I’ll start with lowlights. Last night was not pretty, parenting-wise. The kids were fighting, R was whining, and not wanting to eat, and not wanting to do anything except whine.
I explode. I yell at both of them, send them up to their rooms, they are both crying. I then cry my eyes out because I feel like an ultimate shit.
The kids were incredibly compassionate. As I type this, my eyes are clouding at how forgiving they both were. L sat by me, stroked my back, saying “rough day, mom, rough day.” R was sitting next to me and saying “deep breath mom; smell the flower, blow out the candle.” He then slid onto my lap. The saddest thing of all, is that we have Nest cameras in kids rooms (from their baby days) and all of that was recorded and saved in Nest memory. Yep.
Another lowlight is that Cigna, our medical insurance company, keeps processing the claims as out-of-network while our kids’ doctor is IN network. Ugh, frustrating. So I constantly have to call them and ask for claim reprocessing. I miss Horizon BCBS of NJ.
Highlights…
Snow day on Tuesday! It was wonderful to have that day with the kids.
A few social events at work! Adding those to my word of the year – connection. One day we had a Lunch and Learn initiative to talk about healthy lunches and maintaining our energy levels. I think out district employs a health consultant/dietitian. Then on Thursday, the whole school went out for a glass of wine or beer to a local bar. Even the principal and the vice principal.
T received his annual bonus at work – congratulations, honey, much deserved!!
The kids celebrated their 100th day of school and Valentine’s Day at their respective schools. I bought a bouquet of a dozen red roses, untied the twine, and the kids distributed individual red roses to R’s preschool and L’s aftercare staff. It was lovely.
Things to Look Forward to:
- Gymnastics class
- A magician event for kids at the reservation
- Monday off for President’s Day
- Parent-teacher association meeting
- A world language teacher conference in NYC of Thursday and Friday of next week! Woot woot. This is my 4th time attending. I have an Airbnb and I’ll be there for two nights, the conference is Thursday – Saturday.
- Saturday – T’s birthday celebration!
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