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Anyone up for FFFC?

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Dx with severe endometriosis. DS#1 conceived with Met and TI. TTC#2 for 2.5 yrs. Dx 2nd IF. 4 clomid cycles, 2 IUIs, Finally IVF#1 w/ICSI worked for us! twins born 35w3d. Unexpected total hysterectomy 6/11. Now on the HRT train.

Re: Anyone up for FFFC?

  • I'll go first...Since we were discussing RW/RR Challenge. I watch/record so much reality TV (especially when I was on bedrest) that H got me my own DVR for our bedroom. I mean, you know you watch too much TV when you feel that it is necesary to have two DVRs in your house!

    Dx with severe endometriosis. DS#1 conceived with Met and TI. TTC#2 for 2.5 yrs. Dx 2nd IF. 4 clomid cycles, 2 IUIs, Finally IVF#1 w/ICSI worked for us! twins born 35w3d. Unexpected total hysterectomy 6/11. Now on the HRT train.

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  • DS was crying so hard this morning when I dropped him off at school, I felt like a terrible mother, because I didn't go back to him and give him another hug. I felt like dragging it out would make it worse, so I told him, "You'll be fine" and ducked out.

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  • imageiluvadam:

    I'll go first...Since we were discussing RW/RR Challenge. I watch/record so much reality TV (especially when I was on bedrest) that H got me my own DVR for our bedroom. I mean, you know you watch too much TV when you feel that it is necesary to have two DVRs in your house!

    I'm was so happy that UVerse now lets you pause live TV on a receiver that isn't the DVR!

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  • DH and I finally combined bank accounts when I left work when the twins were born. I never bothered transferring the last $200 from my old account, so I've been using it for Starbucks when I don't want to admit to DH that I actually go through the drive-through multiple times some days! I really want to be more budget conscious, but mama is exhausted and needs some caffeine!
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  • imagetmbuchmann:
    imageiluvadam:

    I'll go first...Since we were discussing RW/RR Challenge. I watch/record so much reality TV (especially when I was on bedrest) that H got me my own DVR for our bedroom. I mean, you know you watch too much TV when you feel that it is necesary to have two DVRs in your house!

    I'm was so happy that UVerse now lets you pause live TV on a receiver that isn't the DVR!

    Ahhhh...I know!

    Dx with severe endometriosis. DS#1 conceived with Met and TI. TTC#2 for 2.5 yrs. Dx 2nd IF. 4 clomid cycles, 2 IUIs, Finally IVF#1 w/ICSI worked for us! twins born 35w3d. Unexpected total hysterectomy 6/11. Now on the HRT train.

  • I've got another one, I love to watch Project Runway, but I don't know how some of the clothes the judges can sit there and go, "I want that Shirt!" When it looks like a train could have run over the model!
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  • imagetmbuchmann:
    I've got another one, I love to watch Project Runway, but I don't know how some of the clothes the judges can sit there and go, "I want that Shirt!" When it looks like a train could have run over the model!

    BAHAAAHAAA!  YesYes

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  • Why is it only me and you (iluvadam) have confessions today? Everyone must be on vacation already!
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  • I've never done a FFFC before, but I've got a funny one.  I confess that if I go somewhere and they have single-ply toilet paper then I make sure I use a lot extra.  That way, they will run out sooner thus I've punished them for being too cheap for 2-ply.  I'm hoping to rid the entire market of single-ply.  Even the poor deserve 2-ply.  :)
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  • I am so tired that I want to put my 3yr old on "his computer" and take a nap while he plays. I also hope that the twins dont wake up for at least another hour.

    Cloudy days suck the life out of me!

  • imageteresadrew17:
    I've never done a FFFC before, but I've got a funny one.  I confess that if I go somewhere and they have single-ply toilet paper then I make sure I use a lot extra.  That way, they will run out sooner thus I've punished them for being too cheap for 2-ply.  I'm hoping to rid the entire market of single-ply.  Even the poor deserve 2-ply.  :)

    Although this is funny, I was hoping for something a little more scandal less, a two week crying themself to sleep, giving a 6 month old peanut butter, letting the dog lick the peanut butter off of LO's face, leaving kids in the car to run into the gas station for that pack of smokes. Taking LO out of car seat while going 80mph, stuff like that.

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  • My girls are 4 months old and I have never left DH alone with them. He is not very involved in their care and it is completely my fault. I keep telling myself I need to let him help (ie, tell him what to do) but I never do because I am convinced he won't do it right. I would rather just do it myself. I'm ashamed. Embarrassed When I take my older DD to swim, gymnastics and dance, I load the twins up and take them with me too.
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  • imageteresadrew17:
    I've never done a FFFC before, but I've got a funny one.  I confess that if I go somewhere and they have single-ply toilet paper then I make sure I use a lot extra.  That way, they will run out sooner thus I've punished them for being too cheap for 2-ply.  I'm hoping to rid the entire market of single-ply.  Even the poor deserve 2-ply.  :)

    I second TMB that you aren't really livin on the edge here buuut, neither are we with our confessions.  I DO, however, think this is hi-larious!  I hate single-ply and I am glad that your one-woman revolt is going to rid the world of it some day.

    Dx with severe endometriosis. DS#1 conceived with Met and TI. TTC#2 for 2.5 yrs. Dx 2nd IF. 4 clomid cycles, 2 IUIs, Finally IVF#1 w/ICSI worked for us! twins born 35w3d. Unexpected total hysterectomy 6/11. Now on the HRT train.

  • imageatlb:
    My girls are 4 months old and I have never left DH alone with them. He is not very involved in their care and it is completely my fault. I keep telling myself I need to let him help (ie, tell him what to do) but I never do because I am convinced he won't do it right. I would rather just do it myself. I'm ashamed. Embarrassed When I take my older DD to swim, gymnastics and dance, I load the twins up and take them with me too.

    I hear ya, sometimes it's just easier! (see my post below about DH taking care of the LOs)

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  • Ok this is totally flame-worthy...I have Bieber-Fever.

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  • I think it's tricky to do a FFFC here because we all have SUCH a higher tolerance for what some consider to be "flameful" behavior. 

    Like for me, my kids share a toothbrush.  We had two, lost one, and I keep forgetting to purchase a new one.  Most MoMs are all, "meh, my kids share everything".  Non-MoM would be all GASP!  GERMS!  FLAME!

    We're just too laid back.

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  • imageiluvadam:

    Ok this is totally flame-worthy...I have Bieber-Fever.

    I don't understand Bieber, but I think Lady Gaga is incredibly entertaining and love her music.

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  • This is lame, LONG, and probably not really a confession, but it's all I've got.  We all went to the grocery store today because DH has the day off, and he figured he'd "help out" by tagging along (even though I would have rather him just kept the kids at home, but whatever). 

    Anyway, I've got my methods of getting Nathan through a grocery trip without a meltdown.  As long as he's behaving and staying with me, I'll let him walk.  I'll give him certain items to put in the cart so he feels like he's helping, and it keeps him busy.  Well DH took him to get a jar of mayo.  When Nathan got back to the cart with it, DH took it and put it in the cart before N had a chance to (it was plastic, so no fear of breaking or anything reasonable like that).  Of course N starts flipping out because he didn't get to do it.  Does DH do the obvious thing and take the jar back out to let him do it?  No, he picks him up and takes him down to the end of the aisle to try and reason with him, as I'm giving him the "WTF are you doing?" look and hand gestures. 

    At this point some older lady walks around the corner, and feels the need to stop and tell DH what a great job he's doing and how she understands that kids can be difficult, and he's such a great father, yada yada yada.  Cool, ok I like when people reassure me in a difficult situation, and it's not like she saw that he CAUSED the meltdown.  Except that 5 minutes and 2 aisles later, when he's STILL crying and DH hands him off to me to "deal with" because he "can't take it anymore," the same lady walks by and gives me the dirtiest look.  I don't remember the last time I felt so much rage towards someone as I did toward her and DH.  I almost completely lost it in the middle of the canned goods aisle. 

    And DH had the nerve to ask me why I was in such a bad mood as we were leaving.  Maybe if I didn't have to clean up your completely unnecessary tantrum mess, and then get blamed for it by other people while you get praised to the heavens, I'd be in a better fvcking mood.  I'm just going to take them by myself next time, no matter what he says. 

  • imageHaven1:

    I think it's tricky to do a FFFC here because we all have SUCH a higher tolerance for what some consider to be "flameful" behavior. 

    Like for me, my kids share a toothbrush.  We had two, lost one, and I keep forgetting to purchase a new one.  Most MoMs are all, "meh, my kids share everything".  Non-MoM would be all GASP!  GERMS!  FLAME!

    We're just too laid back.

    The other night DS1 was brushing his teeth while going #2 (maybe that's flameworthy in of itself?) and  he dropped it in the toilet, he hadn't even gone yet but I pulled it out and DS1 was crushed that he couldn't finish brushing his teeth with that toothbrush. I took it out to DH to see if he knew where the bleach was and he told me to throw it away, then DS1 starts crying and I of course don't throw it away but run it threw the dishwasher because we are out of bleach. He's still using it.

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  • when my DH and i are just exhausted and don't feel like individually feeding the babies we sit them in their bouncers and prop their bottles up using blankets.
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  • imageHaven1:

    I think it's tricky to do a FFFC here because we all have SUCH a higher tolerance for what some consider to be "flameful" behavior. 

    Like for me, my kids share a toothbrush.  We had two, lost one, and I keep forgetting to purchase a new one.  Most MoMs are all, "meh, my kids share everything".  Non-MoM would be all GASP!  GERMS!  FLAME!

    We're just too laid back.

    Hahaha! What does it say about my laidbackedness (or perhaps lack of aversion to germs) that last weekend, we bought the LOs a new toothbrush? You read that right--just one toothbruth for them to share. I didn't even think until right this moment that maybe I should have gotten one for both of them. Yes, there's still time to vote for me for mom of the year.

  • imagegpicayo:
    when my DH and i are just exhausted and don't feel like individually feeding the babies we sit them in their bouncers and prop their bottles up using blankets.

    Now this is good stuff! Cause it's flame-worthy but I have no room to flame because I've done it, and I don't have triplets.

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  • imagetmbuchmann:

    imagegpicayo:
    when my DH and i are just exhausted and don't feel like individually feeding the babies we sit them in their bouncers and prop their bottles up using blankets.

    Now this is good stuff! Cause it's flame-worthy but I have no room to flame because I've done it, and I don't have triplets.

    phew! good thing its FFF 

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  • imagegpicayo:
    imagetmbuchmann:

    imagegpicayo:
    when my DH and i are just exhausted and don't feel like individually feeding the babies we sit them in their bouncers and prop their bottles up using blankets.

    Now this is good stuff! Cause it's flame-worthy but I have no room to flame because I've done it, and I don't have triplets.

    phew! good thing its FFF 

    So not flameworthy in my book!

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  • imagetmbuchmann:

    imagegpicayo:
    when my DH and i are just exhausted and don't feel like individually feeding the babies we sit them in their bouncers and prop their bottles up using blankets.

    Now this is good stuff! Cause it's flame-worthy but I have no room to flame because I've done it, and I don't have triplets.

    I did this exact thing this morning... EXCEPT I held one baby and fed him 1st, but then decided that I slept too long (they have been STTN for 6-7 hours so I decided to hit snooze) and wouldn't have time to hold and feed the other one. So while I got ready, I put him in a bobby on the bed and propped the bottle up with a blanket. I even burped him half way through, but felt soooo bad that I didn't have that feeding time with him.

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    imagetmbuchmann:

    imagegpicayo:
    when my DH and i are just exhausted and don't feel like individually feeding the babies we sit them in their bouncers and prop their bottles up using blankets.

    Now this is good stuff! Cause it's flame-worthy but I have no room to flame because I've done it, and I don't have triplets.

    I did this exact thing this morning... EXCEPT I held one baby and fed him 1st, but then decided that I slept too long (they have been STTN for 6-7 hours so I decided to hit snooze) and wouldn't have time to hold and feed the other one. So while I got ready, I put him in a bobby on the bed and propped the bottle up with a blanket. I even burped him half way through, but felt soooo bad that I didn't have that feeding time with him.

    we feel guilty if we hand feed one or two and not the others, so either they all get propped or all get hand fed

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  • I've got one.  Since my m/s and exhaustion have been so horrible - and DH has been OOT for all of it - the girls have been eating mostly snack-type foods for dinner for the last few weeks.  I am just grateful that DD1 is old enough to get into the fridge/pantry so she's really the one "making dinner".  Goldfish and grapes anyone?
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  • I got one. Sometimes, I skip feeding the boys solids lunch because I can't handle dealing with the mess that day.
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  • I did leave my kids in the van to pay for gas today. It was a cash only place so I used exact amount, locked the doors and turn the automatic starter on. (keys in my hand) if you push the break the engine turns off. I kept the air and music on. 2/3s of the kids were asleep and I was on E. No way was I going to wake them. So...who wants to make the call to cps?
    oh and I was inside maybe all of 15 seconds and dint buy anything else.
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  • The other day while dh was at work I hired a sitter and went to a movie ALONE in the middle of the afternoon because I needed a break... Still haven't told him.
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  • imagejalaiaa:
    The other day while dh was at work I hired a sitter and went to a movie ALONE in the middle of the afternoon because I needed a break... Still haven't told him.
    That is not flameful that is a tie between smart & awesome!! :) hope you enjoyed your alone time! What did you see?
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  • Ok here I go... I feed my DSs bottles that have been sitting out at room temp for hours. And... (gulp) I've even sat by while my DH has added more formula to a bottle that was already drank from and then sitting out at room temp for hours. I know... The accomplice is just as guilty. ##Super good thing its FFF
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  • imageL D:
    imagejalaiaa:
    The other day while dh was at work I hired a sitter and went to a movie ALONE in the middle of the afternoon because I needed a break... Still haven't told him.
    That is not flameful that is a tie between smart & awesome!! :) hope you enjoyed your alone time! What did you see?
    I saw The Help. I just finished the book and knew dh would have no desire to see the movie. Movie was good, book was better.
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