Weekend Randoms 3/18&19

ShadeofGreen816

Well, since I'm up, figured I'd get us started! What's everyone up to this weekend?

kns1988

I've been moody for a few days, which I chalk up entirely to pregnancy hormones and being uncomfortable. Well, yesterday DH gave our dog a bath, cleaned out the filing cabinet (something I'd been meaning to do for weeks), swept the floors, and now I can hear him up making bacon and eggs. He hates breakfast food. 

I think I can stop being moody now

mcvgal

Everyone's talk of nesting has me motivated to work on the nursery this weekend. We'll see how far I actually get.

CherryBananas

Last night was the first night the baby kicked me awake, so that's a fun new development! I'm also getting a headache so I'm hoping that goes away soon so I can get a few things done while DH is at work today.

@kns1988 your DH deserves a gold star! Sounds like your weekend is off to a really good start

Icarriedawatermelon

Ugh my cold symptoms are back again. I can't figure this illness out. I'll feel good for a few days, then the symptoms will come back for like a week. Then, they'll
go away and return again. This has been the pattern for like 6 weeks now! The worst part is I get very little sleep when the symptoms are raging. Man, what I wouldn't give for some good meds to kick this cold's butt!!! Sorry to be a downer this weekend! 

kns1988

@ShadeofGreen816, just noticed when you started the thread. What were you doing up at 5 AM?

BabyMC517

H brought me home a bag of mini Reese's eggs  he sure does love me! 

As for plans this weekend...at the moment being lazy and catchibg up on shows from the week. Need to do the fun stuff like laundry and pack some more. Signing the lease papers tomorrow for the apartment! Yay! 

KMD1106

We are supposed to go to the science museum this morning as part of our staycation. I'm not feeling so great though. I was up 4 times in the 7 hours I was in bed last night. Why do I have to pee so much at night?!

Louise_Belcher

@kns1988 Cleaning out the file cabinet and bacon!!! He sounds awesome! 
@ShadeofGreen816 I was up at 5 too. Hope you were able to back to sleep (unless you had to work or 5am is just your jam)

Low key weekend. My parents are out of town so we are dog sitting there long hair chihuahua. For the most part that is fine but she does bark a ton and doesn't like DS so we have to watch her close. Grocery shopping today and maybe hanging a ceiling fan. We have a bowling fundraiser to attend tomorrow which will be fun and hopefully hanging the bedside tables and art in DS' new room. 

rkstro2

@kns1988 how nice that DH has done all those things for you!   What a great start to the weekend! 

@Icarriedawatermelon sorry you're feeling sick again.  

I got called in to work.  Doing some cases and then hopefully heading home. The good news is that I should only have 1 or 2 more call weekends before LO (god willing).  I'm sure I'm destined for basketball watching any time I'm home today.  

Yiggle09

I'm home all day alone w ds. My husband has to work then has a managers bowling thing. I slipped on Tuesday and I'm still so sore. I need to Costco and grocery shop but I'm not gonna go till after ds nap. I need some r&r and I don't want to miss that opportunity by letting ds fall asleep in the car. 

Yiggle09

https://www.scarymommy.com/reality-working-breastfeeding-mom-sucks/ this was a really insightful article 

chickyclg

kns1988 said:

@ShadeofGreen816, just noticed when you started the thread. What were you doing up at 5 AM?

Lol, central time told me she was up at 4  I was like no way I'm bumping that early.

chickyclg

@BabyMC517 were they the foil wrapped ones? Those are the best Reese's ever, I ate a whole bag the other day

no real plans today besides I need to do some homework, I'm also planning on running to hobby lobby if I have the energy.

vrj0522

We are on our trip but between dh snoring, the room being too hot and the bed not being that comfortable, I was up at 6am although we didn't go to bed until after 1am.  I went on a walk on the treadmill and I am sure I will need a nap today, but today we just get to have fun (although secretly I wish our vacation away from kids would be at home today so I could nest some, but hey, just resting is really good too).

pshaortao

I hope everybody thats not feeling so hot or rested feel better soon! DH had to work a shift today so its just me and DD hanging out at home while its raining outside. I need to start laundry then I have an appt to take my car in for an oil change (way overdue oops!). Most of my nesting has been going toward our room this past week. We just painting it sherwin william upward and its very lovely. We still have to do the part where the wall meets the ceiling then we're freshening up the trims. Then our bathroom is next.

Because of our time spent on our room, we're now considering painting the nursery instead of keeping it the neutral beige color that it is currently. 

CarmCeG

I'm glad I actually slept through the night without much trouble. Fiance is taking me out for breakfast in a bit & looks like we'll be going to see Get Out!
Have a wonderful weekend, mommas!

bubsalicious

@kns1988 There must be something in the water, my H was super productive and doing things on my list all week without any direction too!
@Yiggle09 Yikes! I hope you start to recover so you're not sore anymore.
@vrj0522 I hope your room cools off so you can actually relax a little on your vacation.

I get to study this weekend! I'd rather be doing some shopping and cleaning. Taking my boards can't come fast enough!

Jens_Hoes

Low key weekend for us.  Cleaning, working on a big Etsy order, and we have a guy coming to fix the hot water baseboard heat at our house.  We had completely redone the upstairs bedrooms two years ago and my husband threw out the covers for the heat, so we had to pay someone to redo them, since it was out of my husband's paygrade.  
Also meant to add this to the WTF thread, but my husband finally fixed my bumper and fender from the accident I got into a few weeks ago, and then a day later realized that my motor was blown.  So I had to buy a $1500 motor this week.  THEN while I was in Florida, my husband tells me that the electric company said our meter was "unsafe" and gave us 10 days to fix it or they're shutting off our power.  They are correct in that it is unsafe, we were in the process of changing it from overhead to underground service TWO YEARS AGO, and my husband just decided to stop working on it.  Although now there is some fire under his butt to get it done since ya know, we won't have power in a few days....  Oh and then yesterday when I was at my doctor's appointment, my husband backed into my car with his truck and crinkled the hood. I'm surprised I woke up this morning to live... 

L1C4gal

I'm with @chickyclg and @absbubbs on the homework/studying train! At least I hope to be, in between baby classes, basketball, H's belated birthday party, and trying to get our apartment in order. We have a "fourth trimester" class (which I've been affectionately calling our "how to keep a newborn alive" class) today and our first birthing class tomorrow. I'm trying not to be too disappointed that tomorrow's class conflicts with two of the three basketball games we really care about watching...priorities.

clebl24

Random re hospital visitors.  Thoughts on circulating something like this.  I can't decide if it ok or offensive.  

vrj0522

@clebl24 - I think that something like that is okay and probably better than having to tell someone directly that they can't come visit. I have a sil who sent a text asking for no visitors until they had been home for a couple of days and no one was offended, after all, it's their newborn and they are trying to adjust to their family changes. 

The only thing that makes my eye twitch about the sign is that it says excepting instead of accepting. 

Yiggle09

@clebl24 I'm actually only going to accept visitors at the hospital where I'll have nurses there as goalies. I feel the biggest issues were the rotating door at my home the first week. We never got the bf down pat too many people wanted to hold or I felt embarrassed because ds would fight me when we tried so I would just pump whenever anyone was over 

vrj0522

@Jens_Hoes - sounds like a case of "when it rains it pours". Sorry all those things are happening at once! Hopefully life goes back to normal soon!

saric83

@clebl24, I don't think it would be awful if you sent it, but honestly, I wouldn't unless it were to specific people already asking to visit at the hospital, and even then, a direct response might be better.  Is anyone bugging you yet?

We had a strict no-visitor plan for DS (but we ended up in the hospital longer than expected, so we actually invited our parents and siblings there on day four or five), but the only people we let know in advance about it were our parents and siblings in one-on-one conversations more like "We don't think we'll want visitors at the hospital, so we'll let you know when we're ready" and left it at that, which seemed to go over well with everyone (not that I cared).  And no one else had the opportunity because we locked down visitor access on our floor and didn't announce where we were.

ShadeofGreen816

@kns1988 yeah I meant to make a post and then I decided to try and get more sleep. Last night was not a fun one in our house. Well it was until about 1am. MH had two friends over (who I love honestly and it was fun to see them) but of course the booze was flowing - for them. So I finally went to bed around 12:30, had trouble falling asleep. And woke up around 3 with HORRIFIC reflux and noticed MH still wasn't in bed. He came up around 3:30 and didn't seem all that drunk but fell asleep and snored LOUDLY right in my ear. And of course one friend was in our guest room and one on the couch so I kind of became a prisoner in my own bedroom! I finally fell back asleep around 6 and then had to get up at 8:30 so we could drive down to his family where we're having lunch so everyone can see my pregnant belly .... should be fun I do love his family but I'm tired and cranky! Totally getting caffeine and a donut on the way

L1C4gal

@vrj0522 I can't believe I didn't catch that...must be off my game, but now I can't unsee it!

BeachMommy2B

@Jens_Hoes omg! Next week has got to be better then this one!!! Don't do anything risky like use sharpe objects until you know you'll survive! 

Our weekend is going to be spent basiclly finishing the nursery and moving DDs big girl bed and dresser into her room. 

SparkySunDevil

I was supposed to work today, but after my L&D visit yesterday, I was ordered to rest and take it easy. The contractions have tapered off, and are much more sporadic. Focusing on hydrating today. We do have a birthday party for my niece (she turned one yesterday), so as long as I'm feeling ok, I'll tag along and just sit there. 

I did start packing my hospital bag last night. I'll continue adding to it through the weekend. 

48 days until my scheduled eviction date for baby!

MrsFox2008

Going to get some much needed cleaning done today! Grocery shopping is on today's to dos. Also might take DD to the book store. 
To the ladies who don't feel well or didn't sleep so great I hope y'all feel better and get a good nap in today. 

@Jens_Hoes wow you've had one hell of a week! Hope this weekend gets you off to a better start to this coming week! 

@clebl24 I see nothing wrong with sending those to have already made it clear they want to see the baby in the hospital. But I do agree with @vrj0522 that accepting would sound better than expecting! 

ShadeofGreen816

@Jens_Hoes what an awful week! I hope your weekend turns things around!
@kns1988 Your DH wins the award for me! Mine is really pretty helpful but I might have a stroke if he did all that! 
@clebl24 I don't think it's the worst especially if you have a lot of friends/family itching to come see you. If it's only a few I think it would be better received individually/personally. If I were a recipient of the message I think it would be less off-putting to just be told that vs the cute saying. But you know your friends and family best so if there's a lot then that's probably the easiest way! Definitely do change the excepting/accepting! 

MoshiMoshi7

@Jens_Hoes when it rains, it pours! I'm sorry it all happened at once and hopefully next week goes better for you.

@ShadeofGreen816 that's not a fun night! I am not very nice about DH snoring and will elbow him in the ribs until he turns over. I already can't fall asleep because I'm uncomfortable and have heartburn, I don't need you sawing logs on top of it.

Pretty laid back weekend over here. I'm taking DS to my SIL's house to see their new baby chickens this morning and DH is finishing up putting the nursery together. I'm jealous of everyone's nesting instinct because I feel like it completely skipped me this time. I don't know if it's second child syndrome or what, but I've been so laid back about getting things done this time around. I need to get it together.

clebl24

Thanks for input on visitor sign. I pulled it off Pinterest this morning and didn't notice the grammatical error, which totally bugs me.  

I have a lot of extended family that will want to visit.  I'm leaning towards just letting them know when baby arrives and not sharing our room number.  If someone asks, then we'll politely explain that we aren't taking visitors (if it's someone we aren't up for seeing).  

Louise_Belcher

@Jens_Hoes Holy moly! I'm so sorry for the flood of aweful you have had. Hope things level out for you soon!

@clebl24  I agree with others that it is completely acceptable to express your wishes early. Although I am on the same page with @Yiggle09 and much prefer visitors in the hospital. The rotating door of visitors at home is one of my biggest fears this time around. 

Question: When does the linea nigra appear? I'm coming up on 31 weeks and thought it had started at this point last time already. It took forever to go away before and didn't fully disappear until a while into this pregnancy. Just thought I would see it starting by now. 

pshaortao

@Jens_Hoes I'm surprised your husband is still living! I hope things are better from here on

@clebl24 We didn't really tell people when I went into labor. While we didn't have family in the area, we didn't want to be bombarded with requests on updates or if the baby made it yet. I just did a group text with my own immediate family and kept them posted and that was it. They were under strict order to not mention anything on social media. We announced the birth a couple days later, after we got home. 

bubsalicious

@Jens_Hoes I agree, lock yourself in your bedroom until the weekend is over!
@clebl24 Personally, I find those type of things very rude. It is one thing to be like "hey, we decided we aren't going to have any visitors in the hospital!" and then being proactive to not announce it, but these little "cute" pictures and saying always take it one step too far in my mind. No matter how it's said, the people that don't listen to wishes, aren't going to start by being rude to everyone.
@ShadeofGreen816 Hopefully your day perks up a little bit so it's tolerable until nap time!

lilmisscrafty-2

kns1988 - woke up to DH making bacon too! Every morning should start like this.

Jens_Hoes - WTF indeed! That’s a lot to deal with all at once.

A slow day here. Hubby was up at 3 am. So he'll probably nap the day away. Think I'll catch up on some baby reading and projects I've been putting off.

WombThereItIs

@Louise_Belcher I never got a line last time and haven't this time either. Maybe it's hit or miss?

kns1988

@clebl24, I can't believe so many people are okay with that sign. I don't mean to be so blunt, but I find things like that to be cringe-worthy and very off-putting. I also loathe things with rhymes on them. I would absolutely handle it on a one on one basis if people ask. 

BabyMC517

@chickyclg not foiled wrapped, but individually wrapped. I haven't seen the Reese's eggs in foil...I've already had one today...hoping the bag lasts a few days lol

eta: fix autocorrect 

livin541

vrj0522 said:

@clebl24 - I think that something like that is okay and probably better than having to tell someone directly that they can't come visit. I have a sil who sent a text asking for no visitors until they had been home for a couple of days and no one was offended, after all, it's their newborn and they are trying to adjust to their family changes. 

The only thing that makes my eye twitch about the sign is that it says excepting instead of accepting. 

Ha! First thing I noticed too!