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Friday Confessions Anyone?
Friday Confessions Anyone?
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DD has worn the most horrendous outfits to daycare this week, most of them complete with tutu and socks that are way too small. I am so that mom because honestly this cold is kicking my butt and I am too tired to fight the choices.
DH had the opportunity to move with his job and I spent several days dreaming of cheap housing and little responsibility. He is not going to take the move and now I have to get back to work.
I have a total addiction to Fro-yo. I have been 4 times this week.
I bought a kindle last night because they are now compatible with arlington library. this is after vigorous saying i wouldn't ever get one & that i wouldn't ever need one.
i don't like being a sahm. and i'm not very good at it, either. i just get so burned out that by the time my husband comes home, i'm totally done being around my baby. which sounds horrible, but it's true. i mean, i love my kid to pieces, but i'm just really not cut out for this. each day is totally a marathon, especially now that he's throwing tantrums and is getting more difficult to entertain.
i really meant to eat better this week, had a meal plan and everything but since having root canal on tuesday, all i really want to eat is pasta and ice cream. everything else makes my tooth hurt. that means the extra ice cream calories don't count, right?
i'm a little bit sad that the pats/bills game isn't on here this weekend.
my pregnant cousin's fb updates are kind of unsettling. it's not my place to judge but i kinda do.
I have done no work today at all. It's so quiet and since my phone hasn't rang once today, I'm not feeling that guilty about it. I have a People magazine on my desk that I hope to read before I leave at 5. I'm such a bad Fed.
preach on, sister! maybe we should start a "I suck at being a SAHM" support group...oops, I mean play group ;-)
my other confession is that my crazy pregnant lady dreams have started big time. I forgot how insane and vivid they are. when I woke up this morning, I was still mad at DH for being stupid in my dream. it took at least 10 minutes to stop being annoyed with him and realize that he, in fact, was NOT guilty of driving me to the wrong hospital when it was time for me to deliver.
also, is this what it's like to live in Seattle? this weather effing sucks and I'm over it. I feel like heading to Arizona, who's with me?
Would it wrong to HH with kids?!?
Seriously though, I'm considering doing one of these the Kid's Day things at Lebanese Taverna (they have a children's performer each week & they eat free if an adult orders food. Wed. 10-11, Arlington location). Have you ever been? I'm thinking it would be an hour where I won't have to figure out how to entertain him.
I ate pumpkin ice cream for dinner last night.
When I got home from swim practice on Tuesday night, I flipped on the tv to veg out a bit while getting ready for bed. I ended up watching Parenthood, and got incredibly wrapped up into the developing relationship between Lauren Graham and Jason Ritter's characters. It was so cute and sweet, and I may have re-watched the episode online the next day, fast forwarding through everything but their scenes together. I feel like a dreamy, dramatic, overly romantic teenager admitting this.
Jumping in, I took DD a lot while on maternity leave. It's a lot of fun. I wish I could still go. Kastle, you should find a good playgroup with moms you like if you haven't already. My SIL swears its how she keeps her sanity.
Oh, good to know! Maybe we'll go next week.
Now that sprout is dropping his morning nap, playgroups will be easier to do. Although, I get anxiety meeting strangers which is also part of why we haven't done one yet.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
Kastle, I would feel the same way if I was a SAHM. I don't have the personality (patience?) for it. I go kind of batty on the 3rd day of 3-day weekends.
I have another confession: I went out on my lunch break today and bought a ridiculous amount of fall clothes for my kid. He needs some of them, but not all of them.
Related confession: I refuse to do laundry more than once a week. Therefore, everyone in my house must have enough clothes to make it at least 1 week without running out of outfits.
Definitely jealous.
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@kastle: there's no way in hell i could ever be a SAHM. i don't have the patience to be a mom at all but i'd go batshitcrazy if i had to stay home with a kid.
Totally jealous.
I wound up having to go buy a vacuum today because in my attempt to start cooking more the salt shaker lid came off and dumped most of the salt onto the stove. Then I wacked myself in the head trying to put it together.
I'm pretty sure the Twisted Vine on Columbia Pike has a stroller HH. I'd look it up, but I'm sure their website is blocked from work.
I'd make a terrible SAHM, and can't imagine making it through more than a few weeks with sanity intact.
WNW (dude, I totally typed your old screenname and had to go back and fix it!) - People do laundry more than once a week? I probably have two weeks of clothes for myself, and T always has at least 8 days of clothes, to save me from having to do a load every single day.
I don't have anything good to confess. It's like every day is Groundhog Day. Get up. Go to work. Try to get some actual work done in between web surfing. Go home.
I am irrationally jealous that my BFF and her hubz, while totally awesome that they are moving back to the area, are probably going to get a SFH before we do. All because I recommended a great neighborhood that met all their specs. I feel terrible for even typing that. We're just not ready to move and our time will come, right?
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I totally relate to this, and we have a SFH. It's just really, really tiny (648 square feet) and in a totally less than ideal neighborhood. We can't wait to move and I torture myself frequently by looking at real estate websites.
In fact, I once had a coworker who was desperate to buy, though had completely unrealistic expectations and was looking at a 50 year mortgage to buy what he and his wife wanted. He would report back on what they looked at over the weekend, and one Monday he was saying they looked at a house they liked and could actually afford, but was going on and on and on about how much they hated the neighborhood and how awful it was, etc. I asked him where it was, and it turned out the house they looked at was two streets over from us.
I could have said all of this myself. I'd be horrible as a SAHM. I have every other Friday off with the kiddos (including today) and that fits me perfectly.
Like WNW, I bought a ridiculous amount of clothes for the LOs over the past two weeks and plan to buy a few more things this weekend. I also refuse to do their laundry more than once per week unless absolutely necessary.
In my single days I did laundry about once a month. The only reason it gets done more often than that now is because DH does it. I have countless pairs of underwear to last me through.
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