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Where is Everybody? How was your Weekend?
Hellllllo!? Echo, echo, echo........
My weekend was OK. My MIL arrived yesterday (joy!) and is already bugging the crap out of me but I am trying my best to be zen. Om.........
The funniest/craziest MIL story I have so far is I was reading Jane her ABC book and her school does one everyday and they read it like "A (saying the letter), Ah, Ah, Ah, (saying the sound)"....
So I am doing it and she is sitting on the couch CORRECTING me for some of my letter sounds. Like, what? I'd do R and then like Ra, ra, ra (hard to type it out!) and she'd just quietly, at to no one in particular, say "rrrrr, rrrrr, rrrrrrr". I finally after like 10 corrections said as sarcastically and light-heartedly as I could "are you really sitting over there correcting me on letter sounds?" and she just laughs and laughs. Thinks it's HYSTERICAL. Only, it's not. It's irritating and rude. So I just laugh to and try to remember she is doing us a huge favor, she adores Jane, be zen, be zen, ommmm........ 6 more days.
Re: Where is Everybody? How was your Weekend?
Bless your heart. I would have lost my freaking mind already if I were in your shoes (and it was my MIL). I hope you're able to at least take advantage of the situation & get some "me time" while she's there!!
Wed-Thurs my sister & I took the girls & went down to NJ to visit my cousin & her two kids. We had so much fun, but it was absolutey chaotic & crazy with 4 kids under 3, plus the drive there & back. DH was in CA for work Thurs-Sat so it was just Mads & I when we got back. Then we babysat for my niece Sat afternoon so my sister could get some alone time (her husband is a merchant marine so he's gone for months at a time), and then yesterday spent the day cleaning house, grocery shopping, etc. Just a really busy weekend.... I feel like we need a weekend to recover from it almost?
Friday night, we had torrential rain. Our yard flooded and it lifted our shed up and floated it across the yard into a tree. We're still not sure how to move it back. And we're going to have to cut the tree down just to get the door open so we can move the mower, snow blower, etc. out so that it will be lighter to move.
Saturday and Sunday, I was mostly at a softball tournament. This tournament should have been finished 3 weekends ago but kept getting rained out. We had a rain delay again on Saturday because of flooding from the night before pushing it to Sunday. Then Sunday, in the middle of the 4th inning of the championship game it started pouring again. Thankfully, we waited it out and were able to finish. DH's team won the tournament! They haven't won since 2000 despite making it to the finals for 3 years in a row. I'm so happy because DH gets in a really bad mood when they lose. I'm also happy that one softball league is over for the summer. Two to go.
Now if the baby would only come . . .
We moved. It sucked so bad. We have no internet or cable until Aug. 30, so I feel like I live in the stone age. Not that I have time to sit down anyway!
We have SO MUCH work to do, guys. I am dying. Whole weekend, and we literally got ONE room painted and prepped--Nora's. Michael and I literally put her room together last night at 11 p.m. (She was sleeping in the pack 'n' play in a different room.)
This morning, we were running around with our heads cut off. We don't know where anything is. MY LIFE IS IN DISARRAY. It feels like nothing will ever get done. Gah.
On the up side, we have so many nice new neighbors. Two different ones brought us flowers yesterday. Other friendly waves and hellos and stop-and-chats, too. Lots of young kids. It's going to be great, if we can ever get to the point where we can actually LIVE there instead of work our asses off every waking hour.
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Friday through last night at 10 we ripped everything out to prepare for our contractor today. I've got blisters on my hand and I'm kind of surprised that it feels like a break being at work right now. This project has spurred a few other projects (it always seems to go that way). It will be worth it but man I'm feeling it today.
Heather - I feel like we tend to block out the first week of moving to keep our sanity for whenever we think about moving again. It must be kind of like child birth
I hope you guys get settled soon!
Megan, I have to admit that while I know you're going crazy this week, I'm looking forward to more absurd MIL stories like this one!
We had a very quiet weekend. Lunch on Friday was a work function for Sam. We went to a brewery here in town and all had lunch and they got some awards. Nothing big, but it was nice to get out of the house. Then Friday evening I met Danielle (my soon-to-be x-SIL) and had sushi.
Saturday and Sunday we didn't really do anything. Sunday's excitement consisted of going to church and laundry...fun stuff!
Ugh, MILs! I hope the week goes by as quickly as it can for you.
Saturday morning H and I left for our overnight in the mountains. It was a lot of fun, but I was exhausted when we got home Sunday. I did the grocery shopping while H stayed home with Alex. She ended up taking a 5 hour nap, not waking up until 6PM. We tried to wake her up, but she wasn't having it. So that led to her going to sleep at 10:45PM. Of course, she still woke up before 6AM, so that was fun.
Today we were supposed to go to SILs with my cousin and her kids so the 5 kiddos could play together. Unfortunately, my cousin's daughter has MRSA for the 3rd time, and her blisters popped yesterday, so she's contagious now. It's a lazy day at home. We attempted more potty training, and after cleaning up two huge pee puddles and getting poop off Alex's legs and my foot, we went back to diapers for a while. I'm taking advantage of nap time to work on my toddler bag project and eat chocolate chips in peace.
Gah, Gah, Gah, Gee Gee Gee
We did nothing all weekend. For serious. I was in my pajamas, watching Zac self play and the show Switched at Birth on Netflix all day .... as in until 7:00 PM when I put my running clothes on, did 3.5 miles, came home, took a shower and put my pajamas back on only to finish up the last two episodes.
Sometimes we just need a veg day.
I feel bad as a working mom, that I wasted a weekend day with Zac, but a happy mom, makes for a happy kid, right?