June 2018 Moms

Here Ye Here Ye, Come and Get Your Randoms! (2/19)

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Re: Here Ye Here Ye, Come and Get Your Randoms! (2/19)

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  • @sunshineandwhiskey - We mostly want to use it for our furniture (crib, dresser, etc.) because they're the more expensive stuff. I figure if I can save 25% on the dresser and crib, that's almost $300 we're saving, which would make our bank accounts feel happier :lol:
    How did the process work, though? Just bring in some clothes/items, tell them you want to do the take-back program, and then go pick out what you wanted in exchange?

    Me: 30 | DH: 34 | DSS: 14 | DS: 4
    PG #2, EDD 10/12/2023

  • @izza2 we still need to drag our crap out of the basement. I want to see if DH wants to go this sunday maybe. But yah I want to know the processs also @sunshineandwhiskey do you have to use the discount that day? or does it just have an expiration date? I guess I could google that, but its 6 in the AM and I'm barely awake lol.

    me:35 DH:34
    DS: born oct 2012
    TFAS: BFP #1 aug16. miscarriage sept16
              BFP #2 nov16 MMC dec16. d&c jan17
              BFP #3 sept17  EDD 5/31/18
    fingers crossed for our rainbow baby
  • @aharv77 I found some great deals on Groupon for Canvas prints. I decorated our loft with them. They are very cute and affordable there.
  • @izza2 it was really easy!  Take whatever you are turning it to customer service and they give you the coupons.  If you bring in car seats/big items, you get the 25% of furniture, and then if you bring clothes you get the 25% off clothes.  It is two separate coupons.  Then you go shop, find fun stuff, and check out like normal using the coupons :) You can't stack, so you need one coupon per big item, but the 25% on clothes works on the entire clothes purchase.
    @catlady1215 My coupon said it expires the last day of the event... March 18 :)  
    Me: 28 | Husband: 39
    Married March 2016
    DD: born 7.22.16
    DS EDD: 6.23.18
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  • @sunshineandwhiskey - thanks for the info!!

    Me: 30 | DH: 34 | DSS: 14 | DS: 4
    PG #2, EDD 10/12/2023

  • @sunshineandwhiskey thanks! guess if coupons are only good till then, we better make some decisions and get moving!


    me:35 DH:34
    DS: born oct 2012
    TFAS: BFP #1 aug16. miscarriage sept16
              BFP #2 nov16 MMC dec16. d&c jan17
              BFP #3 sept17  EDD 5/31/18
    fingers crossed for our rainbow baby
  • @becca_123 Happy birthday! Enjoy the weather! It is currently 17F here and we got about 4 in of snow yesterday that turned to straight ice today. To say I'm jealous is an understatement. Everyone is all getting ready for spring with the cute clothes in store and we have another solid two months before I can enjoy those. 

    @Amphibious22 GL with packing and the move! It's stressful but exciting! It will be fun to figure out your new space and how things will work well. We moved last summer from an apartment to our house and we had about a month overlap so I was all "we can do it leisurely and take stuff over gradually" and then one day I was so done so we packed everything up on a Friday night, got a uhaul for the next morning, got two guys to help us and we had it all moved and unloaded in the new house by noon. 
    *TW LC*
    Me & MH: 32
    DS: 6/1/18 (Pre-E; IUGR; seizures; NICU)
    TTC #2: 12/2019
    Sept 2020: HSG possible blocked right tube
    Nov 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFN
    Dec 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFP!!! EDD 9/18

  • Happy Birthday @becca_123 !

    @Amphibious22 Good luck with the move!
    DD:3 | DS:1
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  • Happy birthday, @becca_123! Brunch is my absolute favorite meal to go out for...I love breakfast food, and at brunch I can jam SO MUCH food in there. It's for two meals, right?! Have a great time!
    Me: 34 
    Husband: 35
    Married: June 2007
    Son Max born 1/10/17
    BFP #2: 10/5/17; EDD: 6/11/18
  • @becca_123 Happy birthday! How awesome to have a warm sunny day. I'm also jealous...we had some 55° days a couple of weeks ago and today its snowing (and in western WA where I live, its very uncommon for snow escpecially this late).

    On the photo conversation, we got family photos done with my fam last May. I ordered a bunch of prints and made a big gallery wall of pics of DH, DS and I. I really love it, but come June I feel like its going to be outdated and I'm going to have to get new photos with LO and do it all over again...lol
  • Happy birthday @becca_123!

    And good luck with the move @Amphibious22 .  Don't overwork yourself while pregnant despite how eager you are to be settled!

  • Happy birthday @becca_123!

    @Amphibious22 excited for you on your move! Good luck!
  • Happy Birthday, @becca_123
    @Amphibious22 Best of luck with the move. Hopefully your new neighbors will be more considerate.

    How bad is it that I let my boss order me a $500 chair (which just came in and is FABULOUS) without having yet revealed that I am 99% sure that I will not be returning after this baby is born?
  • @becca_123 Happy birthday! Enjoy the day :smile:
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  • @becca_123 ~ Happy Birthday! 

    @kfren ~ Speaking from personal experience, if you do decide you won’t be returning to work, even though it is obviously the considerate thing to do, don’t tell your work until after baby comes. If you tell them before, you won’t get your state pregnancy disability money or your paid family leave money (if you are entitied to any of that with pregnancy/delivery in your state). 
  • @kfren I vote that you are worth a $500 chair, whether you return after this baby or not.
    Me: 34 
    Husband: 35
    Married: June 2007
    Son Max born 1/10/17
    BFP #2: 10/5/17; EDD: 6/11/18
  • @BurlapandLace Thanks for the heads up! I was planning on calling our Short-Term Disability provider and asking what the policy is on that (we're supposed to get 8 weeks.) I am friends with our branch HR liaison and she said I could contact a specific person in HR if I needed to that would tell me what my options are.

    @MoonOverGoldsboro Oh, you! Thanks. I would like to think so.  
  • @becca_123 happy birthday!!

    @kfren coming back or not, a pregnant lady needs to be comfortable to get that work done ;)
    me:35 DH:34
    DS: born oct 2012
    TFAS: BFP #1 aug16. miscarriage sept16
              BFP #2 nov16 MMC dec16. d&c jan17
              BFP #3 sept17  EDD 5/31/18
    fingers crossed for our rainbow baby
  • @becca_123 Happy Birthday!!!!

    @Amphibious22 Good Luck moving!!! 
    Me: 28 | Husband: 39
    Married March 2016
    DD: born 7.22.16
    DS EDD: 6.23.18
    BabyFruit Ticker
  • Happy Birthday @becca_123 enjoy that yummy brunch and beautiful weather!

    It's a warm 63 degrees here in Chicago but raining buckets. Add that to the foot of snow we recently got now melting...Its pretty ugly round here. 
  • this pregnancy is flying by so fast that I completely forgot about hospital tours. maybe I just subconsciously figured ehh since we did it last time? but its been 6 years. so I went online to sign up yesterday. There are 2 open, on days DH is off, that we can possibly get to. 4/15 and 4/29. that 4/29 is only a few weeks before baby so I didn't want to wait that long. and 4/15 is even up in the air if we can make it... but I took it. I told DH I guess if we don't make it and do go into labor before our scheduled csection, someone will point us in the right direction as we go running in lol.
    me:35 DH:34
    DS: born oct 2012
    TFAS: BFP #1 aug16. miscarriage sept16
              BFP #2 nov16 MMC dec16. d&c jan17
              BFP #3 sept17  EDD 5/31/18
    fingers crossed for our rainbow baby
  • @catlady1215 - oh man! I wonder if you would call and see if they can squeeze you in to an earlier class? 
  • @catlady1215 I did a tour the other day (super early) because I have to decide by 28 weeks which hospital I want to use.  Another woman was on the tour and she was due 2 weeks later.  That was last minute! I think you are fine on 4/15. 

    @kfren I would not even intimate to anyone at your office or in your company that you are thinking about not coming back.  You can ask about your benefits, but that's it.  Hopefully there is a formal written document that will provide you with the necessary info - - I feel like some companies that pay parental leave may seek money back if you don't return.
  • My MIL just texted me that the shamrock shakes are back at McDonald’s. This could spell some major trouble for me with these sweets/milkshake cravings I’ve been having lately. 
  • My MIL just texted me that the shamrock shakes are back at McDonald’s. This could spell some major trouble for me with these sweets/milkshake cravings I’ve been having lately. 
    I'm walking distance from DQ have been craving soft serve ice cream since day 1 basically - I feel your concern. lol
  • @burlapandlace I just checked again, there's maybe 1 full one that we could make it to lol. DH's work schedule makes things really hard to schedule things. he's off sundays and then his other off day rotates every week. and sadly they don't do them every sunday. And for evenings of work days, we never know how late he'll be working till that day, so those days are out.

    @marcus7676 I feel good about 4/15, as long as our schedule stays clear! DH usually has one sunday a month that he gets stuck working atleast half day, I would not doubt that it'll just happen to be that weekend.

    oh well, I'm sure we'll manage fine if we don't make it.
    me:35 DH:34
    DS: born oct 2012
    TFAS: BFP #1 aug16. miscarriage sept16
              BFP #2 nov16 MMC dec16. d&c jan17
              BFP #3 sept17  EDD 5/31/18
    fingers crossed for our rainbow baby
  • I had a glorious 3 day weekend.  The best part was having yesterday off (President's Day), sending DS1 and DS2 to daycare and my husband was at work.  I had my mom come over and we organized things that have been driving me bonkers since I moved into the house (just before Christmas).  I feel so much better after a day like that.  

    But now I'm behind with all you ladies because I rarely bump at home and/or on weekends.

     Daisypath Anniversary tickers


    First Son - born 2013
    Second Son - born 2014 - Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) and Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV).  First open heart surgery at 5 days old.  He's had 3 open heart surgeries and several other procedures and is currently doing amazing.
    Third Son - due June 9, 2018
  • @kfren +1 to what @marcus7676 said. Even if you're friendly with hr I would still be extra cautious about it. I mean definitely enjoy the chair and the PTO but wait until you know for sure you're not coming back to say anything. I've been burned by hr and union crap before. 

    And @BurlapandLace this may be a ff(Tuesday)c but I've never had a shamrock shake. I don't even know what the flavor is. But I am also battling sweets cravings for real. It's getting dangerously close to the people at nothing Bundt cakes recognizing me when I come in. 
    Me 30 Him 30
    Married
     August 2015
    DS born 5/23/2018
    TTC #2 July 2020



  • @doxiemoxie212 Yay!! Are yours costly? I did a serious hunt for the free ones in our city and it wasn't until I was getting my phone fixed/changed that another lady was saying it's through the library and not the city that I could find it lol
  • doxiemoxie212doxiemoxie212 member
    edited February 2018
    @MissKittyDanger $495 total? Which seems, from my research, to be the cost for nearly any birth class here in NYC, and it includes classes on breastfeeding, etc. 

    ETA: for something like Bradley Method, at least (Hypnobabies, Lamaze, etc., seemed to be roughly the same price for in-person classes) -- I'm sure there are cheaper, less intense classes offered by hospitals, etc. 
  • @doxiemoxie212 6 hours is intense, but I'm glad you found an option that (mostly) works with your schedule and locked it in!

    @MissKittyDanger For another reference point, I'm in a major-but-not-Manhattan city and our 12 week Bradley Method class will be $300. Certainly not cheap, but less than the price of most workout classes here (a weird reference point, I know, but it's how I got comfortable with the expense). Our hospital offers free birth classes if your OB is affiliated, but they're usually a single, 3-hour session and we wanted something a little more comprehensive as nervous first timers.

  • Thank you all for the birthday wishes  :)  Brunch was excellent. 

    @Amphibious22 Take it easy moving!  Don't let it get too stressful and it'll be all said and done before you know it.

    As for classes, the slots for the ones I want aren't available yet so I think I have to wait another 2 weeks or so to sign up for them.  I just know I forget about it for a couple weeks at a time and I hope that when I remember they aren't full or anything.
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