Not to contribute to any drama but for posterity’s sake I’ll say that my May ‘17 board was set up nearly identically to this one. I loved it, made some great relationships, and recently even went on a trip with several of the ladies. Hopefully I have a similar experience here as it seems that we have some great people around here. Hopefully you’re great too @JOcello and we get the chance to see it. Stick around for a bit and give it a shot. If not, no hurt feelings but I doubt you’ll see much change.
If I have something I want to post, I’m going to post so I don’t pay attention to all the rules and I didn’t even bother reading it. Not a big deal to me.
If I have something I want to post, I’m going to post so I don’t pay attention to all the rules and I didn’t even bother reading it. Not a big deal to me.
Yes, we already knew you didn't read this post since you did an AW intro. 🤦♀️
Maybe we could move this conversation to the one-off post she commented on instead. I’d really hate to see our pinned post get shut down because of something so stupid.
So, uh..... just read through all of this, and while I couldn’t care less about the board “rules”, I’ll still try my best to go by them because it’s easier for most people to follow that structure. I will say though, as an objective outsider, this does come off kind of clique-y. I hope we are able to embrace all with kindness and respect, because everyone deserves that much. Just my opinion though.
Does anyone think it would be worthwhile to have a few separate posts, can obviously be spaced out, about planning for baby when it comes to:
working after baby legal matters (wills, living wills, and custody), financials (savings, daycare/college, budgeting) insurance (medical, health, and life) and just general planning (I am sure there are a bunch of topics I am not even thinking of)
Some of the hardest learned lessons I have heard from moms (myself included) was not being prepared or having resources on these matters. We could debate a bottle brand till we were blue in the face but lost on so many other important things.
I'm all for people starting a post they think will be interesting for most of us. My vote is to feel free to post unless the post is JUST about yourself.
Starting threads that pertain to the entire board is an appropriate time to start a new thread. It's all the intro, symptom, etc posts that are frowned upon. It clutters the board and then we end up not having meaningful conversation as a group.
I think the main point in the way it is organized is for us to all be able to have meaningful conversations instead of talking to one person about her, I don't know....just throwing this one out there, painful bowel movements.
Does anyone think it would be worthwhile to have a few separate posts, can obviously be spaced out, about planning for baby when it comes to:
working after baby legal matters (wills, living wills, and custody), financials (savings, daycare/college, budgeting) insurance (medical, health, and life) and just general planning (I am sure there are a bunch of topics I am not even thinking of)
Some of the hardest learned lessons I have heard from moms (myself included) was not being prepared or having resources on these matters. We could debate a bottle brand till we were blue in the face but lost on so many other important things.
YES!
I've been meaning to start threads asking some of these questions, but didn't because, well - I dunno.
The Legal Matters and Financials interest me the most. MH and I are a little lost on what's best-practice concerning wills, and the Financials....we're a little worried we're going to forget something!
Would it be appropriate (and/or would anyone want?) to add to Meal Plan Monday and have Mocktail Monday? We seem to have something similar going in a few places with a ton of great suggestions, but I'm finding I can't remember which thread had which drinks I wanted to try...for the sake of organization, I'm wondering if a single thread (weekly, or ongoing for that matter) would be something anyone else would be interested in?
@ki1244 I would LOVE to participate in any threads related to meals and meal planning. But I won’t be able to participate until I feel better. Since I’ve been pregnant I’ve cooked a full on dinner.... zero times lol. Maybe the second trimester would be a great time to start those threads?
^wss. It worked really well in past groups I’ve been in to just go ahead and start any group wide discussions you were interested in. Anything that wasn’t popular just fell to the bottom of the board
Hubby and Me Friends since 2008 Started dating: July 1st, 2013 Engaged: July 1st, 2014 Married: July 1st, 2016 R born: July 8th, 2017 N born: June 30th, 2019 Baby #3 Due: July 7th, 2022 (maybe I only ovulate in October XD)
This could be a completely UO. But, can we not have so many of the same questions in the check ins? But more of a general chat? I think the group 1,2,3,4 ones should have more of the structured questions, but I feel like the FTM, STM, etc should just be a general chat or maybe one or two gtky questions. I fell like questions related to how far along I am in my current pregnancy, and rant/raves has no real relevence in that thread.
Re: ****READ THIS FIRST**** Board Organization
*or* and this is a lot to ask, I know..just participate in a nice, non pot-stirring way?
Married Sept. 2013
DS1: Nov 11, 2016
MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
BFP! 8/24/19
DS2: May 10, 2020
working after baby
legal matters (wills, living wills, and custody),
financials (savings, daycare/college, budgeting)
insurance (medical, health, and life)
and just general planning (I am sure there are a bunch of topics I am not even thinking of)
Some of the hardest learned lessons I have heard from moms (myself included) was not being prepared or having resources on these matters. We could debate a bottle brand till we were blue in the face but lost on so many other important things.
I think the main point in the way it is organized is for us to all be able to have meaningful conversations instead of talking to one person about her, I don't know....just throwing this one out there, painful bowel movements.
I've been meaning to start threads asking some of these questions, but didn't because, well - I dunno.
The Legal Matters and Financials interest me the most. MH and I are a little lost on what's best-practice concerning wills, and the Financials....we're a little worried we're going to forget something!
@Dcwtada I love your ideas!!
Friends since 2008
Started dating: July 1st, 2013
Engaged: July 1st, 2014
Married: July 1st, 2016
R born: July 8th, 2017
N born: June 30th, 2019
Baby #3 Due: July 7th, 2022
(maybe I only ovulate in October XD)