Family Friday: Full Zip Rash Guard
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My son received this as a gift and just wore it for the first time last weekend. I am here to sing its praises. I don’t think there has been a time when my child has not screamed when I have tried to put a shirt over his head. It’s worse with rash guards because the neck holes are so damn small. This one has a zipper down the front so I can avoid the screaming and wrangling at the pool and beach. I also like that it is long sleeved. I’m probably going to buy at least two more of these before the summer ends, and possibly even stock up for next summer because clothing companies are fickle and it may not be around next year. For now, though, it’s $11.99 at Target. Cat & Jack Full Zip Rash Guard
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Genius! We have a half-zip one from the Gap but this looks even better.
One of those days: My son is in 1st and daughter in Pre-K. Today is the last day of school in our school district — except for Pre-K, apparently. I work 40 minutes from home, and as I was pulling into the parking lot, I received a call from school. Apparently, there is no Pre-K today. Their last day was Wednesday (M,W,F schedule), and a note was sent home about this. Clearly, I did not get the note. It wasn’t in the weekly newsletter or anywhere else.
Luckily my mom can scramble and go grab our daughter. This feels like an appropriate cap to this school year. Ugh. Next school year will be better?
Getting it all done question. It always gets mentioned in the comments that outsourcing is essential for survival – grocery delivery, cleaning person, etc. But I do all this and still struggle/find my hands full. Do I need to adjust my expectations for life with small children? Get more/better help? Set up better systems?
Right now, we have a cleaning person come every other week, get meal delivery virtually every week, and do random grocery shopping sometimes in person, sometimes by delivery and usually a combo. I also have almost everything that can be automated delivered via subscribe & save. The only official chores we have are laundry and dishes/day to day tiding. I think my biggest issue is that I feel like I spend way too much time constantly “tidying” – putting stuff back, going through piles, getting annoyed because the cleaning person wont really deal with my clutter, having a constant “to do” list to clean/organize closets that become disorganized almost instantly when I do manage to do it. Do I just need to throw a lot of our stuff away? Get a better cleaning person (we use a service but it’s the same individual every time)? Yell at my family to be better about picking up after themselves? (we have so many places for shoes and yet they are all always just laying out by the front door).
I really want to just have fun and play with my kids on the weekends but always feel like I have a list of projects I need to get done first. Share your tips, please!
City specific question: how do you soundproof your kids’ rooms? We moved to a new apartment a couple months ago and the sirens are so loud in our baby’s room that it does occasionally wake her up. I’m considering paying for sound-proof window installation even though we are in a rental because it is really stressing me out. It is expensive though – about 2.5k. We already do a combo of a fan and dohm sound machine but they aren’t able to mask the sirens. Are there services that will come and tell you how to sound-proof? any recommendations?
We have the Infant Optics DXR-8 Video Baby Monitor. While I’m generally happy with it, the lowest volume setting is still incredibly loud when baby stirs and cries a bit in her sleep. At our old house had just enough soundproofing between the bedrooms that we could turn off the volume and hear her when it was urgent but sleep through the mild fussing. Now our rooms are farther apart and I think I sleep through most of it, good and bad.
Of course she’s fine in the morning, but I just don’t feel right about her either (a) waking us up every hour all night long or (b) not being able to cry out for us if she really needs it. (Who really uses these baby monitors at their top volume setting, anyway?)
Has anyone else worked through a similar problem?
question: my husband is a science prof and is going to a party that a colleague in his department is throwing for herself after getting tenure. (families/kids are invited but i’ll be out of town with the kids.) this woman is late 30s, not married/no kids. we are friendly with her and have her over for dinner/parties a few times a year. she is super nice and every time she comes, she brings nice gifts for the kids, thoughtfully selected from a local independent toy store.
so i would like to get her a tenure present but not sure what to get. everything i would consider for my own friends (i.e. jewelry) would be weird since she is my husband’s colleague. i’m not sure about her hobbies. any ideas?
It has been a rough couple weeks, and next week won’t be any easier. I’m thinking tonight on my way to daycare pick-up, I’m going to buy myself some sparkling wine and a giant chocolate cupcake and shut myself in the bedroom with my treats and a dvr’ed Hallmark movie after kiddo’s bedtime.
Try a piece of scotch tape over the speaker.
I love our infant optix monitor but do wish the lowest volume setting were quieter and same for monitor brightness (wish lowest setting was more dim).