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October 2016 Moms
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Weekly Randoms (May 23)
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Since our last thread is large and two weeks old, I thought I'd start a new one. Bring on those random thoughts!
Re: Weekly Randoms (May 23)
I just got myself a Dakine laptop backpack, and I think I'm in love. I shall never go back to a laptop shoulder bag again.
I left my phone at home today..somewhat on purpose. I remembered when I was about 5minutes down the road but didn't feel like turning back. It's part annoying, part liberating.
Also, I'm basically going to reply to everything today. We fly out tomorrow afternoon for a family Disney trip and I'm just so done with work. So, so done.
DH: 34
Married: May 2011
TTC #1: May 2015
DS: 10/20/2016
TTC #2: June 2019
#2 EDD: 2/20/2020
https://redtri.com/mourning-the-loss-of-me/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=NATL&utm_campaign=FB-NATL#
Still trying to balance all my feels, but for some reason this made my spirits lift a bit - not sure if it's because someone else is relating or because it finally made me realize just what I'm sort of bummed about - and made me start thinking of ways to still make myself a priority in addition to that of being a mother, and not letting that become my whole identity...
DH: 34
Married: May 2011
TTC #1: May 2015
DS: 10/20/2016
TTC #2: June 2019
#2 EDD: 2/20/2020
super inappropriate but had to share because I'm dying.... Just a grandma pushing her cart with a giant penis in it....
Me: 32 & DH: 37
BFP #2: 2/8/16 - EDD 10/20/16
IT'S A BOY!!!!
DS Born 10/16/16
SO and I have been together: 5 Years+
BFP: 03/10
First Baby: 10/20/2016
Aside from that frustration, I finally dragged H to Babies R Us, and he has finally realized just how expensive baby stuff is. Yay! And I finally announced our pregnancy on Facebook. Double yay!
After stepping back to think about it, I feel I've been thinking too much about what I'm going to lose once baby arrives. I know it sounds selfish, but I'm 34 and I've only had me to worry about for so many years! Quiet nights on the couch with the hubs, afternoon outings on the weekends, running out to shop, picking up and taking a trip on a whim, (*sigh*) sleeping in...I started feeling like we're going to lose everything that makes us tick, or even just me tick - and I get scared that we're just going to get swept up in the "just get through the day to do it all over again tomorrow" routine. BUT, I started to look at all that we're gaining - we're growing our family! The first smiles, first steps, first hugs, that moment our child's face lights up when they've accomplished something - all those moments I had with my mother, we now get to experience on the other side with our child. I guess it doesn't have to be such a "good-bye" to our previous lives, but more of an adaptation...finding that balance between keeping our "old" identities present, but evolving them to include all the new parts of being a mom!
Okay, psycho-analysis session over...gonna go get that milkshake now!!
DS#2 due 25 April 2019
It's a boy!
The upshot being that it starts hard and slowly gets easier. Then by the time they're a year old you suddenly realize that you have a good routine (I swear it's half the battle) and your LO is becoming a super fun little person. You discover that you have periods of free time again.
I've heard another benefit is that when (if) you have a second, the transition is much easier going from 3 to 4 than 2 to 3. I hope it's true!
I have a feeling that it's harder to adjust when you are in your 30's vs 20's.
also: Brazilian wax is the only thing keeping me feeling "fresh" this pregnancy if you get me. it hurts like hell but I saw somewhere to use numbing spray, so
ill be trying that one next month
@Blonde1817 I would try to relax, if it were urgent or something of paramount concern I'm sure they would have given you a heads up! ::hugs::
And for the record, I would burn my cell phone and stomp its ashes if I could. I think I would enjoy everybody in my life a lot more if I weren't always a phone call away and we actually HAD to build up things to talk about in between times that we speak. That even goes for FI on a day-to-day basis. It's hard to have ANYTHING to talk about when he gets off work because he calls me on all.three of his breaks and texts me CONSTANTLY. I mean it's sweet and all, but damn, give me a chance to miss you.