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Monday Moans
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Re: Monday Moans
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I love you, Daddy...2/24/1953 to 2/13/2011
I woke up with a headache
It's slowly going away though!
I had been having headaches & ringing in my ears so I went to the doctor last week. Found out my blood pressure has been high, even though I'm on medicine for it. I guess that medicine quit working for me so he switched me to a different one & said I should see the headaches & ringing in my ears decrease a lot. Now this new medicine is giving me a real bad cough, so I'm going to see if it sticks around. If it does, I guess he'll have to switch me again. My dad has had his blood pressure medicine switched 3 times also. The current medicine I'm on also gave him a bad cough too. So hopefully we can get it all straightened out & get me feeling better.
Have a wonderful week ladies
Newstart, so sorry to hear this. Hope you can get things worked out. My H went through a crisis at work (stemming from hating his job and middle/upper mgmt treating them like crap) and thankfully is in an industry that is always hiring and was able to find a new job - that really helped solved a lot of his self esteem problems because he feels appreciated & valued at his new job. That has really turned around his attitude about a lot of other things once he felt better about work. I wish I could help with the rest, but I just wanted to offer some support/encouragement/what worked for us when we hit similar problems.
My moans:
1. I don't mind working form home (they are doing renovations in the advising office and have no room for us, and it's spring break so I am working on other projects for summer orientation at home) but it is SO much harder on me because I just want to go play with DD (she is with the sitter, I am secluded in the bedroom-turned-office today). I miss her at work too, but it's almost easier b/c she isn't a room away for me to go play with her. I doubt I'll be completing the task I'm trying to work on because I just keep stopping to listen to her "talk" to the sitter, because it is so cute how much DD loves our sitter. This is a silly moan, but I think I'm feeling guilty about being unproductive today.
2. DH is working as an "independent contractor" for a start-up and loves it. BUT since he isn't paid hourly, and they are trying to move fast on the initial product, he has to work more than 40 hours a week. While it gives him a more flexible schedule for parenting purposes (less time for DD with sitter, more time with us), and I understand from a business standpoint why he has to work longer hours, I don't like that he (a) puts off his weekend work tasks until Sunday night and then (b) complains about it. He's a bad procrastinator, and knows that, but he isn't motivated to change. He is VERY involved as a dad, which I love, but when I am with DD (after I get home form work we get a solid 30 mins of Mommy time b/c we missed each other), or she is napping or I'm putting her to bed he just plays on his phone or tablet. Maybe I get so frustrated because I am balancing work, grad school, parenting and night wakings 5 out of 7 days of the week....and I still get it all done, but rarely/never do anything for myself that is "fun". And he gets fun time AND gets to complain about work? Not fair.
Hope everyone's Mondays start looking up soon!
I don't have much to moan about, but wanted to chime in and say that I'm thinking of you guys and your marriage/health/life goals.
I've only gotten around 4 hours of sleep for the past several days because of travel and a conference that I had to go to, so I am exhausted. But my parents come to visit tomorrow and DH did a lot of cleaning while I was gone, so I really can't complain!
I.am.exhausted.
DS has been getting up every three hours, and sometimes more during the night for the past several weeks. It is really starting to wear on me. DH got up with him Friday night so I did get a good night's sleep that night but now it's back to no sleep. I called the pediatrician to see if there's anything I can do, because he's three months and no end in sight. So worth it but d*mn I miss my sleep!
Sounds like what Sam went through a few weeks back where she went from STTN to 2 night wakings to 3-4 night wakings. We are FINALLY back to only 1-2 night wakings but her teeth are really starting to bug her, so I doubt we will STTN until 8 or 9 months at best by this point.
And I do all the night wakings Sunday night - Thursday night too.