Welcome, okienurse, and congrats on your new sweet baby! How is your nephew liking having a little one around?
Thank you! He definitely loves him now. It was tough for the first several weeks. We've had him since he was six months old, so he's always received all of our attention. He is starting to try to be a big helper, so that's been great to see!
Welcome, okienurse, and congrats on your new sweet baby! How is your nephew liking having a little one around?
Thank you! He definitely loves him now. It was tough for the first several weeks. We've had him since he was six months old, so he's always received all of our attention. He is starting to try to be a big helper, so that's been great to see!
I think there's a transition period for all big siblings. He'll love having him around eventually. Maybe not for 20 years or so, but ... eventually
Hi! I'm 35, white and a Catholic turned Buddhist turned Hindu. DH is 34 Indian and Hindu. We've been together 11 years, married 9, and I am currently pregnant with our first biological child together. I have a 15 year old daughter Artis, who's white, and we have a 12 year old son Evan, who's Indian, who is DH's and his first wife's biological son, who I adopted shortly after DH and I married.
Post by pennsatucky on Jun 30, 2015 22:04:30 GMT -5
Hi everyone! I decided to come out of lurkdom. DH and I have been together for almost 11 years, married 5. We grew up in the same town, me Jewish and him a mix of Armenian Catholic and Episcopal. We're TTC #1 after a rough few weeks (our grandmothers died within 9 days of each other and it was a wake up call as to why we were waiting for kids). I'm already dreading, though, the conversations with both of our families. Neither one of us are religious or have strong ties to the religions we were raised in. So it should be an interesting journey to navigate.
Post by swedishmamma on Jul 6, 2015 7:31:00 GMT -5
Hello ladies! DH and I have now been together for three years, married for 18 months. DH is South Korean, and I'm white and Swedish, and we are both atheists, though DH came from a Buddhist background, and I come from a Protestant one. I have two white adult children from my first marriage, and we also have our son who we adopted from South Korea last year whose little brother we are also going to adopt. We are also currently seeing REs with the hopes of TTCing some time this year with donor eggs.
Warning:Children and Loss Mentioned Me:49; primenopausal, diminished ovarian reserve | MH:45; fully fertile DS1, DD1 and DD2 born November 9 1994 at 33 weeks gestation; we lost DD2 six hours later; DS1 and DD1 are happy and healthy 20 year olds DS2 born June 5 2014, adopted and brought home June 7 2014 DS3 born and adopted July 29 2015, arrived home August 3 2015 Hopefully starting IVF with donor eggs ASAP
Warning:Children and Loss Mentioned Me:49; primenopausal, diminished ovarian reserve | MH:45; fully fertile DS1, DD1 and DD2 born November 9 1994 at 33 weeks gestation; we lost DD2 six hours later; DS1 and DD1 are happy and healthy 20 year olds DS2 born June 5 2014, adopted and brought home June 7 2014 DS3 born and adopted July 29 2015, arrived home August 3 2015 Hopefully starting IVF with donor eggs ASAP
Hi everyone! My husband and I have been together for five years, married for two and are soon to start IVF. I also have a son called Finn from my first marriage who is six. My husband was raised Catholic, but has since left the Catholic church, and though he still identifies as Christian, he isn't part of a specific church, but is looking. I was raised protestant, but converted to Asatru in my teens, and I'm also raising Finn as Asatru, and we will be raising my husband and I's children as Asatru too.
Welcome, morveng! If you'll excuse my ignorance, what is Asatru? I could Google, but I'd be more interested to hear from you!
It's basically the modern version of the original religion of the Nordic people before Christianity reached the area. Most of us now view the gods themselves as largely metaphorical, but we still follow the ancient traditions. My main gods are Thor and Freyja, but Loki and Odin are major ones as well.
Post by daisyflower on Jul 27, 2015 5:29:57 GMT -5
Hi! I'm Cate, 29, Creole, from Louisiana, and am a long since lapsed Catholic. My FI, who is also 29, is a Teutonic-looking as you like Belgian, and is an atheist. We have been together for seven years, and got engaged last month. Our three year old son Sebastien, and the baby I am pregnant with, are mixed race, but Sebastien passes for completely white a lot, and sometimes if I'm out with him without my FI, we get odd looks.
daisyflower, Hi! And congrats on your pregnancy! When are you due? Lol my H is as Aryan looking as can possible be, I'm Korean, so I'm interested to see whether our LO will look more white or Asian.
Post by daisyflower on Jul 27, 2015 13:19:43 GMT -5
kaeguri, I'm due January 26. I think that's one of the most interesting things about being pregnant, wondering what they are going to look like. We are actually wondering this time if the new baby will look more like FI and Seb, or like me.
Welcome, daisyflower, and congrats on your pregnancy!
@jboogie, the LT is for you joining us here--welcome!--not for your H's crazy family shenanigans. I really hope your trip next month isn't too stressful.
Hi everyone! I'm Li, I'm Chinese, DH is white and we live in a small island off the coast of Scotland. My two eldest kids and I are the only non-white people on the island, which can be problematic sometimes.
I have a 12 year old daughter and a 7 year old son, both of whom are fully Chinese, and I have a 4 year old foster son, who is fully white, whom I am hoping to adopt soon. DH and I are also TTC our first together.
Lately, DH's nephews and sister in law have taken to Facebook waving around confederate flags even though they are from the Northwest. I want nothing to do with them and DH understands. It should be an interesting time when we do our once a year visit to see his parents next month. I hope you all are ok with me whining here through that.
Are they from Idaho, by any chance? Idaho apparently has the largest population of white supremacists in the US. FUN!
I do't know if we really count as interracial or interfaith, but you can read this and then tell me to go away if I'm not, haha.
I personally have always struggled with how to identify myself racially. My mother is white, and my biological father is a brown Arab, so I'm caucasian, but not white, if that makes any sense. I'm also a Pagan.
DH is white and pretty much an atheist. He was raised as an Evangelical Lutheran, and partially Angelican, but has abandoned that, and participates in my Pagan celebrations.
We currently have no children and are TTA, but are trying to find ourselves a surrogate. We will be having IVF in January to make embryos for our surrogacy later on.
Post by bonzo2012 on Sept 28, 2015 10:23:22 GMT -5
elin, we're a welcoming group so I think if you identify as interracial there's no problem with you joining in! You might also find the interfaith discussions useful if you're both practicing as pagan but his family is still Lutheran; I'm sure similar issues come up around holidays and traditions and such! Welcome to the board!
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