N13 GTKY

[yummeecookee]

At first when I saw this I read it as G2G, lol. I was all "yayyy!".

[yummeecookee]

Jan 6, 2017 10:04:47 GMT -5 nam2013 said:

Jan 6, 2017 10:02:07 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

At first when I saw this I read it as G2G, lol. I was all "yayyy!".

That would be fun if I was organising! Europe for everyone 😉.

Here's a fun fact- I am European born!

[yummeecookee]

Jan 6, 2017 10:10:26 GMT -5 nam2013 said:

Jan 6, 2017 10:09:03 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Here's a fun fact- I am European born!

Where from? Since we can ask anything 😉!

Portugal. We were there 2yrs before moving to the US. (My father was military)

[trtlcrzy]

Jan 6, 2017 10:19:36 GMT -5 wedding said:

@anyone how did you find these forums and how long have you been on and how long active, since some were lurkers? If you were a lurker what made you jump in?

Well, I found the forums through TD app. I never even considered the forums until I stumbled upon HDBD around July when we were pregnant with our N13. Then I liked to look at people and compare their bumps to mine. That was all I looked at because I would open threads, read the first post and close out. Eventually I discovered trolls (tim n jess) and was hooked reading as entertainment. Around the time I considered joining in all newbs were being harassed and not welcomed so I just continued lurking. Then the big lurker call out of feb 14 happened and now you all have the pleasure of my company.

[yummeecookee]

I was also on the Knot for wedding planning (not the forums, but just used all the planning tools). I started looking at TB forums in my 3rd tri when my weird google searches ('when should I get my last Brazilian before labor?') would lead me to forum responses.
I was living in Honolulu then and couldn't get online during the workday so by the time I did at 6pm, it was already midnight on the east coast and the threads were like 20 pages deep. So I never found a good place to jump in, although I would every once in a while. I kinda gave up but then found everyone after the exodus thanks to MWhipple.

[yummeecookee]

Since we're walking down memory lane- who was in the BLAD group that is still here?

[cagoldi]

Jan 6, 2017 9:40:17 GMT -5 nam2013 said:

I'll start. cagoldi, I was eating an egg this morning and was wondering how long have you been a vegan and do you miss eating certain stuff sometimes?

Not long enough. : )

Almost a year and a half now. I should have done it sooner, for lots of reasons, but primarily because physically, I feel better than ever and I feel good about finally aligning my actions with my convictions.

No, I don't miss anything. Maybe the first month or so I did crave cheese. I've found and made so many good substitutes for dairy now that it's not even a thought. I always hated eggs and never really loved meat. I could never eat meat off the bone like chicken wings or legs, ribs, etc. It also reached a point that I had to force myself not to think about the fact that I was eating animals.

I don't know if I'm explaining it well, but it gets to where you can't look at it as food, you just see the animal and don't see pepperoni, cheese, sushi, or whatever so there is no interest in eating them.

It was kind of a long process realizing that's what I had to do, but one day it occurred to me I was being ridiculous getting outraged about things like Cecil the Lion and the Yulin Dog Meat Festival whilst eating cows, pigs, and chickens.

[cagoldi]

I don't remember at all how I found TD. I started lurking random boards while we were TTC though. Maybe from The Knot? No idea, really.

[cagoldi]

Do you guys remember when those heinous bitches from the FB group randomly decided to come back to the board just to act like assholes?

That was bizarre.

[kamakaziartist]

AW lfigge. So nice!

[kamakaziartist]

Jan 6, 2017 10:48:13 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Since we're walking down memory lane- who was in the BLAD group that is still here?

Guilty. Although it started out innocently enough... Bitches Laughing At Dipshits lolol horrible

[kamakaziartist]

Jan 6, 2017 11:20:38 GMT -5 cagoldi said:

Do you guys remember when those heinous bitches from the FB group randomly decided to come back to the board just to act like assholes?

That was bizarre.

The One Direction posts? Was that it?

[kamakaziartist]

Jan 6, 2017 13:13:53 GMT -5 nam2013 said:

kamakaziartist I still have serious envy of your style, your eyeliner is always on point and you always look so pretty!

that is very sweet of you to say, thank you nam2013!

[kamakaziartist]

Jan 6, 2017 13:19:26 GMT -5 @peachsmama said:

Jan 6, 2017 13:15:50 GMT -5 nam2013 said:

@peachsmama with your H being away for a year will you postpone building? Or go ahead without him?

Go ahead without him. We're meeting with the builder in February to make some decisions and I'll consult him on the remaining. He's given me free reign (? right spelling?) on the interior so really the only decision we have to make together will be like the septic system and stuff like that. He'll probably come back when they place the house and when we move in. It's not ideal but I can't live with my parents another year. I love them dearly but I'm sick of my mom being a tattle tale on Matthew (hello, you're not 3, he is) and Matthew's attachment level is out of control. 

@peachsmama- I am sorry, I missed why YH is going to be gone?

[kamakaziartist]

Jan 6, 2017 13:26:09 GMT -5 @peachsmama said:

Jan 6, 2017 13:20:35 GMT -5 kamakaziartist said:

@peachsmama - I am sorry, I missed why YH is going to be gone?

He's going to Texas for a year to work so he can make more money to pay down debt. He can make 2-5 times more there than here. He leaves in March, I'll be coming to visit in June/July! How close are you to Houston?!?!

3 hours!!

[kamakaziartist]

Jan 6, 2017 13:53:10 GMT -5 @peachsmama said:

Jan 6, 2017 13:51:20 GMT -5 kamakaziartist said:

3 hours!!

Dh said the other day "I was thinking you could bring the boys down in June and you can go see all your girls while I'm at work" Well if you insist.. ( : 

Heck yeah!

[trtlcrzy]

Jan 6, 2017 11:09:13 GMT -5 guster said:

I knew about The Knot, but never used it.
I signed up for The Bump so I could get updates on what fruit my growing child would be each week. Then I found the forums. I thought it was so clever that there were a group of N 13 moms out there. I lurked for a really long time, and one day accidentally hit the report icon. Someone with hotdog in their name was like "who the F is...". And I stopped lurking for a little while.
Then I decided to join in when Josie was about three or four months old. I was very quiet until sometime last year (or maybe it was the year before)

Hotdiggitydog?

[mskatiep]

I started posting on the dump soon after I learned I was pregnant. Not sure how I found it. Stopped for a while over maternity leave, but then jumped back in.

I was not a BLAD.

Yes, there are a few posters I'm glad did not continue to post.

[lahdeedah88]

I lurked on TD very early on after I found out I was pregnant. I found N13, but only went into on a few threads. I never looked at the intro threads and never really payed attention to "who" was posting. After M was born, I spent a lot more time in the threads during pumping sessions and started paying attention to who was who and keeping up. I guess the whole concept of the forum clicked for me when I saw relationships being built between everyone and how much of a support system it was in that first year. Of course, I followed over with the masses and I started posting closer to M's second birthday. I missed the majority of all the drama. I remember the last big blow up in the group that I think lingered from previous stuff and thinking- where TF is all of this coming from? Lol

[melaniesue05]

I don't remember how I found TD. I was on a board called two week wait and would switch between the two boards. I was on TWW when I was pg w c. Eventually TWW was too boring and TD had way more entertainment especially w the trolls so I switched to TD. I think I got on it pretty early. First tri for sure.

[Cherhorowitz]

I was a BLAD.

[Cherhorowitz]

Jan 6, 2017 12:57:04 GMT -5 kamakaziartist said:

Jan 6, 2017 11:20:38 GMT -5 cagoldi said:

Do you guys remember when those heinous bitches from the FB group randomly decided to come back to the board just to act like assholes?

That was bizarre.

The One Direction posts? Was that it?

No. there was a group that left early and made their own FB. They came back one day on TB and started talking shit about how they laugh at us behind our back.

[sands42]

I also joined TD to see my fruit baby ☺️ I was there from the beginning of pregnancy. I wasn't super active for a long time because the drama. And I fell off the planet for a while when we moved over here because I didn't understand the app. So I missed a lot of other drama apparently.

There are some that I rolled my eyes at all the time that I'm glad are no longer posting.

[kamakaziartist]

Jan 6, 2017 16:33:07 GMT -5 Cherhorowitz said:

Jan 6, 2017 12:57:04 GMT -5 kamakaziartist said:

The One Direction posts? Was that it?

No. there was a group that left early and made their own FB. They came back one day on TB and started talking shit about how they laugh at us behind our back.

oh right. Bunch of winners, right there.

[JoeLies]

Jan 6, 2017 16:31:47 GMT -5 Cherhorowitz said:

I was a BLAD.

Same. I don't *think* I was ever mean to anyone and I was definitely glad to see a few others go.

[73jewels]

I missed the whole BLAD thing. Can someone explain it to me? I mean, I know what it stands for, but what did it really mean?

[Cherhorowitz]

I really wonder what happened to so many people.

[cagoldi]

Jan 6, 2017 12:57:04 GMT -5 kamakaziartist said:

Jan 6, 2017 11:20:38 GMT -5 cagoldi said:

Do you guys remember when those heinous bitches from the FB group randomly decided to come back to the board just to act like assholes?

That was bizarre.

The One Direction posts? Was that it?

I don't remember them being into 1D. As far back as I can recall, Parenting has had a monopoly on all the 1D love.

[cagoldi]

Jan 7, 2017 0:46:50 GMT -5 Cherhorowitz said:

I really wonder what happened to so many people.

So do I.

A lot seemed to never come back after they had their babies or only posted for a few months afterward. We had a lot of great people go missing.

There were a few I wasn't sad to see leave though.

[cagoldi]

Jan 6, 2017 17:34:07 GMT -5 kamakaziartist said:

Jan 6, 2017 16:33:07 GMT -5 Cherhorowitz said:

No. there was a group that left early and made their own FB. They came back one day on TB and started talking shit about how they laugh at us behind our back.

oh right. Bunch of winners, right there.

Like, hello, your little FB group isn't that great if you feel the need to stalk us because you don't have anything else to talk about.

And I specifically remember something like, "you bitches are so crazy you probably all have PPD."

A lot of us really did have PPD/PPA. That was an especially assholish thing to say.