akraus2015 - The prenatal yoga class I take is gentle. A good way to ease back into it. Do you walk Louis? That totally counts! Maybe just make it longer and/or faster if you want to pick it up?
My husband and I walk him every day when the weather is nicer and the days are longer. It's our little family time each day. But we live in the country on a road with no street lights, so in the winter it's hard because it's dark by the time I get home.
I'm also not a fan of walks in the dark. Don't blame you there!
H got home last night while I was at yoga, so when I came home I was in form-fitting exercise clothes and he said "I guess you are really pregnant!" I think this should be a pregnancy milestone: Significant other can tell you're growing a bump.
akraus2015 - My H and I have had an agreement since undergrad that once he was done with medical school, residency, and fellowship, I can go back to school and/or completely change my career. Or stay home. He's actually started to randomly ask me if I'm thinking about what I want to do with my life. Guess I need to figure that out at some point, haha.
Definitely do what would make you happy if it's feasible! Maybe it's not right now, but would be in the future. You never know!
I bet she knows since you're modifying poses. Any particular reason you haven't told her? I'm sure she'd be happy to help you modify as needed!
I went to prenatal yoga last night and love the instructor. She asks each person if there's anything bothering them or they don't want to do and calls out specific modifications for each pose as needed for each person as we go.
You guys are so cute with your exercise.
I went to target and the grocery store and was panting. I consider that a win. Pass the brownies!
Hah right? I was so proud of myself when I did a workout at 24 weeks. Then my doctor said I needed to switch to lighter exercise and I just stopped altogether. Gravity gets me too. Bending down to wipe the dogs feet when they come inside gets me winded. That's exercise right?
akraus2015 - My H and I have had an agreement since undergrad that once he was done with medical school, residency, and fellowship, I can go back to school and/or completely change my career. Or stay home. He's actually started to randomly ask me if I'm thinking about what I want to do with my life. Guess I need to figure that out at some point, haha.
Definitely do what would make you happy if it's feasible! Maybe it's not right now, but would be in the future. You never know!
Thats awesome that you guys have that agreement! If we didn't have my student loans to consider, our possibilities would be so much more broad. We plan to pay off a huge chunk of debts before the baby comes, but I'll probably be 100 when my student loans finally get paid off.
I went to target and the grocery store and was panting. I consider that a win. Pass the brownies!
Hah right? I was so proud of myself when I did a workout at 24 weeks. Then my doctor said I needed to switch to lighter exercise and I just stopped altogether. Gravity gets me too. Bending down to wipe the dogs feet when they come inside gets me winded. That's exercise right?
I mean...let's talk about how BabyStandish puts us all to shame with her marathon running and whatnot. While pregnant.
JK girl, I'm totally teasing you. I wish I could run half that distance. Not pregnant.
ETA: I really hope that didn't sound bitchy like I'm now going back and reading it. It was meant to be lighthearted and to point out that we're all at different ends of the spectrum and that's totally okay.
akraus2015 - My H and I have had an agreement since undergrad that once he was done with medical school, residency, and fellowship, I can go back to school and/or completely change my career. Or stay home. He's actually started to randomly ask me if I'm thinking about what I want to do with my life. Guess I need to figure that out at some point, haha.
Definitely do what would make you happy if it's feasible! Maybe it's not right now, but would be in the future. You never know!
This is pretty much what we did. We spent the last 5 years paying off all of our debt. Now the only debt we have is one car payment (tho we agree we will always have 1 car payment because we like new cars and 1 car paid off), our house, and our rental house (but this brings in income so I don't think it counts. The goal was to pay off all of our debt and then I could stay home or go back to school for a different career. Ultimately once we found out we were having twins I decided I would work 2 days a week at my current job and stay home the rest of the time. We like to love a certain lifestyle so that 2 days a week will allow that to still be the case. And DH loves his job and loves the field he's in so his career is extremely stable. I think it's always great to work towards a goal, whether that goal is opening your own store or staying at home with your kids 😊
Post by akraus2015 on Jan 27, 2017 11:36:03 GMT -5
I personally just appreciate that this isn't a board who shames people for how much or little they exercise during pregnancy. I always feel a little bit embarrassed around my IRL prego friends because they all swim or lift or run or keep up their regular routines and I feel like I'm over here ruining my body and probably harming my child because I'm mostly sedentary these days.
akraus2015 - My H and I have had an agreement since undergrad that once he was done with medical school, residency, and fellowship, I can go back to school and/or completely change my career. Or stay home. He's actually started to randomly ask me if I'm thinking about what I want to do with my life. Guess I need to figure that out at some point, haha.
Definitely do what would make you happy if it's feasible! Maybe it's not right now, but would be in the future. You never know!
This is pretty much what we did. We spent the last 5 years paying off all of our debt. Now the only debt we have is one car payment (tho we agree we will always have 1 car payment because we like new cars and 1 car paid off), our house, and our rental house (but this brings in income so I don't think it counts. The goal was to pay off all of our debt and then I could stay home or go back to school for a different career. Ultimately once we found out we were having twins I decided I would work 2 days a week at my current job and stay home the rest of the time. We like to love a certain lifestyle so that 2 days a week will allow that to still be the case. And DH loves his job and loves the field he's in so his career is extremely stable. I think it's always great to work towards a goal, whether that goal is opening your own store or staying at home with your kids 😊
I'm with you on the "certain lifestyle" thing. I've gotten used to two decent salaries. Giving one up would mean giving up access to our fun stuff like the motorcycle or trips, and I'm not white there yet. I might be after Ollie comes, but right now we enjoy the freedom afforded by two incomes.
I personally just appreciate that this isn't a board who shames people for how much or little they exercise during pregnancy. I always feel a little bit embarrassed around my IRL prego friends because they all swim or lift or run or keep up their regular routines and I feel like I'm over here ruining my body and probably harming my child because I'm mostly sedentary these days.
Omg one of my good friends is due a few weeks before me. And she's like 5'10", super model thin, looks like she's carrying a walnut sized baby, still exercises daily....and I'm over here trying to decide how many pieces of cake is acceptable to eat at my shower tomorrow 😂
This is pretty much what we did. We spent the last 5 years paying off all of our debt. Now the only debt we have is one car payment (tho we agree we will always have 1 car payment because we like new cars and 1 car paid off), our house, and our rental house (but this brings in income so I don't think it counts. The goal was to pay off all of our debt and then I could stay home or go back to school for a different career. Ultimately once we found out we were having twins I decided I would work 2 days a week at my current job and stay home the rest of the time. We like to love a certain lifestyle so that 2 days a week will allow that to still be the case. And DH loves his job and loves the field he's in so his career is extremely stable. I think it's always great to work towards a goal, whether that goal is opening your own store or staying at home with your kids 😊
I'm with you on the "certain lifestyle" thing. I've gotten used to two decent salaries. Giving one up would mean giving up access to our fun stuff like the motorcycle or trips, and I'm not white there yet. I might be after Ollie comes, but right now we enjoy the freedom afforded by two incomes.
Yes exactly! I'm not continuing to work because we really need the income to pay our bills. But damnit if Carters is nearby and I want to buy baby clothes or if I want to get my hair done every 6 weeks I will do so without feeling guilty because we will have that little bit of extra income.
I just can't with our property manager today. I'm on our condo board. We still don't have a budget we can put up for approval with the owners because our management company overcharged us by $22k for insurance, we got overcharged by the cable company, and we got overcharged by the internet provider (none of which they caught), on top of them not being able to provide details on what we've paid out in each category in the past year.
I tried to be nice and gave the prop mgr a heads-up that the board is going to come up with a list of potential dates for our official meetings (1 per quarter) and send them to her so she can pick the dates based on her schedule. I was extra nice and asked if there was a day of the week we should avoid. I get the usual back from her: Talking down to me, trying to tell us what to do, etc. She just will not stop being annoying and can't seem to accept that she is essentially our employee, we pay her salary, and she's supposed to do what we (the board) want. Not the other way around.
Plus, she's giving me grief saying we need to approve the budget at the first official meeting since we don't have one yet. Hello lady, we were supposed to approve it 3 MONTHS ago and we couldn't because YOU SCREWED UP. We're waiting on YOU and your company to fix it. Then we can approve it. *headdesk*
P.S. We're dropping this company like a hot potato at the end of this year, if not sooner. We were waiting on them to fix the insurance overcharge which they just finally admitted was their fault and we're getting a credit.
I just can't with our property manager today. I'm on our condo board. We still don't have a budget we can put up for approval with the owners because our management company overcharged us by $22k for insurance, we got overcharged by the cable company, and we got overcharged by the internet provider (none of which they caught), on top of them not being able to provide details on what we've paid out in each category in the past year.
I tried to be nice and gave the prop mgr a heads-up that the board is going to come up with a list of potential dates for our official meetings (1 per quarter) and send them to her so she can pick the dates based on her schedule. I was extra nice and asked if there was a day of the week we should avoid. I get the usual back from her: Talking down to me, trying to tell us what to do, etc. She just will not stop being annoying and can't seem to accept that she is essentially our employee, we pay her salary, and she's supposed to do what we (the board) want. Not the other way around.
Plus, she's giving me grief saying we need to approve the budget at the first official meeting since we don't have one yet. Hello lady, we were supposed to approve it 3 MONTHS ago and we couldn't because YOU SCREWED UP. We're waiting on YOU and your company to fix it. Then we can approve it. *headdesk*
P.S. We're dropping this company like a hot potato at the end of this year, if not sooner. We were waiting on them to fix the insurance overcharge which they just finally admitted was their fault and we're getting a credit.
Sounds like this person clearly does not have her shit together. I'm sorry you have to deal with that!
akraus2015 - No, they've dropped the ball so hard on so many things in the past couple years. We finally got to the point where all 7 of us on the board can't stand it anymore. (Me and another board member were over them almost as soon as we got elected to the board.)
akraus2015 - No, they've dropped the ball so hard on so many things in the past couple years. We finally got to the point where all 7 of us on the board can't stand it anymore. (Me and another board member were over them almost as soon as we got elected to the board.)
Are they contracted? Is that why you have to wait to get rid of them?
akraus2015 - No, they've dropped the ball so hard on so many things in the past couple years. We finally got to the point where all 7 of us on the board can't stand it anymore. (Me and another board member were over them almost as soon as we got elected to the board.)
Are they contracted? Is that why you have to wait to get rid of them?
Yes, unfortunately. We actually are contracted with them for a few more years (it was a 5-year contract, I believe), but we talked with our lawyer and had him draw up a replacement contract for this year only which gives us a 1-year "trial" and then can extend further. We wanted them to think we would go back to them, but really we're shopping around and will drop them at the end of the year. Once we have the money from the insurance overcharge, I think we're going to talk to our lawyer again and see if we can break the 1-year contract and just be done.
I try to work out, but I'm in so much pain for days afterward that it's hard to keep up the motivation. I have a 1:1 prenatal class scheduled in a couple of weeks. All the yoga classes here would require so much modification it's not even worth it.
I just found out I have a ride to a Standing Rock solidarity event tonight. I'm excited, but it means I have to get boots at some point (could be snowing in the town where it's being held). And I wish H was going. I only sort of know the person driving me (I trust him, it might just be awkward). Oh well.
I just found out I have a ride to a Standing Rock solidarity event tonight. I'm excited, but it means I have to get boots at some point (could be snowing in the town where it's being held). And I wish H was going. I only sort of know the person driving me (I trust him, it might just be awkward). Oh well.
Good for you for going! Get some boots - gotta keep the feet warm.
FFFC: we got an exercauser for DS1 as a gift and he's never really played with it. We decided this morning that we're going to try to trade it in during BRU's event so we can use the discount to buy a convertible for DS2.. I never actually asked for the exercauser and all it does is take up space in the apartment
Post by akraus2015 on Jan 27, 2017 12:51:20 GMT -5
I just called the cemetery to check on the gravestone we ordered for Emmett back in November. It still hasn't arrived, and when it does they have to wait until it's consistently above 43° before they can install it. Looks like it will be March or April before it's done. Boo.
akraus2015 - Sorry it's taking so long and now you have to wait even longer.
Im just terribly impatient! I keep driving by hoping it will be there and I get disappointed every time it isn't. I guess it's good to have an ETA now though.
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