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Submitted by SMto3 on Thu, 06/04/2015 - 4:51pm

Okay everyone. I went back to work in April and I'm still adjusting. While it's great that I only work 3 days a week, I also work 12.5 hour shifts so I'm gone for like 14 hours and I'm just tired when I get home. On my days off, I'm running around, doing laundry, food shopping, trying to "look good" with my hair and nails done which I still need help with as that always takes the backseat to everything else.

Down to the toilet paper

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Submitted by SMto3 on Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:42pm

I got some advice in a prior blog regarding food. I basically keep certain foods in my room due to the boys eating things up just to finish it. Now we've moved on to baby wipes. I like having baby wipes in the bathroom but I've noticed that the skids haven't been using the toilet paper. I feel a little petty for it but I just told SO not to take baby wipes from DD to put in the bathroom because skids are not using the toilet paper. He was fine with it but I still can't believe the degree of separation of things I have to go through.

Then there were more

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Submitted by SMto3 on Mon, 04/06/2015 - 8:09pm

BM2 sends SO an email today telling him SS5 is going to be done with school in the beginning of June and asking what his plans are. I'm curious to see what his plans are also because I already informed him last week that if he chose to get his son, he should make plans for where he should stay. I already stay with SS15 and SS10 M-Wednesday due to his schedule. Plus DD will only be going on 5 months at that point and to be honest, she's only 2 months now and I'm wondering when it begins to get easier. I'm supposed to go back to work this month and am overwhelmed in even thinking about it.

They break everything

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Submitted by SMto3 on Fri, 03/06/2015 - 11:43am

Not only are skids messy as hell, they break every damn thing. I must have written about this before. Skids room is messy but also SS10's bed is broken from them jumping on it, the t.v. in their room has a hole in it from when they snuck their father's bb gun in the room and shot it, their ceiling fan and light have trouble working from them shooting up the room. Nothing is safe around them. Before DD got out of the hospital we purchased a humidifier for her.

Skids want fun time while Dd is in the hospital

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Submitted by SMto3 on Sat, 02/07/2015 - 9:19am

Last week I noticed DD was breathing funny and took her to the ER. Turns out she has GBS and needs to be in the hospital for at least 10 days for antibiotics. It's been stressful and initially SO wasn't going to take paternity leave because it's unpaid but to help me out he took 4 days of paternity. I didn't want to feel like DD is "hogging" his time so I told him that after skids come home from school he could spend time with them and come back to the hospital to help me overnight. He said he agreed but then also said he wanted to see if he could take the boys out on the weekend.

Do you let skids change diapers?

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Submitted by SMto3 on Wed, 01/21/2015 - 5:17pm

I gave birth to DD last week and like most people, I am enjoying this time of my life and am amazed as to the love that I feel for my little girl. No matter what happens in life, she is something I will never regret. That said, when we got home, I allowed the boys to hold her under my supervision on the first day. The second day home, SS9 without permission picks up DD. I spoke to SO and told him that I allowed the boys to hold her day 1 home so that they don't feel alienated, but I am not okay with them just grabbing her whenever they want to.

SS9 pretending to be sick again

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Submitted by SMto3 on Tue, 12/16/2014 - 3:23pm

But I'm planning on doing what was suggested the last time I wrote about this which had worked at that time also. SO and I went food shopping this morning and when we got back at about one, SO laid down to take a nap before he starts his shift. Of course he gets a phone call from the school regarding SS9 saying he's sick. I told SO to ask the nurse if SS9 was vomiting, had diarrhea, a cough, a fever, active bleeding, or pain. SS9 says he vomited once in the bathroom. I told SO to leave him in school because it seemed like there was nothing seriously wrong with him.

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