So, we're looking down the barrel of ANOTHER four-day weekend here! Yippee! Also: son of a bitch! Am I the only one whose kid seems bored as hell spending more than 2 days alone with her parents? AD's daycare is open on Monday, so there's always that if we get really desperate. Speaking of desperate, daycare was also open LAST Monday (Christmas Eve), and we dropped AD off for about 2 hours so we could get some errands and what-not done. I was feeling kind of shitty about it, until I went inside and saw that TONS of parents were there, and NOT ONE of them was dressed in "work clothes". HAHA! Kid-pawning slackers! These are my kind of people!
AD is rolling up on 18 months old, and so chronically sucks/is awesome. She wants to be held ALL. THE. TIME. She follows me around with her arms in the air screeching, "MOMMMEE! MOMMEEE!". Once you do pick her up, you are not allowed to sit down. "No shit down mama!" Unless she sits down. Then it's "Shit down mama! SHIT DOWN!". She doesn't like to play by herself, and she still won't watch TV.
But, she also jams out to Unk's "Walk It Out", complete with head bob and "oh! oh! oh!" sound. She plays hide and seek. When we leave the house, shes says "Ba-bye Aga (Jager)! Ba-bye Asa (Sasha)! BA-BYE BUH-EE (buddies)!" She knows the sign for "more" (HOW?). So, there's that. Just when you think she is going to be out on her ass after this most recent 90-day probationary period, she does something that makes us re-enlist.
I hope you all have a Happy New Year and all of your pets' and kids' and spouses' daycares are OPEN.
P.S-If you are a little bit down to begin with, do you want to know what DOES NOT help, even a little? Watching MTV's True Life: I Live In The Projects. The single mom with two little boys who had to pawn her car title for $250! The young twenty-something girl who went to look at apartments and when she saw a shower stall with tile and a glass door said, "It's like CRIBS!". AHHH! Cue the sadness, and also the middle-class guilt and bleeding-heart liberal gnashing of teeth. DAMN!
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Dude, where is it written that daycare must only be used when you are at work? Hello, you are PAYING and it is THERE. And also, it sounds like your kid actually enjoys her daycare and doesn't mind being away from her parents. So there you go, you have an independent, well-adjusted kid. Of whom I would like to see more photos. BRING ON THE PHOTOS.
Hey! We were total shit heads too! Dropped the kids off on Christmas Eve, and will do the same on New Years so that we can um...go see a movie. But don't tell anyone.
Plus it really hurts to pay for it and not send them...soooo....
I used to feel guilty for dropping the boy off when I wasn't working but figure what the hell...a day here and there won't kill him.
About the MTV Program: That shit makes me feel so bad, too! Have you ever seen Intervention? DEPRESSING with (hopefully) a good ending, but not always.
MDH-Yes! Intervention! Most of the time I end up watching it while having a cocktail, and then I get all panicky that I am on the road to addiction! THEN I feel bad for the parents and get all panicky that my kids will go off the rails! ACK!
Waaaahhhhh I miss AD!!!!!And also, you don't have to work on Monday?!?
i'm with jess. you're paying for it! it's like the gym. just because it's vacation doesn't mean you CAN'T go to the gym. or.. you know.. drop your kid off there. whatever.
also i'd like more pictures too. ready... GO.
Counting in on pictures of AD, please!
18 months is a great age. Also, yeah, you're paying for the daycare and you have shit to do so *shrug* no guilt nec.
And sometimes I feel bad for Sophie because she does seem to get bored playing with just me. But when we get cabin fever, I take her out. She loves the grocery store bc she gets a cookie, and she loves to go to the video store or any store for that matter.
Use. The. Daycare. I wish I had somewhere to leave mine for a few hours every once in a while, particularly next Friday, when I will be at the allergist for two fricking hours with my two youngest, because they want to do a full workup on me because I have developed a food allergy. To what, I don't know. All I know is that it is contained in Wegman's grilled marinated vegetables. The other thing I know is that two hours at the allergist with a baby and my 5-year-old will be hell on earth.
There is a daycare less than a mile up the street; I wonder if they would keep two kids for one morning. I think I will look into it.
OH MY GOD, I cannot even EXPRESS how seriously I would drop the child off at daycare and skid the hell out of there. If I felt like the workers might think critically of me, I would CHANGE INTO WORK CLOTHES, take the child in, and CHANGE BACK INTO THEM AGAIN to pick her up. Serious. A day without children? HUGE BLISS VALUE. She'd probably love it too.
Miss her? Go pick her up early, saying the boss let everyone go home early.
I mean, TAKE HER TO DAYCARE! GEEZ! Also, if you're PAYING for it! I mean seriously! Not only do you "get to" stay home with her, you "get to" pay for the daycare you're not using???? YARGGGGG! Bring her to daycare, then go home and stretttttttch out. Have an actual day of VACATION for once. There is not one thing wrong with that action.
I am going to be a little bit mad if you don't take her to daycare.
No, that's too strong. But I really thing you should, and with clear conscience and a song in your heart.
Swistle-HEE! Well, OKAY. Now that I think of it, what I really should have done is tell BR that I WAS working on Monday and then I wouldn't have to play with EITHER of them.
I'm dying here at Swistle's comments.
I think you should take AD there and enjoy a true vacation day. DO IT.
we're taking O to daycare but that is because we HAVE TO WORK. I would probably take him anyways though if we had other errands to run and such. My job is lax and crazy about everything else but we get NO days off. If I decided not to show up on a random tuesday noone would care but the day before a holiday would get me a stern reprimand. I just realized that that really would be the worst of it - i'm not coming in on Monday
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Like, um, take her to daycare. It's much more entertaining than mommy to be sure. I wish I had the same option.
...not that you're not an entertaining mommy. Just, you know, hoards of toddlers are interesting too.
oh hell YES on the daycare. like everyone else says, you PAY for it one way or the other and, if she's like any kids i know, she would much rather chill with her peeps than her parents (sorry, dude. it happens even as young as 18 months). ;)
I'm all for daycare, to catch a break. Too bad they don't take 17 year olds. Hey, Texas just got a whole lot better. Leonard's cousin and his wife got down there to Houston yesterday morning. Can I just say...Wow, you get a whole lot of house for the money in Houston.
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