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Oliver is playing with his legos and making a pirate ship, with an vintage toy pig for the captain. I asked him why, and the answer was a succinct "he's a pig, mama!". Oh. Okay. Delilah is running around drinking out of everyone else's cups because she's tired of a sippy cup. But I'm tired of her tipping water or milk into the floor and giggling.
Lucy is walking around (oh yeah, I said walking!) with my locked phone because she was inconsolable for a little while. Deli bit her again and this time it was on the chubby part of her arm near her elbow- a couple bites, actually! All in one small area. Lucy has a bruise on her arm already just below that in the shape of ( ) from Deli doing that a few days ago. They can't play together in another room, because that's when Deli preys on her. Poor thing.
Today is quiet. We're watching a nifty show about dinosaurs being done in 3D models and showing off all their pointy, prodding bits. Yesterday it was overcast and muggy and everyone felt too sticky to play nice with each other, so each kid got a pile of cardboard bricks to build something from and the older two tried to make a tower taller than the other. Lucy sat on hers and watched the proceedings, clapping everytime they tumbled.
Everyone just took a break to play with dreidels. I have a collection of small, plastic ones and they are perfect for fine motor skills. Ollie still can't spin one but he's trying! Lucy is watching Ollie's dreidels fly across the table, Deli is asking me to spin one constantly and then snatching it off the table without warning. She thinks it's hilarious, like she's tricking physics or bending gravity. She thinks it's amazing to stop something that is moving so fast, I can see it in the way she smiles with surprise- like it might keep spinning in her hand, but this time she stopped it.
The plan for today is simple- Adam works from before the kids wake up until 5pm. After that I'm going out to buy some thriftstore sheets to make that rug for the living room- I can't wait! I've got a huge crochet hook to use that I borrowed from my mum, and it should be a hoot. I want to go with Sara, but she miiight have to help someone move- don't know yet, I just texted her to ask. If she goes with, it'll be a hoot. I just want to walk and enjoy the sunshine and adult conversation. If she can't join me, hell with it, I'll take a walk by myself.
I've got a shawl on the needles, knitting it has been really relaxing. It's this great turquoise cotton/linen yarn and the pattern is ridiculously simple but mine, in the sense that I took a few simple ideas for shawls and put them together. I'm sure it's been done before, if not in this exact way. But I like it, and it's growing, and if I keep working on/off for the next week or so it should be done and ready to scrunch around my neck.
I had a falling out with my mum's friend Becky (ok, she was my friend too) because I argued with her daughter on facebook. I told her daughter she was immature and ignorant because she updated her facebook all day with status' about politics and I asked her about them. Things progressed from "why do you hate Obama? what policies don't you like? what's up?" to her arguing with me and insulting me and her sole reasoning for "omg HATING him" being "because when you look in his eyes you can tell he has no soul" or "no heart". Seriously, that's why. Because of what she sees when she looks in the eyes of someone she's never met.
Moral superiority from a woman like her just kills me. She's the worst mother I've ever met, hands down. She signed away the rights to her 7 and 9 year old daughters so that her ex would pay her back the money he took from her- but didn't get the money first. He's equally trashy and immoral, and in the end he paid her back a small fraction of the money that he stole from her and told her that was all he'd do. She literally sold her daughters for $116.
What is it with hypocritical hillbillies? If you don't like our president for an actual reason, that's cool. Opinions, everyone has em. But if you're going to make it about morals, when you don't have them, you look even stupider. At least the president has a job and is raising his kids- two up on you, bb.
So then Becky saw the whole argument online and sent me a huge, patronizing message about how she didn't think it was cool, and I shouldn't insult people because they don't believe the same things I do, and what an awful person I am acting like. Then made repeated status updates lamenting the "nastiness" she had to deal with, and talking about me passive aggressively. I can deal with that. Becky milks any drama she can and throws herself in the middle of things. But when she kept calling me a fool (and it wasn't the first time she'd called me one in a public or semi public way) I lost it.
I saw that on her status and I asked her not to call me a fool. That's it. One sentence. She got defensive, started getting pissy, and instead of responding to my private message to her about the situation, she brought it all out on her status instead. A huge comment about it, full of judgemental bullshit. And then lambasting me for "bringing all this out in public". When I tried to explain that she'd actually brought it public, not me, she responded by unfriending me. Well, good. I've got enough hypocritical people around me, now I don't have to see her constant sappy pictures with biblical quotes. Or talking about how much she cares for the people around her, and whatta good Christian she is, and memes about lolz Obama can't read the constitution, they'z taking our freedoms!
It's gonna be really awkward when I knit with old broads now. Becky is probably going to flounce out if she goes Monday and sees me. Considering all she did there was bitch, moan, and talk about people (she called her daughter, Desiree, a dumbass literally every time she spoke about her, for the record). There's already one person there, Jan, who ignores Becky because they had a falling out. And there have been about half a dozen people who stopped going when they were new to the group because Becky offended them. I'm just saying good riddance.
This turned out longer than I meant, but I'm still just really pissed off about the whole thing. Becky has been a friend of the family for years- I babysat her children when they were younger, and now her youngest is in high school. I just baked cupcakes for her middle kid's graduation party a few weeks ago. She actually moved two houses away from my mum's place for a couple years and was over every morning for coffee while I was living there after having Ollie. I'm going to miss her, but on the other hand.. she is so much drama, and sulking, and making everything about her. I'm not going to miss that at all.
Lucy is walking around (oh yeah, I said walking!) with my locked phone because she was inconsolable for a little while. Deli bit her again and this time it was on the chubby part of her arm near her elbow- a couple bites, actually! All in one small area. Lucy has a bruise on her arm already just below that in the shape of ( ) from Deli doing that a few days ago. They can't play together in another room, because that's when Deli preys on her. Poor thing.
Today is quiet. We're watching a nifty show about dinosaurs being done in 3D models and showing off all their pointy, prodding bits. Yesterday it was overcast and muggy and everyone felt too sticky to play nice with each other, so each kid got a pile of cardboard bricks to build something from and the older two tried to make a tower taller than the other. Lucy sat on hers and watched the proceedings, clapping everytime they tumbled.
Everyone just took a break to play with dreidels. I have a collection of small, plastic ones and they are perfect for fine motor skills. Ollie still can't spin one but he's trying! Lucy is watching Ollie's dreidels fly across the table, Deli is asking me to spin one constantly and then snatching it off the table without warning. She thinks it's hilarious, like she's tricking physics or bending gravity. She thinks it's amazing to stop something that is moving so fast, I can see it in the way she smiles with surprise- like it might keep spinning in her hand, but this time she stopped it.
The plan for today is simple- Adam works from before the kids wake up until 5pm. After that I'm going out to buy some thriftstore sheets to make that rug for the living room- I can't wait! I've got a huge crochet hook to use that I borrowed from my mum, and it should be a hoot. I want to go with Sara, but she miiight have to help someone move- don't know yet, I just texted her to ask. If she goes with, it'll be a hoot. I just want to walk and enjoy the sunshine and adult conversation. If she can't join me, hell with it, I'll take a walk by myself.
I've got a shawl on the needles, knitting it has been really relaxing. It's this great turquoise cotton/linen yarn and the pattern is ridiculously simple but mine, in the sense that I took a few simple ideas for shawls and put them together. I'm sure it's been done before, if not in this exact way. But I like it, and it's growing, and if I keep working on/off for the next week or so it should be done and ready to scrunch around my neck.
I had a falling out with my mum's friend Becky (ok, she was my friend too) because I argued with her daughter on facebook. I told her daughter she was immature and ignorant because she updated her facebook all day with status' about politics and I asked her about them. Things progressed from "why do you hate Obama? what policies don't you like? what's up?" to her arguing with me and insulting me and her sole reasoning for "omg HATING him" being "because when you look in his eyes you can tell he has no soul" or "no heart". Seriously, that's why. Because of what she sees when she looks in the eyes of someone she's never met.
Moral superiority from a woman like her just kills me. She's the worst mother I've ever met, hands down. She signed away the rights to her 7 and 9 year old daughters so that her ex would pay her back the money he took from her- but didn't get the money first. He's equally trashy and immoral, and in the end he paid her back a small fraction of the money that he stole from her and told her that was all he'd do. She literally sold her daughters for $116.
What is it with hypocritical hillbillies? If you don't like our president for an actual reason, that's cool. Opinions, everyone has em. But if you're going to make it about morals, when you don't have them, you look even stupider. At least the president has a job and is raising his kids- two up on you, bb.
So then Becky saw the whole argument online and sent me a huge, patronizing message about how she didn't think it was cool, and I shouldn't insult people because they don't believe the same things I do, and what an awful person I am acting like. Then made repeated status updates lamenting the "nastiness" she had to deal with, and talking about me passive aggressively. I can deal with that. Becky milks any drama she can and throws herself in the middle of things. But when she kept calling me a fool (and it wasn't the first time she'd called me one in a public or semi public way) I lost it.
I saw that on her status and I asked her not to call me a fool. That's it. One sentence. She got defensive, started getting pissy, and instead of responding to my private message to her about the situation, she brought it all out on her status instead. A huge comment about it, full of judgemental bullshit. And then lambasting me for "bringing all this out in public". When I tried to explain that she'd actually brought it public, not me, she responded by unfriending me. Well, good. I've got enough hypocritical people around me, now I don't have to see her constant sappy pictures with biblical quotes. Or talking about how much she cares for the people around her, and whatta good Christian she is, and memes about lolz Obama can't read the constitution, they'z taking our freedoms!
It's gonna be really awkward when I knit with old broads now. Becky is probably going to flounce out if she goes Monday and sees me. Considering all she did there was bitch, moan, and talk about people (she called her daughter, Desiree, a dumbass literally every time she spoke about her, for the record). There's already one person there, Jan, who ignores Becky because they had a falling out. And there have been about half a dozen people who stopped going when they were new to the group because Becky offended them. I'm just saying good riddance.
This turned out longer than I meant, but I'm still just really pissed off about the whole thing. Becky has been a friend of the family for years- I babysat her children when they were younger, and now her youngest is in high school. I just baked cupcakes for her middle kid's graduation party a few weeks ago. She actually moved two houses away from my mum's place for a couple years and was over every morning for coffee while I was living there after having Ollie. I'm going to miss her, but on the other hand.. she is so much drama, and sulking, and making everything about her. I'm not going to miss that at all.