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[Murph123345]

What's going on with you this week?

[momma2be_k]

I was just fired!

details to come......

[emmaegbert]

big girl friend Leah is visiting, who is 12 1/2. Its SUPER fun for my 4 1/2 son. Baby also likes riding in the station wagon surrounded by big brother and big friend- I hear her cooing, laughing, and talking back there.

I read some books on EC over the weekend and have actually "caught" 5 pees each on sat and sunday. I am thinking about going for it- maybe my goal will be to be diaper free in the house? Anyway, funny b/c I apparently did pretty much every EC "technique" w/ DS starting when he was about 15 mos old, I just didn't know it was a system. It was in response to his complaining about being dirty or wet- it hadn't occurred to me that I could do it w/ a younger baby.

Baby Phoebe had a really yucky poop on Saturday morning- about as hard as wet clay. Also it smelled worse than usual. She looked very upset while she was doing it. I felt bad! She is only having breastmilk and nothing else at all. She only poops every 3-4 days- but that is her normal pattern. The day before we were at the zoo all day and it was hot and I am quite sure I was dehydrated- maybe she was as a consequence mildly dehydrated? Isn't baby poo supposed to be that all mushy stuff?

Hope you all had a fun holiday weekend. I'm impressed by all the rolling babies! Phoebe just doesn't seem interested in that at all yet- they are all so different.

[ShineliketheSon]

Originally Posted by momma2be_k

I was just fired!

details to come......

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Whoa...I'l look for details

Originally Posted by emmaegbert

I read some books on EC over the weekend and have actually "caught" 5 pees each on sat and sunday.

Hope you all had a fun holiday weekend. I'm impressed by all the rolling babies! Phoebe just doesn't seem interested in that at all yet- they are all so different.

good for you for ecing...what book did you read? N has rolled a few times, she has no interest in toys other than her mobile. they are so different and the age range we all have makes a difference too.

breast is better, still tad sore but bot bad...thrush appears to be almost gone...so gonna keep doin what I'm doin

got 20 min of Wii fit in and some stretching crunches while N napped then got a shower while N laid on changing mat diaperless.

11am and i've accomplished alot allready...decided my to do list daily is: exercise 20 min, shower, pick up house before DH is home, dishes in washer, diapers washed. maybe a load of laundry( dh helps with this)..the rest of the day is general care and cuddles with my babes!

thinkin bout dawn today, I hope she gets answers!

[claras_mom]

Shine - glad the breast is doing better. I do usually give things like that a couple of days--know what you mean about being cautious with abx.

I have both girls at home on Mondays. Sometimes, it's an at-home day; today, we'll go to the park and/or the zoo and enjoy the good weather. I feel as if I'm getting some brain cells back, so later this week I'll try to take advantage of that and get some music written.

[michanders4]

Kim I'm so sorry!! Ill be looking for details .

Cooper doesn't roll yet. He is definitely becoming more and more alert every day!! He will just sit and coo for a good 10 mins straight. He sounds like he is trying to tell a story !!

Shine - glad to hear the breast is getting better.

[nancy11]

Z's whining in the crib... and I can distinctly hear "mama," which I have been teaching him. It's interesting that he only says it when he cries.

Also, he loves his doorway airplane bouncy swing thing. It lets him bounce on his legs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFz5lZYJp1Y

[goodmomma76]

wow nancy! look at that head control!! what a cutie!

Miss K has decided she only likes forward facing whenever she is in a carrier...but her head control isn't the greatest yet, so I have to watch real closely.

She loved the fireworks last night, she stared at them for about 10 minutes before getting bored. I forgot the camera tho...

I am at a place of sadness today, please think happy thoughts for me. I am being treated for PPD, but I don't think that's it.

I hope everyone else is having a great day!!!

[nancy11]

Originally Posted by goodmomma76

I am at a place of sadness today, please think happy thoughts for me. I am being treated for PPD, but I don't think that's it.

*happythoughtshappythoughtshappythoughtshappythoug htshappythoughts*

[ShineliketheSon]

Originally Posted by goodmomma76

I am at a place of sadness today, please think happy thoughts for me. I am being treated for PPD, but I don't think that's it.

I'm sorry your sad, I am too today. What do you think it is?

[bodhitree]

Originally Posted by momma2be_k

I was just fired!

details to come......

Argh! Hope things are okay. I'll be interested to hear details.

Originally Posted by emmaegbert

Hope you all had a fun holiday weekend. I'm impressed by all the rolling babies! Phoebe just doesn't seem interested in that at all yet- they are all so different.

River doesn't like being on her tummy, so she flails around trying to escape from tummy time, but she can't roll yet either. My holiday weekend was fine, nothing exciting. We sat out on the cul-de-sac with the neighbors watching the illegal fireworks that were being set off from about four different houses in our neighborhood. Also, I got to hear from the crabby old lady next door about all the discipline strategies she used with her daughters when they were little. I came away from that thinking she was lucky they still talk to her.

Originally Posted by ShineliketheSon

breast is better, still tad sore but bot bad...thrush appears to be almost gone...so gonna keep doin what I'm doin

Glad you're better! When I got mastitis, I had a high fever right away and felt like I was getting a bad case of the flu, so I went for the abx. I'm glad it seems like you won't have to!

Originally Posted by goodmomma76

I am at a place of sadness today, please think happy thoughts for me. I am being treated for PPD, but I don't think that's it.

I'll think some happy thoughts for you. I hope you find what's behind your sadness.

I'm feeling somewhat less overwhelmed than I was last week. I realized that my mind has been doing some of the things it used to do when I used to be really depressed (like being really irritable, dealing with conflicts in a childish way, being pessimistic, and feeling guilty about things that aren't that bad). DH is helping me by making sure I get time to exercise and do some sitting meditation every day so that we can nip it in the bud before it gets worse. That's helping a lot, and for all the stuff around the house, I'm just trying to do one thing a day to clean or organize the house. Even if it's just something that takes two minutes, it helps me feel better about things.

I just noticed all our sigs are indeed gone! Off to recreate mine...

[wobblykate]

Kim, that sucks! wtf???

I've been off mdc for 3 days...no time w/the family. I read up and will post later. hugs to all.

[Peony]

Yep, hugs to all. I've been gone as well, so trying to get caught up on everything, here and IRL! We went to my parent's house in the mountains for the 4th. It was fine, Julian had a hard time napping there with 9-11 people coming and going so he is glad to be back. Off to do a few more things before the youngest two wake up....

[nancy11]

This isn't IRL? :-O

[ShineliketheSon]

Seeing if my siggy is back...wished i had saved it!

[momma2be_k]

I'll try to keep to the point. There's so much back story to this.

I've worked for my now (former) employer for 7 years. I've helped him grow his business more than 100%. The plan was for me to start working in my own room (you need a specially constructed room with speakers and a lot of fancy electronic analog gear to function). While waiting for this special room to be built for me (for 4 years), I shared my bosses room. Working late nights and weekends to get in. Working 50+ hours a week for 4 years until the day I went into labor. I poured everything I had into learning the craft of audio mastering, and showing my boss how dedicated I was to making it work, and kicking butt. They were like my family.

My husband knew my boss before I did (he used to be in a band). He always told me my boss would never actually get that 2nd room up and running for me, DH and I fought about this a lot. I always stood up for my employer and said that I believed he would do it, because he told me he would. Because I worked so hard to show my boss that it would be great for his business to have 2 rooms working.

I was proud of where I worked, I kept close to my boss (and his wife) with ideas on how to improve their business and always got rave reviews on my customer service. I went above and beyond.... truly dedicated myself to improving and growing their business.

I don't mind talking money here, because this is how it all went down. When I would work late nights and weekends I would make $33/hour (for the mastering). My salary pay was $19/hour (for working in the office and production room). It has always been discussed how mastering would make me more money than working in the office. Simple concept.

In several meetings before I took my maternity leave (which I was not paid for) we discussed the 2nd room being finished so I could master during the day - because I would no longer be available during nights and weekends (because I was having a baby). Everyone understood and agreed the room would be completed. It was not completed upon my return. My boss then said the room was going to be done by september and we would make things work until then. I said that was fine, but I needed to make AT LEAST what I was making before my maternity leave, or I could not afford full time child care.

My boss and his wife and daughter have plans to be away for some of this week. I have projects scheduled to master in the room during 9-5. I receive an email this past weekend, from my bosses wife, who clarified that any mastering I do during "salaried hours" I would not receive and additional pay for.

I respond in email (with the support of my husband), that I cannot master during salaried hours without making some sort of commission (we never discussed that) and please let me know when we can talk about this.

No response to the email.

I go in today and my boss says to come in his room and we'll talk. He asks "so you don't want to master during your salaried hours unless you make commission" and I say "no" and he says "your services are no longer needed". I ask "do you want me to leave now?" and he says "yes". I leave.

After 7 years. It took him 30 seconds to let me go.

Because I didn't want to do work for $19 that I would normally get paid $33 for.

Now... I've never been on unemployment, but I will gladly take this time to be with my son. So for that, I am happy.

But I am stunned in all other regards.

[michanders4]

Kim - s, s and more s! I agree with you about this being a GREAT time to be unemployed and since he let you go you can definitely collect unemployment and you will be able to spend so much time with PJ!! I know it stings though after everything you did for him. I really just don't get some people.

BTW - we had a discussion about wishing we could meet on last week's thread and now that I'm moved back to Jersey you and I should meet sometime!!

[nancy11]

I grew up in parsippany...

[michanders4]

Too funny Nancy - and you aren't too far away from Jersey now! I lived in Morristown for awhile and will be there for the day on Saturday!

[momma2be_k]

Originally Posted by michanders4

Kim - s, s and more s! I agree with you about this being a GREAT time to be unemployed and since he let you go you can definitely collect unemployment and you will be able to spend so much time with PJ!! I know it stings though after everything you did for him. I really just don't get some people.

BTW - we had a discussion about wishing we could meet on last week's thread and now that I'm moved back to Jersey you and I should meet sometime!!

thanks michelle! where in NJ are you? I'm so far north I'm 5 minutes from the NY state line (and 287).

Originally Posted by nancy11

I grew up in parsippany...

RT46! lol....