FFFC

natleilynn

Confess your flamable sins.

natleilynn

FFFC - I didn't even know Teen Mom was still a thing.

(catching up on the weekly randoms thread)

beezeee

@natleilynn me neither.

monstera13

FFFC: I started off making adorable blackboards every week to go with the weekly bump pictures. But they are so much work, and now I'm constantly behind. I feel like a terrible FTM!

Edited for words 

canonmom413

FFFC- we have a pretty tinsle type curtain backdrop thing hanging on a wall for DD2s birthday for cute selfie photo booth ops. My cat eats it. She also pukes it up. She did this yesterday and I texted DH I could not touch it without gagging and he will have to get it when he got home. I left it. 

natleilynn

@jessirh don't feel bad, I couldn't even manage weekly bump pictures as a FTM. I had one of those shirts with a number for each week...I think I actually took a picture with that shirt maybe.....four times. Out of 40.

ariz17

I had a glass of wine last night    I feel kind of guilty. 

natleilynn

I'm having sushi today for lunch. That may or may not be entirely cooked...

aprilsarahjune

FFFC?  Or maybe just a vent.  I just got judged for drinking coffee by the old man in the office (who merely comes in to harass us and never works).  I am a big girl and will decide for myself, thankyouverymuch.  I called him out for it.  Had a brief discussion of caffeine.  Talked about excessive intakes and the recent stories of kids dying from excessive intake.  He then said he was going to give a bunch of energy drinks to a population of Somalians in our state (implying that it would kill them ...).  I told him that he just proposed genocide. 

How is this guy allowed to participate in civilized society, let alone come to the office every day?

dumbledoredies

@aprilsarahjune

natleilynn

@aprilsarahjune what is wrongggggg with people?

I'm lucky (?) in that I work in an office full of young kids who don't know all these rules and love that I'm such a rebel by having coffee. +1 for getting cool kid points with the young 'uns. 

jessafishy

FFFC: My sister called and told me she wants to throw me a baby shower. I'm excited about it, I really wasn't expecting anything.

PizzaMonster3

FFFC I'm not even gonna try to catch up on yesterday's threads. Just sprinkled love tits as I power read. 

ariz17

@aprilsarahjune my goodness! Do people even think before they speak?? 

carries2018

i am so ashamed, i dont even know how i let this happen. it was in the heat of the moment last night and one thing led to another. and before i knew it, it was too late...somehow i ate an entire pint of ben and jerrys last night.

natleilynn

@carries2018 unsure of why this is a shameable offense?

OliveOyl2014

@carries2018 that's something to be proud of. The important question is, what flavor???

carries2018

everything but the... not my absolute fav. but those peanut butter cups were on point.

dumbledoredies

@carries2018 ice cream with peanut butter cups is the way to go.

TallMomma29

FFFC: my DH thinks I bought mint ice cream because I forgot he doesn't like it.   Nope.   Bought it because I want it all for me!   

bluejeanbabi05

@carries2018 yummm definitely not a flameable sin. 

@jessafishy BUT ITS YOUR SECOND KID. Straight to Bump etiquette jail for you. 

TallMomma29

FFFC: I think subsequent baby showers are awesome as long as it is someone else's idea.  It makes me sad that later kids don't get celebrated like the first!

(Although we had our second very shortly after the first so we didn't have a shower because all we really needed was an extra crib and sound machine)

bluejeanbabi05

But, @TallMomma29, baby showers aren't about celebrating the baby, they're about welcoming a new mom into motherhood! 



Ok I'll stop trolling now

jessafishy

@bluejeanbabi05 I know, I know. I'm ashamed... but I'm also excited. 

@TallMomma29 that's exactly what my sister said on the phone! That it makes her sad for babies who aren't the first.

carries2018

i dont mind if FTM throw their own shower. i think everyone deserves a shower once. and sometimes they just dont have anyone close to them who can throw it, maybe they lost their mom, don't have a sister, dont want to put that burden on a friend. i dont think they should suffer bc of that. i mean lets face it, showers aren't cheap. if they want to spend that to celebrate their day/baby all the more power to them.

jessafishy

FFFC: I think people who act all high and mighty about "my kid won't get screen time until they are SUPER OLD" are ridiculous. DS knows the basic functions of my phone and iPad. He watches videos and shows on it. Mostly in the car because we take frequent weekend trips.

He is super verbal, still participates in imaginative play, and would rather be outside than doing anything else. It's not the screen time that stunts children, it's a variety of factors. 

PizzaMonster3

Yeah I don't understand why multiple showers are flamed so much to begin with. Are there people who actually throw their own or ask someone to throw them a party or ask for gifts? That's the flame/weird part I guess. 

If someone is surprising you with one or genuinely offers to throw one, why should you be ashamed for enjoying everyone being happy for you?

And if you're not happy for a couple's second or third kid, or don't want to celebrate their joy, then don't go. 

TallMomma29

Lol I know that't what they say @bluejeanbabi05 but if that is true, why are all the gifts for the kid?  That is a super lame way to celebrate the mom!  /slash nice welcome to the rest of our lives where even things that are supposed to be about us are actually about the children.  

PizzaMonster3

carries2018 said:

i dont mind if FTM throw their own shower. i think everyone deserves a shower once. and sometimes they just dont have anyone close to them who can throw it, maybe they lost their mom, don't have a sister, dont want to put that burden on a friend. i dont think they should suffer bc of that. i mean lets face it, showers aren't cheap. if they want to spend that to celebrate their day/baby all the more power to them.

I didn't think about this - but I wouldn't flame someone in this situation either. Sometimes I forget how lucky I am to be close to family, and lucky to have such a large supportive family. 

natleilynn

I started bawling when Dixie Chicks' Wide Open Spaces came on the radio this week. Somewhere around: 

As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check the oil!" 
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm leaving my girl" 
She said, "It didn't seem like that long ago" 
When she stood there and let her own folks know 
She needed wide open spaces

I just...started thinking about DD...and how I'm basically going to blink and she's going to be moving out and on her own.

I swear I didn't get this emotional last time I was pregnant. There was another song that made me cry, too, but I can't remember what it was. Which is good because I distinctly remember telling myself it was completely ridiculous I was crying over that song.

aprilsarahjune

carries2018 said:

i dont mind if FTM throw their own shower. i think everyone deserves a shower once. and sometimes they just dont have anyone close to them who can throw it, maybe they lost their mom, don't have a sister, dont want to put that burden on a friend. i dont think they should suffer bc of that. i mean lets face it, showers aren't cheap. if they want to spend that to celebrate their day/baby all the more power to them.

I went to a shower thrown by a young mom to be for herself several years ago.  Her SO and my DH were fairly new friends (even though DH was 5 years older, which at that age was a big maturity gap) and I had met the girl just a few times.  The girl's mom was completely absent from her life, and her SO's mom, even though they have a great relationship now, had successfully convinced her son to break up with the girl a few months before the pregnancy (after breaking up, they had a one-nighter that led to the pregnancy).  The girl was only 20 and also in that awkward phase where her high school friends had moved on with their lives and those left had no clue what to do for her.  Her grandma did give her a venue for it and her ex-step-mother drove from several states away to support her at the event, but otherwise the girl did her own invitations, RSVPs, party games, snacks, etc. on her own.  I am really glad that I went because she needed a group of women to show her some love, and I think the event helped her prepare for and mature into motherhood. 

carries2018

all of Tim McGraws songs out right now i feel like are directly to his daughters (and i am a groupie of the chick that wrote humble and kind...she is from MA and i go to a lot of her shows). i lose it every time one of his songs comes on the radio.

ariz17

I've cried at a few songs too. I forget which one it was but I was crying and thinking, "this my lifeee!" lol. I also cried at a PLL episode recently. I need to pull it together!

carries2018

anyone having a girl listen to "hey pretty girl" by kip moore. it came out when i was KU with DD1...i couldnt keep it together any time it cmae on. then H and i went to his concert after she was born (still hormonal) and i ugly cried for an hour bc H went to get beers when he played it live.

curlyq423

FFFC: I don't want to potty train my son this weekend. Diapers are so easy and I'm so lazy.  I don't have the patience lately to deal with a threenager, especially one who is stubborn. 

carries2018

FFFC DD2 is showing a lot of interest in going potty. i tell her to go in her diaper and ignore her requests to go to the potty.

jessafishy

curlyq423 said:

FFFC: I don't want to potty train my son this weekend. Diapers are so easy and I'm so lazy.  I don't have the patience lately to deal with a threenager, especially one who is stubborn. 

We need to do this soon and I'm also not looking forward to it. 

curlyq423

@jessafishy I'm dreading it, but I feel if we don't do it now, it won't get done for a long time. I don't want 3 kids in diapers though. 

sjohns908

I don't flame 2nd+ showers unless the person throws them for themself. Like my SIL who threw not one, but two for herself in the same day for her 2nd kid (But managed to get MIL and a friend to be the "hostesses" for them). Given the option, I wouldn't have gone. But...family 

I need to potty train DD2 this summer but I don't see it actually happening. I don't have patience for it. 

I let my kids have as much screen time as they want, as long as it's not interfering with spending some time outside playing when it's nice out and it doesn't interfere with school. Like DD1 is behind on her online math program, so she has been grounded from YouTube until she gets caught up. But with my 3yo, its the only way I get my work done during the day

carries2018

i am trying to justify buying DD2 a kindle, it is creating fights since we only have 1. i am going to get her one regardless but i like to do it under the guise it is a gift for something. christmas isnt for another 7 months and no birthday in between that. is flag day a suitable holiday to give your children gifts?

sjohns908

@carries2018 any day is a suitable day to give your kid something that will save your sanity. Have you looked into the Nabi tablet? We have one and it is so much less stressful than a kindle or regular tablet since they're designed for kids and the dropping that happens with it. There is an adult mode you can log on and they can access the internet that way, but otherwise the internet is off limits so that's a nice option too