February 7, 2023 - Tuesday


Clem and Jonas both got picked up early from school today for stomach aches. It's super weird. Neither threw up or seemed actually sick in any way, but both complained that their stomachs hurt so...I guess it made sense to keep them home? But it mostly just felt annoying. 

I'm actually super annoyed right this second, which is definitely coloring the way I'm writing. I can't even think about my day, I'm so annoyed. Anyway, we're trying to figure out where to have our mom's group play date tomorrow and Anne suggested a place super far away. Caitlin texted and said she didn't want to go there and asked what she should say, so I told her to just say it was too far and to make a different suggestion! She did say it was too far but did not make another suggestion. So I texted Caitlin again and said, "Do you have any suggestions?" And she said, "Not really. Metroparks are usually good!" I didn't want to suggest Highbanks, because it's really like 2 minutes from the park that Anne suggested, so I just said, "What about Park of Roses?" Caitlin replied several minutes later with, "Sure!" and didn't like the post on GroupMe, so obvs that is not where she wanted to go. WHY DOESN'T SHE JUST SAY WHAT SHE WANTS??? I'm not a mind reader! And now I feel like I should say something like, if Park of Roses doesn't sound good, I'm happy to go somewhere else. Ugh. Which is what I just said, so we're back to having no decision for tomorrow. 🥳

Hmm...my day. Oh, Ollie went to school and after picking up Clem from school, I cleaned a little and drank my tea. Then I took Ollie to a play date with Shannon, Alisha, and Lisa. I'm very jealous, because Alisha is doing TWO trips that I wish I could take in the next couple of months. First, she's going to Kansas next week. I want to go see Heidi! 😭 THEN, she's going to France in April! FRANCE! So jealous. I'm too terrified to even get on a plane and leave my kids here, but I still want to go places! Ben and I want to take a trip for my 40th birthday (which probably won't happen b/c MJ just told me she's going to get surgery in April and will need to heal for 8 weeks) but I think it'll just be somewhere we drive to. Boo. IF we even get to go. 

That's enough ranting for one night! 





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