Make My Life Easier Thursday: Bed Riser Power with Power and USB
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Back in college, I used bed risers to make the most of my tiny dorm room. Although it looks like basic design hasn’t changed much, these bed risers have a very important upgrade.
In addition to creating needed storage space, these sturdy risers have built in power and USB outlets! Now, you no longer have to worry about a bed blocking a much needed outlet. It’s especially great for smaller bedrooms where outlets and storage are at a premium. Perfect for plugging in my iPad while I wait for my toddler to fall asleep.
These bed risers are $37.99 at The Container Store.
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We had our EI eval. DS #2 (almost 20 months) was slightly behind in speech and motor but not enough to warrant intervention (he’s already in private PT). He’s fine on social.
Where he was slightly below threshold and qualified for services (by 1%) was cognitive abilities – e.g. paying attention, following directions. They’ll send a child development specialist to our house 2x/month. I opted to go for it – I figured we can do at least a few sessions and the re-evaluate. I feel weirdly…relieved that it was so borderline, and of course the 80’s-90’s kid in me is thinking “is this really necessary?”/was he just rated low because it was “new” people?
Would love to hear if anyone did this type of intervention with kids and how it went.
Just a rant. My son has a growth hormone deficiency and needs an MRI, under sedation because he is young. Based on how his stim test went, not sedating is not an option, though we considered it for health reasons. Last week the hospital quoted us $2500 for an MRI with contrast. They called me this morning to say oops we forgot he needs sedation (the orders literally say MRI w/contrast under sedation so not sure how they missed that) and it’s actually going to cost $3700. We can afford it, but I hate that the medical system is so messed up that everything is either free because you can’t afford it, or thousands of dollars because you can.
Two questions for my 3.5 year old:
First, she is up for her second dose of the Moderna vaccine in a week. After the first dose, she did have an elevated tempt that kept her out of daycare. Any one else experience the same and willing to weigh in on whether we can expect a similar elevated temp?
Second, she is still napping at home and daycare for 1-2 hours. Which is great except she is also not falling asleep at night until 9:30-10. The answer is to drop the nap, right? We put her to bed with a whole routine at 8:30, but she doesn’t actually fall asleep until those times and there is a lot of coming out of her room needing things in the hour or so inbetween. Everyone in her daycare classroom naps, so cutting it at daycare isn’t a likely possibility.
Anybody have genius bug bite remedies for me to try? My 2yrold swells up like crazy when she gets a mosquito bite. It starts with a small hive then swells for about 36 hours until getting better. Right now it’s her hand, last week it was her face. We’re trying to be diligent about bug spray when going outside but I’m not sure what else to do. Have tried an oral antihistamine to help with swelling but no real improvement.
California commenters…I’m finally getting my act together with a trust, will, power of attorney, healthcare directive, guardianship, etc. I’ve been quoted $4k for the whole package from a recommended lawyer for my husband and me. It seems right but thought I’d check here before committing (in LA, two kids, soon to be home buyers which spurred this).
Best reusable makeup remover pads? I’m trying to make the switch from cotton balls w/ my toner and micellar water.
I just need to scream into the void for a minute. I now need to work for the first three days (including Sunday!) of our family beach vacation, somehow didn’t notice that the rental didn’t come with ANY linens (incuding even blankets for the beds). Every linen place is sold out and I’m working 11 hour days today/tomorrow and possibly taking calls in the car on the way down. Oh and my kid woke up with a particularly gross gastro bug so I’ve been darting into his bedroom in between calls to supply liquids/make sure he’s ok in between bathroom trips.
Fwiw I am NOT a lawyer/closing a deal (so I’m not being paid handsomly for this) it is just spectacularly bad timing on a high priority project and team members who would normally help are out on childcare leave. My boss is super apologetic and I’ll get the leave back but can’t reschedule the vacation (and other family will be there). I’m just sad and upset plus stressed about having to now spend time carting all this stupid linen down/and then deal with a full house worth of laundry when we get back. Yay vacation….
I didn’t get a chance to reply yesterday. I’m so excited for you – I would love to go on a sabbatical one day!
You mentioned you might have to work during that time. Just a warning that if you’re planning to work and will need to join calls or meetings from Australia, depending on where the rest of the team is located, the time zone difference is pretty brutal. I have experience working from home in Southeast Asia while my team is in North America & the UK, and the late night/early morning calls really wrecked my enjoyment of the trip. If you really need to work during that time, consider time zones! I would still pick Australia if I were you but maybe plan on taking some of the trip as PTO so you can actually have some fun!
I’m the poster from last week who had a 4 month old who was crying a lot at daycare and daycare didn’t seem to be handling it well. As some posters guessed, there ended up being a big communication issue – the teachers were downplaying the problem to us, and I don’t think the director realized that, so she was frustrated. The problem ended up being naps. The teachers started letting him nap in a swing so that he actually napped, and now he is much, much happier. I am still a little annoyed at the poor communication at first, but I’m glad my baby is no longer so upset. But this leads to two additional questions:
1. I don’t love swing napping. Technically it’s not a safe sleep space. But it seems like right now it’s either swing naps or quit my job. (I think even if we stretched our budget and switched to a nanny, she would end up needing to do swing naps?) Would you be ok with the swing naps in this situation?
2. Anyone have advice or resources on getting a 4 mo to nap in a crib? He sleeps really well at night – either through the night or one wake up to eat. Sometimes we can get him down awake, and sometimes I still nurse or rock to sleep – we’re working on that. But he doesn’t go down well for naps – right now most of his home naps are either in the carrier so I can actually leave the house (also have a 3 yo) or he falls asleep nursing and I let him sleep on me. (If I put him down asleep for naps, he wakes up soon after.) I don’t think CIO is the answer here, since daycare showed that he clearly will cry for a long time without eventually falling asleep on his own.
I think I need a lamp with usb chargers for the guest room – 1980s house doesn’t have enough power plugs, and I don’t care enough to call the electrician for this.
We have pop up usb and power chargers built into our kitchen counters and they are very useful for the hand mixer etc, although I’m slightly wary of how they are wired, after seeing the job the previous owners did on the bathroom vanity and the superglued down laminate in the kitchen.