Board Check In 8/24

[bonzo2012]

Well, we bought the car on Saturday! Went with the Subaru Forester, and so far I love it. It's a little weird to be up higher than in the Civic, but even just for grocery shopping I loved the cargo room! It's definitely going to be a great car once we have a kid.

After the car on Saturday we had a pretty lazy Sunday, something I've been looking forward to for a while now!

How was everyone else's weekend? Any big plans for the week?

[toratoratori]

Congrats on the new car, bonzo2012! I think I want a Subaru for our next car, but we'll have to see how many kids we end up with. I may have to go with something bigger than what they currently offer :x

In unrelated news: I'M IN DENMARK! Copenhagen is so awesome, you guys. It reminds me a lot of New York, actually, but a lot cleaner, and with a lot more natural light (because the buildings aren't ridiculously tall). Being away from C is hard, but I FaceTimed with her today and that helped perk both of us up. (My hubs told me she's been fussy since I left - it's going to be a long two weeks for him!)

kaeguri and ladyannibal - how are your girls?

dashook - any slow down at the new job?

lecky11 - how's that bean cooking?

[bonzo2012]

Thanks toratoratori! How many kids are you hoping for? Our current hope is 2, so I think the Subaru will be the perfect size for us. I reserve the right to change my mind on that, though I really don't want to drive anything bigger!

Denmark sounds great! I've never been there, but everyone I know who has says it's wonderful. Make sure to see the Little Mermaid statue if you like Hans Christian Andersen!

[lecky11]

Congrats on the new car bonzo2012!

I'm glad you're enjoying Denmark toratoratori! It makes me sad that my dad was in the Air Force and we never got to go overseas with him. Oh well. I'll get there one day sooner rather than later! The bean is killing me slowly. Lol. It's not as bad as last time, but I can't just wallow in my misery since I've gotta take care of G. Good luck to you guys on still deciding how many kids you want, this is it for me!! I always wanted 4, but getting pregnant cut that number in half real quick!

[ladyannibal]

My girl is doing great! We've discovered she likes Disney music played on the piano, so we've been listening to that all day. It's hard to believe that she is six weeks old. She looks more and more like me everyday.

[bonzo2012]

ladyannibal, that's so cute that she likes piano Disney music! Do you play the piano, or do you have CDs of it on piano?

[ladyannibal]

We have it on CD's so that I can play them anytime. I wish I knew how to play and would love to learn someday.

[bonzo2012]

CDs are the way to go! I wish I knew how to play the piano too. My mom put me in lessons when I was a kid, but I just couldn't do the left hand!

[kaeguri]

Hi guys! E is doing great, my mom is in town and they're in love with each other. My mom is trying to teach my 3 week old Korean nursery rhymes and it's hilarious and cute. However, if my mom mentions religion one more time to me, I'm putting her on the first plane back to Alaska. (she's a Jehovah's Witness, I left that religion a few years back and my mom refuses to let it go. Sigh.)

Y'all are reminding me, I want to go buy a keyboard or something. There's no room for my piano in our apt, but I want at least a keyboard so I can play for E. I took 10 years of lessons and almost majored in music, then I realized my job options were limited to teaching since performing is pretty hard to come by. I'm not a teacher type. No patience. I tried to teach my nephew, but after the 472nd time of hearing twinkle twinkle I pretty much lost it lol.

Have fun in Denmark toratoratori!

lecky11, I wanted 2. After the first one, I"m seriously debating adopting the second lol. Do not like being pregnant. My water breaking was the happiest day of my life.

[lecky11]

Aug 26, 2015 10:19:01 GMT -5 kaeguri said:

Hi guys! E is doing great, my mom is in town and they're in love with each other. My mom is trying to teach my 3 week old Korean nursery rhymes and it's hilarious and cute. However, if my mom mentions religion one more time to me, I'm putting her on the first plane back to Alaska. (she's a Jehovah's Witness, I left that religion a few years back and my mom refuses to let it go. Sigh.)

Y'all are reminding me, I want to go buy a keyboard or something. There's no room for my piano in our apt, but I want at least a keyboard so I can play for E. I took 10 years of lessons and almost majored in music, then I realized my job options were limited to teaching since performing is pretty hard to come by. I'm not a teacher type. No patience. I tried to teach my nephew, but after the 472nd time of hearing twinkle twinkle I pretty much lost it lol.

Have fun in Denmark toratoratori!

lecky11, I wanted 2. After the first one, I"m seriously debating adopting the second lol. Do not like being pregnant. My water breaking was the happiest day of my life.

I don't blame you. I know it's bad, but the first thought I had after they delivered G (besides shock that there was actually a tiny human growing in me) was thank God I'm not pregnant anymore. If I had the money, we'd have a surrogate right now. Lol! I already told DH, we are making his appointment to get snipped before I even leave the hospital with this one.

[toratoratori]

Aug 25, 2015 13:29:42 GMT -5 bonzo2012 said:

Thanks toratoratori! How many kids are you hoping for? Our current hope is 2, so I think the Subaru will be the perfect size for us. I reserve the right to change my mind on that, though I really don't want to drive anything bigger!

Denmark sounds great! I've never been there, but everyone I know who has says it's wonderful. Make sure to see the Little Mermaid statue if you like Hans Christian Andersen!

We had talked about 3 if everything goes well with #2. C has been such a delight that I worry the next one is going to be a devil monster baby to make up for it

Also, I'm about to sound really dumb right now, but I totally didn't know Hans Christian Andersen was Danish (or like, a big deal at all) until I started prepping for this trip. Oops.

[dashook]

Hi ladies! Sorry to bump the thread but it's the first time I've been able to log in all week. Work is still nutso, but really good. I'm enjoying the work and starting to settle into something resembling a routine with my commute and LO's daycare schedule, etc.

Yesterday was my firm's annual summer outing (yummy food and open bar) so that was a lot of fun, but of course the hours I spent there were hours I was not billing, so I might have to do some work this weekend--boo! Socializing with my colleagues is also important though obviously :b

Re: number of kids and pregnancy, I think I am in the huge minority because I absolutely loved being pregnant and am so excited to do it again! H and I want at least 3 kids; ideally 4 but we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. Plus I don't really want to have kids much past 35 so the 4 kids thing would put us on a pretty rushed timetable since I'm turning 31 on Monday...

Anyway glad to hear all of your updates and I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!