Post by coozieinmypurse on Jan 25, 2015 9:39:00 GMT -5
My shower was yesterday. Despite sweating the lack of RSVPs a bit, about a dozen ladies showed up and it was wonderful. No games, just conversation, good food, way generous gifts and delicious cake. My only request for the shower was that my hostesses try to get the lady who made our wedding cake (an at-home baker) make the shower cake. They did, the baker bumped the size for me* and we have a ton leftover. I'm totally eating cake for breakfast!
*wedding cake story, briefly. We ordered a large, three-tiered cake. The baker got into a car accident on the way to deliver it. The baker was fine, but the cake was destroyed. She called other clients she was baking for that day and they GAVE us their cakes so that we would have cakes. We ended up with the most delicious options in a totally trendy three-small-cakes arrangements. I thought the baker was fabulous before, but now I will never stop using her for special events. I hope I can pay it forward one day. ETA spelling. I don't know if it is PB or pregnancy brain that is making my typing go to crap.
Post by bluebell0315 on Jan 25, 2015 9:41:17 GMT -5
I freaking hate the Pay It Forward crap at Starbucks. My total is $8.88 every single time. I order the same two drinks every time! It never fails that the car behind me is at least $20, and I feel like I have to pay because the people at the window are giving me "the eye". It's not that I can't pay, it's that I don't budget in all that extra.
My shower was yesterday. Dispite sweating the lack of RSVPs a bit, about a dozen ladies showed up and it was wonderful. No games, just conversation, good food, way generous gifts and delicious cake. My only request for the shower was that my hostesses try to get the lady who made our wedding cake (an at-home baker) make the shower cake. They did, the baker bumped the size for me* and we have a ton leftover. I'm totally eating cake for breakfast!
*wedding cake story, briefly. We ordered a large, three-tiered cake. The baker got into a car accident on the way to deliver it. The baker was fine, but the cake was destroyed. She called other clients she was baking for that day and they GAVE us their cakes so that we would have cakes. We ended up with the most delicious options in a totally trendy three-small-cakes arrangements. I thought the baker was fabulous before, but now I will never stop using her for special events. I hope I can pay it forward one day.
Well now I feel guilty for hating Pay It Forward :/ Your story is cool!
I freaking hate the Pay It Forward crap at Starbucks. My total is $8.88 every single time. I order the same two drinks every time! It never fails that the car behind me is at least $20, and I feel like I have to pay because the people at the window are giving me "the eye". It's not that I can't pay, it's that I don't budget in all that extra.
I think that "Pay it forward" should come without prompting. If they have to remind you, then it's not generosity. Just my opinion.
AFM: Not much going on here. I'll be taking pup to daycare this morning (she's super excited about it) and then H and I will go into town for lunch later this afternoon. Hopefully I'll be able to clean the main level today too.
coozieinmypurse I'm glad you had fun at your shower! And that is awesome about the cake. Too sweet.
I slept until 7:15 this morning! And I only got up once to pee. It's a miracle. Now I'm just waiting for DH to get up so we can go run errand! It's supposed to warm up this afternoon and I'm really hoping it does so I can open up all the windows. I need some sunshine!
I woke up this morning thinking I may be having contractions. Waited it out and realized it was from all the dairy binging I did yesterday. (I'm lactose intolerant and when I go a bit crazy, so does my body.) So horaay!
I hat the SB pay it forward movement too, but not because of cost. My issue is the pretentious self-back-patting over something so unhelpful to society. If people REALLY cared about making a difference, they'd pay it forward at a grocery store, where someone getting free food could make a huge critical impact in their lives. It drives me crazy that people think buying pretentious coffee is helping anyone. People that seriously need that misplaced altruism don't have the money to buy fru fru coffee.
I hat the SB pay it forward movement too, but not because of cost. My issue is the pretentious self-back-patting over something so unhelpful to society. If people REALLY cared about making a difference, they'd pay it forward at a grocery store, where someone getting free food could make a huge critical impact in their lives. It drives me crazy that people think buying pretentious coffee is helping anyone. People that seriously need that misplaced altruism don't have the money to buy fru fru coffee.
OMFG YES, THIS!!!!! What a ridiculous way to feel you've done something generous. Sorry, but it just is so...ridiculous. Even if it is nice, come on, you are helping people who have the spare money to buy absurdly over priced coffee. Also, I think it isn't ok to have the pressure put on you to do it. Maybe you really cannot afford to pay twice what you ordered, there is no way I could! If I decided to stop and treat myself to something like that, I'd already be blowing my budget by my five dollar splurge, I could in no way afford someone else's twenty dollar splurge and I'd have to say no. And I wouldn't feel like an ass. Or I'd pay the amount my order would have been. Oh fucking well. You can't feel guilty about something like that. If you can't afford to give, then that's that. How do people know I don't already make room in my budget for charitable donations to organizations where I'm actually helping people in need??
Post by chilibeansm0m on Jan 25, 2015 10:07:11 GMT -5
Morning ladies.
pele agreed. Pif shouldn't be at sbucks. That's not a necessity. It's a luxury.
I'm really praying for a better day today. I felt like the morning was fantastic when we went out, picture perfect even and then we got home and it all went down hill. Then i feel bad because i have no patience anymore. It's just crappy over here.
R woke up at 630. That's usually when i ignore her and let her be at least til 7 considering how friggin dark it is still. But i had to pee and dh was snoring so i said fuck it. Any toddler mamas have experience with those sleep to wake clocks? I haven't researched but someone on my other bmb mentioned that it's way to stinkin bright like a night light and we don't use one of those so I'm wondering if i would hate it.
Post by frecklesinside on Jan 25, 2015 10:10:16 GMT -5
K took E to a big train show today. The two of them love trains. While I like that K gave me a day to rest and have some time to myself, I'm sad to not go with them, which is what always happens when he tries to give me kid free time!! I'm like, no, lets do something as a family. So today I let him have a daddy daughter date. I couldn't have done it anyhow. Sadly I'm at a point in this pregnancy where I seriously hurt when walking around even a little bit. This would have been wayyyy too much walking for me.
Post by katydid2015 on Jan 25, 2015 10:13:56 GMT -5
Lazy Sunday morning here just hanging out with this girl.
I have a long list of cleaning and organizing that I want to knock a few more things off and I need to go to Trader Joe's. That's about it for me today!
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Post by zebraleg4lunch on Jan 25, 2015 10:19:16 GMT -5
To the whole Starbucks thing; I think it's pretty silly. But I did have a lady once buy my drink at the drive through after she cut me off. I felt like that was more of an apology and appreciated the gesture. Things like charity shouldn't ever be forced. I kind of feel this way about all the Salvation Army ringers at Christmas. I don't support many of the things that organization does but I feel like the ringers all judge me when I don't give them my change.
AFM, we're all moved in which is great but I'm so tired now. We need to go back to our apartment sometime this week and finish cleaning things up. Even though I'm not generally thrilled to be living with the inlaws for the next few months it feels good to be able to start organizing LO's things.
Finally made it over from the other side. My daughter has been waking up unusually early this week. I am really tired, so hoping to have a lazy Sunday after a busy lady couple of days.
Post by shanniegal on Jan 25, 2015 10:24:11 GMT -5
Just caught up with yesterday's randoms. mango That really sucks that they won't let you join the mom group. If there is some stupid zip code rule it seems that they could just let you participate and put a different address or not add you to the "official" roster or something. katydid2015 You described my night routine perfectly - sleep on one side and wake up to pee and have clogged nostril. Go back to bed and sleep on other side to clear nostril, wake up to pee with other nostril clogged. As I'm getting back into bed, I think, which side this time, and take a deep breath to figure out which side is clogged. drudolph11 Male babies do seem to be preferred in Egyptian culture. At our wedding, the first picture we took with guests was one of us with the youngest boy that attended to bring us luck that our first child would be male. (I didn't realize the meaning of this until my husband explained it later. If I had, I would have refused to do it.) My ILs never made a big deal about the sex of the baby before we found out. We are having a boy, so I don't know if they would be any less happy if we were having a girl. My MIL has already made comments about how she hopes the next one is a girl, though. In short, I think there is a cultural preference for males, but it really varies among families.
I hope everyone is having a good weekend. I ended up running errands and cooking all day yesterday, so I'm hoping today I will just get to relax.
Post by frecklesinside on Jan 25, 2015 10:27:35 GMT -5
Also, I had a bad dream that had me waking up super upset with K. I hate when that happens! It is so irrational, but when a dream feels so real, damn, sometimes you wake up feeling pretty hurt by actions not actually done by people IRL. Awkward. K lay there and rubbed my arms and told me sweet things and reminded me it wasn't real...he is super awesome. It took me a good ten minutes to get over it.
It's like when you have a death dream and it is so real you can't get over it. Except I knew, logically, I was being irrational. Tell me I'm not the only one to have done this...
Post by ashleyrh661 on Jan 25, 2015 10:29:33 GMT -5
I'm eating cookies in bed. If only someone would bring me coffee... Picking up DS from spending the night at grandmas and meeting some girlfriends and their kiddos for some Panera and park time today. All three of us ladies are pregnant so I'm sure lots of baby talk will be happening.
Also, I had a bad dream that had me waking up super upset with K. I hate when that happens! It is so irrational, but when a dream feels so real, damn, sometimes you wake up feeling pretty hurt by actions not actually done by people IRL. Awkward. K lay there and rubbed my arms and told me sweet things and reminded me it wasn't real...he is super awesome. It took me a good ten minutes to get over it.
It's like when you have a death dream and it is so real you can't get over it. Except I knew, logically, I was being irrational. Tell me I'm not the only one to have done this...
Nope. Ive had that kind of dream too. I dreamt that I caught my dh with another woman and woke up so hurt and angry asking him why he'd do that. I even pushed his arms away when he tried to hug me the first time. I felt bad about it afterwards, but right after I woke up it still felt so real.
Good morning ladies! Hope you all are planning big days and got some decent sleep. As slept (or more didn't) like absolute crap last night. I had horrible insomnia from about 3-6:30. I was hurting really bad. My vag and inner thigh muscles felt like I had had some really vigorous rough sex. Yeah, that's not happening around here. I guess I just over did it yesterday. Has anyone else had bad vaginal and thigh pain? I don't recall it from previous pregnancies, but maybe I've forgotten. I eventually took some Tylenol and it eased up enough I could sleep.
DH finally helped me yesterday and we got a ton done. We have several boxes to donate, a few for storage, and a couple giant trash bags of crap that just needs to go in the trash. Two large closets cleaned out, one to go. This will make this anxious mama much less anxious. Then I can start bringing baby stuff into the house. Woohoo! So excited!
I went over to the dump last night during my insomnia. Wow what a ghost town! They've decimated that place. I also had a warning. Apparently now asking if "you're fucking kidding me" is considered vulgar and obscene. Nice! Glad to see a few of our stragglers are finally making it over here. My warning got me wondering who amongst us has already been banned and who's gotten warnings?
Post by lawsonellis on Jan 25, 2015 10:51:20 GMT -5
Morning all! I slept like crap so I said eff it and now I'm up.
My blessingway is today! Never been to one, so this should be cool!
Re: the dump I don't wanna log in to see if I'm banned yet, although I've requested multiple account and content deletions and I've violated the TOU enough to warrant a banning. I hope I am- although I didn't have a huge pile of content since is only been there since July.
Also- let's all strive to stay out of L&D this week, yeah?
Morning all! I slept like crap so I said eff it and now I'm up.
My blessingway is today! Never been to one, so this should be cool!
Re: the dump I don't wanna log in to see if I'm banned yet, although I've requested multiple account and content deletions and I've violated the TOU enough to warrant a banning. I hope I am- although I didn't have a huge pile of content since is only been there since July.
Also- let's all strive to stay out of L&D this week, yeah?
You're still there. I'm lurking this morning, but there's nothing worth picking at.
Post by starsailor26 on Jan 25, 2015 10:54:02 GMT -5
Morning all! I spent most of yesterday getting things done around the house and baby prepping. We cleaned out a bunch of things, washed baby clothes, DH put the bassinet together. I feel like we finally made progress. Then DH and I had date night and it was nice to have some alone time. Today will be busy with errands and more around the house but yay for getting things done.
Post by chilibeansm0m on Jan 25, 2015 10:54:24 GMT -5
Not banned. I signed out everywhere i was saved and stripped out my siggy and avatar. I think I'm officially done going back there. The amount of threads they deleted from m15 is insane.
mbbach5715 A lot of us have found the mobile desktop version easier to use than the app. I can't even get the app to work FFS, but since I've seen so many say desktop is easier I figured fuck it.
So I'm having sooooo many problems with this site! I miss my daily bumping! Any suggestions on how to navigate this easier? I am mostly Mobil.
Tapachat is the app for this site. It starts out confusing and hard to navigate, but mine has been 'learning' where I want to go, and now when I open it, it usually is only one to two taps away from where I want.
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