Spring forward!!

[NamasteBirches]

Ugh
I've been sick ALL week.
I feel like I'm getting better but today I'm left with a cough & my voice is giving out due to all the coughing.
We suspect I had the flu which is insane because my symptoms started Monday. We only went two places over the weekend. Swim class for 1/2hr on Saturday & then Cabela's for their kid's try out fishing thing on Sunday. I don't recall being sneezed on but I guess it had to have been in the air bc it came on strong M-W.
Blahhh

[bellatrix]

Hope you are feeling better!

I wasn't feeling great all week either. I finally feel better, but I'm exhausted. DST is not helping.

[NamasteBirches]

Thanks bellatrix..
Overall I'm better than I was this time last week when it started but I'm still left with my throat hurting & a stubborn cough. I'm also like weirdly nauseous or lightheaded? Like my head feels foggy. Idk if that's because of all the nyquil or what but it sucks.
I then got an email this morning for an interview this Wednesday. Gosh, I hope I'm a little better by then.
This is one full week of being rundown. I think this is longest I've been sickly in my life outside of having surgical procedures.

[stitch]

NamasteBirches hope you feel better!


We had 15% of our student population out with strep, influenza a, or influenza b last week. DS has 9 kids in his class one day.

[NamasteBirches]

I have an interview today & I feel like taking a nap. This suuuuucks.
My voice sounds busted too & I still have this horse cough. FML

[NamasteBirches]

Welp that was one on par with my crappy interview experiences.
🤦
While DH is at his job giving interviews. Jerk. I need him to just hurry up with this promotion that's floating around & I'll be fine to just keep staying home. Eff it.

[stitch]

gf and I are going strong. I'm so blissfully happy.

I'm ready for spring break -- forever to go. Not til the first week of April. SAVE ME

[NamasteBirches]

We went to the design challenge portion of Stem school application for DS. The school is so awesome. While DS was with his group, we took a tour. I mean, they have 3D printers for goodness sake. Laser printers, a wood shop, like it's insane. Ughhhh
But then we asked at the end what's the next step & when should we hear something & she said 3rd grade is going to be tough. There's only like 6 spots or something like that. So if all is well with teacher ratings & today's thing, they get chosen randomly. So we're basically up against a lottery. So fingers crossed because DS really wants to go & I know he's going to take it personally if he doesn't get in. 😞

[stitch]

I'm a broken record.

It's my weekend with DS which is great but it means 4 nights without gf. It was super hard leaving her house this morning and I saw her 45 minutes later at school. This was the hardest goodbye we've had in awhile which only signals to me that our love has grown deeper. It's really difficult to leave the big, romantic part of my heart every for so long.

Guys -- true love is amazing!! I can't believe I settled before.

[NamasteBirches]

stitch you got that right -- never settle!
So happy for you. I love hearing about how you all are doing! 😁

[stitch]

Why is it not spring break yet?

I finally filed my taxes this morning.

I have a love/hate relationship with Monday.

[NamasteBirches]

Mar 18, 2019 5:13:14 GMT -6 stitch said:

Why is it not spring break yet?

I finally filed my taxes this morning.

I have a love/hate relationship with Monday.

when do you guys go in spring break?

[NamasteBirches]

I just keep getting rejected for job after job. Literally one after the other.
It's kind of taking a hit on my mental health. Like it hurts. Rejection sucks. Idk what else I can do.
The plan is to see if DS gets into this STEM school & if he does go from there with selling this house after we do a little sprucing it up like flooring, etc. It'd be helpful if I could get some sort of employment to up our budget because we know we want land & acreage costs more but if we're able to turn a profit again, then we should be alright but more money is always good but no one wants to give me a stupid chance besides a stupid head start teacher which sucked asssss.
Gahhhhhhh
I just need DH's job to come through.

[stitch]

Mar 18, 2019 13:39:15 GMT -6 NamasteBirches said:

Mar 18, 2019 5:13:14 GMT -6 stitch said:

Why is it not spring break yet?

I finally filed my taxes this morning.

I have a love/hate relationship with Monday.

when do you guys go in spring break?

First week of April!! Our last day of school is 3/29, then we resume 4/8

[NamasteBirches]

DS has a spring program tonight & I'm super excited. I don't understand why it's so late (7pm) but this school hasn't done anything yet this school year so I might just bawl my eyes out. 😂

[bellatrix]

I was chosen to be a chaperone for dd's field trip in May! 😁

[stitch]

GF and I got into a disagreement last night about cleaning my house of all things. We spend 95% of our time at her house. I'm going out of town this weekend and I have this weird quirk where my house has to be spotless before I leave. I was stressed a little last night about getting everything done this week and she offered to help me clean and I shot her down. I don't want her to clean my house. She was a little upset and pushed back because I help her clean her house all the time and she didn't understand why I wouldn't let her help me clean mine. I'm just used to doing it myself and didn't want to spend one of our 2 night together this week cleaning my house.

So we're cleaning my house tomorrow because we help each other and support each other. She wants to ease my stress and I have to learn to let her.

[NamasteBirches]

I'm sure you guys will work it out stitch!

[NamasteBirches]

It's spring break week. Yesterday we went to contemporary museum of art & today we did the aquarium. I'm tired.
Friday DS still has art club so I think we're gonna take it easy the rest of the week because I'm sure he'll then complain he didn't get a chance to play or watch TV/Netflix. 🤣

[stitch]

NamasteBirches , everything was smoothed over mostly that night. Talking about feelings in the heat of the moment is an adjustment, but a good one.

She came over last night and helped me clean. She's watching my cats and foster kitten for me this weekend. It's all good.

[NamasteBirches]

Does anyone else's kids take the TerraNova test at their school?
We're on spring break so my emails are being ignored but I feel really stupid interpreting these results so I thought I'd ask here just in case anyone else has experience.

[stitch]

NamasteBirches, no experience with TerraNova. Is it a standardized test?

[NamasteBirches]

Apr 2, 2019 9:57:42 GMT -6 stitch said:

NamasteBirches , no experience with TerraNova. Is it a standardized test?

Yeah, it's an achievement test & there's one area that's based on certain subjects (reading, language, math, science, & social studies - at least just for the 2nd grade.) 
So the results come in like a bar graph that show where your child scored & what the national percentile is. Well, DS scored a 99 in science. The national percentile is a 53. We were kind of like 

He also scored pretty high in social studies 80/54.
So since we are in the waiting game with the stem school on the application process at this point, I was debating whether or not to send this little tidbit over. After much pros/cons, we decided to write a little email. I mean, he's told us a bunch of times that he wishes they did more science at his school but to see it on paper like this is like whoa.

[stitch]

ds and I have spring break this week. He and I went to Missouri to see family. My best friend and her youngest came along, too.

DS leaves this afternoon to spend the rest of the week with ex-gf.

GF and I have some fun plans for the next few days. I'm excited to relax. We have 6 days together which is the longest stretch of time we've ever had. It'll be a true test if living together in the future will work. I know it will.

[loveswaffles]

We put in an offer on a house and it has been accepted *breathes into a paper bag*

[NamasteBirches]

Apr 4, 2019 7:08:10 GMT -6 loveswaffles said:

We put in an offer on a house and it has been accepted *breathes into a paper bag*

Congratulations!!!

[bellatrix]

Apr 4, 2019 7:08:10 GMT -6 loveswaffles said:

We put in an offer on a house and it has been accepted *breathes into a paper bag*

Congratulations!

[stitch]

Apr 4, 2019 7:08:10 GMT -6 loveswaffles said:

We put in an offer on a house and it has been accepted *breathes into a paper bag*

That's awesome!!