Wish- Thanks for the birthday wishes for gummy! It's like he knew he grew up a year and has become much more like a little person. I'm kind of excited about having people celebrate his birthday with him, but am so afraid that I'll screw things up. I'll try to heed your advice and focus on the fun parts!
That's really too bad about your sister and family. While I do believe in being genuine, I too think that they could try to be civil and thank your DH. I hope that things get better over time. In my family, they all act really friendly to each other. My mom is the most outwardly charming person ever. It annoys me, but some people are taken in by it.
TTC- Wow, so much good stuff and change happening in your life! I think I know how you feel about your DH not working at the same place. DH and I worked in the same place a lot of the time. In fact, that's how we met. I hope that you'll adjust to the new circumstances quickly!
AFM- I've been trying to deal with the constant daycare closures and have been looking around at preschools. Unless they have infant programs, gummy can only start in 2020! He's on the waitlist for 2 with infant programs. In the meantime, daycare lady has brought in 2 new babies, so the total is now 4 babies with 2 carers. So I thought that she wouldn't pull one of her famous closures, given these people just started at her daycare, and the holiday closure is coming up.
Well, she sent a text at 8:15am on Thursday saying daycare was closed as she was unwell. These last minute closures have occurred an average of 2 times a month since we started, and it has been affecting my work performance. I've been trying to be hired as full time staff and not a low paid postdoc, but I can't be hired if I am this unreliable. So I had a talk with her on Friday, but it really became about us finding backup care and whether she can keep daycare open for half the day instead of suddenly closing. She didn't talk about or apologize for the excessive last minute closures. I know the obvious thing is to move on, and that has been what I've been working on, but it's really so hard to think of moving gummy from this daycare, which is truly lovely for him in every other way. Also, it is tremendously hard to find daycare in our area.
Anyway, I've tired of worrying about daycare, and I hope that the situation gets resolved soon. I'm going to try to have fun with gummy this weekend and hopefully he'll have fun at his birthday party!
I hope that everyone has a great weekend!