Post by beaglemom on Dec 13, 2018 6:05:26 GMT
Dh is out of town for work at a conference until late tomorrow night. He left Sunday night.
We have 4 kids, ages 7, 5, 2, 8 months. So this week I has been a little crazy, I've done it alone before and I will again, but this week is just sucking, a lot.
We leave Sunday morning to go out of the country for 3 weeks. So I need to pack the kids and myself for the trip. dd7 and ds5 have been growing like weeds and their summer clothes aren't fitting so well - we are going to Mexico and it will be in the upper 70s and 80s the whole trip. I am having the hardest time losing the baby weight this time around (doesn't help that I am dealing with the stress by eating chocolate) so I am at my heaviest non pregnant and nothing attractive fits.
I have been sick with an upper respiratory thing for going on 2 weeks now. Coughing a ton, hard enough that it has made me throw up a couple times. ds2 has it too and is congested. I just got to help change out all his bedding, shower him, and get him back to bed after he vomited all over his bed for the 2nd night in a row - no issues with vomiting during the day, just at night all over his bed. dd8mos woke up this morning with the cough.
This part of the vent is mostly my fault. My mil has been buying the grandkids "matching" christmas pjs for a number of years. Last year wasn't so successful since the kids are now 14 yrs - 8mos in age. So back in July I offered to make them all matching pjs. I spent a small fortune ordering custom material, it's Grinch and is amazing. In October I sent my sils both an email asking for their kid's measurements so I could start working on them. Nothing. My inlaws went out to them for Thanksgiving and apparently my mil went off on both of them about how it was ridiculous that they hadn't sent me the measurements. A week later I got 5 of the 6. I finally got the 6th one on Monday. I also sent texts last week asking what style for the boys - tops (short or long sleeves) and bottoms (shorts or pants) and sent images of the t-shirt panels asking what one for each kid. Nothing. So tonight I am just going to cut them out and they are going to get what they get. But in putting all the kid's measurements in a spreadsheet I am really worried they didn't measure correctly. My ds5 is measuring the same chest, waist, hips as his 9 year old cousin. Granted the cousin is thin and ds is tall, but I really don't think they are that similar in size.
2 years ago when we went on this trip we did family pictures. Fil threw a temper tantrum because we didn't ask for his opinion on outfit colors. I made the 3 little girls, at the time 4,5,6, matching dresses and my 12 year old niece a skirt. He didn't like the color - so he photoshopped them a different color in their christmas card. I mentioned to my mil since we were getting there 4 days before my sils' and families that we were going to do our family photos before everyone got there. She said she wanted us to all do them together again. After last time the issues last time I asked fil what acceptable colors were. I was told earthtones. Unequivocally no white, black, or red. When asked for more specifics I was given a 30 minute lecture on how nothing is to detract from the subject’s faces...blah, blah, blah, and no real colors to go with. At the time I sent my sils a text and asked them to try to get clarification from fil while he was out visiting for Thanksgiving. But that didn’t happen. I finally just bought some fabric and thankfully he said it was okay.
So I have dress fabric. But with everything else going on I am way behind on sewing things and what I really care about is making my 2 girls dresses for our family photos and Christmas dresses. But I still have to finish the pjs, 3 of 10 are done. And I am sick and have sick kids and I need to pack.
The other issue is we are staying at a very nice resort in 2 beautiful homes. Magazine worthy kitchens, that aren’t really stocked for real cooking. ***
Both sils claim to not have money. One both of them are doctors and if their interior designer tells them to spend $50,000 on something they will, but their kids need new clothes that fit and it’s a bother. The other one legitimately doesn’t have a lot of financial resources, but most of that is self imposed. Sil’s dh doesn’t work and hasn’t for 10+ years, but loves to ski and golf. And just bought a Tesla model 3 and they are doing a massive home remodel.
Because of this they insist that we grocery shop and cook meals at the houses. So We will be spending the next 2.5 weeks in Mexico grocery shopping at Costco and Walmart and cooking and cleaning up after 18 people. I really, really wanted to convince them that for one of the weeks we should do all inclusive. But again they are claiming no money. The doctors couple somehow never ends up grocery shopping, because they won’t rent a car and so they “can’t” go, and never offer to go with anyone else. And has never offered to reimburse.
So the first 2.5 weeks will be spent with 18 people, grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning. Not really my idea of a vacation. Add in a mil that complains about EVERYTHING and whose priorities are working out, stressful to say the least.
Thankfully dh listened and they all leave the 2nd (when our regular reservation is up) and just our family is staying at another part of the resort till the 7th.
So if you made it this far….please keep me in your thoughts. I am really, really, really looking forward to having a margarita on Sunday night!!
***editing to add**
When the pest control guy was here today to check the traps he asked me on his way out if I knew about the water gushing out of the pipe under the house. I thought it was one of our drain spouts since we've had some rain. After he left I went to look - a pipe I didn't even know was there was gushing water - so forcefully that it was going out about 6 ft before arching down to the ground. In my defense this is the equivalent to a story and a half under our main living area, the house is built on a slope. I went up to the water meter and literally watching it just spinning around and around. Thankfully I figured out how to turn the water off. And also thankfully the plumber that was already scheduled to come over tomorrow for something else was able to send someone over to check on it. Apparently, due to pressure, the top blew on some irrigation stuff that we aren't using. We have only been in the house a year and this is part of the old irrigation system that we aren't using. But somehow it became very pressurized and is also making backflow spray. SO they shut that down and are hopefully going to be able to fix it tomorrow when they come to fix the other thing.
We have 4 kids, ages 7, 5, 2, 8 months. So this week I has been a little crazy, I've done it alone before and I will again, but this week is just sucking, a lot.
We leave Sunday morning to go out of the country for 3 weeks. So I need to pack the kids and myself for the trip. dd7 and ds5 have been growing like weeds and their summer clothes aren't fitting so well - we are going to Mexico and it will be in the upper 70s and 80s the whole trip. I am having the hardest time losing the baby weight this time around (doesn't help that I am dealing with the stress by eating chocolate) so I am at my heaviest non pregnant and nothing attractive fits.
I have been sick with an upper respiratory thing for going on 2 weeks now. Coughing a ton, hard enough that it has made me throw up a couple times. ds2 has it too and is congested. I just got to help change out all his bedding, shower him, and get him back to bed after he vomited all over his bed for the 2nd night in a row - no issues with vomiting during the day, just at night all over his bed. dd8mos woke up this morning with the cough.
This part of the vent is mostly my fault. My mil has been buying the grandkids "matching" christmas pjs for a number of years. Last year wasn't so successful since the kids are now 14 yrs - 8mos in age. So back in July I offered to make them all matching pjs. I spent a small fortune ordering custom material, it's Grinch and is amazing. In October I sent my sils both an email asking for their kid's measurements so I could start working on them. Nothing. My inlaws went out to them for Thanksgiving and apparently my mil went off on both of them about how it was ridiculous that they hadn't sent me the measurements. A week later I got 5 of the 6. I finally got the 6th one on Monday. I also sent texts last week asking what style for the boys - tops (short or long sleeves) and bottoms (shorts or pants) and sent images of the t-shirt panels asking what one for each kid. Nothing. So tonight I am just going to cut them out and they are going to get what they get. But in putting all the kid's measurements in a spreadsheet I am really worried they didn't measure correctly. My ds5 is measuring the same chest, waist, hips as his 9 year old cousin. Granted the cousin is thin and ds is tall, but I really don't think they are that similar in size.
2 years ago when we went on this trip we did family pictures. Fil threw a temper tantrum because we didn't ask for his opinion on outfit colors. I made the 3 little girls, at the time 4,5,6, matching dresses and my 12 year old niece a skirt. He didn't like the color - so he photoshopped them a different color in their christmas card. I mentioned to my mil since we were getting there 4 days before my sils' and families that we were going to do our family photos before everyone got there. She said she wanted us to all do them together again. After last time the issues last time I asked fil what acceptable colors were. I was told earthtones. Unequivocally no white, black, or red. When asked for more specifics I was given a 30 minute lecture on how nothing is to detract from the subject’s faces...blah, blah, blah, and no real colors to go with. At the time I sent my sils a text and asked them to try to get clarification from fil while he was out visiting for Thanksgiving. But that didn’t happen. I finally just bought some fabric and thankfully he said it was okay.
So I have dress fabric. But with everything else going on I am way behind on sewing things and what I really care about is making my 2 girls dresses for our family photos and Christmas dresses. But I still have to finish the pjs, 3 of 10 are done. And I am sick and have sick kids and I need to pack.
The other issue is we are staying at a very nice resort in 2 beautiful homes. Magazine worthy kitchens, that aren’t really stocked for real cooking. ***
Both sils claim to not have money. One both of them are doctors and if their interior designer tells them to spend $50,000 on something they will, but their kids need new clothes that fit and it’s a bother. The other one legitimately doesn’t have a lot of financial resources, but most of that is self imposed. Sil’s dh doesn’t work and hasn’t for 10+ years, but loves to ski and golf. And just bought a Tesla model 3 and they are doing a massive home remodel.
Because of this they insist that we grocery shop and cook meals at the houses. So We will be spending the next 2.5 weeks in Mexico grocery shopping at Costco and Walmart and cooking and cleaning up after 18 people. I really, really wanted to convince them that for one of the weeks we should do all inclusive. But again they are claiming no money. The doctors couple somehow never ends up grocery shopping, because they won’t rent a car and so they “can’t” go, and never offer to go with anyone else. And has never offered to reimburse.
So the first 2.5 weeks will be spent with 18 people, grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning. Not really my idea of a vacation. Add in a mil that complains about EVERYTHING and whose priorities are working out, stressful to say the least.
Thankfully dh listened and they all leave the 2nd (when our regular reservation is up) and just our family is staying at another part of the resort till the 7th.
So if you made it this far….please keep me in your thoughts. I am really, really, really looking forward to having a margarita on Sunday night!!
***editing to add**
When the pest control guy was here today to check the traps he asked me on his way out if I knew about the water gushing out of the pipe under the house. I thought it was one of our drain spouts since we've had some rain. After he left I went to look - a pipe I didn't even know was there was gushing water - so forcefully that it was going out about 6 ft before arching down to the ground. In my defense this is the equivalent to a story and a half under our main living area, the house is built on a slope. I went up to the water meter and literally watching it just spinning around and around. Thankfully I figured out how to turn the water off. And also thankfully the plumber that was already scheduled to come over tomorrow for something else was able to send someone over to check on it. Apparently, due to pressure, the top blew on some irrigation stuff that we aren't using. We have only been in the house a year and this is part of the old irrigation system that we aren't using. But somehow it became very pressurized and is also making backflow spray. SO they shut that down and are hopefully going to be able to fix it tomorrow when they come to fix the other thing.