How are ya now?

[coyote]

Newly minted therapy dog!

[Headshotted]

I should become a butcher.

[Dusty Bottoms]

hey man, I read you were getting into Nerf with your son. My son and I have been into it for a few years now, and go to these big local Nerf wars hosted at a gymnastics center. We have an entire arsenal of blasters now, and by far the one I'd recommend the most isn't even made by Nerf. It's the Adventure Force Villainator, $20 bucks at Walmart, tommy gun style pump blaster with a removable stock, a drum you can reload on the fly, and shoots faster than most Nerf blasters. Definitely a best buy for that hobby!

[Cdn_Cuda]

The key is if everybody gets sleep. Usually having a kid in the bed means mom or dad isn’t going to be comfortable. No kids sleeping in our bed, but after 6:30am they can hop in for cuddles. Otherwise kids wakes up, we cuddle in their bed. Be smart, buy a good mattress for the kids. You’ll be sleeping there, so worth the money. Mine kids are 4 and 7 and I am writing this laying on my 4y/o’s bed who woke up the first time I tried to leave….

[coyote]

The long haul was because of my department heads vacation. I knew it was coming, and I agreed to it.

Instead of getting a "thank you" I was met with "I need".

The union hall is literally calling retired butchers and letting them pull a pension and work as many hours as they want. The industry got rid of the training regimen, so there are zero bodies in the pipeline to replace guys like me.

2022 is gonna be a sweet year $ wise.

[Jonnydread]

Dude! First, good for you for not taking that BS. Secondly, 23 out of 25 days is friggin asinine what in tarnation?!

[Siress]

I would watch that show. Congrats on the freedom!

[coyote]

I've worked 23 of the last 25 days.

My manager thanked me by screwing me on a scheduling commitment we agreed on.

I'm dropping retirement docs on his desk next week. The way our labor situation is right now I'm pretty sure I will hear his anatomy slamming shut.

[Jonnydread]

I don't have kids so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I don't see any harm in letting the kids sleep in the big bed if it helps everyone get rest. If they're still doing that when they get their license you may want to rethink things, but for now I can't imagine it's overly problematic.

[glaman5266]

My younger boy had kidney nefrosis (sp?) and had to be hooked up to a pee bag until he was old enough for surgery at maybe 6 weeks old, so I have an idea of what you're going through. Keep at it, man. You got this. :thumbup:

[Tarsun2]

i hear that... lol

2 and 4 yo at the moment.

one would sleep through the night and the other would wake up. then it would switch, and then switch again.

one thing i learned was not to try and force a sleep schedule... that it was much easier and much more consistent to work around whatever natural sleep schedule each one had at the time. The 4yo is aware of the moon, and night time, and the concept of sleep and being "recharged" for the next day and all of the potential activities.
the 2yo still goes to bed early and wakes early. nothing crazy through.
but now the 4yo comes in our room and kicks me out of the bed. we have a king bed now and have tons of room, so i get to stay lol

some people voice a strong opinion about having the kids sleep in the room/bed with you. i have to say, figure out what gets you the best night sleep and go with that. youll be a better "you" if you can get sleep.

[Siress]

That is a rough run of it. So glad to hear he's on the upswing. We really started to find a rhythm in that 8-12mo age for each of mine, so I hope you're on the back stretch. Hang in there.

[A.Greenleaf]

5 months on the 13th. We are getting there, but he has had a long 5 months. He was I. The nicu for two weeks and then he had to have surgery when he was three months. This last week he has been getting over rsv. He is still smiling and laughing which makes it worth it.

[Jonnydread]

Never enough hours in the day man. How old is your son? Hopefully he'll get into a more normal rhythm for sleep soon so you all can find a better tempo to mitigate that exhaustion.

[Jonnydread]

That's brutal man, I can barely keep up with one house I couldn't imagine having to juggle two properties. Hope it all gets figured out and cleaned up right quick.