Washable Workwear Wednesday: Asymmetric Overlap Skirt

For the poster looking for a play kitchen, there are several Kidcraft ones on zulily today for a good price (~$100)

I asked yesterday about organization tips. I did a walk through of two rooms in my house this morning to identify “crap that doesn’t have a home” so I could come back asking for specific advice. Here are things/ categories of things that need homes. Please tell me where/how you store these things in your home!

In the entry hall:
– Stuff that was ordered online, needs to be sent back, but is not ready to be sent back yet (example: half of my Gap order came in, so I am waiting until the rest comes in until I send things back).
– 3 small/medium sized items that belong to my mother, who left them at my house and is out of town for a couple weeks
– A large package containing an unwrapped birthday gift (a beanbag chair) for one of my kids that was sent several weeks in advance from grandparents
– two purses that belong to my daughters, who have no need to carry purses about but occasionally do so anyway (contents = lipgloss, tissues, 3 $1 coins from the tooth fairy)

In the kitchen:
– 4 pieces of painted on paper that my kid did earlier this week and has a “vision” for (they are currently drying in my kitchen bay window)
– Small stack of bills that need to be paid

In the living room (which currently functions as our TV room)
– heating pad that I use every night while watching TV (I’ve been shoving it into a basket but it still looks cluttery)
– blankets (is there a better place than folded neatly over the couch?)
– spackle and putty knife, mask and tape that are being used on a daily basis to slowly repair a hole in the ceiling in this room (I guess it needs to be done in coats and dry 12-24 hours in between)

thanks for your ideas!

I accidentally posted this on the main page but think it’s probably better here.
I’m a FTM and gave birth 7 weeks ago. I’ve always been kind of sensitive about certain textures. For example, as a kid I couldn’t ride in my dad’s car because the seats made me nauseous. I quit ballet because I refused to wear tights. But overall I grew into a relatively well-adjusted adult. However since my daughter was born my texture sensitivity has gotten almost unbearable. Wearing socks makes my skin crawl, I can’t stand Lululemon tights even though I lived in them during pregnancy, etc.
I asked my OB about the issue during my 6 week appointment and she just kind of shrugged and said she wasn’t aware of this being a thing. I think I probably I also have mild PPA, but nothing I’d see a mental health provider for otherwise. Has anyone experienced anything similar and, if so, did it eventually go away? Did you do anything to treat it? Trying to figure out next steps.

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I need help with a very difficult situation with my toddler. He will turn 3 in mid-August. We started him in a new preschool about 6 weeks ago, after transitioning from a less structured program at a church. The new preschool takes itself very seriously as a school vs. just a daycare- follows a strict curriculum, follows a school year schedule, etc. He has been enrolled in “summer school” up to this point with the 2’s and would be promoted to the 3’s the last week of July.

He had a bit of a rocky start at the school that we (and as far as we knew, the teachers) wrote off as transition pains. Saying “no” and resisting transitions- what I thought was typical toddler defiance. This information was always conveyed in passing, in small comments like “DS didn’t have his listening ears on today”. My husband had to sign an incident report about 3 weeks ago after DS resisted a time out. He signed the paper and talked to the teacher, and that was that. Every time we have seen her since, she has indicated that our DS was doing well- literally her feedback has been that he’s her “little buddy,” that he does well with art time and really seems to enjoy arts and crafts, and that he has been having good days. He occasionally has a potty accident, but the teacher has indicated that this has been improving. There has been no indication whatsoever that there was any kind of unusual or serious issue.

Yesterday I received a call from the program director saying that DS’s “behavioral issues” indicate that he is “immature” and won’t be ready to move up to the 3’s class. She also said he has been struggling with some of the activities, such as tracing and “early handwriting”, and that he’s not completely potty trained (although she said she has heard this has gotten better). This is the first we’ve heard of him struggling with his tasks at school. She acknowledged that he is quite young for 3’s anyway, but that there is no room for him in the 2’s class. She said his last day will be on June 23. DH and I are shocked and devastated. We haven’t heard any kind of negative feedback about him in 3 weeks (and he’s only been there for 6 weeks). I asked why the school hadn’t warned us or indicated that there was a serious problem. The director said they would typically hold an intervention meeting before reaching expulsion, but that she had been “out” and given that my son was new to the school, they thought that wasn’t necessary. I asked if there was any way they could reconsider- my son has been very happy at this school, has learned a lot, and up until this point, we were confident it’s been going well. The director said she’d meet with her staff again and let us know.

I’m not sure what to do here. We are not local to this area, have no family support, and both work very demanding full time jobs. These are the options I see, but I’d be open to suggestions:

1) If the school is willing to reconsider, try to make this work and see what we can do to help our son with the issues they’ve described. This is my husband’s preference, but I’m not sure if I can ever trust this preschool again. I don’t want my son in a program where he’s not welcome.
2) Try to get him reenrolled in his previous daycare. It was not as enriching as we’d like, but was dependable and our son was fine there. He didn’t seem as happy at the previous daycare as he was at the preschool.
3) Try to find a new daycare/preschool that will take him. I’m afraid this might be difficult on short notice. We live in a small city with limited quality programs.
4) Look into some kind of other arrangement- nanny, in-home daycare, etc. I’m not sure how to start on this.

What would you do if you were me? I am highly emotional about this and could use some help thinking this through.