Also told my sister we couldn't hang out this weekend due to other plans. Really i just get tired of hearing all their life competitive talk.... i would rather just take my kiddo to the pool and enjoy the day.
I'm getting over a head cold and DD just started complaining of a sore throat this morning (which is how mine started). I loaded her up on vitamin c, Echinacea, zinc, and advil and sent her to school. Aaaand...we will probably still go to the baseball game tomorrow.
January OAD Siggy Challenge: Creative Snow Sculptures
I'm getting over a head cold and DD just started complaining of a sore throat this morning (which is how mine started). I loaded her up on vitamin c, Echinacea, zinc, and advil and sent her to school. Aaaand...we will probably still go to the baseball game tomorrow.
I've been letting dd watch bubble guppies while she plays and I get ready for work. It started when H was out of town. I feel terrible about putting my 8 month old in front if the tv already but I can get ready without her screaming. She mostly plays with her toys and glances up occasionally. ">
getting ready for work with a kid is so hard without tv, I don't care what anyone says. you just do what you gotta do.
I'm getting over a head cold and DD just started complaining of a sore throat this morning (which is how mine started). I loaded her up on vitamin c, Echinacea, zinc, and advil and sent her to school. Aaaand...we will probably still go to the baseball game tomorrow.
ew hope it passes quickly. DH has a head cold and I'm just trying to keep it at bay!
Dh and i really need to start a budget...and stick to it.... i had a mini heart attack when i saw my bank account yesterday.
This was after i bought the sun glasses
I have a budget but I update it like, once a month. which really doesn't help that much except make me realize how much we go over every month. maybe return the glasses?
fffc: so, DD started a new preschool in July and she has a BFF who I remember was the first person to talk to her when we first walked into class, etc. they are cute and inseparable. her parents and we love that they found their bffs. her parents are around the same age as us, and I actually work with her dad on the lot. he's awesome. the only problem is... I see they're kind of conservative. I want to go further with this but the next step is fb'ing them, and I don't want them to get completely turned off by my liberalness. I can't believe I'm saying this. do I tone it down for them? I mean, he is a colleague technically and I feel weird about work people that may think differently of me because of my FB to begin with. my fffc is that I can't believe I'm such a sellout.
I've been letting dd watch bubble guppies while she plays and I get ready for work. It started when H was out of town. I feel terrible about putting my 8 month old in front if the tv already but I can get ready without her screaming. She mostly plays with her toys and glances up occasionally. ">
If this is a confession, I should be in prision.
Josie has been watching TV since she was 3 months old. Like, legit watching it.
BFP 1- EDD 2/09/11 Missed MC DX @11 weeks D&C- 7/25/10 BFP 2- EDD 12/22/11 Natural MC @ 5w 2d BFP 3- EDD 1/25/12 DD Josephine born 1/16/12
fffc: so, DD started a new preschool in July and she has a BFF who I remember was the first person to talk to her when we first walked into class, etc. they are cute and inseparable. her parents and we love that they found their bffs. her parents are around the same age as us, and I actually work with her dad on the lot. he's awesome. the only problem is... I see they're kind of conservative. I want to go further with this but the next step is fb'ing them, and I don't want them to get completely turned off by my liberalness. I can't believe I'm saying this. do I tone it down for them? I mean, he is a colleague technically and I feel weird about work people that may think differently of me because of my FB to begin with. my fffc is that I can't believe I'm such a sellout.
Do not tone down! They need to like you for you. If not the friendship wont last anyway.
I've been letting dd watch bubble guppies while she plays and I get ready for work. It started when H was out of town. I feel terrible about putting my 8 month old in front if the tv already but I can get ready without her screaming. She mostly plays with her toys and glances up occasionally. ">
If this is a confession, I should be in prision.
Josie has been watching TV since she was 3 months old. Like, legit watching it.
Guilty as well! The TV is almost always on at our house and DS will watch it from time to time. Recently he's been requesting his favorite shows and sitting through the majority of them before getting up to play.
fffc: so, DD started a new preschool in July and she has a BFF who I remember was the first person to talk to her when we first walked into class, etc. they are cute and inseparable. her parents and we love that they found their bffs. her parents are around the same age as us, and I actually work with her dad on the lot. he's awesome. the only problem is... I see they're kind of conservative. I want to go further with this but the next step is fb'ing them, and I don't want them to get completely turned off by my liberalness. I can't believe I'm saying this. do I tone it down for them? I mean, he is a colleague technically and I feel weird about work people that may think differently of me because of my FB to begin with. my fffc is that I can't believe I'm such a sellout.
Do not tone down! They need to like you for you. If not the friendship wont last anyway.
This isn't flameful or anything, but here's my confession:
I am nervous for the first time DS asks to have a friend from school over. I'm terrified that once his friends parents find out he has two moms they'll decide their DD/DS can't play with DS. I know I should give people more credit but we live in a very conservative part of a conservative state. We've met a lot of great people but what if DSs best friend at school can't play because two lesbians decided to have a baby?
I hate that this is something you have to worry about. It's hard to give people credit when we live in a world that is still very homophobic. Hopefully your son's friends won't have parents who think that way
This isn't flameful or anything, but here's my confession:
I am nervous for the first time DS asks to have a friend from school over. I'm terrified that once his friends parents find out he has two moms they'll decide their DD/DS can't play with DS. I know I should give people more credit but we live in a very conservative part of a conservative state. We've met a lot of great people but what if DSs best friend at school can't play because two lesbians decided to have a baby?
and here I am worrying about what possible conservatives would think of liberal me in Los Angeles.
do you meet/see any of the parents at pick up or drop off?
There's a conversation on School Aged Children right now about matching clothes. Like, "My kid wants to wear a yellow shirt, pink shorts, purple plaid socks and orange shoes. What do I dooooooooooooooooooooooooooo because she'd doesn't match?"
Everyone is saying, "Well, I fill my child's wardrobe with things that match."
It's clothing. If s/he wants to wear a mash of colors and patterns let them! They are proud of this accomplishment, think they look amazing AND THEY ARE 5/6/7. OMG.
They would be HORRIFIED at some of the things my kid wears out of the house. lol.
I agree with this completely - I want to empower my kid to make her own decisions, and I personally feel telling her or getting exasperated over her choices because it doesn't meet some seemingly arbitrary standard of cuteness is probably confusing.
DH has today off but I still had to go to work. I was not so secretly happy this morning that DD woke up early while I was showering and DH didn't get to sleep in.
Hehehe, this totally sounds like a reaction I would have!
This isn't flameful or anything, but here's my confession:
I am nervous for the first time DS asks to have a friend from school over. I'm terrified that once his friends parents find out he has two moms they'll decide their DD/DS can't play with DS. I know I should give people more credit but we live in a very conservative part of a conservative state. We've met a lot of great people but what if DSs best friend at school can't play because two lesbians decided to have a baby?
I live in a liberal state, and I don't know one person (personally) that would have an issue with same sex parents, so I can't say I can understand the fear, but I hope your fear is completly unfounded.
BFP 1- EDD 2/09/11 Missed MC DX @11 weeks D&C- 7/25/10 BFP 2- EDD 12/22/11 Natural MC @ 5w 2d BFP 3- EDD 1/25/12 DD Josephine born 1/16/12
fffc: so, DD started a new preschool in July and she has a BFF who I remember was the first person to talk to her when we first walked into class, etc. they are cute and inseparable. her parents and we love that they found their bffs. her parents are around the same age as us, and I actually work with her dad on the lot. he's awesome. the only problem is... I see they're kind of conservative. I want to go further with this but the next step is fb'ing them, and I don't want them to get completely turned off by my liberalness. I can't believe I'm saying this. do I tone it down for them? I mean, he is a colleague technically and I feel weird about work people that may think differently of me because of my FB to begin with. my fffc is that I can't believe I'm such a sellout.
I use a lot of lists in Facebook and one of them is basically Liberal. So if I'm posting about something I know could cause issues with certain in-laws, coworkers, etc, I just select that group and everyone except them sees it.
It's really no different in how there are certain things that do and do not come up in face-to-face conversations with different friends/family.
This isn't flameful or anything, but here's my confession:
I am nervous for the first time DS asks to have a friend from school over. I'm terrified that once his friends parents find out he has two moms they'll decide their DD/DS can't play with DS. I know I should give people more credit but we live in a very conservative part of a conservative state. We've met a lot of great people but what if DSs best friend at school can't play because two lesbians decided to have a baby?
I live in a liberal state, and I don't know one person (personally) that would have an issue with same sex parents, so I can't say I can understand the fear, but I hope your fear is completly unfounded.
I hope so, too.
When there are stories about same sex marriage, etc, on facebook all the crazies come out. I know there are a lot of good people out there, but it's a real fear I have. I just don't want DS to ever feel like his family is "wrong" and/or resent us for not having a "traditional" family... though, truly, what is a "traditional" family these days?
I think the bolded is they key: thankfully, this country is finally moving in a direction where same-sex families are more common and more accepted. I think this will only get better as your DS gets older.. this is the trajectory I envision anyway.
I live in California, and in 2008 when the same-sex marriage law failed, DH and I were so disheartened. It felt so defeating, and sad (we had just got married and it felt acutely unfair that we were allowed to do that but our other friends and family couldn't). But just a few years later, literally, it's legal. Change can happen fast!
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Re: fffc!
This was after i bought the sun glasses
January OAD Siggy Challenge: Creative Snow Sculptures
maybe return the glasses?
If this is a confession, I should be in prision.
Josie has been watching TV since she was 3 months old. Like, legit watching it.
BFP 1- EDD 2/09/11 Missed MC DX @11 weeks D&C- 7/25/10 BFP 2- EDD 12/22/11 Natural MC @ 5w 2d BFP 3- EDD 1/25/12 DD Josephine born 1/16/12
Guilty as well! The TV is almost always on at our house and DS will watch it from time to time. Recently he's been requesting his favorite shows and sitting through the majority of them before getting up to play.
do you meet/see any of the parents at pick up or drop off?
Hehehe, this totally sounds like a reaction I would have!
BFP 1- EDD 2/09/11 Missed MC DX @11 weeks D&C- 7/25/10 BFP 2- EDD 12/22/11 Natural MC @ 5w 2d BFP 3- EDD 1/25/12 DD Josephine born 1/16/12
It's really no different in how there are certain things that do and do not come up in face-to-face conversations with different friends/family.
I'll need to start budgeting better and spending less. Labor day sales are no help either. Ugh.
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I think the bolded is they key: thankfully, this country is finally moving in a direction where same-sex families are more common and more accepted. I think this will only get better as your DS gets older.. this is the trajectory I envision anyway.
I live in California, and in 2008 when the same-sex marriage law failed, DH and I were so disheartened. It felt so defeating, and sad (we had just got married and it felt acutely unfair that we were allowed to do that but our other friends and family couldn't). But just a few years later, literally, it's legal. Change can happen fast!