. I get it. No one likes it, but we also understand we wouldn't have to do it if there wasn't an emergency. That being said, showing up 15 minutes late for coverage when there are kids in the room and a teacher having an emergency is NOT ok.

We could talk all day about this. Smdh. We had two call outs today and no one covering on time. Because that's safe. And we were put into shelter in place with these people not having emergency plans.

pandappanderson · September 2017

I lost my job back in July and have had no luck finding a new one. At several different doctors appts be employment has come up (regarding heavy lifting, restrictions etc) and I've had to say I'm unemployed. Then comes the obvious follow up question out of sympathy about my husband and what he does for a living.

My husband is a pilot. And I swear to god if one more person says to me 'oh! Well then you're covered then, no worries about being unemployed' I'm going to throat punch them. Pretty sure no one has any idea of our financial situation so to tell
me
i have 'no worries' because of what my husband does Is so so so rude.

SunflowerMama428 · September 2017

@pandappanderson extremely rude. Especially with the economy you just never know how it's affected someone's salary or what they have going on. I'm sorry. You could always say, oh is your husband a pilot? Make them feel embarrassed for intruding thier opinion

pandappanderson · September 2017

@SunflowerMama428

It always throws me off and I just end up laughing nervously and saying 'oh if only that were the case'

ita hard because I was actually the breadwinner in the family too. So to be told that losing that income shouldn't matter is tough to hear.

SunflowerMama428 · September 2017

@pandappanderson I'm sorry people suck

heatherandmatt26 · September 2017

My husband works traveling remodeling Walmarts across the U.S he travels with his BIL and Mom so this entire trip he's been going into the bathroom when he calls during the day(they work nights so MIL and BIL are still sleepin but he wakes up early to talk to us) she comes barging in the bathroom on him several times a day without knocking and yells at him for not sleeping and sitting in the bathroom all day like it bothers her? He's almost 30 years old and she's trying to give him a bed time and tell him where He can be.. why just why.

SarahFoley725 · September 2017

heatherandmatt26 said:

My husband works traveling remodeling Walmarts across the U.S he travels with his BIL and Mom so this entire trip he's been going into the bathroom when he calls during the day(they work nights so MIL and BIL are still sleepin but he wakes up early to talk to us) she comes barging in the bathroom on him several times a day without knocking and yells at him for not sleeping and sitting in the bathroom all day like it bothers her? He's almost 30 years old and she's trying to give him a bed time and tell him where He can be.. why just why.

This sounds like something my MIL would do. I have a niece that my BIL has next to nothing to do with. He works nights and sleeps days intentionally. MIL is always talking about how it's more important for him to sleep then be up with my niece. She's always suggesting DH takes a nap when we see them too. Part of being a parent is being tired and she doesn't grasp that they're adults now and have their own kids to take care of

madie008 · September 2017

I don't usually have much to bitch about but I had the worst day yesterday.
Ugh.
All I wanted for my birthday was to be able to sleep. I worked evenings Saturday night, so wasn't home until super late plus I have just been So exhausted and sick of getting up earlier with our toddler.
But nope. Hubby decides he wasn't going to get up even though he promised, then proceeded to help me with nothing though the whole day.
I cried and cried like an idiot.
All. I. Want. Is. Sleep.
I offically feel like I don't matter any more, no more birthdays for me I guess!!

magnolia305 · September 2017

SarahFoley725 said:

heatherandmatt26 said:

My husband works traveling remodeling Walmarts across the U.S he travels with his BIL and Mom so this entire trip he's been going into the bathroom when he calls during the day(they work nights so MIL and BIL are still sleepin but he wakes up early to talk to us) she comes barging in the bathroom on him several times a day without knocking and yells at him for not sleeping and sitting in the bathroom all day like it bothers her? He's almost 30 years old and she's trying to give him a bed time and tell him where He can be.. why just why.

This sounds like something my MIL would do. I have a niece that my BIL has next to nothing to do with. He works nights and sleeps days intentionally. MIL is always talking about how it's more important for him to sleep then be up with my niece. She's always suggesting DH takes a nap when we see them too. Part of being a parent is being tired and she doesn't grasp that they're adults now and have their own kids to take care of

My MIL is like this, too. She has no problem talking smack on parents who work all the time--especially a cousin who is super important in the cooperate world and is always working. When it comes to her precious son, she tells me how important his job is and that super long hours are "just part of it". I understand, it is. I've known that--but don't talk smack on others, especially women who work long hours. Having double standards rubs me the wrong way.

chucksmom15 · September 2017

@SunflowerMama428 that meme is my new favorite thing!!

@pandappanderson I know how you feel. My DH lost his job two weeks after he proposed and was unemployed for a lot of the stuff we had to do leading up to our wedding. Losing his income was super stressful and I felt so bad for him every time we had to answer the what do you do for work question. I hope you find a new job soon! Unemployment sucks.

babybro218 · September 2017

@madie008 I'm sorry yesterday was so rough. I hope you get a chance to rest and celebrate a belated birthday!!

meatballs37 · September 2017

@pandappanderson that stinks

Get asked a lot since I will have three under 2 when these little guys are born if I am going to quit my part time job. Um no, diapers and shot don't pay for themselves. I don't understand why people care either way.

ash0625 · September 2017

meatballs37 said:

@pandappanderson that stinks

Get asked a lot since I will have three under 2 when these little guys are born if I am going to quit my part time job. Um no, diapers and shot don't pay for themselves. I don't understand why people care either way.

My husband is a full-time student and I'm the one who works right now. This is our first baby and people ask me if I'm going to quit to stay home with him while he's a baby.......uhhh......if I quit he won't have a home?

meatballs37 · September 2017

ash0625 said:

meatballs37 said:

@pandappanderson that stinks

Get asked a lot since I will have three under 2 when these little guys are born if I am going to quit my part time job. Um no, diapers and shot don't pay for themselves. I don't understand why people care either way.

My husband is a full-time student and I'm the one who works right now. This is our first baby and people ask me if I'm going to quit to stay home with him while he's a baby.......uhhh......if I quit he won't have a home?

People are morons. I'm still paying off the student loans for the job I currently work at. I couldn't justify quitting ever.

SarahFoley725 · September 2017

I always side eye anyone who automatically assumes women will stay home with their kids because 1. Not everyone can and 2. Not everyone wants to. This isn't the 50's why is this such a difficult concept for people?

madie008 · September 2017

meatballs37 said:

ash0625 said:

meatballs37 said:

@pandappanderson that stinks

Get asked a lot since I will have three under 2 when these little guys are born if I am going to quit my part time job. Um no, diapers and shot don't pay for themselves. I don't understand why people care either way.

My husband is a full-time student and I'm the one who works right now. This is our first baby and people ask me if I'm going to quit to stay home with him while he's a baby.......uhhh......if I quit he won't have a home?

People are morons. I'm still paying off the student loans for the job I currently work at. I couldn't justify quitting ever.

Right? Like why do people think life is going to stop just because you have a baby?
I would never thiink of quitting my job. we need the money. Plus I actually do enjoy my job and getting out of the house a few days a week. So sue me!!

@babybro218 thanks mama xxo

babymakes9 · September 2017

mayapple44 said:

@ sunflowermama428 and @meatballs37
I completely feel you guys on the pizza thing! But at this point im even sick of eating it! There has to be a better way to get dinner on the table! I am so over making a meal plan, going to the grocery, and cooking everynight! Suggestions welcome!

large batch crock pot meals that you can stretch for days. Like crockpot a bunch of chicken and then use it for chicken tacos, chicken soup, chicken and biscuits, chicken salad and stovetop casserole.

I made a pot of pork last week, made 3 quick and easy meals with it.

winnie1122 · September 2017

I love freezer meals for the crockpot. Definitely a huge lifesaver when you don't have time to cook! Though planning the prep days for them takes some strategy, totally worth it! My mil and I used to do big grocery/prep days together and split all the meals we made, it would last like two months at a time. I need to get back in that habit!

mayapple44 · September 2017

@winnie1122 what did you freeze in? Freezer bags? Did you ever have freezer burn issues?

winnie1122 · September 2017

mayapple44 said:

@winnie1122 what did you freeze in? Freezer bags? Did you ever have freezer burn issues?

Yep, just gallon size freezer bags! Some casserole type stuff we froze in the aluminum pans with lids and baked them in the same dish. We laid the bags flat to freeze at first so they would fit better in the freezer. No problems with freezer burn, though definitely look for freezer friendly recipes because not all foods freeze great (darn potatoes!) Since freezer cooking is such a trend right now there are zillions of recipes on Pinterest for freezer meals! DH loves when I do it because I actually get homemade food on the table consistently and it's so much nicer on the wallet. It just takes some practice getting in the habit, which I have been failing at lately. I plan to do a few big prep days before this baby gets here.

katefb17 · September 2017

We had a giant storm last night and lost power (very loudly-- I think some essential piece of electricity-providing equipment was struck by lightning) at 12:30. I had been blissfully sound asleep until then... tossed and turned the rest of the night while DH snored and thunder boomed. Luckily DD slept through it!

Power was still out this morning at 6am, so DH decided to get up early to drop DD off at daycare where there's power, and to get to work early (we not only work in the same place, but we only have one car, so we *have* to carpool). He wakes me up at 6:30 (a full 45 min before I planned to get out of bed) by sticking an ultra-bright LED emergency lantern in my face.

He rushes DD and me out the door, no time to grab something for lunch (second day in a row, and I don't have time to buy lunch between classes). Breakfast is a drive-thru, after I've suggested that we go in and make use of the 45 minutes of extra time we now have before daycare even opens. Nope. DD smears greasy drive-thru breakfast all over herself and carseat while we eat in a parking lot.

We survived the day. Power turned back on at noon. Contents of freshly-stocked fridge still passable enough to eat.

It's DH's turn to make dinner tonight. He's busy in the kitchen for a half hour, but then goes and plops down in a chair and starts to read. I say "oh, is dinner ready?" He says, "no, I just decided I'm not hungry right now."

omg, I could frickin' kill him. I mean, it's almost bath time for DD, I'm friggin' starving, and he decides to just push pause on dinner?!?!?! WTF.

(I think he got the hint, cuz in the time it took me to eat some crackers and cheese, make another dinner for DD, and type this, he went and assembled adult dinner, narrowly saving his own neck)

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