Family Friday: Disney Codenames Board Game
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My spouse and I love playing the original Codenames after the kids go to sleep. Now, with this new-to-me Disney version, we can include the kids!
Like the original Codenames, you give one-word clues to help your teammates identify other words, in this case Disney characters, locations, and items. Up to eight players can play a traditional 5 x 5 grid or a modified 4 x 4 grid (which is a bit easier).
Just add some drinks and snacks for a fun evening in.
Disney Codenames is $19.59 at Target and also available at Amazon.
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Anyone happen to know of any picture books about Spain or Spanish culture? This is for a trip, so I’m specifically looking for books about Spain and not other Spanish-speaking regions.
I’m back for a weekly installment of: You’ve got to be kidding me. My kids are with me this weekend, and the parenting plan between my ex and I provides that a parent may have access to the kids on Mother’s/Father’s Day if the kids are not with that parent. After not hearing from my ex, I reached out to him last week about Father’s Day. I asked if he wanted to see the kids on Sunday. He responded that he did and that he could he either see the kids for breakfast and drop them back at 7am (so… pick-up would be at 6:30?!) or take them out for ice cream at 7:30pm (youngest has just started a bedtime routine that is really important to her that begins at 7:15). I responded that if he wanted to see them, it needed to be either a bit later in the morning or earlier in the evening. He responded that he wasn’t sure how that would work with his work schedule. (He gave up a 9-5, 6 figure job to work at a grocery store that is 1.5hrs away from where the kids live.) The end result is that he is not seeing the kids on Father’s Day and hasn’t even asked to call them. I’m doing the best I can to be factual with the kids when they ask about Father’s Day.
Those of you with little ones in the Moderna trial – if they got a fever after, about how soon after the shot did the fever start? My kiddo tends to have a reaction to vaccines, so I’m going to assume she’ll need to miss some daycare. Just trying to think through my schedule for next week so I can jump on an appointment as soon as they’re available.
At what age is it reasonable to expect children to behave somewhat politely at dinner? We try to eat as a family, but OMG. Recently it’s been a complete circus. Last night I cleaned food off the windows, in addition to the floor/ table. DD currently insists on sitting on my lap for at least half the meal, which means my clothes get wrecked. After that, she and DS typically run in circles around the table while scattering food everywhere. I’m at a loss. Kids are 3.5 and 1.5. SEND HELP.
Any tips for balancing the load when one spouse has a really inflexible job? I’m an in house attorney and my spouse is doctor who is in surgery 3 days a week. I work primarily remotely and have more flexibility. I work primarily remotely and have a good amount of flexibility (although I am fairly senior and so do have a lot of virtual meetings). My spouse’s schedule is 1 day of office visits (leaves by 7am; home by 6pm), 3 days of surgery (leaves by 7am; home around 8:30pm) and 1 day where he works remotely. For context because I think it may get asked, our incomes are not very disparage (I’m 40% to his 60%; he’s an employee not an owner in a practice).
I know this is the ultimate first world problem, but our cleaning service had a family emergency and couldn’t come for 6 weeks and they finally came back today and omgggg it’s so glorious.
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Father’s Day plans? We are going to a Red Sox game, so it won’t exactly be a relaxing day for my husband, but we’ll have the end of that week to hopefully relax on our trip. I will probably let him sleep in (till like 7, which is sleeping in around here), and order bagels for breakfast.
I have to return to in-person work in August, and so we need to figure out how to adjust our schedules. Right now I’m doing both drop off and pick up from daycare because it is near our house and I WFH. I typed out a whole thing about different schedules we could do, but in doing that I realized I know what would make the most sense (me going to the office super early so that I can leave early enough to get to pick up before 6 pm; DH taking the kid to school on his way to work and then working as late as he has to, usually 6:30 or so). My issue now is that my husband already feels like he never gets enough sleep, and this plan would require him to get up earlier and be responsible for getting our kid ready for daycare in the morning, which currently I’m in charge of. I guess the easiest alternative would be to hire someone to do pick up and evening hang-outs so that we don’t need to make it home by 6, but that seems excessive when we’re already paying $$$ for daycare. Any thoughts?
Hi everyone!! It’s been a good long while, but I’m back. :) Tax season was bananas and then I had a month off between jobs.
Can we do good/happy news on this Friday morning?
I have two– 1. I had to get a lump checked in my b00b this morning (first ever mammogram & ultrasound), and it was just a non-suspicious looking cyst (PHEW) and 2. I just found out I got accepted into an MBA program!
What is going on in y’all’s lives that is good?
Are there any items you recommend getting for when your child is one? My son is turning one soon and the grandparents and friends have been asking what I need for him and I am drawing a complete blank. So far all I have come up with is that he will need a lunch pail for daycare.
Has anyone’s homeowner’s insurance gone up pretty significnatly recently with all the inflation? We’re getting quotes right now for a new home we’re purchasing. Our old home is about 85% of the value of the new place, but insurance estimates are coming in almost double. It’s taking us by surprise.