Organizing Thursday: Hanging Wrapping Paper Storage
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You know, I finally realized the other day that I haven’t seen my cache of wrapping paper, bows, or ribbons since… I got married, it seems. (Kidding. Not really.) I keep buying them, and then they disappear. My husband keeps moving them to different places, including with our Christmas storage stuff. Sigh. I’ve just bought this hanging organizer from Amazon in hopes of keeping non-holiday stuff in one place that I know about — it’s $23. (I also have a hanging gift bag organizer.) Pictured: Double Sided Hanging Gift Wrap & Bag Organizer Storage
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Any twin moms with “extended” ultrasounds? I’m 36 and we found out there were two babies at 19 weeks at the anatomy ultrasound, and they want to do an “extended” ultrasound next week (23 weeks) where one of the high risk doctors will be in the room instead of looking at photos. At my practice, the high risk doctors look over all the ultrasound photos even if you’re not a high risk pregnancy. My doctor says they didn’t see anything wrong/suspicious on the first set, just didn’t get to see enough because of positioning, but I’m wondering how common it is. We did the early genetic testing and no concerns there, but it’s still a little stressful.
How do you divvy up snow and sick days? Our city is shutdown but we are both expected to be working from home today and with a 6 month old that doesn’t believe in cot naps, it has been a challenging day for everyone. Combined with strikes for Monday – Wednesday, I’m about to lock myself in the bathroom with my laptop.
(I posted this on the main site yesterday, but I think it’s more geared towards this one– apologies if you’ve already read my question!)
Husband and I are going to South Beach at the end of March for three days. It’s a work meeting for him, and I’m just going for fun. We will not do any of the club scene but may go to a couple of nicer dinners. What do I wear?
To make it a challenge: we are bringing our four month old, and I am nursing. So anything I wear during the day (we’ll probably have a sitter for evenings) needs to be at least somewhat nursing-friendly, baby-wrangle-friendly, mess-friendly, etc. Is there any way to be cute on this trip? Or do I just give up and go full tilt Mommy (nursing tanks and sneakers)?
Thanks for any help, and if you have any specific items to recommend, links are most welcome!
One of the big mysteries of parenthood to me is how people find baby-sitters. Where I live, people tend to be very protective of their baby-sitting resources and no one wants to share names. The sitters we have found on Care.com have either been unreliable or unpleasant – even ones with great reviews. We used an assistant teacher from daycare once, but it was kind of awkward. We are at a different daycare now, so I suppose I could try that route again. We don’t have any family in the area, and while friends are happy to help out sometimes, I wish we had a few good sitters we could call. Should I just keep trying on Care.com? How have you all found your sitters? For what it’s worth we pay on the high end for our already expensive area.
Vent – I just realized summer camp sign ups opened up today and I spent the first hour of my AM filling out the various forms and doing complicated calculus to figure out when we were going to be on vacation, when sports camps were, etc. I’m mentally exhausted and no one need expect high performance from me the rest of the day. Thanks!
(Also thank you to the working mom friend who emailed me her daughter’s schedule as a jumping off point. Lifesaver!)
Workouts. Talk to me about how you fit these in.
Pre-kid, I would go out to a barre or HIIT class in the evening. But now, I’m solo-parenting at least 50% of the time, so getting out in the evening is tough. Plus, paying for someone to hang out with my sleeping kid + paying for a studio class hurts my cheap self.
Right now I’m considering trying noon hours workouts. I’d have to join the gym at work and/or nearby yoga studio. Which is $.
I guess I feel like I should be able to workout at home. But I’m not actually, you know, working out at home. I’m tired by the time I get the kid to bed. Early am workouts are a possibility, but I’m worried about waking the kid up (with my raucous noise? Perhaps this is just another excuse).
A week after my car came back from the body shop (thanks, hit and run driver!), it decided on the way to work this morning that it would like a new transmission. After spending the morning straightening that out, I went home to try to get some work done. And then my laptop died. I am now afraid to touch any other device or appliance in my house. Why, universe, why?
Re. Workouts: our YMCA has really decent group fitness classes with free child care. Much cheaper than a fitness studio. I have also had good luck with early morning at-home workouts. My favorite is the 30-day shred. It is quiet enough that I can do it downstairs in our small house without waking up anyone upstairs.
A long walk at lunch is cheaper and logistically simpler than a gym workout or yoga class, and really relaxing.
What kind of rugs do you have in your home? I have a preschool and a cat and things often get messy. I’m redoing out living room, which is where everyone spends the most time, and need a new rug. I would love to get a beautiful persian rug but that seems unrealistic at this stage in the game, right?
Hope this isn’t too late in the day — we’re moving cities (yay!) and very nervous about finding new daycare for our daughter who will be 20 months at the time. A friend recommended a Spanish Immersion daycare that might have an opening. Does anyone have experience/thoughts on what that would be like for someone who’s just in the process of acquiring language? We studies Spanish decades ago but she’s not exposed to it now.
What do you all do with messy stinky diapers in a house where running the diaper outside at every change is impractical?
Our first house was small and it was super easy to bring the diaper outside and pile them up on the back deck until we took the main trash out, or the end of the day, whichever came first.
Second kid was in our current house, and we just did the best we could with baby diapers, taking them downstairs ASAP and outside ASAP. Once second kid started having solid poop, we flushed it and just tossed the diaper in the trash.
Well, second kid has a bout of horrid diahrea and it’s reminding me of the baby months- and we have a 3rd on the way. Hopefully second kid will be mostly out of diapers by the time #3 arrives but I’m not positive- but my question is really about baby/infant diapers since toddler is manageable.
I just threw the awful diaper out my 2nd story window down to our back deck out a bedroom window because kiddo is sick and I wasn’t going to go all the way downstairs and back up. That’s not a feasible solution to the TONS of infant diapers.
Thoughts? Do diaper genies work? We had one with our first kid and never used it, so we gave it to a friend. If you use or used a genie, where did it live (bathroom vs nursery?).