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Post by wineallthetime on Apr 30, 2020 10:13:11 GMT -6
There are only a few states not closed for the rest of the school year as of now, right?
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Post by mwhip on Apr 30, 2020 10:24:50 GMT -6
Morning ladies! Got that in barely. It's been a morning. Just stupid shit at work all morning.
I have to go into the office to help my boss (my regular thursday thing now) and I'm letting Evie go with me. I told her she has to wear a mask and sit in my office the entire time though. No one has been in my office except me in the last month or however long I've been WFH. We are going to do a drive by parade for my friend/ex coworker who lost her job due to the sell of the company, then I think pick up Chinese on the way home. It's going to be beautiful today, so I'm thinking eat it outside then have driveway beers because I need a drink today.
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Post by klong11 on Apr 30, 2020 11:19:52 GMT -6
Phoned in homeschool today. She did her seesaw assignment, then I threw on peg + cat. Probably not at her level, but she watched it quietly so I don't care. 🤷
It also has a nice "don't freak out, just stop, breath and count down from 5" to calm down thing each episode, which I'm hoping will resonate with C.
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Post by guster on Apr 30, 2020 11:29:11 GMT -6
There are only a few states not closed for the rest of the school year as of now, right? New York and Connecticut are not yet. |
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Post by guster on Apr 30, 2020 11:29:48 GMT -6
Phoned in homeschool today. She did her seesaw assignment, then I threw on peg + cat. Probably not at her level, but she watched it quietly so I don't care. 🤷 It also has a nice "don't freak out, just stop, breath and count down from 5" to calm down thing each episode, which I'm hoping will resonate with C. Josie still loves her and I think it has really good math concepts. |
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Post by lahdeedah on Apr 30, 2020 11:49:02 GMT -6
My hospital announced they were offering up voluntary leave of absence to any employees through July. If they did so, the hospital would file unemployment for them since our state allows so they could receive that benefit. Is this similar to what you chose? Very. The hospital will pay my benefits in full which is great because we have amazing benefits and I pay a lot for them per month since I'm only part time (they'll pay their portion and mine). I can (and will) file for unemployment. ETA: we can pick between 60, 90 and 120 days. I did 60 to start. I think the employee will be responsible for their part of the premium here. If I was full or part time, I would still be ok with that. The fact that your hospital will pay everything is amazing. |
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Post by lahdeedah on Apr 30, 2020 11:53:19 GMT -6
I’m going to start getting quotes for countertops. The places here are doing appointment only, so I’m ok with that for social distance purposes. I want to move forward with something and this will be a good start.
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Post by jewels on Apr 30, 2020 12:21:45 GMT -6
There are only a few states not closed for the rest of the school year as of now, right? jersey's aren't yet but I know they will be. I heard the Governor only has the power to close for 30 days at a time so for now it's closed till May 15th but I know they will announce the rest of the school year. Camps are already closing. |
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Post by jewels on Apr 30, 2020 12:34:04 GMT -6
Very. The hospital will pay my benefits in full which is great because we have amazing benefits and I pay a lot for them per month since I'm only part time (they'll pay their portion and mine). I can (and will) file for unemployment. ETA: we can pick between 60, 90 and 120 days. I did 60 to start. I think the employee will be responsible for their part of the premium here. If I was full or part time, I would still be ok with that. The fact that your hospital will pay everything is amazing. my company did a bunch of furloughs and the company is still paying their portion and the employee has to send in the employees portion. I thought that was nice enough - but the fact that they are paying yours too is awesome! |
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Post by tgrimes on Apr 30, 2020 12:46:47 GMT -6
It's official now that my office location will be opening Monday. Apparently some of the other locations around the state will be opening only from 9-3. My boss is really nice though and said since we're getting paid to work 40 hours a week, we can be in the office every day from 8-5.
Well, I won't because of M. I have no idea how long they'll be okay with that though.
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Post by peachsmama on Apr 30, 2020 12:53:02 GMT -6
It's official now that my office location will be opening Monday. Apparently some of the other locations around the state will be opening only from 9-3. My boss is really nice though and said since we're getting paid to work 40 hours a week, we can be in the office every day from 8-5. Well, I won't because of M. I have no idea how long they'll be okay with that though. Thats so shitty. |
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Post by lahdeedah on Apr 30, 2020 13:12:55 GMT -6
It's official now that my office location will be opening Monday. Apparently some of the other locations around the state will be opening only from 9-3. My boss is really nice though and said since we're getting paid to work 40 hours a week, we can be in the office every day from 8-5. Well, I won't because of M. I have no idea how long they'll be okay with that though. 🙄 at your boss. |
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Post by nam2013 on Apr 30, 2020 13:17:27 GMT -6
It's official now that my office location will be opening Monday. Apparently some of the other locations around the state will be opening only from 9-3. My boss is really nice though and said since we're getting paid to work 40 hours a week, we can be in the office every day from 8-5. Well, I won't because of M. I have no idea how long they'll be okay with that though. I’m sorry. That is beyond ridiculous. |
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Post by tgrimes on Apr 30, 2020 13:24:48 GMT -6
Even if I'm able to get my in laws to watch M once a week for me, daycare is only open from 9-4.
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Post by klong11 on Apr 30, 2020 13:33:30 GMT -6
tgrimes your boss sucks. Time for the dick glitter.
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Post by flamingo on Apr 30, 2020 13:42:38 GMT -6
Sorry about the speech appt tgrimes, hopefully this afternoon will be better. |
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Post by kim22 on Apr 30, 2020 13:43:56 GMT -6
peachsmama MJ is done with a walker already? wineallthetime that furlough sounds like a good idea. I hope it helps lessen your stress for a while. tgrimes I’m sorry. Not that you probably want to pay for it but are any daycares offering to take older kids? Only a handful of ours are open and only for essential workers children but most are taking up to age 13 because of school closures.
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Post by flamingo on Apr 30, 2020 13:49:19 GMT -6
Had to run to Home Depot and we found more bathroom cleaner and Lysol kitchen spray 🙌🏻 I was getting seriously low on both and hadn’t seen any in weeks around here.
On another positive supply note, DH got groceries this a.m. and said today was the first time he’d seen the paper products aisle fully stocked since mid-March.
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Post by flamingo on Apr 30, 2020 13:52:33 GMT -6
nam2013 way late, but we were bronze this year, too. The only thing I ever came up with was bookends, ha, or maybe a bronze-colored exterior address sign for our new house (clearly we are really exciting people! 😂)
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Post by tgrimes on Apr 30, 2020 13:53:57 GMT -6
peachsmama MJ is done with a walker already? wineallthetime that furlough sounds like a good idea. I hope it helps lessen your stress for a while. tgrimes I’m sorry. Not that you probably want to pay for it but are any daycares offering to take older kids? Only a handful of ours are open and only for essential workers children but most are taking up to age 13 because of school closures. I don’t know of any around here that are doing that. I’ll keep checking though. But we’re still homeschooling every day, so I’m not sure how that would work. |
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Post by slenle on Apr 30, 2020 13:55:10 GMT -6
MJ slept until 9! So I slept until 9! Lovely. I have to file fuel taxes today. And meet someone to sell a baby seat. Also sold my bouncer, portable bouncer and walker. Meeting her tomorrow. My love to purge helps with my sadness about my last baby growing.. Same! I sold our baby swing, bumbo and you storage yesterday. Goooodyye baby stuff! I was a little bummed that L and H were born in opposite seasons, because Hs baby clothes wouldn’t work for L for the first year or so. Well, my little chunk took it as a challenge and it looks like H’s 18 month summer clothes will fit L this summer. So no need to by new baby clothes, hooray! |
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Post by slenle on Apr 30, 2020 13:59:59 GMT -6
Hiii! I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve posted. The days just keep getting away. It’s finally consistently nice outside, so we’ve been spending a lot of time out playing.
L woke up at 5;30 this morning so he’s on his second long nap of the day. The other two are playing outside and I’m watching our governors press release. Looks like we’re SAH for another two weeks- until May 18th.
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Post by inthekitty on Apr 30, 2020 14:05:27 GMT -6
My thoughts on your boss tgrimes:  This is where leadership would be nice. Instead of that orange moron just keep repeating "open up, get people back to work" that asshole should be emphasizing that those who can work home should and employees should show compassion and flexibility to those with kids. I'm sorry the speech appt was a waste. It's frustrating that others options likely would have worked but it was unsuccessful due to a contracted tech failure. |
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Post by tgrimes on Apr 30, 2020 14:05:41 GMT -6
lahdeedah I bought those wireless headphones and really like them so far.
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Post by wineallthetime on Apr 30, 2020 14:06:08 GMT -6
I think the employee will be responsible for their part of the premium here. If I was full or part time, I would still be ok with that. The fact that your hospital will pay everything is amazing. my company did a bunch of furloughs and the company is still paying their portion and the employee has to send in the employees portion. I thought that was nice enough - but the fact that they are paying yours too is awesome! Yeah! My furlough is completely voluntary. I think they're really trying to make it work for people while saving money and hopefully avoiding mandatory furloughs/lay offs. I'm sure if I were just told I was furloughed they wouldn't do that! |
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Post by wineallthetime on Apr 30, 2020 14:07:45 GMT -6
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Post by peachsmama on Apr 30, 2020 14:54:10 GMT -6
peachsmama MJ is done with a walker already? wineallthetime that furlough sounds like a good idea. I hope it helps lessen your stress for a while. tgrimes I’m sorry. Not that you probably want to pay for it but are any daycares offering to take older kids? Only a handful of ours are open and only for essential workers children but most are taking up to age 13 because of school closures. The kind you sit in, yes. She uses the push ones now. She refuses to be contained in anything.. |
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Post by peachsmama on Apr 30, 2020 14:58:45 GMT -6
MJ slept until 9! So I slept until 9! Lovely. I have to file fuel taxes today. And meet someone to sell a baby seat. Also sold my bouncer, portable bouncer and walker. Meeting her tomorrow. My love to purge helps with my sadness about my last baby growing.. Same! I sold our baby swing, bumbo and you storage yesterday. Goooodyye baby stuff! I was a little bummed that L and H were born in opposite seasons, because Hs baby clothes wouldn’t work for L for the first year or so. Well, my little chunk took it as a challenge and it looks like H’s 18 month summer clothes will fit L this summer. So no need to by new baby clothes, hooray! Thanks to A's cousin, I only "need" to buy things I see and want lol. Her daughter is 3 and was an August baby (MJ is July) so all her clothes work for us. I have 8 totes in my basement going from newborn-3T so far. Her daughter has a super long torso and legs so I'm sure eventually things won't fit but so far so good! |
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Post by trtlcrzy on Apr 30, 2020 15:34:44 GMT -6
That’s crap tgrimes. I’m sorry they aren’t easing into reopening and not taking childcare into consideration. |
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Post by flamingo on Apr 30, 2020 15:35:59 GMT -6
I love that, "challenge accepted", slenle!  Probably good that you don't have to buy baby clothes right now, shipping seems to be taking forever from some of these places. He'd be in the next size by the time stuff arrived! I placed a Carters order yesterday for some playclothes for C and paid $15 for expedited shipping, b/c otherwise they were estimating up to 18 business days--we'll be out of our house by then! |
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Probably good that you don't have to buy baby clothes right now, shipping seems to be taking forever from some of these places. He'd be in the next size by the time stuff arrived!
