annbuhdan, my mom never remembers my birthday. One year she sent me a birthday gift with my significant other at the time's birthday gifts. My birthday is in September, his was in December. I don't expect anyone to remember birthdays or anniversaries.
The baby has been really wiggily today.. I'm hoping the movement will induce labor rather than me needing to be induced in a few weeks.
Speaking of.. I realized I will be pregnant less than 3 weeks from this point.
I put together our City Select. It is so tall with the car seat and second seat that it is going to look like a driverless stroller is maneuvering around.
Haha, this will be me too. We actually started taking DD on walks with the City Select and the car seat already installed so that we're used to it (and she is used to it as well). One person saw us and was like, "Wow, three." I assume she thinks we have an infant, toddler, and are pregnant with a third already, heh.
I can't believe some of you have everything done. We have so much left to do. I know we won't actually get through our to-do list before the babies come, it's just a question of how much won't be done.
I can't believe some of you have everything done. We have so much left to do. I know we won't actually get through our to-do list before the babies come, it's just a question of how much won't be done.
It's ok!! Just make sure your list is prioritized by what needs to be done before babies are here and what can wait.
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annbuhdan, I remembered it was your 5 year! But because it's mine too My mom volunteered to watch B this weekend because it's our anniversary but then when I was leaving I mentioned that I had to pick up a card she asked why. Lol. Also, my MIL freaked on DH like 7 years ago for forgetting to call on her anniversary, but hasn't remembered ours once...
We had dinner at Chart House in Annapolis. It was really good. On the drive here we stopped at a sandwich shop for lunch but they didn't have a public bathroom that I saw so we decided to hit what I thought was a supermarket after. It was an indoor Amish market. We bought sooo many yummy snacks. Oops.
I just got to sleep in with zero reason to get up for the first time in over two years! I will ignore the two hours I was up in the MOTN due to insomnia, because it feels so good to just wake up when my body is ready.
Post by coffeequeen14 on Jul 10, 2016 7:58:48 GMT -5
I got peed on last night.
I woke up in the middle of the night thinking wtf? Why is my water spilling on me when I realized my two year old who was put to bed by H had no undies on and was pending everywhere. Awesome. I swear H does a crappy job with bed time routine just so he doesn't have I do it regularly. He often neglects to brush their teeth, remind them to potty and uh wear clothes.
So much to do today.
Also, I'm 1000% certain I want to SAHM. The question now is when. I plan to go back at least for a bit through the holidays because it's a big time of year for my job prep for the next fiscal year and I don't want to leave them high and dry. Bonuses pay out in February. Do I stick around until then? If I do....might as well stick around another four months until June to have a year as a director in my new role, right? But then I will have worked so much longer than I want to. Help.
Post by coffeequeen14 on Jul 10, 2016 8:06:13 GMT -5
joy I lived in a small Town house when my boys were born. I did say no thank you to a few hand me down offers for space reasons. It was too stressful to take in additional stuff. If it stresses you out, pass it on to someone who needs it. We now live in the burbs so I have room for storage. I take all hand me downs!!!
I accept all the hand me downs! A lot of the stuff we have gotten I turned around and gave to goodwill because the condition was so poor or the sizes were huge. I have teacher friends who cleaned out their classroom for the summer and had 2 rubber totes filled with clothes. Went through but none would work for us so took the OK clothes to the consignment shop, they bought 4.50 worth then took the rest to goodwill. So basically friend gifted us 4.50 for helping clean their classroom. With the 4.50 we bought the 2 yr old a fancy night lite.
I also just cleaned out the too small clothes and shoes from the 2 yr olds room and will do the same thing with the exception of if the consignment shop doesn't want them, they're going to the foster kid placement group.
*soap box* By the way, if you end up with too many clothes, toys, diapers that you can't hand down to anyone, get in touch with your local DCF. A lot of kids that are placed into foster care have nothing except what the placement family has available. There are support groups that get little bags together of essentials like donated clothes, diapers and sometimes toys. Then the kids actually have things of "their own", which is a big deal for anyone. *end soap box*
I can't believe some of you have everything done. We have so much left to do. I know we won't actually get through our to-do list before the babies come, it's just a question of how much won't be done.
Oh I could take a pic of our apartment to show you just how NOT done we are but I won't because it's too awful. There is stuff everywhere! Crib, stroller, carseat and base, a kitchen cabinet and a dishwasher waiting to be installed, empty cardboard boxes and so much more. Our list just seems to grow, not get shorter.
The dishwasher was supposed to be installed on Thursday but when they came with it it turned out the flooring underneath wasn't even so now we need to fix that and the actual dishwasher is just sitting in the middle of the kutchen still wrapped in plastic. We need to clean out our storage room so we can move that kitchen cabinet in there and to make room so we can store the stroller and carseat there. Crib will stay in living room until baby is here since we plan to sidecar it to our bed. Doing it now would block off my easy roll out of bed which is necessary for the ten billion nightly bathroom visits.
We've bought all the things we will need for the baby in the first weeks but I still have things to wash and sort so there's bags of that just hanging around. So NOT ready!
Oh good, this sounds much more similar to how I live my life. Glad I'm not alone. Our babies will survive, right?
I've always wanted to raise my kids in a beautiful organized home with fresh baked goods etc. But I've started to accept that I will never be that mom.
bocaburger huge hugs!! We now have zero things set up for the babies. The only things I have are clothing and diapers. I plan to eventually wash the pack and play but with selling our house we can't have much out at all... Sort of terrifying but meh with miss c we lived in a one bedroom and she survived she used a pack and play until we were able to figure out a crib and didn't have any fun things until we sorted out getting some hand me downs from friends
So I went to install the base for the car seat, only to notice that one of them is cracked and damaged. This was a hand me down from my cousin, who I trust completely. But we've had it in storage for almost a year, and I'm assuming that's how it was damaged... now I'm nervous that if one base is bad, something bad happened to the carrier as well. DH and I agree that getting a new infant carrier is the safest route, so now I just need to find one.
Any of you ladies have a good recommendations? looking for light weight, under $150, and an affordable second base. We were given a Britrax B Safe, and I might just buy the new one, but I was wondering what suggestions you ladies had....
I did a lot of research & bought the BSafe-35 which is the newer version of the Bsafe
katelm, we were given the old B Safe. After a full inspection it's fine and we're going to just buy a new base for DH'S car. Some one (dh) admitted they may or may not have dropped the based.... but the carrier and other base are just fine
bocaburger my to-do list is never ending & the house is a mess. I so wish I was one of those people that could have a clean organized house. But I'm not, I have ADD and there is so much clutter & I clean out every now & then but get overwhelmed & distracted trying to make so many decisions.
I know I'll just have less time from here on out sooo good enough will have to do
katelm, we were given the old B Safe. After a full inspection it's fine and we're going to just buy a new base for DH'S car. Some one (dh) admitted they may or may not have dropped the based.... but the carrier and other base are just fine
Haha oh boy! At least he admitted it so you don't have to get a new everything.
Feeling happy because I finally made a little bit of progress on packing a hospital bag. But now I'm procrastinating finishing it.
We got our Dutalier (custom order) glider from buy buy baby the other day & set it up last night. I loveeee it!! So comfy & it reclines slightly & I love the gliding ottoman footrest
katelm , we were given the old B Safe. After a full inspection it's fine and we're going to just buy a new base for DH'S car. Some one (dh) admitted they may or may not have dropped the based.... but the carrier and other base are just fine
Haha oh boy! At least he admitted it so you don't have to get a new everything.
Yeah... as long as the carrier is still good, I'm ok. There is a part of me that thinks we should just get the new britrax carrier and base, (cousin gave us the stroller too) but it just feels like so much money to spend just b/c I'm neurotic.
Post by gratefulgirl on Jul 10, 2016 10:50:43 GMT -5
bocaburger - I just took cleaning and organizing off my todo list. I can bake and cook, but cleaning and keeping organized are my nemeses. With DH's recovery going so slow right now it just is not happening well. So we'll have a home that is not deep cleaned for ages. It stinks a bit for upkeep, but I can't work PT, do all parenting, make most of our meals, handle my GD diet, and deep clean (or even do all the regular cleaning I should).
So my list includes I cleaning tasks so it can all get done
bocaburger my to-do list is never ending & the house is a mess. I so wish I was one of those people that could have a clean organized house. But I'm not, I have ADD and there is so much clutter & I clean out every now & then but get overwhelmed & distracted trying to make so many decisions.
I know I'll just have less time from here on out sooo good enough will have to do
I really think I have ADD also after reading the experiences of some other ADD moms. Is there anything you do to manage it? I have toyed with the idea of reaching out to someone for life management techniques. It would make DH happier if I could manage a bit more smoothly. I just am not capable on my own no matter what I try.
Have any of you ever had pinkish tinted urine? I noticed it for the first time this morning and it doesn't seem to be pink discharge because when I wipe it is clear
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