Smiling at the Impending Grandchild evening the score. Of course, they expect the grandmothers to take over child care when they go back to work since both grandmothers WFH. Too bad my house isn't childproof.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Oct 26, 2020 3:47:09 pm PDT #28148 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
sj - Oct 26, 2020 3:48:16 pm PDT #28149 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Is 5 the age when kids start to get mean? ltc has never complained about other kids being mean to her until this year.
Laura - Oct 26, 2020 3:50:57 pm PDT #28150 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Also, WHEN the Democrats take over they had better expand the courts, all the federal courts, including the Supreme Court. The voter suppression crap has to end.
Laura - Oct 26, 2020 3:52:09 pm PDT #28151 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I don't remember, sj. I just remember it being the worst when your child is picked on by other kids. Major mama bear mode in those days.
meara - Oct 26, 2020 4:04:01 pm PDT #28152 of 30019
Of course, they expect the grandmothers to take over child care when they go back to work since both grandmothers WFH.
Ummmmm....wow. That's quite the expectation!! I mean it's great if someone can offer that, but...WFH does not mean "can take care of small child"! Much less "*wants* to take care of small child"! Hope they budgeted childcare.
Also, I feel like you can't have been that awful, if they were willing to live with you for long period of time! My parents could offer a free room and say they'd cook and give me a car to boot, and I still wouldn't take it unless I was completely out of other options and had no money!
Hopefully he's just stressed because of pandemic and impending fatherhood and will chill soon.
sj - Oct 26, 2020 4:06:44 pm PDT #28153 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I am quite amazed at how many people I know who just assumed their parents would stay home and take care of their kids. Some were in for a surprise.
msbelle - Oct 26, 2020 4:22:04 pm PDT #28154 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Unseasoned baked chicken with skin removed, baked potato, and applesauce for dinner. Feels good to get some calories in me. Now bed, work tomorrow. Bleargh.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2020 4:23:37 pm PDT #28155 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Laura, my condolences on your younger son and his wife being so physically disabled that they're unable to wash a damn dish themselves and have to sit around helplessly letting it make them feel uncomfortable instead.
Diapers are not going to be kind to them.
Beverly - Oct 26, 2020 4:57:49 pm PDT #28156 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I get the feeling this is a reaction to overwhelm, with an impending increase in overwhelm. Self-coping questionable, quick, let's throw aspersions on a near target kind of thing. I'm likely wrong, but that's where I've been.
I like your Mike Wazowski o'lantern, Matt.
amyparker - Oct 26, 2020 5:09:49 pm PDT #28157 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Have to stop and do a bit of math - my parents were 42 and 41 when Ken was born. (I was 22. Contraceptive failure is a Thing.) Even if we'd been on the same side of the continent, nobody was in a position to stop working and look after him - hell, my grandparents were in their early 60s and hadn't retired yet. This attitude, it is not a good look.