WOH and sleeping issues
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WOH and sleeping issues
| Sun, 05-22-2005 - 10:34am |
We were at a dinner party last night at the home of one of dh's coworkers. They have 2 boys, 6 and 4. They have a bunch of sleeping issues (kids 'scared' at night, won't fall asleep in their own bed, won't go to bed without mom or dad cuddling them, etc.) The mom blames herself because since she works all day and misses them so much she tends to cuddle with them late at night and they fall asleep in a pile on the bed all together. She said that if she SAH, they wouldn't have the same issues.
I sah. For us, bed time is a rigid, welcome respite at the end of the day. Dh has no desire to keep them up either, lol.

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Sure, and I do sometimes.
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It depends on what expectations we are speaking about.
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We moved back to MI a few years ago from CO. All our couple friends are friends of dh's before he left for CO. They all live where he grew up. We don't live there because it's a suburban wasteland full of strip malls and brand new subs without trees. So, we live out in a small town. All my own girlfriends live at least 40 mins away...I met them at work.
And let me tell you, it's been really hard to make new couple friends. I've found that once everyone is 'in the trenches' so to speak, it's really hard to work yet another obligation (like starting/maintaining a new friendship) into the mix. Believe me, I've tried to make plans with a few of the moms from mom's club, but most of their dh's travel for work and they are transplants themselves with babysitting difficulty.
That's dh's situation as well. He has 4 weeks but never takes it all. If he's not working, he's not making money. Sure, he gets paid vacation but it costs more than that in the end.
Meldi
Doesn't he ever take off after the end of the quarter? During slow times when the client isn't available? After the big end of fiscal year closing of the books?
My dh in sales has plenty of opportunity to take vacation. He doesn't always choose to take it and it bugs us that the timing isn't usually ours to decide, but he does have the opportunity. There is actually a certain office peer pressure to take vacation at his company. HR doesn't like people accruing huge amounts of vacation time.
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