What up Wednesday

[waitwhat]

Jun 28, 2017 12:25:32 GMT -6 tgrimes said:

Jun 28, 2017 12:17:44 GMT -6 waitwhat said:

I keep going because it usually happens early on.

If it doesn't mess up your schedule too much, I'd end the nursing session when he bites.  You can resume 15-20 in later.  That way he equated biting to no more booby milk.

I'll give it a shot.

My nipples and I thank you for the suggestion.

[danib]

Hey ladies.
I had Hot Yoga this morning, and then a pedicure with MIL & SIL (my birthday present from them that we are only now getting around to doing lol). So my day has been pretty relaxing so far.
Only downside is H seems to be regressing sleep-wise (we were just getting good too!!!), and that includes naps.

cookswithwine we let the kids have free reign of the house. The only thing I really block off is stairs.

[waitwhat]

cookswithwine I also let the kids have free reign. I have child safety locks on kitchen cabinets where I don't want them playing and also on our doors (basement, garage, front etc) because my kids are tall and can open doors. I have the stairs gated.

[sweetmelissa]

I actually managed to put baby boy down for a nap without kid 4 waking him up (until she decides to climb in bed with him, anyway), so I have a few minutes to catch up with everyone.

DH took off this past Monday, so we took the kids to Six Flags since we have season passes. My two year old is just a little bit shy of 36 inches, but we put her big sister's shoes on her (maybe a 1 inch heel?) and she got to ride a few rides she's usually too short for, and when we got home, I went online and bought a few pairs of shoes with heels in her size for future trips.

Yesterday, I packed a picnic lunch (okay, it was really just Lunchables and some grapes) and took the kids to the preschool playground since it's shaded and fully enclosed, and then today, we went to Dunkin Donuts for iced coffee (which baby boy grabbed while kid 4 distracted me so now both of us smell very strongly of coffee) and then to a nearby playground for a little while. I know we'll end up playing in the backyard more days than not while it's just me and the five kids, but we're off to a pretty good start so far at getting out of the house. Tomorrow, it's supposed to be over 90, so I'm thinking we might go to the McDonalds with the indoor playplace for lunch and play.

As for the question about baby gates and such, we gate off the kitchen and addition and the upstairs, but once the kids are about 3.5/4 they're generally able to work the gates and go anywhere in the house. The younger kids mostly stay in the living room and two downstairs bedrooms (there's also a bathroom, but we keep the doors closed for the most part to keep little ones out).

[danib]

Sounds like you've had a ton of fun sweetmelissa

[kleigh]

sweetmelissa You make it sound wildly enjoyable and not at all stressful and I LOVE IT !! Send me your good vibes would you, sometimes two is, like, a bitch. I need that steam for days that I don't want to do anything but sit on my butt 💪🏼💪🏼

[aggiebug]

Jun 28, 2017 10:09:34 GMT -6 Cheshie6 said:

Not much going on here! Bird hit house and I had to keep the girl dogs away from it! Are dogs like cats? In that the girls are the hunters and the boys are just lazy? Tanner didn't car at all but the girls circled it like they didn't just eat less than 4 hours ago.

L and I have our first evening water discovery class which will be interesting! (In the summer, they only offer one class during the week) I'm hoping to start bedtime routine as soon as we get home. Figuring that we don't get out of the pool till 5:45pm I'm just going to change out of wet clothes and come straight home via Panera lol. It's 30 minutes away, so shower/bath, and usually he's exhausted after class that maybe he'll sleep after eating. Fingers crossed!!

Male and female cats and dogs will hunt it just depends on the specific pet.

[jubilantsquirrel]

Jun 28, 2017 8:24:34 GMT -6 kleigh said:

What's up ladies?!

Just working. Came in to the office today instead of tomorrow bc my manager had scheduled us for a team meeting (keep in mind he and another account mgr work in a city about hour away, and my other colleague works in Long Island and needs to take a ferry over).. well he called and cancelled. Which is fine but I had asked my mom to switch her work days for it, oh well.

So on a related note, H and my mom are seriously convincing me that it might be time to try to go off on my own as an advisor. So scary but if I am going to give up my job anyway bc they ask me to be in the office FT what do I really have to lose at that point.

I can replace my salary with 200 employees - that can be 10 groups of 20 employees, 20 groups of 10 employees, one 200 life group, or whatever combination.

It doesn't seem impossible but it's damn scary. H and I are working on a name, website, etc the past few nights.

Also I might've missed something but where is Sophiegrace, I hope all is ok???

Can you hire me as one of your employees? Then I can move to CT and we can be neighbors!

[jubilantsquirrel]

Hey all!

I'm working a half day today so I didn't get in until 10:30 this morning. I already stuffed my face with a burger from the food truck and now I'm trying to get caught up here. Work stuff can wait.

Re: baby gates. We used the same play pen you have cookswithwine, but DS1 hated it. We ended up just giving him free reign of the house but put a gate up at the stairs. We did have to move everything off the bottom shelf in the pantry (it has bi-fold doors that he could easily open) but other than that it worked out pretty well.

[starbuck]

Jun 28, 2017 14:05:43 GMT -6 jubilantsquirrel said:

Jun 28, 2017 8:24:34 GMT -6 kleigh said:

What's up ladies?!

Just working. Came in to the office today instead of tomorrow bc my manager had scheduled us for a team meeting (keep in mind he and another account mgr work in a city about hour away, and my other colleague works in Long Island and needs to take a ferry over).. well he called and cancelled. Which is fine but I had asked my mom to switch her work days for it, oh well.

So on a related note, H and my mom are seriously convincing me that it might be time to try to go off on my own as an advisor. So scary but if I am going to give up my job anyway bc they ask me to be in the office FT what do I really have to lose at that point.

I can replace my salary with 200 employees - that can be 10 groups of 20 employees, 20 groups of 10 employees, one 200 life group, or whatever combination.

It doesn't seem impossible but it's damn scary. H and I are working on a name, website, etc the past few nights.

Also I might've missed something but where is Sophiegrace, I hope all is ok???

Can you hire me as one of your employees? Then I can move to CT and we can be neighbors!

I was just coming to ask kleigh to hire me, too!! lol

[starbuck]

My boss arranged for me to not work last week and this and come back a few weeks in July to onboard my replacement. Cue me not checking my email the past ten days.

I for whatever reason logged in today and saw that my boss' boss sent me two requests that were "urgent." So I responded and told him why I was MIA and said I thought he would have been in the loop on that decision about my hours, and said if he had something I really needed to do, I could deduct from my July time (I have limited time left). Remember that I was supposed to be done end of June.

So as it turns out, my boss was fired right after he made our arrangement and never told anyone about it. 🙁 So now they want to extend my time to the end of July.

I can't make that work. I don't have childcare for W after July 21 until school starts up again in mid-August. So that's a conversation I have to have.

I am so over this employer. Between all the drama, the poor communication, nobody being responsive, etc...ugh. I would just stop now but I'm going to try to do freelance work starting I'm the fall and I don't want to burn that bridge so that I can get good references.

So ya kleigh take me with you.

[goldenlove]

Sounds like a busy but fun few days sweetmelissa!

+1 kleigh. Wouldn't be awesome if we could come up with a company that we could all do from home? We'd obviously have quarterly retreats in cool places like the Bahamas.

I got home a little earlier than usual somehow and took the dog out for a quick walk. I was scared to go to far because there's some type of storm system coming through. Doesn't seem to be moving very fast though. Oh well.. at least I stopped at the Mulberry tree on the trail and got a snack. Then I discovered that my neighbor has one growing IN the pine tree near the property line. Is it steeling to pick berries from his yard?

[goldenlove]

And for hdbd..

[goldenlove]

Wow starbuck. That is crazy and really sucks. Did they think you just disappeared for 2 weeks? Hopefully you can be done a little earlier and they won't give you a hard time about it.

[starbuck]

Jun 28, 2017 15:11:07 GMT -6 goldenlove said:

Wow starbuck. That is crazy and really sucks. Did they think you just disappeared for 2 weeks? Hopefully you can be done a little earlier and they won't give you a hard time about it.

He reached out to me a week ago so ya. And I didn't get an email or anything about my boss being fired so I literally found out today when I tried to talk to him about onboarding and get an strange "this email address is not monitored" message...

Literally made this face

[danib]

Omg starbuck I can't believe no one told you that your boss was fired (or that he didn't pass along that you were off for 2 weeks!!)

Um goldenlove who is that big kid? We have BABIES, not big kids!!!

[goldenlove]

danib I know! 😭😭 He looks like a one year old already. It's crazy!!!

[waitwhat]

sweetmelissa what is your secret?! 5 kids and you don't seem stressed or exhausted in the least. I have 2 and getting out of the house is an Olympic event. I can't imagine how you do it with 5!

[hangry]

starbuck that is just shitty. I hope the boss's boss doesn't hold you accountable.

sweetmelissa good start to your summer! Do you have all 5 all summer or do you have some camps set up?

[hangry]

danib we have been having some sort of sleep regression too. It sucks. I've had a headache for 3 days bc of lack of sleep.

Dd still doesn't have any teeth yet so I'm attributing it to imminent teeth.

[dashook]

Jun 28, 2017 10:04:40 GMT -6 goldenlove said:

So I stopped following the re-name the forum thread. Was it decided to leave it as a place to meet?

No. Admin and mods have been voting and narrowing for several days and we should have a name by the weekend.

[dashook]

Also hi!

I'll be back to check in after I put these monkeys to bed.

[tgrimes]

Eating dinner & drinking wine before lion king. M is getting sleepy....great.

[danib]

We don't have teeth yet either hangry. He's constantly chewing and slobbering, so maybe soon? But I've been saying that for months so who knows.

[dashook]

Jun 28, 2017 17:20:35 GMT -6 tgrimes said:

Eating dinner & drinking wine before lion king. M is getting sleepy....great.

I'm sure she'll wake up once things get started! Enjoy your wine

[waitwhat]

It's 7:30 and I'm ready for bed.

[kleigh]

If I get this thing going you're all hired. And everyone can work from home!! And mandatory quarterly retreats, team building and all that. Also, cupcakes and wine every Friday!!!! jubilantsquirrel starbuck goldenlove

[sweetmelissa]

Thanks everyone! Some days I feel like we'll never get out, but it makes such a difference in breaking up our day. And no camps or anything, just heading up to visit my family in a couple of weeks and then my inlaws will come here in late July, and they're bringing the cousins (my brother-in-law's three kids) so that should be fun and super exhausting (there will be 12 people in my house for a week). And now all hell is breaking loose as the kids wait for me to read a chapter from kid 2's new book (from Barnes and Noble's summer reading program, which is pretty cool), but at least I got kid 5 bathed so he no longer smells like coffee (can't say the same about me, but I'll shower tomorrow morning after my workout).

[jubilantsquirrel]

Jun 28, 2017 18:12:19 GMT -6 kleigh said:

If I get this thing going you're all hired. And everyone can work from home!! And mandatory quarterly retreats, team building and all that. Also, cupcakes and wine every Friday!!!! jubilantsquirrel starbuck goldenlove

Yay!! Best boss ever!!

[dashook]

Jun 28, 2017 18:45:20 GMT -6 jubilantsquirrel said:

Jun 28, 2017 18:12:19 GMT -6 kleigh said:

If I get this thing going you're all hired. And everyone can work from home!! And mandatory quarterly retreats, team building and all that. Also, cupcakes and wine every Friday!!!! jubilantsquirrel starbuck goldenlove

Yay!! Best boss ever!!

But kleigh will you have food trucks?