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Post by chrisy01 on Dec 7, 2021 7:42:17 GMT -6
What’s happening ladies?
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Post by chrisy01 on Dec 7, 2021 7:44:39 GMT -6
L got his 2nd covid shot and it went well. No one had to hold him down. So that’s was exciting last night. E has her first school program tonight. I thought I was being smart by packing her outfit in a bag to put in my car just in case. However I left it at home. 🤦♀️
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Post by tgrimes on Dec 7, 2021 8:15:34 GMT -6
L got his 2nd covid shot and it went well. No one had to hold him down. So that’s was exciting last night. E has her first school program tonight. I thought I was being smart by packing her outfit in a bag to put in my car just in case. However I left it at home. 🤦♀️ Lol. whoops!
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Post by tgrimes on Dec 7, 2021 8:15:45 GMT -6
I'm at the office. SSDD.
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chrisy01
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Post by chrisy01 on Dec 7, 2021 8:16:13 GMT -6
How are you feeling today?
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Post by chrisy01 on Dec 7, 2021 8:18:27 GMT -6
This is my work day so far. 10 minutes of loading. I don’t think I’m getting my bills to pay today.
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Post by tgrimes on Dec 7, 2021 8:21:38 GMT -6
This is my work day so far. 10 minutes of loading. I don’t think I’m getting my bills to pay today. The worst. I'm sorry.
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Post by tgrimes on Dec 7, 2021 8:22:07 GMT -6
How are you feeling today? I'm fine, my boob is just achy. It's a lovely color of yellow and purple though.
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Post by chrisy01 on Dec 7, 2021 9:18:48 GMT -6
This is my work day so far. 10 minutes of loading. I don’t think I’m getting my bills to pay today. The worst. I'm sorry. 1 hour later it came through
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Post by nam2013 on Dec 7, 2021 9:29:27 GMT -6
Morning. I got my booster this morning 🥳. I raced back home, so my h could go to work. I had planned to log on when dd2 was napping and the other ifo the tv, but we had a power outage, I’d didn’t last that long, but long enough for dd2’s nap to be over. I then figured I’d log in as soon as my h would come home, but there was a system error, so I gave up. Fortunately my boss thought this all was hilarious and told me to just make coffee and surrender to the universe telling me to hit the brakes.
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Post by nam2013 on Dec 7, 2021 9:29:51 GMT -6
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Post by klong11 on Dec 7, 2021 9:40:39 GMT -6
I'm at the office. Cadence's elf, Snowflake, was having a picnic of hamburgers and hotdogs this morning at her AG picnic table. Cadence thought it was hilarious and took a picture to show her friends at school.
She has GS tonight where they are finishing up shopping for the troop holiday buddy. When we delivered our individual holiday buddy bag Cadence was sure all the foster children were at the house and that she could meet the child she had purchased for. I had to explain a lot. She didn't understand how there could be a child with no family and what happened to the parents. And if both parents die, who lets foster parents know to come get a baby, and where was the baby between then and getting a foster home and all. sorts. of. questions. Hard questions. Hoping tonight's meeting touches on it a bit so that she has more understanding of it. Quite honestly I'm surprised she didn't ask the woman if we could adopt the boy!
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Post by guster on Dec 7, 2021 9:48:43 GMT -6
Good morning! Doing house stuff today. I just checked to see what kind of wrapping paper I have and I don't have a single square of it for Christmas, which is exciting because I love to buy that stuff -- I'll probably go pick up supplies this weekend. As for the actual holiday, bc not everybody will be fully vaccinated, we will spend another Christmas holiday at home just the four of us. Aside from last year, I have never made Christmas Eve dinner (and I can't remember what I made last year), so I told mh that I was thinking about making our traditional Italian seafood meal, and that we would do a steakhouse meal for Christmas Day. But I know he doesn't love steak, so I asked him what I could make for him that would fit with the other parts of the meal, and he told me not to make anything else, he would just have leftovers. To which I replied, you can't eat leftovers on Christmas day, and he genuinely seemed baffled by that statement. I'm making him chicken Kiev instead. I don't know why I asked.
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Post by mwhip on Dec 7, 2021 9:49:27 GMT -6
Oh man klong11, those would be very difficult questions to answer, and for an 8 year old to understand.
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Post by guster on Dec 7, 2021 9:50:16 GMT -6
Oh man klong11, those would be very difficult questions to answer, and for an 8 year old to understand. I agree. And each answer brings up 5 more questions.
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Post by guster on Dec 7, 2021 9:50:27 GMT -6
Hope you're okay, @wine!
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Post by inthekitty on Dec 7, 2021 10:23:57 GMT -6
chrisy01 ugh. Computer issues when you're trying to be productive are the woooorrssst.
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Post by klong11 on Dec 7, 2021 10:29:28 GMT -6
Oh man klong11 , those would be very difficult questions to answer, and for an 8 year old to understand. I agree. And each answer brings up 5 more questions. MH feels I give her too much information on her questions.
For instance, my mom mentioned to her that when a girl baby is born it already has the eggs for its babies inside of it. (thanks Mom) So she obviously had questions. So I answered them. I said the eggs weren't babies unless they get fertilized to become babies. That girls have ovaries that carry the eggs, each month or so an egg comes out of the ovaries (when the girl is old enough) and goes into the uterus. If what it needs to become a baby is in there to meet, then a baby might be made, if not then it comes out as a period and that's why we (me) use tamps each month.
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Post by mwhip on Dec 7, 2021 10:37:42 GMT -6
klong11 when Evie asks me these questions, I'm going to have to reach out for logical answers. Because I'm totally not prepared!
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Post by guster on Dec 7, 2021 10:40:27 GMT -6
Even though some of the conversations are challenging, I always think information is better than pushing it to the side or saying that they're too young to hear about it. There's always a child friendly way to get our thoughts across and then they have a nice base knowledge of things that we can always add to. I feel like these past two years brought up a lot, too. Charlie's really interested in asking the questions but never hearing the answer but Josie definitely wants more of the reason behind things.
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Post by wedding on Dec 7, 2021 10:42:36 GMT -6
Dh also gives me the impression that he thinks I give more info than needed but I think it’s a good thing so I KOKO.
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Post by lfig on Dec 7, 2021 11:14:35 GMT -6
Benefits to having a child with special needs/developmental delays...don't have to have those hard conversations and answer those hard questions...at least not yet. Lol!
Also, Hi! I am trying to recruit employees and volunteer campground hosts for next summer right now. Also working on a project proposal to get more money from outside of my park to run my program. So I have been a busy little worker bee.
Am I the only person that has not put my Christmas tree up yet? We have been on the go and I keep saying..."I'll do it tomorrow"...and then when tomorrow gets here, I have no gumption to do it. I did get a few presents ordered. But need to do a bunch more shopping soon because I don't want to get stuck in the shipping delays.
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Post by lahdeedah on Dec 7, 2021 11:36:41 GMT -6
Morning. It turned out to be a slow morning at work, but I came up to help our sister dept so it wasn’t bad. klong11 I actually think that’s very appropriate. Kudos to you! lfig We just put up our tree on Sunday. The other day I was thinking about how all the little errands and shopping for a million people make me stressed about Christmas more than anything and I don’t end up enjoying this time of year as much. I hate that, but it’s true. I now am understanding the appeal of buying gifts throughout the year instead of waiting. It probably makes for a more enjoyable holiday when you aren’t stressed about what to get who- especially because I’m usually pretty indecisive.
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Post by chrisy01 on Dec 7, 2021 11:40:21 GMT -6
C just finished decorating our tree. He didn’t do some of the decorations around the house but I didn’t help this year so no complaining from me.
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Post by peachsmama on Dec 7, 2021 11:57:27 GMT -6
Dh also gives me the impression that he thinks I give more info than needed but I think it’s a good thing so I KOKO. Same. A was horrified that I told MJ she had a vagina. But she wanted to know why she didn't have a penis 🤷♀️ had to tell her something lol.
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Post by slenle on Dec 7, 2021 12:01:01 GMT -6
N had her well check yesterday and her pedi said something about growing a lot turning puberty. N asked what puberty was and the pedi gave a brief overview. N’s eyes widened and she said “nope- don’t want that!” Lol. Probably something we should start talking about a bit more. lfig. We don’t have a tree yet because we have no place to put it. It will probably be the week before Christmas before we can put it up. maybe I’ll just leave it up until February to make it worth it.
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Post by klong11 on Dec 7, 2021 12:07:03 GMT -6
lfig, we put our tree up, but it seems to be our cats' goals in life to tear the damn thing down. And they apparently like the taste of Starburst candy canes because they keep knocking them down and chewing them into pieces. Nothing like sticky candy cane stuck to your wood floors each morning.
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Post by klong11 on Dec 7, 2021 12:08:05 GMT -6
Dh also gives me the impression that he thinks I give more info than needed but I think it’s a good thing so I KOKO. Same. A was horrified that I told MJ she had a vagina. But she wanted to know why she didn't have a penis 🤷♀️ had to tell her something lol. DNW my kid using weird made up names for body parts. They are what they are.
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Post by inthekitty on Dec 7, 2021 12:16:33 GMT -6
It's funny that the men are all such prudes. MH is too. It's much better for kids to get small, age-appropriate doses of the truth here and there than wait for one big "talk." Usually "the talk" is too late anyway and they've already been exposed to false info from friends and the internet. Cass hasn't had too many questions but Mad has had a lot. Lately she's been obsessed with puberty and seems excited for it. More power to her, I guess.
During one of our pregnancy discussions a while back she asked, "But what if a woman gets pregnant and doesn't want to be?" I was taken aback because my child-self was all lollipops and rainbows and the notion of unplanned pregnancy didn't occur to me until years later. So we had a very basic discussion that a doctor can remove it or medicine can end the pregnancy. 🤷♀️
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Post by lahdeedah on Dec 7, 2021 12:17:31 GMT -6
Same. A was horrified that I told MJ she had a vagina. But she wanted to know why she didn't have a penis 🤷♀️ had to tell her something lol. DNW my kid using weird made up names for body parts. They are what they are. Yep. My MIL has died every time she visits for the last few years because the boys say penis. 🤷🏽♀️ What else would they call it?
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