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Wednesday Randoms
Well, I had big plans for today, and those all of ruined when I realized my keys were MIA this morning when I went to leave for work. That was at 7:30. It's 9 now, and I just got to work.
I'm in an extremely foul mood right now.
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Oh no! I hope your day improves from here, Molly.
I did next to nothing from my to-do list last night. Remember what I said my worst habit was?
This is one of the worst feelings. One thing that helped me keep my keys from getting lost was a giant blue lanyard. I can usually find them if I look for that bright blue thing. I also *try* to put them in the same place every time I get home. Try is a key word here. LOL. Now I just need something that makes my cell phone easier to find......I seem to lose that thing daily.
We had this problem too. So we bought a small shelf that has hooks under the shelf, and that is where we hang our keys. Plus H puts his wallet and cell phone there too. Also keeps them up away from little hands!
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haha. We have hooks right by our back door, but I don't always put them on a hook for some strange reason. I'll walk to let the dog out of her crate, or walk to the front door to check the mail, or into our bedroom to change my clothes, and set my keys down somewhere along the way. I have a bad habit of putting things (not just my keys) in weird places.
No news yet. They did all kinds of tests yesterday, and she's having an MRI today.
I'm sure they're doing these tests because my grandma complained of flu like symptoms for a few weeks, and when she finally saw a Dr. they found out she had pancreatic cancer and died a year later
(this was almost 15 years ago) She was in her early 50's. I hope it's nothing like this. Unfortunately though, my mom hasn't always lived the healthiest lifestyle. She was anorexic for years, and has always been a smoker. I guess she's been trying to quit, but it still doesn't fix the previous 25 years of damage. Hopefully with this health scare and baby Wop on the way, it will push her even harder to quit smoking.
Someone got their schedule already! I want to get mine, too!!!!!
ETA: Just got it.
He does, but he won't tell me.
Exciting!!!
I will have to share my camping story later this afternoon when I get back. It wasn't horrible, just lot of work with a 2.5 and 4 year old (and a 46 year old ha ha).
Glad you had good time!
My daycare lady just told me that her H learned in one of his classes that when a small baby/toddler laughs at himself/by himself, that is a sign of intelligence.
I was pleased by this tidbit, as we (daycare lady and I) were just laughing at T for laughing at himself. So I hope you enjoy it as well.
Good morning!
Molly, sorry to hear about the lost keys. My keys are always in my purse, unless my H takes them. Then, they can be hard to find and I end up going through all his coat pockets so that I can get to work. Yesterday, I was over half way to work and he called me to tell me that he left his keys in my car, and he didn't have his spare. So I had to go home to give him his keys, so that he could go to work. That annoyed me because then I was super late. Ah, keys.
Charity, congrats on your new nephew!
Wop, hope you get some answers about your mom soon and it's something minor. And I hope that this little scare and Baby Wop will prompt her to quit smoking.
Amachuta, glad to hear that your camping trip went so well!
Remember how I've been saying how much fun I had at the reunion over the weekend? Where there was one thing that happened that wasn't cool, and it's still bothering me.
Apparently, at one point, my mom was talking to a cousin and my husband was in the vicinity (I was elsewhere), and my mom called B over and totally called him out for us not having kids. Apparently her and her cousin had been talking about the subject?
That's BS and it makes me mad that she did that to him. Not cool. I feel like the kid issue has been hanging over my head lately.
I KNEW he was something special!
It was so funny...he would do it and then all 6 adults would follow suit since it was so cute.
I am sorry to hear this
That is too bad that she did that to him and that she does not respect your choice of being kid-free. Could you talk to her about it?
I talked to her about it in February when we vacationed together. I explained that we hadn't made a decision one way or another. I've also explained to her some of our reasons for not having kids yet (we're completely happy with our lives right now, neither of us have much experience/exposure with kids so we're a little uncomfortable, etc.).
I was prepared for this issue to come up at the reunion, but I didn't expect it to come from her (since I had already talked to her about it), and I didn't expect it to be directed at my husband. It didn't really phase him, he gave her some vague response and then the cousin kind of redirected the conversation, but it still bothers me.
As I was reading through this thread, I was trying to note the things I wanted to respond to and what I wanted to say. Then Kasa did it for me. So ditto to everyone all the things Kasa said ;-P
I will add, that I'm glad you got your schedule DP! :-)
Oh, and make these muffins now: Blueberry Cream Muffins I followed the recipe nearly exactly (added a little brown sugar and cinnamon) but they came out amazing. The dogs enjoyed licking the mixing bowl at the end too. :-)
That does stink. We get the comments all the time too. Was it done in a playful, jabbing kind of way? Hopefully she wasn't seriously berating him or anything.
Maybe you could talk to your mom and tell her to cool her jets too. - edited, I just read through the rest of the responses. That's very uncool that she brought it up after you'd already discussed with her. Sorry you have to deal with that. :-(
I get so militant about this subject. Any time you want a no kids support meeting, you know where to find me.
I have gone back and forth so many times--do we want them, do we not? I've read books on the subject (one of my favorites is Two is Enough: A couple's guide to living childless by choice) and talked to lots of people. It's such a hard thing to decide (either way) and I'm still not 100% enough for either of us to take permanent measures to ensure we don't have kids.
The thing that annoys me most of all is how family members think they have a right to dictate this decision for you. My brother tells me all the time how much he wants to be an uncle. I hate the guilt trip. I feel badly that I might be depriving my nephew of cousins, but it's just way too much to ask that we have kids for anyone else. Fortunately both L's brother and my brother have kids so our parents aren't giving us the "grandparent" pressure.
I wish I had blueberry muffins now!
I don't think it was, although I'm not entirely sure since I wasn't there.
It's interesting, because we used to be asked about kids a lot within the first couple of years of our marriage. But as time has gone one, pretty much no one asks any more. I think our friends/relatives have just accepted that we're doing our thing and kids aren't a priority to us. Even my MIL doesn't mention it, for goodness sake! But my mom is just the opposite -- as time as gone on, she's become more pointed in her comments on the issue. It makes me feel like a sucky daughter, honestly.
Also, those muffins sound good! I may have to give them a try.