@lilbug88 I have been thinking about this and wondering if there is a more serious underlying issue at hand. It seems a bit odd that she would just eat other peoples food and not order her own, especially it is coworkers and not just her friends. Is she struggling financially and can't afford meals right now? Does she have an eating disorder and thinks only bites will be better than a whole meal? If you know someone who is close to her maybe you should suggest they should have a private conversation about it and see if there is anything they can help with.
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Me 33 DH 41 TTC since 2016 Due: October 12, 2018 Location: Ontario, Canada
@chyvie those are good thoughts. I don’t think she struggles financially. When we were away she spent money without concerns on both food (yep, her own meals and still took bites of mine), drink, etc. I’m not sure about the eating disorder thing, you never know. Thanks for the suggestions. It is odd, no question. I do know it’s getting on my nerves though, but I do not want to be insensitive if there’s an underlying issue.
DH's ex MIL is a trip. When DH picked SS up she told him that SS had spots and it might be chickenpox. So I start freaking out. I've had them, so I wasn't too worried, but more concerned about baby. SS has also had the vaccine, so I was kinda confused.
I looked as soon as I got home. SS has three bumps on his face, one on his chest, and one on his ankle. They look like mosquito bites (which SS tends to have an allergic reaction to). SS told me that last night they were in his mom's camper prepping it for the season. So even more sign, it's probably some sort of bug. They just showed up today, and no one at the school seemed concerned.
Nana (ex MIL) is not the most intelligent of people... I do appreciate her concern but she tends to over react.
5 year olds are a**holes. I ended up leaving the house Sunday for a few hours because I couldn’t deal with it anymore & want to again now but MH is at work, so I can’t. The attitude and talking back and name calling and flat out refusing to do as they are told is ridiculous. I thought 4 was hard but it has gotten so much harder and pregnancy hormones are not helping anything. Also, I wanted frozen grapes so MH went out and bought these huge black grapes that are from Chile or something and I’m pissed because how the eff am I supposed to eat those frozen? They’re the size of my mouth. I just wanted normal grapes, why was that so hard? So now I’m sitting on the couch crying while the good (right now) kid watches a movie and the misbehaving kid sits at the top of the stairs telling me that I’m a horrible person and I should leave forever. I should be cleaning the disaster of a house for all the babysitters coming this weekend so we can go to a conference. Oh, and our Sunday babysitter bailed on us because she sleeps all day “because of her meds” that haven’t changed since she insisted she be the Sunday babysitter 2 months ago (real reason - she wants to go out drinking Saturday night and knows she won’t get up to be at our house at noon). She wasn’t even planning to tell us, so it’s a good thing MH texted her again yesterday to make sure she was still planning to babysit. So glad we have a huge list of babysitters and got another one, but still wtf?
Man, I had my 16 week appointment yesterday, so they said I can call the hospital and schedule the anatomy scan. I called this morning and they haven't received the order yet. Ugh, I just want to schedule it and start counting down the days!
She’s near the bottom of my list, but it’s SIL, so MH keeps suggesting her to be a babysitter. I’m like she isn’t exactly reliable and went off her meds a while ago which caused FIL to cancel babysitting for us because he had to go take care of her.... 2 hours before we were supposed to drop them off. She has definitely gotten worse than she used to be - she used to babysit for us with no problem - we even left the kids with her for a whole weekend 3 years ago. I don’t know if MH is in denial or just doesn’t know what’s going on with her anymore, but it’s definitely not a good situation.
@purplegoldfish2 that one is tricky since she's family. Hopefully you can avoid using her for the time being. It sounds like she's giving you plenty of excuses not to use her!
@sammierose464 MH was pretty mad about it, so hopefully he will realize that she’s not fit to babysit right now. She has had some stuff happen in the last couple years and hasn’t been handling it well.
My BF is we're moving in a little over a week and nothing is packed. It's a busy time for DH at work so I'm going to have to do most if it. Hoping for more energy and motivation.
@KFrob My husband is a university coach as well. I feel your frustration on all the travels and feeling a bit left out. DH used to spring work trips on me out of the blue when we already had plans or ask me come along short notice and then say oh you don't need to come. It's tough to have quality time together when I only have weekends off and he works a lot of weekends. What really helped us was we got a big dry-erase calender and each month i have him add all his travel that way we can make concrete plans together. And yes, like the other ladies have said sometimes guys just don't infer our wants very well. Just be direct and tell him how you feel- I'm sure he'd love you to come.
For the record. SS looked fine today and BM agreed it's probably bug bites. No one wanted to believe me last night. I'm the pregnant one, if I'm not concerned I don't think there's a reason to freak out SS. Which of course, he was scared. I told BM I was kinda surprised and didn't think it was chicken pox since he's had the vaccine. She of course got defensive that he could still get it and they were just worried because I'm pregnant. Which I appreciate. I still they conclusions were jumped to. And they didn't need to tell SS when they weren't sure.
@macheno Thank you! Right now we do like a weekly check in and let each other know what up coming appointments/obligations we have. I'm going to suggest the physical calendar to him. But right now I feel like DH's ex (I have a SD so we have to keep the ex in the loop) knows more about his schedule than I do! I'm trying to take advantage of him being so busy right now by letting my nesting kick into high gear! So much spring cleaning to do! Also, he just sent me a message about 30 mins ago saying that he planned a date night at Flemming's on Sunday for us so I guess he's back on my good side
I’m in such a cranky mood today. I’m a teacher and had a big meeting the last 45 minutes of lunch hour. I also had duty for the first 20 minutes. The special education teacher who planned the meeting said she would cover my duty so I could eat but she forgot, had another commitment, and couldn’t do it. I ended up doing my duty while shoving half a sandwich in my face, getting to the meeting late and not feeling prepared, having to leave early to go back to teach 30 kindergarteners who were inside all day due to rain, and not getting a proper sit down until 2pm. I haven’t told my work I’m pregnant yet but when I do, I’m laying on the guilt. You don’t mess around with a pregnant woman who needs her lunch! I left with a headache and major hunger pains.
We moved into a new building (as in new construction) last Sept, and apparently, the opposite half of the building has been without reliable heat and hot water up until now! (Which is awful!) My side, on the other hand, has scalding hot water, immediately, whenever you accidentally turn the faucet a little past halfway. I have no idea if our heat works; it never gets below 67 inside our unit (and it's usually more like 77, even when it's 50 outside), so we've never bothered using the heat.
Anyway, today is THE DAY that they finally promise that they are fixing the issues once and for all!!!! (Everyone is super convinced of this.) It also means that they've had the water turned off allllll day and I've been working from home. My giant pitcher of water is empty, and let's just say that I've already used my emergency toilet flush. No update yet on when the water goes back on...
Our condos water was turned off today too! Said it would be only until 5pm and it just went on at 7pm and they announced the hot water won't be working until possibly tomorrow!
Me 33 DH 41 TTC since 2016 Due: October 12, 2018 Location: Ontario, Canada
We live kind of on top of a hill overlooking an elementary school. So you can hear pretty much anything going on at the school. It’s normally not a big deal, but tonight they’re having some kind of carnival or something. Loud music, kids screaming, guy keeps talking over a loud speaker. And they have food trucks that smell really good and are making me hungry. Combo of the noise while DS tries to sleep plus the food smell made me have to close the windows even though it’s super nice outside. So yes, I’m whining that people are having fun, eating good food, and raising money for education because it’s inconvenient to my evening.
@tinattt23 I used to live behind a frat house... That got interesting. Thankfully at the time I was dating an alum of that house so I could yell at them to turn down the bass...
SS was supposed to have his first TBall practice last night. We gave an app (Band) for the team where the coach posts updates and had posted over a week ago about practice. Since I signed SS up, I made sure BM was added. Apparently she hasn't been getting ''push notifications" so she had no idea about practice. His dad and I both had notifications on it and it's the same app we used last year. Thankfully all but one game is on our time so he won't miss one. I hate how unorganized she is. I'm sure she's going to ask us last minute to order pictures for her. I'll get her the website info, but that's it.
Re: Monday BF (April 23)
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TTC since 2016
Due: October 12, 2018
Location: Ontario, Canada
I looked as soon as I got home. SS has three bumps on his face, one on his chest, and one on his ankle. They look like mosquito bites (which SS tends to have an allergic reaction to). SS told me that last night they were in his mom's camper prepping it for the season. So even more sign, it's probably some sort of bug. They just showed up today, and no one at the school seemed concerned.
Nana (ex MIL) is not the most intelligent of people... I do appreciate her concern but she tends to over react.
Glad it's most likely nothing!
@KFrob My husband is a university coach as well. I feel your frustration on all the travels and feeling a bit left out. DH used to spring work trips on me out of the blue when we already had plans or ask me come along short notice and then say oh you don't need to come. It's tough to have quality time together when I only have weekends off and he works a lot of weekends. What really helped us was we got a big dry-erase calender and each month i have him add all his travel that way we can make concrete plans together. And yes, like the other ladies have said sometimes guys just don't infer our wants very well. Just be direct and tell him how you feel- I'm sure he'd love you to come.
Anyway, today is THE DAY that they finally promise that they are fixing the issues once and for all!!!! (Everyone is super convinced of this.) It also means that they've had the water turned off allllll day and I've been working from home. My giant pitcher of water is empty, and let's just say that I've already used my emergency toilet flush. No update yet on when the water goes back on...
TTC since 2016
Due: October 12, 2018
Location: Ontario, Canada