Re: Rob's HH #12: Sisterhood of the Pattinson
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:13 am
Happy Cake Day!! I need it today! MM is being a poop! At lunch he asked for a sandwich, so I make one and then Bug came in and asked if she could play on the ipad and I said no, it was lunch time. We eat, THEN we can play. So then MM says he's going to eat fast so he can play first, which upset Bug because she asked first. So MM goes and throws his sandwich in the garbage and comes back and tells me he ate it...but I had JUST given it to him 30 seconds before, and he had no nutella around his mouth, so I could tell he was lying to me. The rule in our house is that if you don't eat what you asked for, you get nothing until the next meal. So because he lied to me, he lost his turn on the ipad, and because he didn't eat his sandwich, he went hungry. He spent the next 20 minutes crying hysterically because he was hungry and bored. So we had a discussion about making choices, and when you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences, and about how we're going to try to make better choices tomorrow, and then we read some books together instead of playing on the ipad. It was SOOO hard to make him go back to school hungry, but I know logically that he needs to learn to make the right decision the first time...and giving in and giving him something else would be just to make ME feel better, not to actually teach him anything...but man it was hard.
Susie, yeah, there's the problem. I won't have transportation at all. I don't have a valid drivers license anymore...it expired because I couldn't get there to renew it. So I am relying on other people to come pick me up, drop me off, etc...so I wouldn't be able to come pick you up or anything, and the problem with Wyoming is that there are no major airports in the whole state. We have to use Denver, CO or Rapid City, SD OR pay up the wazoo for flights to the small more local airports. And the closest major airports I mentioned are still 3-6 hours away from where I will be. The only time I will actually be at or near those airports are when I fly in and out...but I don't fly in until evening on the 2nd, and we'll most likely be traveling during the day on the 25th to get TO the airport to fly out...the only other possibility I can think of is that hubs and I go to Denver on the 24th instead and stay in a hotel that night so we don't have to make the 4+ hour drive the next day...the problem with that is that my brother's birthday is on the 25th. I don't know if he has plans, but I am betting if he does, they don't include driving to Denver to drop us off at the airport and he may want to do breakfast with us that day instead. Hopefully, if this doesn't work out, I'll still get to meet you in October?
Suzan, that cracked me up....that you took so long to choose a pic that you ran out of time!
Sarah, with me, I'm not going to get more regular hours...I have limited availability because I don't want to put my kids in daycare. So I only work when the kids are at school, and they have every Wednesday and Friday afternoon off, so I can only work Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays during school hours. Plus, they really only ever need help on Mondays from on call people. Mondays are busy because orders have come in on the weekend and piled up. But once you get through those, the rest of the days aren't as busy and they can make do with the people they have on regular contracts. Unless I want to go on contract, I won't get the hours, and I don't want to do that right now.
I know what you mean about the fight in Eclipse! I have the same thing...AND in Breaking Dawn. Even though I know exactly what's going to happen, I still get caught up in it!
Jaclyn, we've been getting that same thing, though yesterday and today weren't as hot. I sleep with the fan on since we don't have air conditioning.
Lynne, that's so great that you sold some more copies! Shasta told me she was at the partwhere they are in the ship and Sarah has just confronted Keridan, and she is sooooo anxious to find out if he loves her, and she thinks he does. So she's almost done with it and it sounds like she'll want the next book, too! I'm so glad because I know how subjective taste is and just because -I- loved it, doesn't mean all my friends will. So I am always nervous when I tell someone how much I love a book and recommend it, because then I feel guilty if they don't feel the same way....I have the same when I am reading something someone else tells me is one of their favorites...I know they love it, and what do I say if I hate it? So I was REALLY glad to hear that she is loving it. But I am plugging it as far and wide as I can! I'll bring the flyers you sent when I go to the states this summer and plant them strategically. I don't think it would do much good to put them out here since people mostly don't read in English and the English sections in book stores, if they have them, are very small and limited because they don't sell well.
Susie, yeah, there's the problem. I won't have transportation at all. I don't have a valid drivers license anymore...it expired because I couldn't get there to renew it. So I am relying on other people to come pick me up, drop me off, etc...so I wouldn't be able to come pick you up or anything, and the problem with Wyoming is that there are no major airports in the whole state. We have to use Denver, CO or Rapid City, SD OR pay up the wazoo for flights to the small more local airports. And the closest major airports I mentioned are still 3-6 hours away from where I will be. The only time I will actually be at or near those airports are when I fly in and out...but I don't fly in until evening on the 2nd, and we'll most likely be traveling during the day on the 25th to get TO the airport to fly out...the only other possibility I can think of is that hubs and I go to Denver on the 24th instead and stay in a hotel that night so we don't have to make the 4+ hour drive the next day...the problem with that is that my brother's birthday is on the 25th. I don't know if he has plans, but I am betting if he does, they don't include driving to Denver to drop us off at the airport and he may want to do breakfast with us that day instead. Hopefully, if this doesn't work out, I'll still get to meet you in October?
Suzan, that cracked me up....that you took so long to choose a pic that you ran out of time!
Sarah, with me, I'm not going to get more regular hours...I have limited availability because I don't want to put my kids in daycare. So I only work when the kids are at school, and they have every Wednesday and Friday afternoon off, so I can only work Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays during school hours. Plus, they really only ever need help on Mondays from on call people. Mondays are busy because orders have come in on the weekend and piled up. But once you get through those, the rest of the days aren't as busy and they can make do with the people they have on regular contracts. Unless I want to go on contract, I won't get the hours, and I don't want to do that right now.
I know what you mean about the fight in Eclipse! I have the same thing...AND in Breaking Dawn. Even though I know exactly what's going to happen, I still get caught up in it!
Jaclyn, we've been getting that same thing, though yesterday and today weren't as hot. I sleep with the fan on since we don't have air conditioning.
Lynne, that's so great that you sold some more copies! Shasta told me she was at the partwhere they are in the ship and Sarah has just confronted Keridan, and she is sooooo anxious to find out if he loves her, and she thinks he does. So she's almost done with it and it sounds like she'll want the next book, too! I'm so glad because I know how subjective taste is and just because -I- loved it, doesn't mean all my friends will. So I am always nervous when I tell someone how much I love a book and recommend it, because then I feel guilty if they don't feel the same way....I have the same when I am reading something someone else tells me is one of their favorites...I know they love it, and what do I say if I hate it? So I was REALLY glad to hear that she is loving it. But I am plugging it as far and wide as I can! I'll bring the flyers you sent when I go to the states this summer and plant them strategically. I don't think it would do much good to put them out here since people mostly don't read in English and the English sections in book stores, if they have them, are very small and limited because they don't sell well.