Weekend & Family Friday: Jumbo Art Creativity Kit
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At the beginning of quarantine, it was painfully obvious that our house was lacking in art supplies. My excuse was that my son was constantly doing craft projects, art, and coloring at daycare/preschool — if you don’t believe me, check my garbage. (Kidding. Kind of.) I never felt like he needed to do more of that on the weekends. However, now that we’re home, I need to stock up on things for him to do. I like the idea of ordering everything at once, like this “creativity kit.” I like that it even comes with paper, because I realized we don’t have any except for our printer paper, and that’s being used by the adults in the house at the moment. The kit is $22.49 at Kohl’s. Crayola Jumbo Art Creativity Kit
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Ugh my kid screamed from 10:30 to 2 today. WHYYY
My husband wants to go to his ranch with his friend and our son this weekend. We have been arguing about it all morning, and I am at a loss. I put my foot down, and said I am not ok with it and he cannot go, and I hate that he made me do that.
I also don’t understand it. For the entire time this has been going on, he has been excessively listening to podcasts, reading models, and analysis of the virus and knows FAR more than me about social distancing, predictions, etc. etc. His position is that they’re driving out there in their own cars and will maintain at least 6 feet distance from each other at all times. The vehicle out there is an open air jeep, they’ll spend most of the evening outside, disinfectant, blah blah. In his mind, the risk is so low that it’s ok. I disagree and to me, it’s not about an evaluation of the risk because he’s not special and doesn’t get to do that. Everyone should do their part and stay home, etc. So even though this is objectively a pretty low risk situation, I just don’t care and don’t think they should do it. To me, it is just an affront to the people putting their lives on the line to provide medical care, essential services, etc. and to him, it’s just such low risk that he doesn’t see it that way.
So, he has agreed not to bring his friend, but of course, now I feel terrible. And he isn’t making me feel any better, claiming that well, now he just won’t go at all because he was so excited to have some social interaction and now he can’t it’s going to be a giant bummer.
Also, by way of background – he’s normally a fantastic partner. He watches the kids 90% of the time, shares home tasks, and has been social distancing in every other way possible. He’s really not a jerk anymore than I am or anyone else is, we just have a philosophical difference on this. I almost wasn’t going to say this part because I am annoyed with him and want you all to flame him, but figured you wouldn’t have the whole story then.
I’m doing the right thing though, right? Is anyone getting together with one friend and doing outdoorsy things while taking every precaution? Please make me feel better, or tell me if I am the one being an ass.
Is anyone else getting a “Meet Arab Women” dating site ad? Intriguing… Not really my thing and surprised to see it here.
What’s the going rate to have your gutters cleaned out? I’m in a two story colonial in the north east. Pretty standard rectangle box. I know it totally depends on how many gutters/size of house but just a ballpark? Are we talking $250 or $1,500?
When did your baby drop to one nap? My 8-month old is increasingly resistant to naps and my husband thinks he should drop to one nap, but I don’t think we can get enough work done if he only takes one nap. Any suggestions?
A month in and my company is realizing how hard this is for their working parents of little kids. They are exploring ways that they can help support parents for the next 3-6 months. So give me your best ideas. In an ideal world, what would you ask your company for right now to support you?
Any families with kids and 2 working parents exploring adding help? One of my friends in another town mentioned that she has joined forces with another family (after 2 weeks of social distancing) and the adults each take turns watching the kids one day (Fridays are kind of a free for all). It sounded pretty appealing. Another friend contacted a local schoolteacher and they have agreed to wait 2 more weeks with extreme distancing and then the teacher will come babysit during the day.
I’m pregnant and expecting a boy in less than a month. The only name so far that husband and I have liked is Elliot/t but we’re worried that it would constantly be misspelled. Also, there don’t seem to be any natural nicknames for it. Leo won’t work as a nickname since that’s our pet’s name. Does anyone have an Elliot? How do you or would you spell it? Are you constantly correcting the spelling? We’re leaning toward the double LL, one T spelling because the middle name also has a double consonant in the middle and because two Ts seems cluttered/unnecessary. For reference, our other son has a very classic name that truly can’t be misspelled and has several nicknames (like James or Andrew or William). Thanks!
I’d like to invest in some outdoor toys and games for my 6 and 11 kids to use in our backyard. Backyard is maybe 18’x24′ so things that require a lot of space like a stomp rocket are out. Ideally, items are easy to store and can be played with by both kids. Suggestions?
I have a 10 month old who’s always grabbing at 2 yr 10 month Olds toys, tablet, hair etc. Basically he’s obsessed with her and she can’t do much in peace. She’s been very sweet to him till now, how do I cope? Do I buy large gates to wall off area in living room and keep her seperated from him? I’m solo parenting these two in the quarantine and it’s been trying.
I realize I’m very late to the party, but my husband was furloughed and then, miraculously, UNfurloughed last night. We are THRILLED but need to figure out all the tricks and tips for managing the impossible task of caring for our almost-2 and almost-4 year olds while working two full time jobs. Mine involves a lot of calls, some of which I can control in terms of timing, some of which I can’t. Thank you for anything you can share from your weeks of experience!
I’m about 4 months post partum from my second kid. I’ve lost all but 10lbs and I’m ok with that, it seems to be coming off slowly but steady. However, my stomach is still round and poufy. My natural waist is 5 inches more than it was pre-pregnancy. It’s not a FUPA, its mostly at or above my belly button. Are there exercises that would target this area specifically to lose some inches?
The comment yesterday about the kid wanting to dye Easter eggs rather than go camping got me thinking– what were your favorite memories of being a kid? Did they involve big events or special vacations or were they more mundane?
I grew up in rural Alabama and my favorite memories are:
– playing unsupervised with my sister at the shallow creek and in the woods on our property. we would take our barbies to the creek and pretend it was a hair salon.
– playing unsupervised in our barn across the road from our house (we rented it to a farmer who used one of the pastures to grow hay, which he would bale and store in the barn, and we would jump down from the loft onto the hay bales below)
– picking blackberries in the back yard
– going to sleep away summer camp for a week each summer
None of these involved anything elaborate on my mom’s part. I didn’t really enjoy family vacations. But we only ever went on vacations that were “educational” — like back to back museums all day every day. I am thankful for some of them in retrospect, like the one where we drove across the whole country and back, stopping at lots of major national parks, but they were not my “favorite memories” and were not particularly enjoyable in the moment. How about you?
I’m trying not to buy too much stuff so have been using scraps and bits of things. We made a tree out of a large scrap of paper and have been adding leaves (made from a cut up magazine) to mark the passage of time, which was a cheerier alternative to carving numbers into the wall, prison style.
We’re getting loads of mileage out of one large flat box (used to deliver picture frames), a smaller flat box, and various bits of card. I’ve drawn an airport, a construction site, a train track, roads, police and fire stations, a bus depot, and a farm. My son will happily drive his cars around those for ages. Sorting cars by colour is also a hit – construction paper laid out on the floors.
Also, outdoor, a large rubbermaid box with sand and construction vehicle. He played for an hour while I weeded the garden and turned the compost bin this am, and he’s not a play by his self kid.