I’m about to fly across the country for a week long bachelorette followed by a very small wedding- with four of my best friends from college and one from HS. Super excited, even if I do have to be designated driver for wine tasting. Also last week I found out one of the other women is newly pregnant so I’ll have a buddy! Very excited.
#3 kept me up all night. Since I don’t go on the field anyway, I asked my dad to take Z to soccer by himself. I feel really guilty because I feel like I haven’t had any time with him lately, but I just feel terrible. I think we’ll have a better day together if I get a couple more hours of sleep while he’s gone.
In my pregnancy brain fog I left the oven on all night. I feel awful about it. Also ODD's gymnastics exhibition was this morning and we slept through the alarms so she missed it. She was upset when she learned she wasn't going. So I feel terrible for that too. Ugh.
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@mytrueloves I'm always so scared that I'm going to do that! The oven that came with our house is weird and doesn't make it very obvious when it's on so I've had dreams about leaving it on forever. So sorry to hear that your DD was upset she missed her gymnastics exhibition. That sucks.
@mamabearcj I was so bloated yesterday afternoon...it hurt so bad, and then of course I was gassy while watching TV with DH that night...at least these didn't smell?!?! Must have been mostly air
Had friends over for dinner last night, and they asked DH what he was doing for his dad for Father’s Day. His reply “dunno, might send him an ultrasound pic, I guess?” Them “whose ultrasound?” I guess we hadn’t told them yet...oops! Their reaction was hilarious, though
*moves social media post further up the to-do list*
@mytrueloves glad the oven on wasn’t an issue! Ours is a touch panel one, and sometimes the cats walk across it and turn it on. I’m always paranoid and check it in the morning...
I didn't post anything until DD was here and will do the same this time. Of course my MIL with her boundary issues has already posted about it multiple times on her FB...
@SawyerRichardson I would be so mad if my MIL did that...and it’s definitely something she would do. The major reason we did a FB announcement was so she wouldn’t spoil it for us first. We told her she couldn’t post anything until we did and she asked us almost every day when we were going to post for about 2 weeks after our 12 week apt. We finally posted around 15 weeks.
@spartan4life Oh I was livid. She did the same thing with DD. Neither my H nor I have a FB so I had a friend of mine add her so she could let me know if she posted anything I wouldn't be ok with. Of course about 5 minutes after we told her this baby was a girl my H starts getting text messages congratulating him on another girl because she posted it on there. I'm planning on having a talk with her next time I see her because its actually really getting to me.
Our new range is a double oven with the controls for each oven on either side of the clock screen. I turned the wrong oven off lol. Luckily it was the small upper oven that I used last night and it wasn't even that hot when we woke up. For sure going to check the oven before I go to bed from now on
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@SawyerRichardson my MIL pulled that same crap with DS. I was in the hospital overnight around 8 weeks because of my HG, and they watched DD for part of that time. Well, when DH picked me up and took me to this festival our town was doing, I had like 6 people congratulate me on the baby. When I questioned the last person they said that my MIL had been telling everyone I was pregnant. I was LIVID. I pulled her aside and told her it wasn’t her business to share that before WE were ready, and her response was “well I figured it’s my right to tell people I’m going to be a grandma again.” Uh, no. Not before we’ve announced. It’s not your news to tell.
She pulled it again this time too, and on top of that has had a blast telling everyone that my instinct about the sex was wrong and hers was right. “I guess grandma really does know best!” Um, no. Go away.
@tlmill I feel like I could have written that entire post myself. I'm actually anticipating her saying something about it being her grandbaby and she can tell who she wants. With DD her first response when we found oui ut the sex was "See! I told you it was a girl!" Yeah. Just like us and everyone else in my family that thought it was a girl. With this LO she was so convinced that it was a boy that she would always ask how her grandson was doing. I was secretly so thrilled it was a girl and I could tell her she was wrong.
ETA @DunkinDecaf I wish that's how she would respond. She ridiculously sensitive and over reacts to things so I fully expect her to feel like I'm attacking her and text me about it multiple times for 2 weeks afterwards.
@SawyerRichardson That really sucks! I would definitely be having a talk with her. I think it’s completely innapropriate for others to share anything about you on social media without your permission, family or not, it doesn’t matter.
I'm so afraid of leaving the stove on all night, I am ocd about checking it every night before bed and when we leave the house, even if we didn't use it! Irrational fears are kind of my thing, makes parenting stressful!
My last day of school was Wednesday! But I'm teaching summer school for the first time in my 9 year career as a high school teacher. I'm very nervous to teach a classroom full of kids that already failed and hate English! But I need the money because I'm taking 12 weeks off for baby this fall at half pay and I'm the primary money maker in the house. It starts on Monday and I just found out I'm teaching yesterday at a different school and I can't get my classroom keys until 25 minutes before the first period starts. Ugh I'm stressed!
H: Hey honey (DD1, who’s 3) can you bring out 2 of the white cans from the fridge? DD1: sure. 2 for you! You got it! FIL: 2 beers please! DD1: (looking supremely exasperated) Yeah. I know.
@SawyerRichardson we had a similar talk with basically the entire family (both sides for good measure) they were told if any of them couldn't be trusted to keep news to themselves until we were ready to announce to everyone, they would be the last to find out anything, if they were told at all. That they would be lucky if they didn't find out from some one that wasn't us much later (including but not limited to not meeting baby at the hospital, if anyone breathed a word of us being there, if someone found out. Or anyone dumb enough to announce baby.). Some people suck! Feel free to come all share stories of crazy family/in laws in the crazy family thread!
@jweber4747 that’s sounds super stressful! Hopefully all of your kiddos are motivated to pass and get the credits. How long is your summer school session?
@SawyerRichardson I’m so glad my inlaws don’t use Facebook much. I cannot believe she did that!
@knottieamusements I’m half tempted to wait and do that, but there’s enough extended family that I’d rather not contact all individaully. At this point it’s just which option allows me to be lazier
When we told my mom we were pregnant, she posted on FB that a baby was coming with a gif of baby Hercules. I immediately told her to delete it because we weren't ready for FB yet.
+1 to not announcing on social media. I’m not even sure we’ll announce when she’s born, but maybe. My feeling on it is if you aren’t close enough to me to be told or see the belly in person, then we probably aren’t close enough for me to need to share that we have another kid. I’ve told people that they can share the news, so hopefully it is slowly spreading to extended family.
As for people announcing before you’re ready, I have a personal policy that if you can’t respect me then I can’t be bothered to tell you things I don’t want everybody to know. This also goes for people who disrespect my kids. My children have not been to my mother’s house in 3-4 years because my stepdad disrespected us when he deliberately shoved a dog at one of my kids after being told the kid was terrified of dogs. When he mentioned that we haven’t been there in a while and asked when we would come again, I said it didn’t go well last time and he started yelling at me about it. Yell all you want, but no way I’m going to come over with an attitude like that.
I leave the oven on all the time. Always have. No baby brain to blame. Luckily DH is good about noticing (and making fun of me for leaving it on yet again). I for sure would have burned our house down a dozen times by now. Or at least racked up our electric bill.
This is my second and i didn’t do a formal announcement this time. It feels weirdly self-indulgent. Or maybe I realized that most people have kids, so yeah it’s awesome for us but it’s not special. That sounds worse than I mean though I’m sure that could go in the UO thread. I did use a company meeting to make sure my office colleagues knew but still felt awkward.
I have a paper for my class due on Thursday that I just started yesterday. It is the last assignment I have to complete for this class and I am just so unmotivated to do it! I have so many more fun things I would rather be doing...but it needs to get done. Ugh.
Guys- can I do I self high five for being sneaky/clever? Some of you may recall me saying a friend of mine bought our crib for us (soo so so sweet and unexpected) but had it delivered to her house and I was a bit bummed because I wanted to set everything up. Well, I didn't wanna say anything to her because it seemed rude, so I was just going to wait until my shower to get it, but not having it was making my nesting instinct go a bit crazy.
Anyhoos, yesterday my H and I got some other baby furniture delivered, and so we were setting it up and I put some fun pics of that on instagram stories. That night my friend texted me and said she had a surprise and she didnt wanna wait for the shower as she thought it would be good for me to set up ahead of time. So I think she is bringing me the crib this week!!!
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Also ODD's gymnastics exhibition was this morning and we slept through the alarms so she missed it. She was upset when she learned she wasn't going. So I feel terrible for that too. Ugh.
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So sorry to hear that your DD was upset she missed her gymnastics exhibition. That sucks.
His reply “dunno, might send him an ultrasound pic, I guess?”
Them “whose ultrasound?”
I guess we hadn’t told them yet...oops! Their reaction was hilarious, though
*moves social media post further up the to-do list*
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Angel "Maxine" - January 2022
Angel "Violet" - March 2022
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She pulled it again this time too, and on top of that has had a blast telling everyone that my instinct about the sex was wrong and hers was right. “I guess grandma really does know best!” Um, no. Go away.
With DD her first response when we found oui ut the sex was "See! I told you it was a girl!" Yeah. Just like us and everyone else in my family that thought it was a girl. With this LO she was so convinced that it was a boy that she would always ask how her grandson was doing. I was secretly so thrilled it was a girl and I could tell her she was wrong.
ETA @DunkinDecaf I wish that's how she would respond. She ridiculously sensitive and over reacts to things so I fully expect her to feel like I'm attacking her and text me about it multiple times for 2 weeks afterwards.
My last day of school was Wednesday! But I'm teaching summer school for the first time in my 9 year career as a high school teacher. I'm very nervous to teach a classroom full of kids that already failed and hate English! But I need the money because I'm taking 12 weeks off for baby this fall at half pay and I'm the primary money maker in the house. It starts on Monday and I just found out I'm teaching yesterday at a different school and I can't get my classroom keys until 25 minutes before the first period starts. Ugh I'm stressed!
DD1: sure. 2 for you! You got it!
FIL: 2 beers please!
DD1: (looking supremely exasperated) Yeah. I know.
@knottieamusements I’m half tempted to wait and do that, but there’s enough extended family that I’d rather not contact all individaully. At this point it’s just which option allows me to be lazier
As for people announcing before you’re ready, I have a personal policy that if you can’t respect me then I can’t be bothered to tell you things I don’t want everybody to know. This also goes for people who disrespect my kids. My children have not been to my mother’s house in 3-4 years because my stepdad disrespected us when he deliberately shoved a dog at one of my kids after being told the kid was terrified of dogs. When he mentioned that we haven’t been there in a while and asked when we would come again, I said it didn’t go well last time and he started yelling at me about it. Yell all you want, but no way I’m going to come over with an attitude like that.
Anyhoos, yesterday my H and I got some other baby furniture delivered, and so we were setting it up and I put some fun pics of that on instagram stories. That night my friend texted me and said she had a surprise and she didnt wanna wait for the shower as she thought it would be good for me to set up ahead of time. So I think she is bringing me the crib this week!!!