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My high school has switched to block scheduling for senior year, so only 4-5 subjects a semester, but each class period was 90 minutes instead of the usual 45. So three missed days was considered equal to six days normal.
In other news, I kinda legit love Super Wings. And Ellie had taken to building planes with her daddy and pretending that they are Jett and Jerome.
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Hahahahahah, yeah, not as many meals as possible all at once
Anyone doing that probably does have a whole lot of food though and is happy to share. There is a lot of some kind of food associated with pretty much everything.
One nice thing you can do if you have some neighbors you really like: on Rosh Hashanah bring them a really weird fruit to try. It's traditional to eat a fruit you've never tried before on that day.
My intent was not "don't be Jewish" as that would be unfathomably terrible to suggest. It was more around the reactions and reflexes people carry when they've lived through bad things for any extended period. I personally have a bunch of things I have to remember not to comment on in front of my kids so as not to instill certain biases.
It's hard to remember you have them if you aren't consciously thinking of them, as again, they're reflex.
Just quitting swearing was hard enough...
Same
Yeah fuck that
I try and swear less around the kids but
I forgot to mention, it should be a whole fruit. So not mango slices, but a whole mango. That's the case for any fruit you gift.
Anya has a pretty good grasp on this; she doesn’t call us out for swearing, but she will remind us if we use an unkind word.
I mean, it's fucking hard but... Shit.
Yes, around the kids I've quit and drastically reduced elsewhere. It just didn't have value vs. alternatives. Plus your creativity goes way up.
I swear like a sailor and my daughter ignores it. My wife swears one and my daughter repeats it for a month solid.
I guess one advantage of not being the favorite parent.
So I told my daughter, I don['t care that she learns them, just that she can't learn them from me.
Of course it also helps that my wife had me trained since we were married to stop swearing so much.
Now if I stub my toe I say, "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFrizzle frazzle!!!"
A few days later we got a text where she was making her own Smores - I think this time with more appropriate marshmallows. But since she had no obvious way to toast the marshmallows she put them on a spoon and held a lighter under it. She even sent a picture of the cooking in progress, it was amazing.
Built the cot bed last weekend but that won't be used for a while as we've got a crib too.
Gonna put together a chest of drawers this weekend and then get my dad over to set up a wardrobe.
Took lots of deliveries today of the final bits and bobs we needed. Just need to pick up a baby monitor.
Also need to install the car seat but after that pretty much everything is done!
Wife's colleague at work has just had a kid and their top tip is the make sure the nappy is fastened tightly as they've already had two occasions where poop has managed to explode from a loose nappy and reach the arm pits of their kid :?
It happened very rarely, but both my kids experienced the poop-up-to-their-armpits, as have nearly all my friends.
Just like most of us will have a poop-in-the-bath and a gross vomit story.
It takes an act of God or a crossroads deal to avoid a blowout like that. They are inevitable no matter how snug the diaper.
- Vomited all down the corner of his bed, soaking the wall and carpet and pretty much making his room stink until the carpet was replaced a month later.
- Trashed a car seat. Had to throw the entire car seat out.
- Vomited on me, the airplane seat and himself as we landed at Heathrow airport. Really nasty chunky stuff. Was an hour late meeting my mom (who was driving us) as that’s how long it took to change and rinse off our clothes in the bathroom.
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We have thrown away more than a few onesies....
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Omg this. Sapling had Roseola a couple of months ago, and all she wanted to do was curl up on my lap and cuddle with me, and it was so nice (but I did feel bad).
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This still pisses me off. It's like the schools I've heard who give awards for perfect attendance. THIS IS HOW INFECTIOUS DISEASES SPREAD DUMBASSES!
Unless the student has missed so much school that it's affecting their grades, there should be no penalty for missed school.
This didn't even occur to me!
Kinda regretting buying a fancy car seat now :P
There are a lot of nooks and crannies that even with a garden hose with a spray nozzle I wasn't able to totally clean out.
Same exact thing here.
And parents are called in for a review after 8 excused absences.
Anya’s already up to 10 absences for illness alone...
Mostly the cover is removable and then you can get in there with a sponge and clean the crevices out. Read the instruction manual first though because a few ones I've seen say you're not supposed to hose them down. I think @Janson ran into this a while back?
I've cleaned puke out of a Britax / Romer Connecta car seat and a Cybex Sirona Platinum. So from the mid-range (~£100) to the high-end (~£400). The process on both was the same - remove cover, throw it in the wash, clean out nooks and crannies with some Persil and a cloth.
I'm aware that I'm overdue.
We used to have a max of 20 per semester in highschool. Somehow I always ended up with 19.
There's definitely a stage where they're out of diapers but unable/unwilling to say that they have to go to the bathroom in the car (especially on longer car trips)... And then you smell something.
Parent: "Did you poop?"
Kid: "Yeeees"
P: "How long ago??"
K: "A while ago"
P: "Why didn't you say you had to go??"
K: "I dunno!"
P: "Okay, next time we're in the car and you feel like you have to go, tell us okay? We'll pull over at a gas station or something"
K: "Uhhhh okay!*"
Same. Mallory has only throw up twice: once while she was in her crib, laying down and once when she had a fever but it was bright purple and all over me an our white carpet
And Jack has only thrown up once, and it's only because he was also choking because he shoves so much food in his godamn mouth you do this every fucking time just take smaller bites kid godammit stop shoving all you can in your mouth and then laughing at me when I ask how much is in your mouth aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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And even after hosing it down and washing the cover... it stank for months afterwards. (We still have it. Need to get it taken away...)
Yeah once Damian was potty trained and we started going out, we put a plastic bag over the bottom of the car seat and then laid a towel over it. We were very grateful for it several times.
Yesterday he woke up with a sore throat and a cough, but did that slow him down.
No, it did not.
Didnt stop him from being woken up during his naps because he had to throw up though.
Momma Bear is having a hard time with it because there is nothing she could do, and he didnt even have a fever.
This morning he woke up again around 5am and threw up ... but now he does have a mild fever.
Still not slowing him down though.
I told momma bear to record this for future Noah, when he tries to say he is too sick to got to school. (yes, i know not all sickness is universal - its a joke)
Anyway that is my current sick kid story and my current concerns and feeling of helplessness since they are both so far away.