H is back at work, I was awake from 3.30 - 6.15 between getting up with L and pregnancy insomnia, and of course all the caffeinated drinks I've been relying on to get me through rough days are now off the menu. Never mind...
Hope everyone has a good day, and there's only Friday to go after this!
Post by heartofglass on Apr 14, 2016 5:44:09 GMT -5
I feel like I've been hit by a truck. Every muscle in my upper body aches from trying to hold A all night. These molars might be the death of me. That and I'm assuming we're in some sort of growth spurt because he is nursing likes he's starving every 2 hours at night. Hats off to all the moms that are pregnant now or already had LO's I don't know how y'all do it. purple you can have just a little caffeine, right? Just to help you function a little. budders I'm glad you got some snuggles yesterday and at least V got a good nights rest!
Morning! We're going to baby storytime this morning & getting some new library books and then going to open gym time at Gymboree. It's going to be super nice outside again, so yay for getting outdoors!
Post by blueskiessmiling on Apr 14, 2016 6:36:09 GMT -5
purple Pregnancy insomnia is a cruel, cruel joke. And even harder, I'm sure, with a wakeful baby. Is all of your gallbladder testing on hold now that you're pregnant?
Today is storytime day! DD really seems to be enjoying it so much lately. We always do a song with bells and she's started clapping when she sees the librarian get the basket out that holds the bells. So cute! Then hopefully we can get some outside time in today. Yay for this beautiful sunny weather!
Good morning! The sore throat I had on Monday just won't go away. I have this nuisance cold (not anything terrible, but just enough to make me feel sub-par) all week, and I'm so sick of it. Today I've hit the "I can't really use my voice and sound like a man" phase. Really hoping it gets out of here by the weekend.
On a positive note, the new coffee table and end table we ordered almost two months ago are finally getting delivered today! Yay! Can't wait to see them
Post by pghtruelove on Apr 14, 2016 7:50:01 GMT -5
Things on the family shared calendar today, "Liz Hair Shit 10am" "DUDE PERFECT SHOW 9pm" I didn't put in either of those things. Super pumped to get my hair done today Other than that we aren't doing anything. Maybe going to the park. Oh I need to go get SO a polo for tomorrow. We are having family pictures taken.
Post by billyhorrible on Apr 14, 2016 7:56:43 GMT -5
Good morning. My lack of sleep is totally catching up to me. I realized last night I royally screwed up plans for this weekend. I didn't read an invitation closely enough and thought we had two birthday parties scheduled for Saturday. I RSVPd yes to one, no to the other, and got us tickets for a baseball game with LBB's team on Sunday. Last night I realized the party I said yes to is Sunday not Saturday. At the same time as the game.
Post by pghtruelove on Apr 14, 2016 7:58:47 GMT -5
I'm super jealous of everyone that lives in the UK right now. My favorite band from when I was a teenager(who broke up) is touring there next month. I've been trying to get SO to take me. I almost bought tickets for myself. I'm super lame.
tiffbot when are you going to Maui again? Mh's grandma emailed me last week to look at condos so she can book it. If we go it will probably be Feb or early March 2017. Would be funny if we end up there at the same time!
Oh hey Im right here! Aw end Dec/start January! Boo! Wouldn't that have been funny though, we live closish on the grand scale of things and we ended up meeting each other in Maui haha. And awesome! Hope you get to go!!
Morning! I have had a super crappy week. DH is being a whiny jerk and now B is teething and has the runny nose to go with it. On top of that my Grandma isn't doing well, she lives on the other side of the country so we aren't able to go see her. My mom is flying to see her this weekend so I have to drive her to the airport tomorrow. I am hoping to get a little shopping in so I can find a dress for B's baptism. We have to plan her baptism and birthday which are within 3 weeks of each other. I also just realized that I will be pretty much solo parenting from this weekend until the end of June. DH works his regular job during the day, which is long hours. He has to get everything ready for seeding and then seeding starts so any "free" time he has will be spent in the field. Ugh! I hate complaining so much! Sorry for being a Debbie Downer.
I had the dumbest dream in the history of dreams last night.
I was in a storage unit looking place with hundreds of boards of wood. I would take one down, measure it - height, width and length- write it down in a notebook and move it to another pile. This dream felt like it went on for hours. So dumb.
Morning everyone. I'm working from home this morning, heading to the doctors office for my first visit, but it's just with the nurse to go over medical history. My first OB appt isn't until the end of the month, lame. Then I'm off to work, gym and then finally home. Basic Thursday, nothing too fun over here.
Oh and I just got an email from the lady who is going to do 1 year photos for E! Time to spiral on Pinterest to look for outfit inspirations. I told her we wanted a few as a family, I'm so excited!
I had the dumbest dream in the history of dreams last night.
I was in a storage unit looking place with hundreds of boards of wood. I would take one down, measure it - height, width and length- write it down in a notebook and move it to another pile. This dream felt like it went on for hours. So dumb.
I'm really laughing hard at this dream.
That's some next level inventory shit.
Right? Like all my fried brain could come with was a redundant menial task to dream about. Hmph where is my sex dream?!
heartofglass, yes, I'm still drinking tea. I take it fairly weak without milk or sugar, so it's not much caffeine but it's very comforting and definitely helps keep me going!
@blueskiessmiling, pregnancy insomnia was my least favourite thing last time and it's already worse this time! Yes, gallbladder investigations have been postponed, unless the symptoms get worse. They can do an endoscopy whilst you're pregnant but they prefer not to.
@wwprestige, it wasn't any longer than her usual naps, but I did manage to nap during L's second nap today, and it helped.
mbjune13, so sorry to hear about your grandma. And good luck with the solo parenting. Make sure your H gives you plenty of time to yourself come July!
We're currently at Granny's house. I'm hiding in the spare bedroom with my phone and L is playing downstairs. If the weather had been nicer I was going to go for a walk. Next week I'm hoping to increase L's time alone here to 3/4 of an hour. I know she'd be fine for longer, but my mum's quite nervous so I'm trying to break her in gently.
Good morning everyone! M is feeling so much better and she can go back to school today. Yesterday after school we had a staff meeting with the superintendent and I feel like she actually listened to me. M got into her swim lessons, so we start in 2 weeks. We miss one week for a trip but I'm okay with that. Hopefully she loves them.
L adores her swimming lessons. We're back on Monday after a two week break and I'm so excited to see her face when she realises where we are. Hope M will love it too!
Sorry to hear about your grandma mbjune13. Well wishes to her. Good luck with seeding and everything else. Hopefully this weather keeps up and he doesn't get much for delays!
Post by prettymama36 on Apr 14, 2016 10:21:46 GMT -5
Hi everyone! I've been lurking lately. Between O getting three teeth in a week..why??..and generally life insanity, I've had little time to get on here. Trying to catch up now. Today is H's birthday and the weather is messing with my plans to bbq. Random...we were at Carters yesterday and some twit mom says to me, "oooh you know they really recommend that toddlers don't use a bottle". Umm...What??? I don't think I've ever been so stunned by stupid in my life. O is not quite ten months, 31 inches, maybe 25 pounds. He's a big baby, but not "freak of nature" big by any means, and clearly still a baby. Even if he was three, GTFO with saying anything about it! I've pretty much escaped any of these stupid comments from people this time around because, three kids and all but I kind of lost it. mbjune13 sorry to hear your Grandma isn't doing well. I hope she feels better soon.
Post by blueskiessmiling on Apr 14, 2016 11:20:59 GMT -5
purple I had my endoscopy for the same issues last week and woke up high as a kite from the sedative. I said some pretty off the wall things to my doctor, to which he responded "Enjoy those good drugs!". Hopefully your symptoms will be manageable until Baby #2 arrives!
Happy Thursday! My friend had her twin girls this morning via scheduled c-section. The only details I know is that everyone is healthy and happy. Majorly jealous of my sister who gets to go see those new babies today. I'll have to schedule a time to bring them all dinner after they're home and settled.
Another friend is becoming a mom today via adoption. She lost two babies around 30 weeks within a year of one another. It was absolutely devastating. She has been very open about her experience with that kind of grief but it has been heartbreaking to know about all of it. I'm not exactly sure how she knows the birth mother but she found out last week that the mother wanted to give her baby to her. So she's had a week to get ready for her baby that she gets to bring home. I am beyond excited for her and her husband to finally get to start their parenting journey. PDQ her story
purple did you guys ever decide when to tell your families? Are you going to wait until after 12 weeks?
I just found out today that I'm having my first appointment with the consultant and first scan on Tuesday. I'll be about seven weeks. We're going away for a long weekend with my parents next Friday and they will notice if I don't have a drink, so since we'll have a scan photo to show, we'll probably tell them then but swear them to secrecy.
We don't see H's parents as frequently, but we will tell them when we do see them.
As for making it public, we'll almost certainly leave it till after Laura's birthday, so that her party can be just about her.
Busy week at work for me, which is a nice change of pace.
H and I have been talking a lot and more seriously about selling our house this summer and taking over my mom's house. I'm getting really excited. I always dreamed of fixing up my mom's house and with the potential profits on our house we're going to have more than enough money to make it amazing.
So we've made a list of the last few projects we need to do at our house to make it really desirable for buyers. My H thinks we've over-renovated our house and I'm beginning to wonder if I should have scaled back on the finishes, but of course I had no idea the market would shoot up as much as it has in the past 2.5 years and that we'd be in this house such a short time.
Anyways, my cousin just accepted an offer on his house for $35K over their asking price. Their house is 500sqft smaller than ours and definitely not as nice, so we are really excited to see how much we'll get.
I've never sold a house before so I don't really know where to start other than getting a realtor.
Anyone have advice? Also, does anyone know anything about transferring a house title to a family member?
Oh! I just remembered my dream from last night. It was really strange and random. H and I were trying to find secret places for ST while traveling the country with our families in an RV. He bought me a miniature hippopotamus that would only be 2 feet long when fully grown. It kept biting me. And we left O with my mom so we could play with the hippo. Then I really had to pee and couldn't find a toilet...so I woke up to go to the bathroom.
Busy week at work for me, which is a nice change of pace.
H and I have been talking a lot and more seriously about selling our house this summer and taking over my mom's house. I'm getting really excited. I always dreamed of fixing up my mom's house and with the potential profits on our house we're going to have more than enough money to make it amazing.
So we've made a list of the last few projects we need to do at our house to make it really desirable for buyers. My H thinks we've over-renovated our house and I'm beginning to wonder if I should have scaled back on the finishes, but of course I had no idea the market would shoot up as much as it has in the past 2.5 years and that we'd be in this house such a short time.
Anyways, my cousin just accepted an offer on his house for $35K over their asking price. Their house is 500sqft smaller than ours and definitely not as nice, so we are really excited to see how much we'll get.
I've never sold a house before so I don't really know where to start other than getting a realtor.
Anyone have advice? Also, does anyone know anything about transferring a house title to a family member?
Exciting! We're getting our house ready for the market now - it sounds like you've already done a lot of work, so the main things are just decluttering, decluttering, and some more decluttering. I'm already starting to pack up most of the pictures/random things around the house, and our basement is starting to be box central. We're also packing away winter clothes and other things we know we won't need before we move in the fall, basically just to make your house look like it has as much space as possible. Our realtor told us to pick one area to put all the crap so the rest of the house looks nice. Then, just making sure any obvious minor repairs are done - H has been walking around the house with a cup of paint touching up marks on the walls, making sure doors don't squeek, etc. Once you're at the point you're at, just do what you can to make things look nice for essentially no money, it sounds like it's not worth it to put any more big money into your house at this point. No advice on the title transfer, but good luck - sounds exciting!
jillywilly House stuff is so exciting! My plan is to move all of the clutter over to my mom's house already before we list the house LOL. We definitely have a lot of junk, especially with all of the toys people keep giving Gianna. We're going to wait until after her birthday to list so we have probably 3 months to get things done but I want to get started now so we don't leave everything up to the last minute. How long have you been talking to a realtor for? I'm wondering if we should meet with one now but also kind of want to wait until we have some of our projects finished and get the house really decluttered.
jillywilly House stuff is so exciting! My plan is to move all of the clutter over to my mom's house already before we list the house LOL. We definitely have a lot of junk, especially with all of the toys people keep giving Gianna. We're going to wait until after her birthday to list so we have probably 3 months to get things done but I want to get started now so we don't leave everything up to the last minute. How long have you been talking to a realtor for? I'm wondering if we should meet with one now but also kind of want to wait until we have some of our projects finished and get the house really decluttered.
We got really serious about the idea of building a new house about a month ago now, so that's when we called our realtor. She came over before we decluttered or did anything and gave us a rough estimate to confirm we could get what we thought we could out of the current house. We also had her get us into a few listings of existing homes, just to compare before we 100% to building the house that we finally decided on. Getting started early is a good idea - especially with DS around, I figure it's way easier to do a few boxes every weekend rather than a mass cleaning right before the house gets listed. So I think if you want to meet with one now, I don't think it would be the worst idea, especially if you don't have one you like that you've worked with recently before, if you need to, you can feel a couple out They won't care initially if your house is perfect or not, they've seen enough houses to be able to look past that and just assess the value. They can probably also give you any tips at that point if there's anything specific you should do to your house to make it more appealing to buyers. Right now we're just waiting around for the permit to come through for the new house, but we're planning on calling our realtor again at the end of this month, with the hopes of the listing going live around mid-May. She told us to plan for roughly 30 days on market, 45 days in escrow, and then we can see if the buyer will negotiate for us to have possession past closing. H is terrified our house will sit longer (although there's no reason for this, he's just a worst case scenario guy), so our back-up plan if the house sells too fast is to live with my parents for a month or two. But we need the money out of our house for closing funds, whereas you're lucky in that you probably have more flexibility taking possession of your mom's house.
Sorry for the massive post - this has been taking over my life lately, I can't wait to just be in our new house!
I'm super jealous of everyone that lives in the UK right now. My favorite band from when I was a teenager(who broke up) is touring there next month. I've been trying to get SO to take me. I almost bought tickets for myself. I'm super lame.
What band?
Busted .. They are a British pop(wanna be pop punk) band. I was obsessed with them in middle school and high school.
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