Need to vent so I don't overwhelm dh
Dec 16, 2018 17:42:25 GMT
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Post by Basket1lady on Dec 16, 2018 17:42:25 GMT
Update....The shuttle will be here in 3 hours to take us to the airport. I made pj shirts for all the boys and nightgowns for all the girls. I am worried the measurements are off a little. So I am using that as my excuse for not doing pants for the boys. What I was given has my 5-year-old in the same size as my 10-year-old nephew. So we went by Target tonight and picked up matching knit jogger pants for all the boys. I gave up on the Christmas dresses. We did manage to squeeze in pictures with Santa this morning and I just had my girls wear other festive (red) dresses that I had already made for them. We're going to bring the dresses that I made all the girls for the wedding that we all went to in August and hopefully, they will work! I, on the other hand, don't have a clue as to what I am going to wear. I ordered 20+ dresses off amazon and none of them worked. All but one --- of course, the one I liked the most --- were way too big and the one I liked was too small. So maybe we can just do pictures of the kids --- I don't like being in the pictures anyways.
The 2 littles and I still have our coughs, but other than the coughing we seem to be doing much better.
Still couldn't convince anyone to do all inclusive. My mil told me to make a schedule and assign everyone days they are cooking and cleaning. We'll see how the shopping ends up divided.
Dh has the sil that couldn't find a measuring tape as the person he is supposed to stuff her stocking for Christmas, he had me order a pack of measuring tapes to put in it!
So no sleep for me, but the pjs are done, and I'll finish packing when dh gets up in 5 minutes!
Good for you for compromising on the pjs. I'm weirdly proud of you!
MIL needs to assign kitchen duties. Then she is the enforcer of her own kids. I agree--whomever cooks, cleans up. I get the idea that it divides the work in one day, but I've found that people who don't cook often make huge messes, don't clean as they go, and us every pot imaginable. DD is 19 and our running family joke is that DS texts like he's paying by the letter and DD cooks like someone else is doing the dishes. And I'd put off taking my shift cooking--blame your cold and say that you don't want to get anyone sick.
Please find some time to relax over the holiday. You've earned it!