GTKY 4/25 Edi.

2MamazInSeattle

Hi all! We skipped last week so jump in and make this week juicy!

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.
2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?
3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).
4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please!
5. What's the weekend hold?
BONUS: PIP us something, anything!

Amber&Reva

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.

Unless a occasional Boston accent counts I don't speak with an accent.  R has weird phrases that she picked up in PA but she doesn't speak with an accent either. 

2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?

On my mothers side Donna Lee and Kenneth

On my fathers side Janet and Robert

3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).
4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please!

R and I met online.  At the time she was living in upstate New York and I was living just outside of Boston.  We spoke thru text/ phone calls for the first month and then one day or I should say night I convinced her to drive down thinking she would never actually do it.  Well she made the 3 hour drive and we met in person for the first time.  It was a fun night of laying in bed talking and the next morning she made the 3 hour drive back because she had to work.  There were many more 3 hour drives before I finally convinced her to move to MA.

5. What's the weekend hold?

I am working all weekend. R has Sunday off and the only spring lawn bag pick up is coming the week of May 5th so she probably has lawn work to do on Sunday.

Amber&Reva

I typed an answer for mine and R's first date and the computer turned my answer into smiles.  The bump thinks our first date was way crazier then it was. 

2brides

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe. Me? No. DP? Yes - southern - although I don't hear it anymore - and it isn't nearly as strong as her family (though when she talks to them, it gets stronger.)

2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents? Kathleen/Albert Marjorie/Roland

3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet). The color of my eyes - they change color.

4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please! It is rather complicated. We knew each other for 8y (though never hung out and had lost touch) before a friend ran into her at the mall and invited her out with us. The 3 of us hung out for several weeks before L expressed her interest. The next night, the 3 of us had plans, but I went to her house after (without our friend.) I don't recall what our first "real" date was - perhaps hiking and having a picnic? I know we did that pretty early on.

5. What's the weekend hold? Crazy busy. International Night/school dance at the kids' school tonight - so we'll get home late. Tomorrow L is doing a training walk (she is doing the Avon walk next weekend) and I'll take the kids to soccer, go to lunch with friends, and take the kids' friend home with us for a sleepover. No idea what we'll do with the kids that night (I assume there will be a lot of Minecrafting going on...) Sunday church, L is leading a fitness program for kids after church, meet the mother of the friend we'll have with us for lunch, birthday party for a kid in their class, hustle to another birthday party for a kid in their Sunday School class. Go home and crash. Oh, and I need to figure out getting gifts for both of these parties....

BONUS: PIP us something, anything!
My dream vacation sans kids

Jazibel

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.
Not really. I grew up in New Jersey, but my Mom's primary language is German.  Anyway that has led to me pronouncing some words strangely.  For instance "drawer and orange and horrible".  For drawer I say "draw". 


2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?
Julia and Joseph (on my dads side)
Gerhard and Elizabeth (on my moms side)

3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).
First thing that comes to mind is my hands.  They're big and well balanced.

4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please!
Hmmm.  Complicated question.  We met in college so we didn't have an official first date for a long time. We ahem started our relationship on the down-low as we were both in other relationships at the time.... *blush*.....  We would meet up in various private places to talk and kiss and stare into each others eyes.  When we official came out as a couple and broke up with our crazy SO(s) we went to hang out at a near by playground at night and just talk.  We were 19 and 20 years old at the time.  We're talking typical young love drama ;-)


5. What's the weekend hold? Nothing officially planned actually.  Hopefully a nap or two, maybe a special playdate with Kaden and the two of us.  Definitely attempts to make progress on our homework.  Basically we're leaving the schedule open just in case Owen wants to make his arrival.  FX...

healz413

Yay for GTKY! Thanks 2mamaz

1. When I'm in Toronto people think I sound like "an American". When I'm in Chicago, people think I sound like "a Canadian". I am what's called a "empathetic listener" or something like that which means I tend to pick up the accents of people I'm talking to without trying. It can be embarrassing. I tend to have a little bit of southern from my days visiting my grandparents in Oklahoma, a little bit of MA from my days in college, a chunk of Midwest/Chicago from growing up, and a growing core of central Ontario/Toronto.
For M, I sometimes hear soemthing particularly "Canadian" in her voice. But for the most part it doesn't sound accent-y to my ear.

2. Les(lie) and Frances. Ted (Theodore) and Caroline (she went by Dash and she was technically my step grandmother because my mom's mom Marcia passed away befor I was born and my grandpa remarried.

3. I love my height the majority of the time.

4. We met on okcupid, a free online dating website. So our first date was an initial "do we like each other in person" type of get together. We went for Ethiopian food. We split a veggie platter for two and each had a diet coke. We talked about a number of random things including Pap smears. . We probably were there for about an hour and a half and then I drove @Manada home because it was snowing. Our second date was when we really hit it off and had a long date.

5. I'm trying to convince M to go to the baby show tomorrow. She (probably correctly) things it will be overwhelming and time consuming. We will see. We might also go see some friends of M's this weekend who have twin 7 year olds. When they found out we are having twins they got really excited and wanted to see us.

LaireAndLia

1. Both of us have very obvious, but not particularly strong Edinburgh/Scottish accents. Laire's is actually a hell of a lot stronger than mine, but still not all that strong. Laire's is kind of cute actually; she rolls her Rs.
2. My mum went into social care when she was five, was never adopted or long-term fostered by anyone and never so her biological parents again, and my dad doesn't know who his biological father is, so I only have one biological grandparent, Mary and her husband Jim, and though I do think of him as my grandad, they didn't marry until after I was born, so my dad doesn't see him as his dad.
3. I have this watercolour tattoo of a charm of hummingbirds flying from my right hip to my left shoulder, and I love it.
4. By the time of our first official date, we had already had drunken sex years previously and were only just really comfortable with each other. I asked her out, and the idea was that we go for a picnic in the middle of the Prince's Street Gardens, but by the time I met up with her on Prince's Street it was raining so heavily I could barely see a hundred feet in front of me, so we ended up running into the Mall beside the gardens, drying off in the toilets, throwing our wet food in the bin and binging on a McDonalds. And then we went back to my flat. 

Sound like some stupid rom-com rubbish now that I think about it 
5. We are both working on Saturday, and then on Sunday I'm hoping for a bit of a lazy day, but Laire wants to go to Tantallon Castle so god knows what we will actually get up to.

ETA; I have to add the fact that you Americans don't think you have an accent is hilarious. You should all hear how you sound to a non-American.

Manada

I'll play today:

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.

I have picked up a few British/Irish/French expressions and sayings over the years from the time I spent living in Europe.  My accent is a fairly soft Canadian I think, I believe I speak with a fairly standard North-eastern North American accent.   Like H. though I have a fairly sympathetic ear and have a tendency to pick up Aussie and Kiwi accents (to the point of embarrassment!), as well as rural Aboriginal accents if I'm working with a lot of people who speak with them. 

H. definitely lapses into an American accent more when on the phone with her family (who all have a much stronger one), or when she's getting particularly Southern-Dramatic.  Her Oklahoma comes out more when she talks about it

2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?
Phyllis, (Lawrence) Douglas, David, and Jennie (legal name: Jane)

3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).
I get a kick out of my very short fingers (they're absurdly short), and quite dig the curve from my ribs to my hips. 

4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please!
H. pretty much explained it.   I was pretty sure she wasn't into me because our first date was so short!  (She literally dropped me off at home within 90 minutes of us meeting!)

5. What's the weekend hold?
H. said so.  There's also a Moms second-hand sale.   We'll see how it goes.  Depends on how well I sleep this evening I think.

2momsinCA

1. I have an American accent. K will often drop her R's and throw in a "wicked" as a native Bostonian. Other than that we sometimes speak in over exaggerated English accents or German accents when we are feeling silly. And we often feel silly.

2. My grandmas are Liz and Betty (yes, both Elizabeth), grandpas are Ernest and Alexander.

3. My eyes I guess. It's K's fav feature of mine so I will go with that.

4. Our first date is ridiculous. I was 29, so not even young enough to justify this ridiculousness. We met at work and liked each other right away. I was so nervous and excited to hang out with her that I way over indulged in drinks at dinner and at her house later... And I was not a big drinker so I had no tolerance. I ended up blacked out and K took me to the emergency room when I told her I couldn't breathe. I spent a couple hours in a hospital bed and k held my hand the whole time. Yeah...

5. K has a lot of grad school homework and we have to take the Prius in for all day servicing on Saturday. Pretty boring. Nothing as exciting as our first date...

KH826

1. I grew up in MA (Boston suburbs) but have lived in PA since I was 18. When I first came to PA for college my "Boston accent" was teased endlessly, but I am pretty sure it has mostly faded aside from a handful of words/phrases. Now my family teases me that I have a "PA accent" -- but I don't hear it. My wife and I definitely say certain words differently (she has lived in PA her whole life).

2. Maternal Grandparents - George & Demetra (though she went by her American nickname "Jane" after immigrating from Greece)
Paternal Grandparents - Greyden & Dorothy ("Dottie")

3. I guess my hair... I'm not going to lie, there isn't too much I like about my body, let alone love. I know, I know - I should work on that...

4. We met in college also, so our true first date wasn't immediate. About 3 weeks in we decided we needed an official date, so we went to The Macaroni Grill (Italian restaurant) and to the movies

5. Tomorrow is our baby shower! Sunday we are going to BRU to buy things we don't get at the shower, then home to organize and nest!

PIP - I took a bump bathroom selfie this AM since I think baby has popped and dropped a bit this week (she is no longer breech - she flipped on Mon/Tues - I will have more to say about that in my Pregnancy Check-in on Monday!)

mrs&mrsk

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.

some may say we have lawn-guy-land accents, but we dont hear it. 

2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?

Patricia Julius George & Marion

3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).

boobs. sometimes. lol

4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please! 
we met in a hot tub at my house (friend brought her over). we didnt have a "Real" date for a long long time because at first we were friends (but not really) and we hung out with groups a lot. we always say we didnt have a first date. 

5. What's the weekend hold?

errands, the yardwork i've put off for weeks, a christening for my friends' twin girls -- they are the friends that introduced us in the hot tub. they went through this all (ici/ivf) for 2 years up until last year so we pry without giving away that we are trying.... it's especially exciting because it's at a catholic church near our house which will be interesting to see how that goes & nice to copy if we like how it goes

2MamazInSeattle

Nice answers today! Thanks all for playing

1. I grew up in NW Pennsylvania and had a definite Pittsburgese influence when I was younger. Now I think not, but I still say a few phrases (for example, the verb "to be" get dropped a lot..."the floor needs swept"..."my hair needs cut"... and when we tidy the house, we "red up the house"). J is from the deep south but (her words) chose not to have an accent - her mom and sister do for sure! She does, however, occasionally say words she doesn't even know she's saying 'wrong' - like "CEE-ment" vs. "cement." I think it's cute, but she won't even fake a southern accent for me for fun .

2. Margareta & Kenneth, Stella & Sam

3. Honestly I like having an overall strong constitution - I have a high pain tolerance, good stamina/energy, etc. I think finishing Bikram Yoga Teacher Training was my biggest physical accomplishment (9 weeks, 11 bikram classes a week in 110+ degrees in a basement in Mexico) - that was HUGE. But turned out that it wasn't the hardest thing I'd ever done in my life, which surprised me.

4. J & I met on match.com. We encountered each other at an event (I was volunteering, I took her ticket as she came through my line and we recognized each other from match pix). We talked at intermission, and then said we'd get together after she got back from vacation visiting her family in Arkansas. She planned it out - we went to a photo exhibit at a museum, then to a pub where she ordered a drink at 2 p.m on a Saturday and I thought that was gutsy! (I was raised by two parents who each had alcoholic fathers, so my relationship w/alcohol is skewed) - I ordered nachos, which she thought was gutsy! Haha! We were NOT love at first sight, but we joke that it was "not a no" which was a win for both of us at the time. Second date was a lunch and movie; third date was coming to a close when my (not at all) smooth now-wife said "Um, I was kinda hoping we could make out? I need to get up early so...." LOL! We still laugh about that.

5. This weekend in the biggest national coffee convention in the USA - this year and next it's right here in Seattle which is awesome! J is there for the mega (coffee) NERD ALERT fest that this gig is. She's taking 4 different classes, a lot on roasting (a potential eventual goal for her) and tasting/cupping (she eventually wants her Q-grading, which is like a sommelier of coffee). The other fun part is all the parties/gatherings. Last night was an open house at the importer (there are like 2 importers for ALL coffee that comes into the USA! and one is up the street); and then an intimate BBQ with her roaster (cafe owner + roaster = marriage, and J married well - we LOVE the guys at our roastery!). Tonight is another roaster party, and then her tea provider is having a shindig. So that will be fun! Plus, I did get to go on an origin trip to Honduras with her in 2012, and so I met a ton of the farmers, other buyers, and of course the peeps at her importer and roasters (nothing bonds you more than time in a 3rd world country together) - so nice to see the coffee people! Otherwise, baby baby baby stuff. Finished the registry save for the crib, which is torture to pick out (my dad wants to buy it, but the one I want is likely out of his planned budget, so...awkward); and prepping/cleaning out the clutter so we can get going on the nursery! YAY!

PIP: J in Honduras doing a barista training...these coffee events always bring back that trip for me! It was amazing (followed up by time in Roatan @jazibel!)

redrockmama

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.
My wife has a really adorable accent, she's from a very small town here in Utah. It's definitely a "country" accent. It comes out a lot more after she has been around her family. They have much stronger accents. She hates the way they talk and when she went to college she tried really hard to get rid of it. I love it though. We both have Utah accents, whatever that means. Utahns are pretty lazy about how we talk, a lot of poor t's get left out and g's. I don't realize it, but when I have lived over places people make fun of me. When we lived in Minnesota all the kids would make us say things on the bus ride to and from school and laugh hysterically. I always thought their accents were much more obvious and strange though. 

2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?
I Have a ton of grandparents, but I'l stick with the 4 parents of my parents. 
Melva and Jack (dad's side)
Wilhelmina and Robert (mom's side)

3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).
I have super tough legs and a nice muscley gluteus, (according to my wife), which make hiking my favorite activity

4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please! 
I suppose our first date was probably a bbq at my dad's house (which might seem kind of strange) but she lived about 2 hours away and my dad's house was the middle. I invited her and the mutual friend (and her gf) that introduced us up there for a big bbq. We had met a couple of times and hung out before, but this was the first time we did saw each other after acknowledging we were interested in each other and specifically to see and spend time with each other. We made ridiculous pink drinks that tasted like cotton candy brewed beer, went on a hike and watched the sunset in the mountains, and looked at the stars and talked for hours. 
Our next date we went camping with my step-sister and her cousin. That's when we kissed for the first time

5. What's the weekend hold?
It's our niece's 1st birthday party tonight. We got her a tool set and some magnets. Last time we babysat her all she wanted to do was play with my dad's tools. I'm sure everyone will think we're the weird lesbians that give baby girls tools but oh well. She will love it! I don't know what else is going on, we don't have solid plans. I'm going to work on the mural and we might lay some sod and plant seeds for the garden. 

BONUS: PIP us something, anything!

Not our first date, but one of our first dates, we look so young...almost 6 years ago!

2momsinCA

There was a dialect test that was popular on FB a couple months ago. (As we have heard through friends, K and I are those weird members of the population who actually do not do FB.) Anyways this test is supposed to pinpoint the part of the country you are from based on how you speak, what phrases you use. Unfortunately I think it's engineered for Americans only. Worked perfectly for K but apparently I speak like I'm from the Phoenix, AZ area (though born and raised in LA).

Here's the test if you haven't done it:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

ATXmommas

Fun questions!

1. I grew up in MS, so what do you think? I feel like my southern accent is mostly gone, but certainly detectable and some colloquial terms/phrases occasionally come out. I didn't intentionally rid myself of it, just came naturally after moving to Austin.

Z grew up in south Texas in a border town and spoke only Spanish until she started school. She has an interesting accent. It's not like she speaks with the same type of accent that someone whose primary language is Spanish (like much of her family), but there is a lil something-something there. What's more adorable (to me) about Z are the made up words she uses - scrumpled, for instance (scrumpled = crumpled). I've become proficient in Z-talk.

2. Charles and Audrey (paternal) & Jesse and Mary (maternal)

3. I like my legs and long fingers. And, I think I have a pretty nifty gray streak. And every time I look at my son, I'm simply amazed (and appreciative) that my body is able to produce everything he has needed to keep him thriving for the past 5 months (well, past 15 months, really!).

4. We don't have a real first date either. We were introduced by mutual friends at lunch, then hung out with a bigger group that night. We went to dinner, then out dancing at a gay bar. Like @2momsinCA‌, I un-characteristically had entirely too much to drink and we ended up making out on the dance floor. Z was dog sitting for a friend, so we ended up going there (because I couldn't drive). Z held my hair back while I... well, you know. Afterwards I went to the couch to sleep because I didn't want any funny business. Not like she wanted any after all the business in the bathroom, but that's where my head went. Ah, sweet memories. Our subsequent dates were nothing too exciting. I've mentioned before that it took a while (like a few months) before I became smitten.

5. Z's mom comes in town tomorrow for a 2 week visit, so we'll do dinner with some of her family at one of our favorite Indian places. Otherwise, a lot of the usual - walk, grocery shopping, cooking.

Bonus PIP:
Z and Bama being silly:

ATXmommas

@KH826‌ - belly definitely looks more pronounced! Good job, baby girl, for flipping!

@2momsinCA‌ - fun quiz. Spot on for Jackson, MS for me!

2MamazInSeattle

@KH826 - OMG she flipped!!! YAY!! I am so, so glad. I've been sending her flipping energy fwiw

@AXTMommas - the accent question was kind of for you! I know you're from the South so one day  I thought "I wonder if she has an accent?" and that's where the question came from!

I love the grandparent names! @redrockmama - Wilhemina and Melva sound like something I'd name a pair of cats (a compliment from me). That was my favorite combo so far!

@themommymonster love the recording! You sound like I thought you would

@2momsinCA I took that quiz a while ago and got something like Phoenix too, but I grew up in PA, college in OH, and WA ever since. Weird!:)

Loving all the lively posts!

KH826

@ATXmommas & @2mamazinseattle - yep, she flipped. I suspected she was working on it Monday into Tuesday this week. It was rough. I was REALLY short of breath, having a TON of BH contractions, and she was moving in ways that hurt a lot. At one point some part of her was lodged under mg ribs and totally squishing my lungs. Anyway, poor girl struggled, but she did it. I went to the OB on Wednesday and she confirmed with ultrasound - head down! The BH have stopped and I can breath much much easier now. So I know that's what it was. Based on how I was feeling though we were worried I was going into early labor. Just hoping no more monkey business now and that she stays head down!

ATXmommas

@2MamazInSeattle‌ - that's funny! Of course, I think it's mostly gone, but y'all (yep, still use that one often) might disagree if you heard me!

ATXmommas

KH826 said:

@ATXmommas & @2mamazinseattle - yep, she flipped. I suspected she was working on it Monday into Tuesday this week. It was rough. I was REALLY short of breath, having a TON of BH contractions, and she was moving in ways that hurt a lot. At one pony some part of her was lodged under mg ribs and totally squishing my lungs. Anyway, poor girl struggled, but she did it. I went to the OB on Wednesday and she confirmed with ultrasound - head down! The BH have stopped and I can breath much much easier now. So I know that's what it was. Based on how I was feeling though we were worried I was going into early labor. Just hoping no more monkey business now and that she stays head down!

That is so interesting! I love how you just knew that she was working on it. Seriously, what a good girl for flipping this late and after all this time. Your little one has it all figured out!

JGY

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.

Neither of us are from MN, but we have both picked up the accent here quite a bit.  I get made fun of a lot when I go back out East.  But when I'm on the phone with my family I fall back into a slight NY accent again, and S definitely has an Indy twang when we're visiting her family  there.

2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?

Rose, Milton, Harriet, Beecher

I'm making mental note to check this thread again if we ever decide to have another baby.  There are some AWESOME old names here!

3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).

Hmmmm, I've been known to be pretty tough for my size.  My lovely wife once referred to me as "Mean as a snake" on the rugby pitch.  I guess I don't know if that's something I should be proud of or not, but I am.  Also, though there are times that I would like to make a change here or there, I'm eternally grateful that my body seems dead set on 1 consistant weight no matter what, and it's a healthy one.  So since the age of about 17, I've been within 2 or 3 pounds of this 1 number with the only exception being when I was pregnant.

4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please!

Yeah, so ... likely many PP I can't really recall our actual first date because I was married at the time we started hanging out.  We did lots of cool things together but which thing would you actually call a date?  IDK.  I'll just recount maybe my FAVORITE of the first date opportunities: I got us kick-ass seats to the Brian McKnight concert, we were in this tiny little 2-seat row in the front of the balcony and we were just soooo into each other and that music is all sexy-like and it was as if he was performing just for us.  It was an awesome night.

5. What's the weekend hold?

S has another continuing ed weekend, so I'm by myself with G and the fuzzies again.  There's a second-hand sale for kids stuff and I'll run through that while a friend watches the kid.  Then we'll all go to the rubgy match since it will be nice out tomorrow.  Sunday is supposed to be rainy and cold so I'll probably stay home and see if I can manage to get something done around the house while G runs wild.

BONUS: PIP us something, anything!

I got nada today. I suck.

JGY

Seriously, what's the deal with the smiley faces?

@Amber&Reva did you use the word $exy in your answer?  I'm wondering if the bump gods think they're cute or if it's just a coincidence?

trisholio

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.

I was born and raised in Ohio, so we think we speak normal and everyone else has accents :-)  I did live in Louisville, Ky for a few years and people told me I had an accent depending on which side of the Ohio river I was on.  My wife is from a small town in Ohio and her 'country' def comes out sometimes.  She says stuff like 'getting redded up"
2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?

My mother's parents were George (Geb) and Patricia (Patti)  (I was named after my grandmother Patricia and I love that there are other grandmothers on here with the same name)

I don't know my real dad's parents name.  My step dad parents were always Grandpa Smokey and Grandma Sally
3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).

I would say my eyes, they are a pretty green but do change colors depending on what I am wearing or if I am crying or not.  The joke is that my butt got my wife's attention, but my eyes kept her ;-)
4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please! 

The first time we hung out we went shopping.  My now wife had never had an office job before and needed new clothes.  I was happy to spend her money, well her gf's money at the time.  We spent too much time together and yes fooled around while she had a gf and I actually had a bf.  I would say one of our first actual dates was at a local mexican restaurant.  We still go there to this day to talk about important things like planning our wedding, having a baby and even to celebrate being pregnant.

5. What's the weekend hold?

Tonight we are having family night in, we picked up the movie Frozen at Redbox.  Tomorrow I am sure not fun stuff like laundry, cleaning and grocery shopping.  Sunday is church and over to my moms for dinner.  We might be going to a picnic in the afternoon for a local LGBT parenting group.
BONUS: PIP us something, anything!

This is what happens when you leave a 2 year old in the bathroom unattended for too long

Pinkspark

I'll play today!

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.

KH826 Where did you grow up? I am a boston 'burbs kid too!

2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?

Margaret/Tom, Fatima/Khalid

3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).

 That it carried two babies at the same time and came out looking ok in the end.

4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please! 
It has been so long I don't think I remember our first date...  But it probably entailed video games, anime, or some other thing we did as young teenagers! We were friends before we began to like each other romantically so we just transitioned into dating I guess.

5. What's the weekend hold? 

Hopefully taking my little ones home tomorrow from the hospital! I can't wait to stare at them to make sure they're breathing all night long that first night

Jazibel

@trisholio‌ - that could be my bathroom, potty, toilet paper escapades and all. ;-)

@kh826 - congrats on your little one turning!!!

@Pinkspark‌ - FX you get to take the babies home tomorrow :-)

AandStilltrying

1. We are both from WV and moved to NC so yes. Lol. Mine is more northern and Sarah says crick not creek and she is from a holler (between 2 mountains).

2. Chuck and Georgia
Gene and Rose

3. I love my hair. always get compliments.

4. Well ours was scandalous. Our first "date" was after we were both madly in love. She had been with somebody else for 7 years and when they finally broke up I invited her to my house for a New Years Eve party to be away from her x. She wanted to be with me but it was still hard to let her x go. Well we dove in heart first. We shared our first kiss at midnight and then....

Brown chicken brown cow....

One heck of a first date!

5. Unfortunatly because of snow make up days I will be spending my next 2 weekends teaching Sat. School! Yuck year round school!!!

ball.and.chain

So first @2MamazinSeattle tells us to "make it juicy" and then she tells us to keep our first date stories "internet appropriate"...what gives?

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.

S is from NJ and her family speaks with NJ accents, so I think she grew up with one.  By the time I met her, she'd been living in VA, VT and MA for a while and had gotten rid of it.  It does come out on certain words.  I grew up in the Boston burbs in a city where EVERYONE has a Boston accent, but I don't -- really (people always say to me, "Why don't you have a Boston accent?"  And the place people seem to think I sound like I'm from, if anywhere, is...Canada!).  I think it's at least partly because my mom was from upstate NY (not TOO far from @StacyLH24).  @LaireandLia, good point about all of us having "American" accents...but there is an American accent that lacks regionality (news broadcasters have it) and I think that's what we mean when we say "no accent."

2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?

Arthur, Barbara, Richard, and Mabel.  Agree with @JGY and @2MamazinSeattle that there are some awesome grandparent names on here!  Demetra, Margareta, Stella, Melva, Audrey, Beecher?  LOVE.

3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).

Despite carrying a few extra pounds (even before pregnancy), it's pretty healthy.  I have a pretty strong immune system and (knock on wood) no major medical issues.  Also, I'm pretty vain about my hair.



4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please!

Like others, we met online and emailed a bit before we met in person.  The first "date" was just a coffee date to see if the other person was worth getting to know.   She thought I was hot, I thought she was nice but her hair was too long.  It's short now. 

5. What's the weekend hold?

My dad is having an estate sale at my grandmother's house tomorrow to try to clear it out so he can sell it.  I don't want to, but I agreed to help him for a few hours.  Otherwise, I think we're going to try to get some work done around the (our) house.  It's pretty clean so we should have time to start/work on some projects.  Sunday, just yoga.

BONUS: PIP us something, anything!

I bought this hat for Mr. Baby tonight.  How could I not???

KH826

@pinkspark - I grew up in Ashland, MA - how about you?

firstcomeslove2013

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.
I think this is a hard question because everyone has an accent. :-) I have a "cleveland" accent with the soft "a"s and C has done everything possible to ensure no southern accent. I am also the kind of person who picks up very quickly on accents and I often will develop a southern drawl.

2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?
The interesting thing about my mom's parents is that they both changed their names. Her father's name was Romeo Savario Sylvestri (his parents were italian immigrants) and when we joined the service, he changed his name to Ray Sylvester. My grandmother on my mom's side was named Betty Pearl and she dropped her middle name. My dad's parents were Doris and John.

3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).
I love that my body allows me to do so many things. I can stay busy all day and I also love how long my eyelashes are.

4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please!
Our first official date is a really long story (if you REALLY want to hear it, PM me and I would gladly share). We ended up eating take out chinese and watching Silence of the Lambs. It was perfect.

5. What's the weekend hold?
Tomorrow I am going to see my college friends for a baby shower (not for us, for another friend). Sunday will probably be all the boring getting ready for the week stuff.

healz413

What I have learned from this week's GTKY is that there are two predominant ways that lesbians/dykes/queers who have made or want to make babies together get together- 1) they meet online or 2) they hook up while at least one person is dating someone else (but often they both are)

Lez be honest, I've had two relatively long term relationships-- the one with @Manada which fits #1 and a previous one with someone else , which fits #2.

AandStilltrying

@healz413‌ I am cracking up at "what you've learned" this week.

doodah1013

This GTKY brought to you by 4:00 am insomnia!

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.

Like @firstcomeslove2013‌ mentioned, I have done everything I can to not have an accent. My Mom talks with a pretty thick Eastern Kentucky drawl, and it is cute for her, but it would not have worked out for me. However when I am mad or drinking (which are both REALLY rare) it can come out pretty hard core.
A has a slight northern Ohio accent... It has lightened up since I have known her.

2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents?

Regular old white people names:
Thomas
Dolores
Francis Eugene
Geneva

3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet).

I have always been pretty strong... Especially in my quads.

4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please!

Like A said, it was unexpected. We recreate our Chinese Food/Scary movie date also... And truth be told, @healz413‌, a lot of the reason our first date was an out home date was because there was some dating overlap between my ex and A...

5. What's the weekend hold?

A's gone tomorrow... Homesteading group in the morning, first weekend of farmer's market, then headed out to camp to drop lunch off to my staff and plant strawberries. Then I will probably come home and watch The Hobbit (man, I sure do get crazy when A's out of town!)
Then I have to work all day Sunday.

ball.and.chain

@doodah1013 - Geneva is one of my top girl names that my wife would never let me use...

Pinkspark

KH826 said:

@pinkspark - I grew up in Ashland, MA - how about you?

Nice, I grew up around Quincy!

Pinkspark

Jazibel said:

@Pinkspark‌ - FX you get to take the babies home tomorrow :-)

We did get to take Little Man home but his sister will be a few more days, can't wait to have them both at home!

shelly2314

1. Do you and/or your SO speak with an accent? Have you ever? Describe.I tend to take on the accent of the people around me when I am with them for longer than 2-3 days at a time. Southern, northern, etc.  My wife sometimes has a Canadian accent (not sure why as she has NEVER lived in Canada nor has her family ever lived there (in fact, all of her mom's family lives in Germany).
2. What were/are the first names of your 4 grandparents? I think these are the names: Samuel and Ida, Lois and Daniel  and my great grandmother (will be my daughter's namesake if we have a girl) Elsie (we will name her Elise)
3. What is something you love about your body? Could be its ability (ran a marathon!) or feature (cute feet). I think I have very pretty eyes.
4. Tell us about your first date with your SO. Internet appropriate details, please! I have two dates. There was an unofficial date where she took me to a gun range and taught me to shoot. Then there was our first official date: she had me over to her apartment and made me tacos with strawberry shortcake (unbeknownst to her, my fav dessert). We then went for a walk around a beautiful lake and watched a movie together
5. What's the weekend hold? I am not sure. We have our beg u/s on Friday where we hopefully find out what the twins are....yay! Hopefully we will have a relaxing weekend with NOTHING else to do
BONUS: PIP us something, anything!  Please ignore the first picture...the second picture is my beautiful wife and I diving on our honeymoon cruise in the Turks!