STM+ Check In 10/11

sandbar517

How far along are you? 

How old are your other kids? 

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 

GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?

sandbar517

How far along are you? 
10+1
How old are your other kids? 
3 year old twin girls
Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
They are watching so much tv, and I just dgaf.   I have no motivation to be Martha Stewart right now.  

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
We were discussing the baby the other day, Abby is back to wanting a boy baby, Hannah still wants a "princess baby", and the names they were coming up with were hilarious.  Bum-Bum (they think that word is hilarious right now so it's the go-to answer for almost every question), Vacuum, Pencil, Pua the Pig (from Moana), etc.  My almost 6 year old niece also chimed in that for a boy she would pick Robert with her name as the middle name (not a unisex name LOL) and Rachel Rosie for a girl.  
GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)? 
I can think of three off the top of my head.  The first two were from a wedding for a friend of mine from high school.  The Maid of Honor (Heather) had very briefly and casually dated the groom (Jeff) before introducing him to her sister/the bride (Lisa).  At the end of her speech she said, "Let's raise a glass and toast.....to Heather and Jeff!"  It was the most awkward silence for about 10 seconds before Lisa corrected her.  Later during the reception, the DJ asked repeatedly for the father of the groom to come out to the dance floor for the father/daughter dance.  Lisa's dad had died many years earlier.  So uncomfortable.  
The last was from my sister's wedding.  My parents have been divorced since I was six, and it was not amicable.  We warned the photographer that we didn't want any pictures of our parents together, except maybe one of all the kids with mom on one side and dad on the other.  Suddenly, he asks my parents to stand behind my sister, face each other and hold hands and (this is verbatim, no shit) "look lovingly into each other's eyes". You could have heard a pin drop.  One of us kids finally said, "Um, no.  No.  We're not doing that."  It was so awkward.  

mileswithmyles

How far along are you? 
11 weeks, 2 days
How old are your other kids? 
DS is almost 3.5
Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
DS is starting to be less negative about the baby. He’ll kiss my stomach and ask me about things he can teach the baby. We’re making progress!
Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
Just happy that first tri is almost done and I can go back to being a somewhat more energetic parent for DS. There’s been a lot of screen time lately...I’m also just looking forward to our family being complete. 
GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?
This is good!  I was just telling someone this story yesterday. At my brother’s wedding, the co-maids of honor gave a train wreck of a toast. They were drunk when they started and continually took shots throughout their toast. It was full of inside jokes that no one else got and they someone ended up putting on unicorn horns during the toast. It went on for so long. While this is happening, my cousins, friends, and family are blowing up my phone with comments about wtf was going on. Those two had been a nightmare to deal with in the bridal party and with planning anything for SIL, so they were finally getting to experience them for themselves. At one point, the mics cut out and people applauded, but then they came back on and kept going. The best part is that the photographer has photos of my brother during this toast and the progression of facial expressions he is making is hilarious. He goes from trying to be attentive, to looking concerned, to a wtf face and ends with his head in his hands.  

mileswithmyles

@sandbar517 yikes!  Vendors need to pay attention to stuff like that!  Also at my brother's wedding- my grandpa had a diabetic incident an hour before the wedding and had to go to the ER via ambulance with my grandma and my aunt and uncle, and they ended up missing the wedding. We were all so worried about him and so dissappointed that they all weren’t there. It was very emotional for my brother and SIL and hands down one of the hardest things I’ve had to do was tell them that this happened right before the start of the ceremony. We told the photographer what happened, but when it came time for extended family photos, she’s yelling out “Is Gary here?  What about Sandra?” multiple times.   I finally pulled her aside and was like, let me fix your list for you so you can stop upsetting everyone by reminding us they aren’t here. 

sandbar517

@mileswithmyles, I was thinking the same thing!  We are paying you out the wazoo, I think the least you could do is write a note that says "No father/daughter dance" or "Parents divorced, no pictures together".  These are not unusual circumstances by any means, and I understand how busy they probably are during wedding season, but seriously?  That's your whole job.  On that note, I'm still mad (mostly at myself) for not remembering to get pictures with my in laws on my wedding day.  I wish the photographer would have said something, but maybe she figured we were doing it on purpose and didn't want to make an uncomfortable situation like above?  Who knows.
Edited because I forgot to add that long/boring/uncomfortable speeches is the number one way to make a wedding go south really quick.  I was at a wedding once (which I guess could be another awkward story because I went with the sister of the groom-a very good friend of mine, but had only met the rest of her family a few times.  She invited me to go with her because she was having her baby shower the same weekend and I was traveling from out of town and stayed with her at her parents' house....)  Anyway, long story short, the speeches lasted -no joke- almost an hour.  It was PAINFUL.  

JNCPro3130

How far along are you? 
7 weeks 1 day
How old are your other kids? 
DS is 2.5
Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
I started wondering about what DS is going to do when I have the baby.  I know we are a long way off from that, but it occurred to me that DH was at the hospital with me the entire time except for when he went home to check on our dogs.  I feel like DS won't be happy being at the hospital...in a room for a couple of days.  He's definitely a mommy's boy, so I don't want him to feel like he's being replaced.
Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
I'm still just excited to see DS with the baby!  He already loves to give my stomach kisses and say prayers for the baby.  One of my students has a new baby sister.  Her mom sent me a picture and it made me cry thinking about DS with his sibling.
GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?
I can't really think of any awkward wedding moments.  The closest awkward moment was at a cousin's wedding.  Apparently the bride's family had issue with the aunts of the groom's family.  I think it was just different lifestyles coming together.  Nothing weird happened, but it was a more "separated" wedding than some I've been to.

sandbar517

@JNCPro3130 Do you have family close by or someone that could come visit when it gets closer to your due date?  When my sister had her son, my niece stayed with me and I just drove her back and forth to the hospital in the evenings to see everyone.  Also, I had my girls at 9:00 at night and they were already talking about discharging me the next afternoon.  So hopefully it will be a short stay for you, and your son won't be too bored or uncomfortable staying with you.  

fraufarbissina

How far along are you? 
7 weeks 5 days
How old are your other kids? 
9 month old girl
Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
I'm just so sick of being sick, it's all I can think about now.  
Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
See above.  When will the sickness end????
GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?
This isn't nearly as good/bad as @sandbar517 and @mileswithmyles but my cousin got married at a really pretty venue and the ceremony was outside.  The parking lot was just on the other side of a wall that enclosed the ceremony area and during their vows you could hear a garbage truck come and empty out the dumpster.  It didn't last very long and the bride and groom just paused and laughed but don't you think the venue people would've thought about timing that a little better?

artlea2013

How far along are you? For right now, 10 + 4

How old are your other kids? DS is 16 months tomorrow

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now? I just wish he would sleep! Or sleep consistently. Or, hell, not sleep consistently so that I could try to pinpoint some issue that maybe he's having or something I'm doing wrong. He will sleep through about half the time, some nights he's just up once, and some nights he's up before I even get myself to bed. It makes no sense

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: I'm just happy right now I have the energy to make it to his bed time. I want to try to enjoy every minute of our three person family and still being able to dance and play with his toys with him makes me feel relieved

GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)? The only specific thing coming to mind happened at my friend's wedding. She and her husband wrote their own vows, but they collaborated and had a central theme with some similar or exact phrasing between. He went first, and when it was her turn, she closed her vows the same way he did, by exclaiming how happy she was for him to be her "lawfully wedded wife". Took her a couple of beats, and then she screamed out "husband! I mean husband!"

Edit for one lousy missing word

sandbar517

@fraufarbissina Yeah, that doesn't seem like rocket science.  Most people get married on weekends, why not schedule garbage pick up for like, Tuesday morning or something?? 
ETA more tagging @artlea2013 That's hilarious!  Reminds me of a time in college my boyfriend (at the time) used a template from the internet for a resume and accidentally left on there that he graduated from University of Michigan in 1987.  He would've been 5.  Oops.  

sparklingdiamond

How far along are you?   11w1d

How old are your other kids?  DS is 3

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?  We told him he was going to be a big brother last weekend.  He said no, I'm not big brother, I'm baby!  So far he doesn't seem to either like or understand the idea.

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM:  I am kind of just stressed about it right now to be honest.

GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?  My officiant was like 30 min late (they didn't tell me right away, I just wondered what was taking so long), so then everyone had to wait around.

theletlers

How far along are you? 
7 weeks 6 days
How old are your other kids? 
DS is close to 2.5
Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
im currently worried about what happens if this pregnancy ends up like my first. My first I was so sick all of the time, but I was kid free so not as big a deal to just lay around all the time. So far I'm about as miserable as the first time but have a toddler so can't just ignore him. Also with my first, he had so many issues in utero and I was induced early because of it. But then DS had to stay in the hospital for a week after he was born, I couldn't hold him until he was four days old, couldn't try to nurse until day 6...it was just a lot to deal with emotionally. But I started to worry about what happens if this baby struggles too. How can I be at the hospital for one babe and home for the other at the same time. 
Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
My DS is already such a little helper, I can't wait to see him with a sibling! 
GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?
At my MIL's fourth wedding, they just did a little reception at her house. In the middle of it, the grandma brought out the vacuum because she was annoyed at people eating food in the living room and all the shoes in the house.  At MIL's fifth wedding, everything was so uncoordinated it was painful to watch. Like she walked down the aisle and the minister began the ceremony but then her dad wakes up to the alter and gave a speech. And then after that the minister started again but some guy came out playing the guitar and the groom's sister started to sing a song (very poorly too and she kept forgetting the words so the guy playing the guitar kept slowing down and helping her.) It was just overall a very odd wedding ceremony.

lincbeesmom

How far along are you? 

9 Weeks 4 Days

How old are your other kids? 

My son is 3.5

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?

Just finding ways to entertain him while we’re living in a hotel for another month in a new town 

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 

He is so excited to be a big brother. He keeps talking about how he has to grow up big and strong so he can teach the babies how to do stuff like not throw food on the floor and play with toys softly (his examples). He’s going to be such an amazing big brother. 

GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?

can’t think of any at the moment!

mileswithmyles

@JNCPro3130 I second what @sandbar517 said.  I don't want DS at the hospital while I am in labor.  Our plan is to ask my mom to take him for those few days and then MIL if she needs back-up.  I had a long labor and was in the hospital for three days and theres no way my three-year old is going to be able to handle that and I don't think the hospital will allow it. 

My BFF is due any day now and we are her back-up if her parents are out of town to take her son.  Her parents travel a lot for work and her ILs are far away. We live down the street from them and our sons are BFFs so it wouldn't be hard for us to take him.  

@fraufarbissina add me to the "sick and tired of being sick and tired" bench.  Also, LOL at the garbage truck.  Our wedding venue was at a HOA clubhouse that shared a fence with a pool and was on a lake.  We got married in the middle of July and were worried about people being there and being noisy.  BILs early wedding gift to us was calling the HOA to tell them his son pooped in the pool so it would be shut down during our ceremony.  DH and I totally thought it was a happy coincidence until he told us a few days later.  

@artlea2013 lol!

@sparklingdiamond 30 minutes isn't too bad, but that's annoying

@theletlers that is a lot of weddings for MIL.


I thought of another good awkward wedding story- we were at a friend's wedding and the bride forgot her veil, stopped the ceremony, made her MOH get it and put it on her in front of everyone.  At that same wedding, a girl who totally had the hots for the groom got hammered and was crying/projectile vomiting in the bathroom before cocktail hour was over.  They had to shut the bathroom down for the remainder of the evening.  

sandbar517

@mileswithmyles Wow.  What a train wreck.  And I totally LOL'd at your BIL.  Awesome thinking, and great gift!
@theletlers I was cringing reading your stories.  5 weddings?  Don't you think you would just give up after the first two?  Let's just Goldie and Kurt this, ok??  

ivyvines6

How far along are you? 
10w6d

How old are your other kids? 
18 months

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
Uh he ate a crayon?

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
He was trying to say squirrel today and instead he shrieks really loudly every time. It gave me a tiny complex about how I sound while talking o.o

GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?
Um I dropped out of a friend's bridal party a few months before the wedding because she was being a super petty bitch and was demanding we devote every Saturday leading up to her wedding to helping her do things for the wedding, and it didn't matter that I had work/rehearsals because it's nutcracker season. She was also demanding that we all stayed the night at her house the full day and night before the wedding, and said I should just pump. J was only six months old at the time and I suck at pumping... She also sent out a huge rant to all of her bridesmaids telling us all how much we suck because she's still stressed and none of us are helping her enough. I told her the day after that rant was sent out that I wasn't able to be the bridesmaid she needed me to be, and I couldn't do it. We're still cool now that her wedding is over. (It's also made me the most chillaxed bride with my bridesmaids ever)

On her wedding day I showed up about five minutes after the ceremony started, and saw one of the bridesmaids about ten minutes later pulling in and running to where they were getting dressed. Turns out her boyfriend had told her he'd lost the rings (untrue) and sent her to his house to look for them. She took one of her friends and they had sex in the house before they came back. (Had sex with friend, not boyfriend) It was a hot mess to get started, but the ceremony made me cry, and the reception was a lot of drama free fun.

theletlers

@mileswithmyles @sandbar517 I agree! We just sort of roll with her "relationships"

mommabmb

I'm 7w3d  I think. Ultrasound is tomorrow. (yay, finally!)
My kids are in my siggy. I feel like we need some more question variety in here.
No worries as of now. Just considering if DH staying home is cheaper than daycare. 

I don't think I have an awkward wedding moment? Only one thing comes to mind- we got married on the beach and some twatwaffle and his twatette set up their "spot" right in front of our wedding. They refused to move when asked because it was a public beach. So, my friends set up RIGHT next to them ... like 2 feet away. Because, its a public beach. They moved before the wedding started. 

onesmallcoconut

How far along are you? 
11 +1

How old are your other kids? 
2

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
Nah 

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
My son is getting better and better with words. It blows my mind when he just walks up and starts talking to me and it's words that I can understand and we can have small conversation. i think this is going to be super beneficial when the next one is born when I need to explain things to him. 


GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?

I had a drunk father of the groom harass me consistently at a friend's wedding 2 years ago to get him drinks because he was busy "playing a game" while I was "just sitting down" .... I was 7.5 months pregnant. I ended up hiding on the patio for a good chunk of the night where there was no seating just so he would leave me alone 

sandbar517

@onesmallcoconut Ugh, how embarrassing! For him, not you.  I hope he remembered how he was acting the next day and felt as foolish as he should have.  

kalliejj

How far along are you? 9+2 for now.

How old are your other kids? daughter is 18 months on Saturday.

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now? DD must be getting more teeth, she is nursing non-stop and drooling which she never does. The nursing thing is certainly putting a wrench in my weaning plans.

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: I'm looking forward to the time when #2 is old enough to play with DD and they can entertain each other 

GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)? i haven't been to a ton of weddings recently, so I can't think of anything good.... Well, my own wedding was an elopement with a few of our friends. We snagged a priest after a Sunday service and had a small service in a Basilica. Random people wondered in during our vows, and sat down like it was some normal service  they got the hint after a few minutes and left.

Edit: VOWS not cows 

zaclina

How far along are you? 10w3d

 How old are your other kids? 23months

 Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now? We decided to not tell DD until 2nd trimester. No real issues.

 Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: My DD's sense of humor is developing. Total Stooge. Poop is a new favorite word. Ahh,.... the anal phase.

 GTKY: What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)? A friend got married and the speeches were AWFUL. The MOH did an "interpretative dance" to music without words to describe her relationship with the bride. It was not good. The best man's speech was 1.drunk and 2.fullllll of sexual innuendos including his last line about him/the groom giving all the bridesmaids "pearl necklaces" as a gift for being in the wedding (his parents were at the wedding and kept looking at me, wanting me to explain what he was saying. Just no). Then the mother of bride read a Poem all about lost love, how love is hard and how it can die (basically was about brides father, they had recently divorced). Then the bridal party got even more wasted then they already were. It was stunning.

edit bc it went into one lump of a paragraph 

zaclina

@sandbar517, @mileswithmyles. You guys make me appreciate the money I spent on my photographer.  

sandbar517

@zaclina Awkward does not even begin to describe the wedding you mentioned.  Holy.  Crap.  

arteduc8

How far along are you? 
9w 4d

How old are your other kids? 
DD is 16 months

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
Just having the energy to keep up with her. I'm so queasy all the time right now and exhausted, I just want to sleep. That and needing to get serious about fully weaning her. She's down to morning and bedtime but I just don't have the heart to cut those out yet. 

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
I had the first ultrasound last Monday and baby looks great. So we decided to tell my family this past weekend. I had DD bring out her new book, I'm a Big Sister, and she have it to my dad. His and my mom's reaction was priceless! We got it in video too. Then at dinner I surprised my sister and her family. We were paying for a family picture outside the restaurant by the river and as my dad counted 1, 2, ... I shouted "We're having another baby!" And my dad snapped the photo of everyone's reaction. It was awesome!

GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?
Oh man, you all had some crazy stories! My story isn't from the wedding itself but from the preparation the morning of my brother's wedding. We met my sister at the hotel where her and her family we're finishing breakfast. My sister and I left with her 3 year old daughter to go get our hair done. On the way we get a phone call from her husband that her 10 month old had thrown up all over the table at the restaurant. Five minutes down the road we hear her daughter in the backseat throwing up all over herself. We were in the middle of nowhere so my sister pulled over in front of an abandoned house to try to get her daughter cleaned up as best as she could but didn't have back up close with her. So we get back in the car and try to turn it on and her battery died so the car wouldn't start. So she flagged down someone to help us and this scary looking dude covered head-to-toe and tattoos pulls over to assist us we both looked at each other like this is how it ends but he was actually extremely nice and got us on our way. Fortunately the hair salon was just down the road from an Old Navy so I dropped my sister and her daughter off while I ran to get her daughter an extra set of clothes for the morning. What a nightmare

Not as crazy but just bizarre, I went to a wedding this summer where the ceremony was outside and very brief. We all stood for one of the Bride came down the aisle but then the officiant never told us to be seated. So we all stood through the entire wedding.

mileswithmyles

@zaclina Same!  Ours was expensive but they were amazing and so professional. My brother’s photographer sucked for other reasons too. I felt like she didn’t capture so many things and her lighting is awful in so many of the pictures. And things are off center. My mom said she is kicking herself for not paying for them to use the same one we had. 

Ceridwen77

How far along are you? 
9+4

How old are your other kids? 
2 in November 

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
The first six months of sleep and breastfeeding. Ugh. 

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
So excited to have a teeny tiny around again! And my DD is baby crazy so that is exciting too. 

GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?
My cousins wedding. His new wife, who was 5-6 months pregnant, sitting at the bar smoking during the reception. 

mileswithmyles

@ivyvines6 What a bridezilla!

@mommabmb Those people definitely get a TW award.
  

@onesmallcoconut awkward

@kgj77 cows? 

@zaclina lol-ing at interpretive dance.  How did everyone keep a straight face?

@arteduc8 holy vomit!  That is crazy!  Our ceremony was really short, too, mostly because of the 110 degree heat.  Isn't the mother of the bride supposed to sit down to signal everyone else to sit?

@Ceridwen77 that is classy.  Yikes. 

theletlers

@zaclina too bad I didn't have my sister do that at mine!!

dinonugget

How far along are you? 
11 weeks, 1 day

How old are your other kids? 
DS1 is 5 and DS2 will be 18 months on Saturday. @kgj77  looks like our kids share a birthday!

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
DS2 has decided to starting waking up around 4-4:30 and won’t go back to sleep until he comes to our bed then is up for the day between 5:30-6. We’ve got to figure something out because this isn’t going to work with a newborn.

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
We announced this week so DS1 is excited to get to tell everyone now. DS2 is has noticed the bloat and likes to poke it. I tell him it’s a baby and he’s started saying baby and giving it kisses.  

GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?
I don’t have good stories like some of you. Worst I can think of was a coworkers wedding where her new husband gave a speech while very drunk. It lasted 15 minutes, he was very emotional, and was more of a ramble.

Kaysquared2

How far along are you? 
10+5
How old are your other kids? 
22 months
Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
DS is self weaning with a little encouragement form me.  He’s been down to 2 nursing sessions a day and today skipped his morning nursing and opted for almond milk.  Makes me sorta sad but I’m ready for him to be done.  
Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
My son has become more cuddly recently and calls the baby lil baby.  
GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?
I went to a wedding where the father of the bride have a speech about how he didn’t like the groom to begin with but they stuck together anyways but he didn’t end the speech with something like but now we like him...

arteduc8

mileswithmyles said:

@ivyvines6 What a bridezilla!

@mommabmb Those people definitely get a TW award.
  

@onesmallcoconut awkward

@kgj77 cows? 

@zaclina lol-ing at interpretive dance.  How did everyone keep a straight face?

@arteduc8 holy vomit!  That is crazy!  Our ceremony was really short, too, mostly because of the 110 degree heat.  Isn't the mother of the bride supposed to sit down to signal everyone else to sit?

@Ceridwen77 that is classy.  Yikes. 

Hmm, I'd never heard that one before. The bride's mom actually passed away a few months before the wedding though. Several tear inducing moments during the wedding for everyone. 

artlea2013

@Kaysquared2 I can't imagine the mortified family just staring at each other after something like that.

mileswithmyles

@arteduc8 oh no!  That's so sad!

codik86

I am 7 weeks tomorrow. I have one son, he's 3. 
Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
I'm nervous about how my son will react. He loves babies, but gets jealous. The newborn exhaustion is worrying me because I want to give my son all the attention but I know how zombie-like that stage is. 

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
Happy I can give my son a sibling. I'm excited he will have someone to love, terrorize and play with. 
GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)?
 One of my friends just got married and at her wedding the DJ was talking about inappropriate things. One of them being, "the leading cause of divorce is marriage." She didn't seem to let it bother her but our whole table was like... wtf?!

kalliejj

@mileswithmyles edited, def meant vows! 

mileswithmyles

@kgj77 I mean, cows would have been funny, too! 

dinonugget

@sandbar517 I can’t beliece the DJ would make that mistake! My DH is a wedding DJ on the side and I know he always verifies all that information prior to the wedding. He’s been doing it for six years so I know he’s seen some interesting weddings.

Edited because spelling is hard.

Pearlvirus

How far along are you? 9+3

How old are your other kids? 3.5y and 23m

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now? It blows my mind that my younger is going to be two in a couple weeks! It weirdly makes me think, why am I starting over?!? Not like 2 is that old or 2.5 years is a big gap, it just feels big after a 19m gap. 

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM:  Only children really are missing out. My two are becoming such good playmates, it's beautiful to watch. 

GTKY:  What's the most awkward wedding moment you've been a part of (your own or someone else's)? Hmm, nothing too good but my ex did make a scene at a wedding long ago. We had very recently split but the wedding was mutually close friends, so we both had to go. I was dancing (with girlfriends!) and he was drunk and started yelling angry unpleasant things and heading toward us. Some other friends removed him. He was always so immature and only able to express emotion when drunk, so glad he is no longer a part of my life!!

JNCPro3130

Thank you for the suggestions, everyone! My in-laws live in another state (8 hours away). My mom is an hour away. Once they broke my water, DS came 2 hours and 45 minutes later. They say second babies come faster. We will have to ask some friends to be on call.

melanier26

How far along are you? 
I think we’re officially changing our due date so today I am 7 weeks

How old are your other kids? 
DS turned 2 in July 

Current challenges/concerns about being a STM+ or questions about things your children are going through now?
I feel like such a crappy mom. I started a progesterone supplement a few days ago and have been super nauseous non-stop since. 

Current joys/successes/or happy thoughts about being a STM: 
I haven’t had many positive thoughts bc of the nausea!