We've been in Phoenix for several months now. I have totally dropped the ball on the whole dentist front and really need to find a new one. When in Texas, I went to the same office for seven years. Seven! It's been seven months since my last check up, and I'm accustomed to doing the cleanings every six. Pfft.
My little sister is due to have her baby at the beginning of May. We bought me a ticket to fly out to see her and the baby from the 16th-20th, while DH takes two days off to give me a long weekend away. I am very much looking forward to this. My layover in Houston is only 35 minutes, though, so I feel like I may need to sprint... or something. No idea how big that airport is, though I've read it is smaller than DFW (which I am far more familiar with), so I should be good. Still, it is inspiration to get back on the elliptical. Hey, silly or not, I'll take what I can get.
So, who knew peer pressure began at such an early age?! Next door neighbors have two girls, ages 10 and 7. Loulou does NOT care for either girl, and refuses to play with them most days. I don't blame her. As a matter of fact, if I could, I'd keep all my kids away from them. The other night, they were going to go on a 15-20 minute walk with their dog and parents. The girls wanted my youngest three to go with. I decided that was too long for their parents to be responsible for five kids and a dog on busy streets, so I said no. End of discussion, right?
Not so much.
They kept sending my kids in to ask repeatedly to go. That, and their mother overheard her 10yo tell my children "Your mom is overprotective--she never lets you do anything fun."
Excuse me?
Her mom then proceeded to tell me she told her "Everybody parents differently, if she doesn't want them to go, then they don't get to go. You shouldn't say that."
This is coming from the woman who never enforces what she says and allows her children to walk all over her. So I don't exactly see a change in attitude coming from her kid.
Anyhow, I don't need that kid talking to my kids like that. Quite frankly, it pisses me off. I've got enough self-doubt, thank you very much, and don't need her planting seeds of resentment/confusion/whatever in my kids to augment the situation.
If it wasn't for the three friends I've made on this block, I wouldn't mind moving at the end of the lease (well, we actually want to move closer to March instead of October--we've been moving at the end of September/beginning of October for several moves now, as that's when the lease has been up each time and it totally throws our flow off) simply because of our neighbors. They drive me batty--if we don't see them for several days, the mom makes a point of trying to reassure me they aren't mad at us. Woman, that didn't even cross my mind. I've told her, repeatedly(!), that I never assume they are mad at us, so no need to even go there.
verbal vomit
Sorry.
Anyhow, PMSing and feeling restless. I've got stuff I need to talk about, but it's too sensitive for even here. There isn't exactly a support group out there for this, so I keep turning it over and over in my head. Ugh. Private entries are an option, but it's the feedback I need.
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