I don’t get the big deal about Girl Scout cookies and the only ones I kind of like are Thin Mints.
Yes, I agree. Now at $5 a box for like 12 small cookie in some of the box it’s crazy. We always buy from a friend’s daughter, but this year I didn’t when she asked me. I’m sure my husband will buy some from her.
I don’t get the big deal about Girl Scout cookies and the only ones I kind of like are Thin Mints.
I only like the thin mints too.... but I REALLY like them. Like, if I see any girl scouts this week I will stock up on that shit to help me through my "confinement".
RE: Girl Scout Cookies: Thin Mints are good, but definitely not my fav. I get excited over the Savannah Smiles (lemon cookie dusted with powdered sugar). I think I'm in the minority as far as love for that flavor...but IDC. Yum!
My UO - I prefer showers vs. baths...even for kids. The idea of a bubble bath with candles, music and aromatherapy does not appeal to me at all. You're still essentially sitting in dirty water - unless you showered first. And if you already took a shower, what's the point of a bath??
@ladybugsamom Totally agree - I took my first bath the other day in probably 5 or 6 years. It was ONLY to relieve RLP. I would never use a bath to get clean.
@antoto It's been at least 7 years for me... probably longer, but that's how long it's been since I've had one in my master bath. MH thinks we need to remodel to add one so I can use it to "relax," but I'm perfectly content with my shower. I'll use a shower chair and turn the lights down if I need to sit and relax. Maybe that's just me though. lol
@mdfarmchick too funny, I have been googling WHEN IS IT GIRL SCOUT TIME AGAIN daily... and today the local troop posted they were taking orders starting now and I had actual tears in my eyes! my peanut butter patties and smores are on their way. And yes they are overrated, and overpriced, but I still end up buying about 8 boxes a year, throwing away at least 5 of them lol just need my fix!!
*TW* me 34 | him 37 | married 6/6/15
• September 2016 - TI #1 | 100mg Clomid w/ injections, BFP | 6w4d: Ectopic surgery, removed left tube
• December 2016 - TI #2, 100mg Clomid BFP| D&C for missed miscarriage 1/25/17 • April 2017 - TI #3, 100mg Clomid BFP | CP • May/June 2017 - IVF#1 - BFP - Due 3/7/18
Yeah, I don’t like Girl Scour cookies and have never spent my own money on them. I can bake better cookies or buy quality from a bakery, the GS cookies are overpriced and not that good
Oh I just remember another GS cookie I enjoy. That coconut one with carmel and chocolate. No idea what it's called. It's like round with a hole in the middle I think.
Also - I LOVE the GS organization. I am totally going to put DD in Brownies as soon as she's old enough.
I like thin mints and the PB ones, but I don’t lose my mind when I hear it’s almost cookie time. And honestly, I think I’ve only bought them 1, maybe 2x in the last 5 years? Just give me any cookie right now and I will like you. Oreo, Chips Ahoy, homemade, all the cookies are my favorite currently. Baby asks, I deliver.
+1 to not being a fan of baths. I can’t even say I take one once a year. Maybe if I had a nice huge bath with jets or something, but any time I’ve taken a bath I always stand up and end up showering after because I don’t feel clean.
Also yeah I take a bath like once every 2-3 years. Showers FTW. Shower stool has saved my life in this pregnancy though as I cannot stand long enough to wash my hair.
I'm sorry but I like soaking in a tub...it's relaxing to me and I feel like if you wash with the whatever soap you have in there you're clean. I don;t do it that often because I didn't have the time. I do now, so more soaking in my very near future. And while I love GS cookies, this year I can't with anything other than the shortbreads....I guess my taste buds are having a moment.
UO: I don't believe in a written out "birth plan". My mom and aunt asked me if I'd typed mine up. Nah. I'm finna go eat these shortbreads in my soaker tub.
@Gingermom15 your toddler entertaining himself with filters is one thing, but I see some people using the flower crown one on their 3 month old and being like, "isn't she gorgeous?!" ummm I can't tell because I know girlfriend's eyes are not that big and doe-y.
@mdfarmchick I don't get Snapchat either. I also never got aboard the Twitter train.
I guess my UO is that I love GS cookies. I will give them all my money and buy several boxes. I usually stick them in the freezer and ration them out throughout the year. Just now on my last box of thin mints from last year, so I timed that pretty perfectly, if I do say so myself! (It should be noted though that I love basically all sweet things, and I will pretty much never turn down any cookie ever.)
Y'all know you can buy Girl Scout cookies online now? Just spam FB to see if anyone's daughter is selling them and ask for the link. They ship it directly to you, and the girl gets credit. I'm not really sure where the sales and learning comes from this method since I only see moms spamming FB with contacting them for a link, but it's always been a racket anyway.
I decided to get with the times and read Harry Potter this pregnancy. I'm on the last book right now, and I have to say up until The Goblet of Fire, I was wondering what all the hype was about. I don't know if it's because I'm reading it as a 34 year old, but I would get so frustrated that Harry would not go and tell Dumbledore what was going on. I mean, I really don't find Harry to be that likable of a character. And then the movies, oh my gosh. They drag, and they leave out entire plot points from the book. Thankfully the series got a lot better and the last two books were/are real page turners, but I don't think I'll ever consider myself a fan or be someone that puts on a movie as background on the weekends.
@stlbuckeye132 I have a Twitter because in another life I was required to have one for my job. I’m not sure why... I never twitted, I mean tweeted anything other than how badly the Titans lost.
@missnc77 I’m going to get roasted for this, but I’m with you. Harry Potter was just okay and I’m not interested in watching them ever again. I will say that I read all the books and watched all the movies when I lost a bet a decade ago and I just can’t get super into it.
@missnc77 I'm so glad you're reading the books! I'm a die hard HP fan and I don't like the movies. They are just huge disappointments compared to the books. Yeah I'd say for sure the first two and in part the third are books definitely aimed at a much younger audience. I started reading them when I was between 5th and 6th grade so I think at that time I was the target audience and then JK's writing sort of followed the target audience's age. By the time the final book came out I was about halfway through college.
@cford08 I'm with you on the birth plan, if for no other reason than for believing in the power of jinx. Anything I feel really strongly about and write down is going to be the first thing that's impossible for me to have for one reason or another.
I didn’t do a birth plan with DD1. My hospital gave me a form where I could check off things and build a birth plan, but there was so much stuff on it. I tried to really think about it, but I was working and trying to get the person they hired to fill in for me at work up to speed, and I didn’t have the time to do any research. I just decided to trust my OB, and I told them the only thing I wanted was for DH to cut the cord.
That said, I do regret not having a better understanding of some things in hindsight that applied to my birth experience, but I’m not doing a birth plan this time either. What I do plan on being is more assertive and more inquisitive when the nurses or hospital staff tell me the game plan or whatever else though. I’m typically an assertive person until it comes to authority or people being more qualified in something than I am, then I tend to just do what they say without question. This time I want to know why and what are my options before just saying, “okay.”
My OB both times, and the nursing staff at my current hospital recommend very strongly that you have a birth plan—not because this is the end all be all of your birth experience but because it gives you an overview of options, and it gives them an idea of how you feel about decisions. Having that piece of paper with your wishes spelled out on it makes it easier for them to assist you during birth when you may not be at your best as far as communicating.
@mdfarmchick I would agree with the birth plan. If you are going to have more kids you can just alter it a little and keep using the same one. It gives the hospital staff a good idea of what you want so you aren't disappointed later with what may have happened because they didnt know.
UO. I love Snapchat and most of my oversharing there. I don't feel so guilty bc you can choose to see my shit or not. There isn't a feed and it goes away. I also do a lot of drunk snapping on the rare occasions I get to go out and let loose. No regrets, lol.
@mdfarmchick That’s a great point! I wish I had the stamina to go through that sheet and mark everything down. It was larger than 8x10 with three columns of headings, subheadings, then options with boxes. Do you want this? Do you want that? I didn’t know what over half the stuff on the form was, and I just didn’t have the time to research it all. I wish I still had it, and I’d post it. I just thought at the end of the day whatever gets me and baby to the end of this as healthy as we both can be, that’s what I want. Maybe I’ll give a broader birth plan a look over this time around and work on it with my husband.
@missnc77 The Bump even has a pretty generic one too that’s just front and back. I honestly was against them when I first heard about them because I didn’t understand really what they do. It even covers some of your basic baby care after birth too—things I just didn’t know about.
I see where you ladies that took the time to write a birth plan are coming from. I don't want to write one out as I feel the Jinx will happen as @vflux33 said. Also, our hospital is supposed to be "paperless" so I can guarantee when I get admitted they'll ask questions about what I want and document. DH and my mom are being coached as to what I want just in case the contractions are just too intense to talk through when I arrive at the hospital. They want to be involved, so I'm giving them their chance....
@cford08 Yeah MH and I have talked about all my birth preferences ad nauseam and I feel good about his ability to advocate for me, if needed. If I did put it on paper, I'd want him to be able to veto the paper version based on our discussions, which might get confusing. Normally I am definitely the planner type, but the power of jinx is strong--and I think there would also be a lot of circumstances where I would want my original wishes to be tossed based on new information. I am submitting an advance healthcare directive to my OB this week though, just in case things go horribly wrong.
@cford08 Yeah it's a really good idea to have one on file before the birth, and if you're already doing a will because of wanting to assign guardianship just in case, may as well do those together (plus a financial power of attorney). At my hospital they ask you on your pre-admission paperwork if you have one and then say to include it if you do. Mentally, they can be stressful to make, but if you wouldn't want to be kept in a coma for years and years, best to make that official. Otherwise doctors will likely err on the side of more care --even if it just prolongs suffering-- because they don't want to get sued.
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My UO - I prefer showers vs. baths...even for kids. The idea of a bubble bath with candles, music and aromatherapy does not appeal to me at all. You're still essentially sitting in dirty water - unless you showered first. And if you already took a shower, what's the point of a bath??
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• April 2017 - TI #3, 100mg Clomid BFP | CP
• May/June 2017 - IVF#1 - BFP - Due 3/7/18
Also - I LOVE the GS organization. I am totally going to put DD in Brownies as soon as she's old enough.
+1 to not being a fan of baths. I can’t even say I take one once a year. Maybe if I had a nice huge bath with jets or something, but any time I’ve taken a bath I always stand up and end up showering after because I don’t feel clean.
UO: I don't believe in a written out "birth plan". My mom and aunt asked me if I'd typed mine up. Nah. I'm finna go eat these shortbreads in my soaker tub.
@mdfarmchick I don't get Snapchat either. I also never got aboard the Twitter train.
I guess my UO is that I love GS cookies. I will give them all my money and buy several boxes. I usually stick them in the freezer and ration them out throughout the year. Just now on my last box of thin mints from last year, so I timed that pretty perfectly, if I do say so myself! (It should be noted though that I love basically all sweet things, and I will pretty much never turn down any cookie ever.)
I decided to get with the times and read Harry Potter this pregnancy. I'm on the last book right now, and I have to say up until The Goblet of Fire, I was wondering what all the hype was about. I don't know if it's because I'm reading it as a 34 year old, but I would get so frustrated that Harry would not go and tell Dumbledore what was going on. I mean, I really don't find Harry to be that likable of a character. And then the movies, oh my gosh. They drag, and they leave out entire plot points from the book. Thankfully the series got a lot better and the last two books were/are real page turners, but I don't think I'll ever consider myself a fan or be someone that puts on a movie as background on the weekends.
@missnc77 I’m going to get roasted for this, but I’m with you. Harry Potter was just okay and I’m not interested in watching them ever again. I will say that I read all the books and watched all the movies when I lost a bet a decade ago and I just can’t get super into it.
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That said, I do regret not having a better understanding of some things in hindsight that applied to my birth experience, but I’m not doing a birth plan this time either. What I do plan on being is more assertive and more inquisitive when the nurses or hospital staff tell me the game plan or whatever else though. I’m typically an assertive person until it comes to authority or people being more qualified in something than I am, then I tend to just do what they say without question. This time I want to know why and what are my options before just saying, “okay.”