We finally found a hotel at the Denali national park so we didn’t have to drive all the way back in. From what I can tell they don’t have the fires contained and the roads are going to stay closed so traffic isn’t in the way of the firefighters. So far, 50 homes have been lost which is just awful.
If they don’t open the roads we are going to try a different road home. It is much longer though so not ideal. Who knows if we will encounter another fire there. There are several fires burning in different areas.
@emeraldcity1214 glad you guys found a safe place to stay. Geez, what a way to get acquainted with your new home state. I had no idea Alaska had so much wildfires
I wonder if the long lasting heat wave you guys have had just dried more stuff out than normal. Praying they get it under control!
My random is I just had a cooked sushi roll for lunch as my last hurrah before the GD test tomorrow. I found two large pieces of plastic (like strip of plastic wrap) in two different pieces of rolls. Both were really obvious when i was chewing so I dont THINK I swallowed anything but still, thats gonna create a lot of angst and anxiety for awhile. Sucks because it is a sushi place Ive been going to for YEARS and I trust them and Im sure it was just an oops and if I wasnt pregnant I would probably shrug it off. But ugh. Luckily I go see my OB tomorrow anyway so will have him reassure me and as long as I continue having normal bowel movements I will just assume I either didnt swallow any or if I did it passed. Seriously large chunks. I would have known, right? It looked like plastic wrap that would normally be around the imitation crab meat and maybe didnt all get peeled off.
@purplefan1 that sucks but I wouldn't worry about it too much, I think you would have known. How could they not have seen when cutting the rolls though 😳
Thanks @ABabyMarshall. Some times I just need your voice of reassurance and reason in my head! Im assuming because their knives are so sharp to cut through the rolls and its consistency is a lot like seaweed.
@emeraldcity1214 so scary!! Thinking of you and your family and all those people affected. I can’t imagine
@purplefan1 ugh that is awful about the plastic. I think you’re fine though. I’d probably say something to the place anyway.. they should know that happened and watch for it in the future.
Hi from my vacation! I’m trying to limit my screen time so I probably won’t be around too much this week but wanted to say hi. So far DS has done pretty poorly with sleeping, and has slept in our bed with us and also woke us up many times thoroughout the night. Trying to make the best of it anyway though. Today we did beach walk and pool and went to the park so I hope he’ll just be exhausted and pass out.
@emeraldcity1214 I have a good friend in I want to say the Anchorage area, and she keeps posting about the fires. How scary! Stay safe and keep us posted.
We were right between two huge fires last summer, and it was terrifying. One wiped out almost an entire town. But I'm in California, we burn every summer no question. Alaska isn't supposed to do that!
I hate I haven’t responded to anyone else’s posts the last few days but we go for hours with zero service.
We we ended up getting to the fire today and apparently it had gotten worse and the delay to get through was at minimum 4 hours. So we turned around and went back the way we came and took a back road around the fires. It was a gravel road so it took us almost 5 hours. We saw tons of glaciers though and we saw a bear just randomly come out and cross the road. We got a hotel for the night and plan to drive the rest of the way in tomorrow.
I can’t load any pics right now but I will try to post them tomorrow
@purplefan1 oh no! I hate when stuff like that happens at my favorite restaurants. I'm sure everything is good though!
@emeraldcity1214 Glad you guys found a hotel for the night, hopefully it's an uneventful travel day today!
@creamcheeseplease have a great vacation! Our DD never sleeps well the first night or two then gets settled - hoping this is the case for you guys and your son!
@drama_llama Since I am home now and I have phone service, I wanted to come back and respond to your PT post. Resistance is very normal with PT. It doesn’t mean they aren’t ready. It just means they are resisting change. The best, but hardest way (only hard because your giving the child complete control), to get through it is to just give a reminder that pee pee and poop go in the potty and then just walk away. Don’t force them to get on it and try, just give the reminder and walk away.
I have gotten into so many power struggles trying to force one of my kids to sit on the potty and it always ends in tears. I usually lose the battle too.
If he is holding it for that long, he is ready and just needs to get past whatever is making him resistant. I highly recommend the book “Oh Crap.” It has different strategies you can use to tackle different PT situations like these.
Boys are also harder than girls. So even when he does start peeing, be aware, he may pee everywhere except the potty. I had to take DS2’s dump truck away and make it an outside toy. That kid would pee in anything that had a bowl shape.
Another strategy I used with my son was the potty cup. I got a red solo cup and would come up behind hi , pull his pants down (if he was wearing them) and say “pee.” He would usually pee and it kept him from wetting his pants 50 million times a day. He was self initiating BEFORE we started PT so I knew he was ready. He was just being stubborn.
I hope this helps. PT is hard and when you throw daycare into the mix, it’s even harder.
I overslept a half an hour this morning. I only give myself 45 minutes to get ready anyway since I don't have to look good, and I really dont wanna get out of bed earlier than 4:45 unless I have to. Sooo... I somehow managed to shower, eat breakfast, make lunch and find clothes all in 15 minutes. Go me!
Yea I was shocked I managed it. I start a half early anyway so I figured if it really came down to it I would just show up at 6:30 and still not technically be late... But I also wasnt sure how well that would actually work since I've started at 6 every day for the last month. Plus I'm a little behind as it is so it would have screwed everyone else up if I wasn't there to get my stuff done.
@emeraldcity1214. Thanks! We are regrouping and will try again. It would be easier if we had a backyard I think. Being couped up in our 1-bedroom all weekend makes us all a bit cranky. I think it is an emotional something that hopefully we can work out. Will check out the book. Thanks!
@Dancer688 I cite 19 as one of my favorite ages! Ive never been a huge drinker so didnt care about not being able to drink yet, I was in college and starting to study what I liked, I was young enough to make dumb choices and still get away with it but old enough that I was starting to have some independence. Now that Im in my late 30s, I laugh at my naivete but still think 19 was pretty good for me. ;-)
I do know what you mean about certain weeks being anticlimactic. Im going to be 27 weeks tomorrow and Im just meh about this stage. Im not in the last tri yet, I still feel like I have forever to go, and time has felt slow lately. Plus, Im just itching to get to 32 weeks so I start to feel safer and safer about getting baby here safely should they come early. 5 more weeks feels forever away!
I’m just ready to be 34 weeks. Then I can breathe and just wait for this baby to make his arrival. I need to start reading my birthing book so I can get in the right mind set.
Yesterday, I felt like poo. I was achy all over and my throat hurts so as soon as I got the kids fed, bathed, and in bed, I jumped in bed too. I ended up sleeping 10 hours. I think I really needed it. I feel much better this morning.
It’s a bit rainy and chilly today, our last day, so we’ve mainly been chilling inside. It’s still cloudy although looks like the rain has stopped so we may head down to the beach once DS wakes up from his nap. Baby girl has been beating me up inside all day, tothe point that some of these jabs hurt a lot!
I agree 29w feels like a “waiting” time. I’m 29+5 today and I’ve been telling myself I’m “basically 30 weeks” all week hah.
DS has ended up in our bed every single night of this trip so far.. while it’s been fun being away and I’ve eaten SO MUCH good food I’m sort of ready to go home tomorrow. I’ve had this trip in my head forever that the end of it marks when baby will be “close” so I’m ready to get into full preparation mode. Plus it’s sucked watching MH drink beer all week 😕
Oooh, I'd love to hear everyone's ideas! I like to do family themed outfits, but I'm not sure about this year. I do need to at least get my DD's picked out and ready in case I have this baby early.
If I have the baby early - There is a super cute costume where the baby is the spider in the baby carrier and mom is the web. But I don't think I'll be dressing up if I am still pregnant. I will probably try to be asleep :P
My 4 yo is determined to be Moana and my 2 yo will probably be a lady bug or Little Red Riding Hood since those are the 2 costumes I have for her age. That being said, 2 months is a long time in kid world. Everything can change before then.
So yesterday was my birthday. I had some stuff to do but all in all it was going to be a relaxed day. DH has a work meeting (I didn’t think anything of it). When he came home he told me that the company was downsizing. He only has a job through the second week of October. I’m super stressed and emotional now because 1 the bad news had to come on my birthday of all days and 2 our baby is due just about a month after he will lose his job.
I keep trying to remind myself of the good though. Like he still has a month of work instead of being thrown out that exact day. But it’s hard to focus on that and not on how financially stressed we’re gonna be when the baby comes.
Re: August Randoms
If they don’t open the roads we are going to try a different road home. It is much longer though so not ideal. Who knows if we will encounter another fire there. There are several fires burning in different areas.
We we are headed back towards the fire because they have 1 lane open. I will keep y’all updated when I can and hopefully have some pics to share.
My random is I just had a cooked sushi roll for lunch as my last hurrah before the GD test tomorrow. I found two large pieces of plastic (like strip of plastic wrap) in two different pieces of rolls. Both were really obvious when i was chewing so I dont THINK I swallowed anything but still, thats gonna create a lot of angst and anxiety for awhile. Sucks because it is a sushi place Ive been going to for YEARS and I trust them and Im sure it was just an oops and if I wasnt pregnant I would probably shrug it off. But ugh. Luckily I go see my OB tomorrow anyway so will have him reassure me and as long as I continue having normal bowel movements I will just assume I either didnt swallow any or if I did it passed. Seriously large chunks. I would have known, right? It looked like plastic wrap that would normally be around the imitation crab meat and maybe didnt all get peeled off.
@purplefan1 ugh that is awful about the plastic. I think you’re fine though. I’d probably say something to the place anyway.. they should know that happened and watch for it in the future.
Hi from my vacation! I’m trying to limit my screen time so I probably won’t be around too much this week but wanted to say hi. So far DS has done pretty poorly with sleeping, and has slept in our bed with us and also woke us up many times thoroughout the night. Trying to make the best of it anyway though. Today we did beach walk and pool and went to the park so I hope he’ll just be exhausted and pass out.
We were right between two huge fires last summer, and it was terrifying. One wiped out almost an entire town. But I'm in California, we burn every summer no question. Alaska isn't supposed to do that!
We we ended up getting to the fire today and apparently it had gotten worse and the delay to get through was at minimum 4 hours. So we turned around and went back the way we came and took a back road around the fires. It was a gravel road so it took us almost 5 hours. We saw tons of glaciers though and we saw a bear just randomly come out and cross the road. We got a hotel for the night and plan to drive the rest of the way in tomorrow.
I can’t load any pics right now but I will try to post them tomorrow
@emeraldcity1214 Glad you guys found a hotel for the night, hopefully it's an uneventful travel day today!
@creamcheeseplease have a great vacation! Our DD never sleeps well the first night or two then gets settled - hoping this is the case for you guys and your son!
I have gotten into so many power struggles trying to force one of my kids to sit on the potty and it always ends in tears. I usually lose the battle too.
If he is holding it for that long, he is ready and just needs to get past whatever is making him resistant. I highly recommend the book “Oh Crap.” It has different strategies you can use to tackle different PT situations like these.
Boys are also harder than girls. So even when he does start peeing, be aware, he may pee everywhere except the potty. I had to take DS2’s dump truck away and make it an outside toy. That kid would pee in anything that had a bowl shape.
Another strategy I used with my son was the potty cup. I got a red solo cup and would come up behind hi , pull his pants down (if he was wearing them) and say “pee.” He would usually pee and it kept him from wetting his pants 50 million times a day. He was self initiating BEFORE we started PT so I knew he was ready. He was just being stubborn.
I hope this helps. PT is hard and when you throw daycare into the mix, it’s even harder.
Hitting 29 weeks - is kind of like turning 19 years old. It is surrounded by fun ages but really it is just another year/week.
like 28 weeks /18 years old is a big deal...and then next week/year is 30 weeks / 20 years old. So new first number which is exciting.
I find 29 weeks underwhelming. Plus it is raining so I am moody. :P
I do know what you mean about certain weeks being anticlimactic. Im going to be 27 weeks tomorrow and Im just meh about this stage. Im not in the last tri yet, I still feel like I have forever to go, and time has felt slow lately. Plus, Im just itching to get to 32 weeks so I start to feel safer and safer about getting baby here safely should they come early. 5 more weeks feels forever away!
Yesterday, I felt like poo. I was achy all over and my throat hurts so as soon as I got the kids fed, bathed, and in bed, I jumped in bed too. I ended up sleeping 10 hours. I think I really needed it. I feel much better this morning.
My 4 yo is determined to be Moana and my 2 yo will probably be a lady bug or Little Red Riding Hood since those are the 2 costumes I have for her age. That being said, 2 months is a long time in kid world. Everything can change before then.
I keep trying to remind myself of the good though. Like he still has a month of work instead of being thrown out that exact day. But it’s hard to focus on that and not on how financially stressed we’re gonna be when the baby comes.