@dirtanddiamonds - lol! We came home from grocery shopping the other day and found my 12 year old eating peanut M&Ms for breakfast. Apparently they don't grow out of it
Wtf to my procrastination. DS is supposed to “sign” his name on his valentines for prek tomorrow and we haven’t done any. It’ll be like pulling teeth, so I’m dreading it. I may just say eff it and do it myself because I’m not trying to be the perfect Pinterest mom. Might as well set the bar low now, lol.
@dirtanddiamonds - we actually do have a family tradition of ice cream for breakfast! On Super Bowl Sunday we get Super Bowl Sundaes for breakfast! The toppings are coordinated with the team you want to win. So we had strawberries and blueberries on them this year. My dad started it when we were kids and I've carried it on to mine. DSS gets so mad if he's not with us for SBS lol! This was DS's first year of ice cream for breakfast and man I paid for it the rest of the day lol!
Wtf to my procrastination. DS is supposed to “sign” his name on his valentines for prek tomorrow and we haven’t done any. It’ll be like pulling teeth, so I’m dreading it. I may just say eff it and do it myself because I’m not trying to be the perfect Pinterest mom. Might as well set the bar low now, lol.
Awe. I remember doing that years ago. I did like dot dot dots for her to follow. Just so it made it easier to read.
To a co-worker. She's a super passive aggressive, fake nice, loves to be center of attention middle aged woman in my office. Every since she's found out I am pregnant she literally fawns on me every day, telling me how beautiful it is and do I need anything and how am I feeling. Now, I am pretty sure she is messing with me because she knows i don't like it and it's making me uncomfortable. It's SOOOO over the top phony too that other people have been commenting on it. Today, she almost tried to touch my stomach at a meeting. NO.
@scottishlass1213 I had a coworker like that. She was super phony. I was pregnant last summer and she cried when I told her. We had only worked together for less than a year. It was super weird. She was always throwing out false compliments and I constantly wanted to say "You don't even know me!" lol.
I am also going to WTF my coworker. I complained about her yesterday in weekly randoms. To quickly rehash- I needed to know if she did or did not do something her boss wanted done. I called and emailed her a bunch of times over like an hour plus. She totally ignored me. My boss than called and made me do it. It was easy and really not that big of a deal but 1. It is her job not mine. and 2. She gets paid way more than I do. She is constantly not doing her job and calls off and comes in late. But, no one says anything to her and they actually kinda kiss her butt. She is currently sitting at her desk looking at her phone. UGH! I am over it today! Can it be 5:00 already?
@dirtanddiamonds I NEVER look at my kids when they're pouting or tantruming, eye contact is the worst. Also, never look at them when you think they're almost asleep, they can smell that shit.
Wtf to my procrastination. DS is supposed to “sign” his name on his valentines for prek tomorrow and we haven’t done any. It’ll be like pulling teeth, so I’m dreading it. I may just say eff it and do it myself because I’m not trying to be the perfect Pinterest mom. Might as well set the bar low now, lol.
His three plus my one; we are all excited to welcome a little one!
@dirtanddiamonds Can you get a little soda bottle and fill it with juice/crystal lite next time so you don't have to do the 'world is ending' level pout?
@scottishlass1213 Its acceptable to slap someone's hand away if its unwanted contact. Also, one word answers get the point of 'leave me TF alone' across pretty well, or make her look like an idiot.
My WTF is to the HS in our district. They decided that they were going to have core classes be semesters, while electives are trimesters. WTF is wrong with you? Why would you make everyone's life that much harder? I'm grouchy about it as I have to know my softball players GPA is above a 2.8 to tryout, and I can't find it on the system, and can't figure out how the 'credits' work out to use an online GPA calculator.
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WTF MIL that posts pictures with her other grandkids at least 3-4x a week and hasn't seen DS in 2 months. We live 40 min away from her and he sees my mom who lives 3,000 miles away more often. WTF MIL.
@livinthesunnylife I'm sorry. That is never ok, and I hope you kids don't notice until they can understand the gmas can be stupid people. We have that same issue with my MIL. She lives 5 miles from my parents, who come get the kids or let us stay a weekend every 4-6 weeks. She can't be bothered to keep her Saturday afternoon scheduled time.
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@livinthesunnylife I’m sorry. Grandparents suck sometimes. DH’s parents barely see DS, never call, never ask about him, never offer to take him for an evening. They live less than 5 miles away. They keep their other two grandsons regularly, and those kids live about 45 mins away. DS, at 7yo, has picked up on the favoritism and often says he doesn’t want to spend time with them.
Maybe this comes from teaching, but I have no problem staring down my child with my own death glare when he’s mad at me. Or when he’s misbehaving, or just being a little turd in general. It makes him squirm, especially when he knows he’s wrong and won’t admit it. It even works on the teenagers when I teach at the high school.
My own WTF: DH’s boss just told him his dept is working every other weekend until future notice. That’ll be 12 days on, 2 days off, and it starts this weekend. Now DH can’t be at our Cub Scout Pinewood Derby as the cubmaster, so I have to run it in his place. Also, he worked all weekend two weeks ago and went on a camping trip last weekend. I’m going on 4 weeks straight of dealing with DS mostly on my own. I’m exhausted and ready to scream.
I'm with @legallykate. My wtf is at myself. I cannot get anything done for the life of me today and I think it's because I have a ton of huge deadlines to finish by Tuesday. UGH.
My wtf is 1. To MIL who keeps pestering us about keeping DS overnight and 2. To DH who told her DS is old enough to do that now without consulting me. We’re still nursing and I’m not ready to relinquish the “control” of overnight visits yet. Mom says no!
@kburg15 I've heard this complaint before, and I just find it SO weird that grandparents who live close by will INSIST ON keeping the kids at their house overnight for no reason. Like I get it if you have plans and ask for a sitter, but for no reason? And isn't it easier for grandma to come stay at your house so the kid is on his own turf rather than bring him elsewhere?
All of our parents live several states away, so when they want to see the kids they travel to us. But my mom lives in the same town as my sister and she never pulls this. If my sister needs an overnight sitter, my mom sleeps at her house with the kids. But if she wants to see them she just goes there during the day. She doesn't insist that the kids stay with her at her house, ever. I just find that really odd.
I also find it odd when one of the grandmothers for some reason thinks she deserves to be in the delivery room. That is for the parents only unless you are specifically invited. I never heard this until I was in my first BMB and I was shocked that people have to deal with this.
I dunno on this one, my parents don't insist DS spends the night, but they ask and he probably spends the night every few months. My mom watched DS for 3 years and he has his own room at their house and all of his own things. He loves having sleepovers at their house and now that he's been in daycare the last 2 years, that's their bonding time because we don't see each other a lot during the work week or on weekends. Plus, gives DH and I a date night where we don't have to worry about picking him up by 8PM.
Stupid MIL previously mentioned above does ask about keeping DS overnight all the time. But when she keeps the other kids overnight at her house they sleep in bed with her. That's a big heck no from me with my active 15m old. Nope, not happening. He sleeps in his crib.
My MIL often asks if she can have DS for the night. At first it didn't bother me but then it became a frequent thing...and now I am like, "Uhhh...we only have a few months left as a this three-person family, F OFF!" Plus, I don't like my in-law's dogs. They have two, huge, largely untrained pit bulls. I don't care about the breed (we had pit bulls when my son was born and just put our last girl to sleep last May). I don't like my kid being around UNTRAINED dogs. Plus, they haven't really came up with a good place for DS to sleep, so he sleeps in a room full of expensive antiques. Uh...?
My kids go to my mom’s and SO’s mom house all the time. I think it’s fun for the kids. Grandma always has crafts and whatnot.
Plus, sometimes, our night out is a night at home. Having friends over or doing work on the basement. And we want to focus on work on know we are both. Going to have some drinks. So kids off to grandma. My mom is a huge fan of taking them roller skating. She used to do that with us. It’s close to her house.
I'm with @scottishlass1213 on this one. I agree that your DH stepped over the line @kburg15, but It isn't odd to me. We have different rules and schedules at our house. Like no Trollhunters episodes after 6, or we don't do nightly baths at our house. I find that if my parents have slightly different rules, it works better for the kid to be at their house. They also get some cool traditions at the grandparents' house that they wouldn't have at my house.
HOWEVER, if you are still nursing or just flat not ready to let the kid sleep over somewhere then you don't let them sleep over. I am a super 'weird' mom in that I was letting both kids spend a weekend at my parents house by the time they were 6 months. So take it with a huge grain of salt.
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@kburg15 my mil keeps talking about having DS stay over at her house, too. And yet kind of complains about how exhausted she is after babysitting for a couple hours. I’m not sure what she thinks it’ll be like to have him for longer than that.
Also, I’m never making him spend the night anywhere; I had terrible homesickness when I was a kid and was picked up in the middle of the night so many times, usually hysterically crying. The times I made myself tough it out I didn’t sleep and was super uncomfortable. So yeah, not putting my kid through that.
I'm all about DS staying the night with someone else, but I kind of doubt there would be a second time. He's staying with my mom while we have a night out, and I'm really afraid it's not going to go well
Also I just feel like sleep is just a fragile amazing thing when they are small. At 15m DS is perfectly sleep trained 12 hours a night, no crying. I'm not messing that up for anyone. Your feelings do not matter to me. I'm the one who was up all the time. Now I'm sleeping.
@livinthesunnylife Why would anyone want to share a bed with a toddler?! They aren't even potty trained, and they don't lie still. Hard pass.
I love sleeping with my kids but most definitely not on a regular basis. DS2 is the perfect cuddle buddy so it always makes me happy when we get to sleep in the same bed. I would find it weird if my MIL slept with them though.
@livinthesunnylife Why would anyone want to share a bed with a toddler?! They aren't even potty trained, and they don't lie still. Hard pass.
I love sleeping with my kids but most definitely not on a regular basis. DS2 is the perfect cuddle buddy so it always makes me happy when we get to sleep in the same bed. I would find it weird if my MIL slept with them though.
See, my MIL sleeps in the same bed as DS. Because of all the antiques. I just, idk, I don't like him being over there "just for the fun of it." If I need a babysitter, it's fine, but otherwise not. My mom hates watching my son (she says she doesn't but she doesn't do anything but complain about how tiiiiiired she gets watching him) and my sister falls asleep watching him so MIL is the best option, which sucks!
@livinthesunnylife Why would anyone want to share a bed with a toddler?! They aren't even potty trained, and they don't lie still. Hard pass.
SO’s mom sleeps with my four year old. There’s a bit of backstory. SO’s dad passed away last year. So it’s just her. But also, all my kiddos bedshare forever so they love it. They don’t usually have many accidents with diapers. I used to sleep in the same bed with my grandma when I was little. She’d read me stories. It was awesome.
I doubt I'll let mine go over to grandma's to do more than swim or play out in the yard. The house is full of antiques that I got blistered over touching let alone the rare one that did get broken. Plus ever since dad died, her smoking has gone from ~1 pack a day to almost 3, and she started smoking in the house again. I can't go over there without my eyeballs turning red, watery, and burning...then having to come home and shower and throw my clothes in the wash. Unless she magically gives up her cigarettes, kiddo isn't spending time over there. She can come here and smoke out on the deck. I only live 2-3 miles away from her, sorry that my road is apparently scary and muddy, but toughen up buttercup.
@livinthesunnylife Why would anyone want to share a bed with a toddler?! They aren't even potty trained, and they don't lie still. Hard pass.
I'll nap with him and I have slept with him in the past when we're traveling and he gets pissed off at the PnP or if he's sick. But I don't trust anyone else to do it. I'm a light sleeper and I don't move much.
WTF, I am in tears and upset because there was a shooting at a high school here. All I can think about is how excited my daughter was to go to school to celebrate Valentine’s Day. I can’t imagine the way these kids and their parents are feeling. I believe I am so upset because it is close to home. So Sad that school isn’t a safe place.
Re: WTF Wednesday 2/14
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
Don’t look directly at them. They can smell fear.
Sounds like you have a fun day on your hands
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
I am also going to WTF my coworker. I complained about her yesterday in weekly randoms. To quickly rehash- I needed to know if she did or did not do something her boss wanted done. I called and emailed her a bunch of times over like an hour plus. She totally ignored me. My boss than called and made me do it. It was easy and really not that big of a deal but 1. It is her job not mine. and 2. She gets paid way more than I do. She is constantly not doing her job and calls off and comes in late. But, no one says anything to her and they actually kinda kiss her butt. She is currently sitting at her desk looking at her phone. UGH! I am over it today! Can it be 5:00 already?
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@scottishlass1213 Its acceptable to slap someone's hand away if its unwanted contact. Also, one word answers get the point of 'leave me TF alone' across pretty well, or make her look like an idiot.
My WTF is to the HS in our district. They decided that they were going to have core classes be semesters, while electives are trimesters. WTF is wrong with you? Why would you make everyone's life that much harder? I'm grouchy about it as I have to know my softball players GPA is above a 2.8 to tryout, and I can't find it on the system, and can't figure out how the 'credits' work out to use an online GPA calculator.
Formerly known as Kate08young
August '18 Siggy April Showers:
Married: 7/22/14
Baby L: 8/4/2015 August 2015 Moms
Baby E: 11/18/2016 December 2016 Moms
TTC #3 08/2017 BFP 11/27/2017.
Twin B lost 11/22/2017, Twin A doing well.
Formerly known as Kate08young
August '18 Siggy April Showers:
Married: 7/22/14
Baby L: 8/4/2015 August 2015 Moms
Baby E: 11/18/2016 December 2016 Moms
TTC #3 08/2017 BFP 11/27/2017.
Twin B lost 11/22/2017, Twin A doing well.
Me: 37, MH: 38; Married August 2017
TTC #1 October 2017: BFP on 12/1/2017, DD born 7/24/2018 @ 37+1 after induction due to preeclampsia
TTC #2 January 2020: AMA, dx with DOR in May 2020
IVF July 2020: 16 eggs retrieved, 14 mature, 12 fertilized, 3 blasts, 2 PGT-A normal
FET 10/7/20: BFP on 10/12/20!!! (EDD 6/25/21); First beta 10/16/20 (9dpt): 148; Second beta 10/19/20 (12dpt): 621; Third beta 10/26/20 (19dpt): 4732; Fourth (and final!) beta 11/2/20 (26 dpt): 22,000+
All of our parents live several states away, so when they want to see the kids they travel to us. But my mom lives in the same town as my sister and she never pulls this. If my sister needs an overnight sitter, my mom sleeps at her house with the kids. But if she wants to see them she just goes there during the day. She doesn't insist that the kids stay with her at her house, ever. I just find that really odd.
I also find it odd when one of the grandmothers for some reason thinks she deserves to be in the delivery room. That is for the parents only unless you are specifically invited. I never heard this until I was in my first BMB and I was shocked that people have to deal with this.
Plus, sometimes, our night out is a night at home. Having friends over or doing work on the basement. And we want to focus on work on know we are both. Going to have some drinks. So kids off to grandma. My mom is a huge fan of taking them roller skating. She used to do that with us. It’s close to her house.
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HOWEVER, if you are still nursing or just flat not ready to let the kid sleep over somewhere then you don't let them sleep over. I am a super 'weird' mom in that I was letting both kids spend a weekend at my parents house by the time they were 6 months. So take it with a huge grain of salt.
Formerly known as Kate08young
August '18 Siggy April Showers:
Married: 7/22/14
Baby L: 8/4/2015 August 2015 Moms
Baby E: 11/18/2016 December 2016 Moms
TTC #3 08/2017 BFP 11/27/2017.
Twin B lost 11/22/2017, Twin A doing well.
Also, I’m never making him spend the night anywhere; I had terrible homesickness when I was a kid and was picked up in the middle of the night so many times, usually hysterically crying. The times I made myself tough it out I didn’t sleep and was super uncomfortable. So yeah, not putting my kid through that.
Why would anyone want to share a bed with a toddler?! They aren't even potty trained, and they don't lie still. Hard pass.
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