Moms of Many August - Page 8

[baltic_ballet]

Originally Posted by THANKFULFORFIVE

I can commiserate with this one! DS1 calls me last week, asking for money...quit his job when school started(Jr. in college), now his car is messed up and needs $$$$! He has been saying all summer that he couldn't take time off work to come visit us, and then----what do I see on his Facebook?----pictures of him vacationing in Vermont!!! Hmmmm? Priorities, I guess. Really doesn't make me wanna send money, though!
I just keep trying to remember what I was like at that age....

I know my son is studying full time and working part time so money is tight, I occasionally buy some fruit, vegies and general groceries and take around to him so I know he’s eating ok.

Originally Posted by THANKFULFORFIVE

We had some new neighbors move in a few houses down with 3 little girls, the youngest one just a couple months younger than DD3...she's also a SAHM, but I'm thinking it's just not gonna be as exciting as I'd hoped. Do any of you find it odd to put your 3-4 year olds in preschool ALL DAY long, 3 days a week?

Yes that seams strange to me too as do non-working mums who send their kids to a long day child care centre all day, everyday when they are at home.




Update: DC3 is talking to me again : Turns out her friend who also got her lip pierced at the same time got a nasty infection and DC3 is glad it’s not her - MOTHER'S REALLY DO KNOW WHAT'S BEST

[pixiekisses]

Originally Posted by THANKFULFORFIVE

We had some new neighbors move in a few houses down with 3 little girls, the youngest one just a couple months younger than DD3...she's also a SAHM, but I'm thinking it's just not gonna be as exciting as I'd hoped. Do any of you find it odd to put your 3-4 year olds in preschool ALL DAY long, 3 days a week?

I'm sometimes home all alone, I think I was last year at the end of summer, for a few weeks actually.
While I sent the kids to daycare/school every day, from 9 am. to 3 pm. usually.
I have a severe SN kid, very sick, that is why I have to stay home. Sometimes though, she is actually well enough to go to school! (Daycare last year.) And it's not like I'm not doing anything if she's there, there are tons of paperwork and phone calls, and follow-ups etc. to do re. to her SN. Even though I'm alone.
So, it happens. I guess I'm weird then.
(We also do emergency care for babies, so atm. I have a newborn, otherwise, I'd be home alone now too.)

[flapjack]

I edited this for length. I love my kid's preschool, but not half as much as she does For some 3yo's, I think a short session can be absolutely the right thing.

[Onemagicmummy]

well i think im officialy a Mom of Many now, i had my 5th baby two weeks ago today. she is a little sweetie. Henrietta-Rose Jeri Rebecca Marie. she is a nosy sleeper, a great nurser, and super cute to boot.
the bigger ones love her to bits and always want to hug and kiss her, even when she is trying to eat!
im bloody nackered, what with nursing all day, and not sleeping very well at night due to nosy sleeper and trying to get back into swing of running the house.
roll on back to school, only another week and half so, i have 3 in school this year, 2 full time, 1 half days.

Kiz

[baltic_ballet]

: Congrats Kiz : Henrietta-Rose is a gorgeous name :

[orangefoot]

:Congratulations Kiz!

[flapjack]

Congratulations!!!!!!

[mataji4]

Okay, how do you all go camping?? Or do you just not? I just got back from the third frustrating camping experience this summer...four nights of dust, freezing nights, campfire ash everywhere, and more dust. My youngest was a cranky mess and always getting hurt- turns out he's getting two molars. The oldest disappeared one morning and turns out he'd crossed the highway and gone over to a gravel pit to collect empty shells. great.

We were in your neck of the woods, Kat, at Crescent Creek near all those mountain lakes. It was cold and rained on us one day so I took all the girls and my little one to the High Desert Museum. Better than boating around in the rain!!

Today I am feeling crazy for having lots of kids too, Maggie!! I'm feeling sorry for my husband that I thought I could handle this, that I could be good at it. I don't know if my kids are normal, or out of control which is how it seems, but it feels like I'm just constantly nagging them about one thing or another... towels on the bathroom floor, shut the door behind you, sit while you eat, and with your utensils please, not your hands!, go to bed!!, etc...maybe it's just the end of summer and we have no routine in the summer and it will all feel better once school starts. But then I'll be sad because they'll hardly be home! I'm feeling a little : at the moment. And maybe a little depressed too.

My dh seems so very sad at the realization that I'm just not that into dirty camping, like I'm just not the adventurous woman he married. Especially on my period with no bathroom!!!

[baltic_ballet]

Originally Posted by mataji4

Okay, how do you all go camping?? Or do you just not? I just got back from the third frustrating camping experience this summer...four nights of dust, freezing nights, campfire ash everywhere, and more dust. My youngest was a cranky mess and always getting hurt- turns out he's getting two molars. The oldest disappeared one morning and turns out he'd crossed the highway and gone over to a gravel pit to collect empty shells. great.

We love camping, but the organising that has to go into it drives me nuts as it’s usually me who gets stuck with the preparations. We have a particular campground we go to with a toilet/shower block that’s near the beach. I always make and freeze meals like bolognaise sauce that are easy to prepare for dinner and we take a gas camp stove to cook on. We have take three tents, 2 x two man tents which the four older kids sleep in and one big tent for the rest of us.

It always rains when we go camping so we either go for a drive to see the surrounding areas or we make sure to take lots of card and board games with us.

I’ve give in to the fact that if you go camping you are going to have sand and dirt in every nook and cranny of your belongings and yourself.

Edited to add: last time we went camping we tool a small plastic dustpan and broom which was great for brushing the kids feet off before they stepped into the tent and for doing a quick sweep of the interior of the tent.

[flapjack]

We're saving for a caravan, and Jeremy Clarkson be damned

[pixiekisses]

Congrats, Kiz!

And we don't camp. Nobody can get me to go camping. (We really can't bc of our one severe SN child either.) However, my dear can take our oldest boy, or the two oldest boys, and go camping and they have a blast.
When we're on vacation, we are in hotels or apartments. (Or like this summer in Oz, a big house.) Or cabins that are well kept and of course have running water, electricity and a proper bathroom and kitchen.

[THANKFULFORFIVE]

We missed our opportunity to camp this summer...had it all planned, then my Gma passed away---so off we went to a funeral instead. We hadn't been since #5 has been born, so almost two years now. We also take two tents. One is a large 2-room tent, the other is a 2-man. Yea, it's dirty and uncomfortable, and wet and smelly....but we love it!


Welcome to Henrietta-Rose!:

[Storm Bride]

Congratulations, Kiz!

This:

the bigger ones love her to bits and always want to hug and kiss her, even when she is trying to eat!

is very familiar right now!

[Onemagicmummy]

thanks all,

as for camping, never been, would like to, but will wait till kids are a bit older and out of diapers i think. whihc will be a while, as yet again, i have 2 in diapers, lol, 2 nurslings too, its strange, i have found that i am getting touched out really fast and can only really bear to nurse DD2 once or twice a day and give her a bottle/cup of expressed milk too, i am so glad i agreed to test a breastpump, joy of joys it works for me. i can actually let down for this pump where as i never have been able to do that for anyother pump. and im getting LOADS of milk out. for instance, i had super painfully full right side and expressed off it as Henri was having no more and i was so not up for holding a wriggling, boob patting, sticky handed toddler, within 5 mins i scored 8oz, swapped adn had a rest and ended up with a whopping 10oz my biggest haul yet. today i got back from a day out, Henri had had her fill and i was so sore, so out it came, a impressive 8oz, then henri woke up wanting more, so on she went and on the pump went too and i got an extra oz too. this is all from a mummy who in the past managed 1oz MAX. that 8oz i got to day became a sippy of hot chocolate for DD2, so glad i can do that for her thought as she doesnt react well to cows milk and doesnt like soy milk.

wow that was a whole load of ramble about nothing there, lol.

Kiz

[1growingsprout]

Congrats KIZ !!!

We do not camp.... we do the hilton....

but really with my group its been a long time since we've had a family vacation and I dont see one in the near future. DH and I have discussed taking a couple kids to vegas again with one of us, its a 5 hr drive(depending on traffic at hoover dam) and rooms are cheap etc... but I'm really not in the mood Y/K.

[rajahkat]

Well, as for camping, dh and I used to go quite a bit before the kids. I pretty much refuse to go now. Honestly, I used to be that adventurous woman who loved hiking and camping. We had great time on the AT and in the Smoky Mountains. Now with the kids, I know I'll just be a cranky mess, so I don't even try. Dh takes the kids sometimes, just hikes out the door, up the butte & camps with the two oldest, and sometimes Cedar.

Sometimes I think my kids must be out of control too. Though my dh tells me that he thinks most of the time it's just me & I'm too uptight. That's when I know it's time for some ME time, and I go away for a couple of hours. Then I tend to feel a bit better. Especially if they clean while I am gone.

[mataji4]

Thanks for that Kat. I guess I'm feeling like there is something wrong with me if I can't enjoy camping. I used to, but now I'm in a bad mood for one reason or another the whole time. I guess I didn't want to be changed negatively b/c of having a family, and I consider the inability to camp happily negative. So it's bumming me out. But also good to know other moms just don't do it and that's acceptable. Next time I'll say "you go and have a great time!"

My dh says the same thing...the kids are just kids like all kids...and other moms aren't as angry or uptight as often as I am.

Today we went school supply shopping and that worked out. Kids were mostly pleasant company and now littlest teether is napping and all is quiet while I pay bills and sneak on the computer~ ssh! don't tell!