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TinaL99
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Getting to Know You Poll
TinaL99
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It seems that we've had a lot of new ladies join the board so I thought it would be nice to do a little poll to get to know each other a little better.
Name (If you feel like sharing):
Age:
Hometown/Where you live now:
Married on:
LO(s) name and birth date:
Will you have any more children?:
Favorite thing about being a Mom:
Biggest struggle being a Mom:
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job?
Share one random thing about yourself:
DD1: 3/31/10
DD2: 9/7/11
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Re: Getting to Know You Poll
Name (If you feel like sharing): Melanie
Age: 28
Hometown/Where you live now: HT; West Seneca NY, LN: Blasdell, NY
Married on: 8/31/07
LO(s) name and birth date: Justin 11/13/08, Brandon & Natalie 3/24/11
Will you have any more children?: No thank you
Favorite thing about being a Mom: Seeing everything through their eyes; holidays, snow, flowers, Disney World
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Lack of Sleep
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I'm a "casual employee" (1 night/4 hrs a week) as a receptionist at a Sr Living Community. It gives me a chance to dress up and drink coffee while reading magazines in peace.
Share one random thing about yourself: I'm glad people get the day off today but I hate days when there is no mail. On days I don't get out of the house or don't feel like bundling up the babies, all I can hope for is good mail
Name (If you feel like sharing): Meagan
Age: 26
Hometown/Where you live now: West Seneca/ Rochester
Married on: 2.21.09
LO(s) name and birth date: Charlotte Evelyn, 10.27.10
Will you have any more children?: I am due with #2 (surprise) 3.3.12, after that we will just take it one at a time.
Favorite thing about being a Mom: All the hugs, kisses and snuggles
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Putting pressure on myself to be the June Cleaver, put together kind of mom all the time.
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I am an administrative assistant in the corporate office of a local grocery store.
Share one random thing about yourself: I can fold a fitted sheet nicer than I can fold a flat sheet.
Name (If you feel like sharing): Jen
Age: 29 (for another couple of weeks at least!)
Hometown/Where you live now: Cincinnati, found this group when I lived in Rochester, but we now live in NW Arkansas
Married on: 4.22.06
LO(s) name and birth date: Gavin - 4.29.08, Riley - 7.26.11
Will you have any more children?: I don't think so, but it's still a small possibility
Favorite thing about being a Mom: Watching them together - love seeing their faces light up when they look at one another
Biggest struggle being a Mom: With G, it's teaching him how to handle it when other kids are mean to him; With R, it's getting her to take a bottle so I can leave the house!
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? SAHM and a Team Manager with Tastefully Simple
Share one random thing about yourself: I love to organize!
Name (If you feel like sharing): Missy
Age: 35
Hometown/Where you live now: Farmland NY, (Andover NY) I'd be shocked if anyone has heard of it. I learned so much living on a farm. Then moved to Caledonia NY at age 8. Now I live in Scottsville NY, just south of Rochester.
Married on: 10/19/2002
LO(s) name and birth date: Bethany 4/8/2010
Will you have any more children?: Trying and hoping
Favorite thing about being a Mom: This is hard. Baby giggles, how I've seen a change in DH and myself in a good way, snuggles, seeing the wonder in her eyes of things I used to take for granted (like a balloon)
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Sleep, or lack of
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I work full time school hours. I work as an occupational therapist for a school district. I want to stay home most days b/c I hate leaving B, but I love my job.
Share one random thing about yourself: I hate pizza
TTC since 6/2003. m/c 9/14/03 8 weeks, 5 chemical pregnancies, mmc 6/04 12 weeks, Michael born sleeping 5/25/05 at 22weeks always our angel, fought ovarian cancer and won, m/c 4/06 5.2 weeks and 7/07 6.6 weeks,Our Miracle baby girl born 4/8/10,mc 12/18/11 at 5.3 weeks, BFP 10/26/12 dating u/s on 11/8/12 showing a strong heartbeat!EDD July 4,2013. RCS on 6/27. Baby boy in NICU for 8 long and scary days before he was able to come home. We are now a happy family of 4
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Name (If you feel like sharing): Kim
Age: 30
Hometown/Where you live now: Buffalo/Cheektowaga
Married on: 4/15/06
LO(s) name and birth date: Charlie 11/1/07 & Paul 5/7/10
Will you have any more children?: I think baby #3 (due in 5 weeks!) is our last
Favorite thing about being a Mom: Hugs & kisses, watching them grow & learn
Biggest struggle being a Mom: The lack of sleep over the past 20 months is starting to wear on me. And I know it is only going to get worse with the new baby!
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I SAH for right now. I am a special ed teacher in an inner city school but took this school year off & will hopefully stay home next year too
Share one random thing about yourself: I haven't had enough (decaf) coffee yet to think of something fun, sorry...
Charlie 11.01.07 ~ Paul 05.07.10 ~ Annaliese 02.24.12
Name (If you feel like sharing): Dana
Age: 35.
Hometown/Where you live now: Outside of Buffalo. After traveling around a bit I'm settled about 15 minutes from my hometown in Lancaster.
Married on: 9/15/2007
LO(s) name and birth date: Claire - 10/2/09; Evan - 6/16/11
Will you have any more children?: Nope!
Favorite thing about being a Mom: There are many! Seeing joy on my kids faces and watching them learn new things.
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Not enough time. Oh, and potty training.
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? Work. I'm an Executive Director for a project at NU.
Share one random thing about yourself: I've had some pretty random jobs that share no connection to each other - museum curator, community organizer, airline employee where I taxied in aircraft (! - and where I met my DH - he was my instructor in training) and now I work in emergency preparedness.
Name (If you feel like sharing): Mindy
Age: 33
Hometown/Where you live now: Cicero
Married on: 5/28/05
LO(s) name and birth date: Tyler 5/16/07 Brianna 7/1/09
Will you have any more children?: No. But for some reason I feel like we will have another child in our home someday, I don't know why. Maybe we will adopt or take a foster child in the future or something.
Favorite thing about being a Mom: So many things. Cuddling, when they show you new things they learned, random "I love you Mommy"s...
Biggest struggle being a Mom: So many, the 3 year sleep deficit wieghs pretty heavily
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I stay at home. But I really, really, really want to return to work. I just don't know how I make it happen right now though. Just a lot of reasons.
Share one random thing about yourself: I love the show Mad Men. I randomly watched an episode on Netflix last summer and before I knew it, had watched the entire season in under a month! I am watching it all again and can;t wait for the show to come back on the air. Otherwise, we really don't watch TV shows.
I lurk more than I post...maybe I should change that.
Name (If you feel like sharing): Erika
Age: 32
Hometown/Where you live now: Schenectady and Schenectady
Married on: 7/27/04
LO(s) name and birth date: Alexis- 3/10/06
Will you have any more children?: No, one and done for us.
Favorite thing about being a Mom: Having someone love me unconditionally
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Learning to have patience, and not realizing how heart broken I get when she gets sick... even just a cold. I hate when she's sick.
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I'm a sahm.
Share one random thing about yourself: I think I'm kinda boring.
Name (If you feel like sharing): Kara
Age: 37
Hometown/Where you live now: Buffalo/Rochester
Married on: 7/30/05
LO(s) name and birth date: Eva 12/28/07
Will you have any more children?: Nope we're done
Favorite thing about being a Mom: the hugs and kisses
Biggest struggle being a Mom: feeling isolated
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I'm a SAHM but I do tutor about 4 hours a week
Share one random thing about yourself: I would love to be a children's book author and have written a few books but I'm a chicken and won't send any of them out to publishers
Name: Kristin
Age: 30
Hometown/Where you live now: Rochester
Married on: April 14, 2007
LO(s) name and birth date: Elizabeth: 9/3/09 and Clayton: 1/10/12
Will you have any more children?: Nope! In fact thru my labor and delivery DH and I would joke about it - like after a really bad contraction he would say at least you never have to do that again. And during stitches I was like I'm so glad I will never need stitches again, haha
Favorite thing about being a Mom: when dd says something sweet or funny or comes and gives me a kiss or hug on her own.
Biggest struggle being a Mom: worrying about things with them
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? Now I am home on maternity, but I normally work as a pharmacist
Share one random thing about yourself: we pay for a poop scooper service. I signed up the summer I was pregnant with dd bc it was hard to bend. It was supposed to be temporary for just that summer....
Name (If you feel like sharing): Bianca
Age: 35
Hometown/Where you live now: Hannibal / North Tonawanda (moving back to Syracuse as soon as the house sells)
Married on: August, 10 2002
LO(s) name and birth date: Mike 1/24/05 and Alex 2/4/10
Will you have any more children?: nope, we're done
Favorite thing about being a Mom: The way their faces light up with they get off the bus/at daycare pickup time.
Biggest struggle being a Mom: I yell way too much. I'm working on it and it's gotten better, but I wish I didn't yell at all.
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? Currently work at home, but will start going into the office again when we move back to Syracuse. I'm the quality and operations coordinator for a fluid power distributor.
Share one random thing about yourself: I was made in Japan and my passport picture was taken when I was just a few days old.
Name (If you feel like sharing): Kim
Age: 35
Hometown/Where you live now: Glenville, NY(then) Glenmont/Delmar, NY(now)
Married on: 4/8/2006
LO(s) name and birth date: Brady-2/27/09; #2-?(due 6/2/12)
Will you have any more children?: Yes, I'm pregnant with #2
Favorite thing about being a Mom: Everything. I love being a mom. Especially his hugs and cuddles.
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Lack of sleep.
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I work full-time outside the home. I'm an account manager for a service bureau and marketing company.
Share one random thing about yourself: Met and married my husband in CO. I lived out there for 8 years. We moved back here in 2007.
Name (If you feel like sharing): Tori
Age: 29
Hometown/Where you live now: Hometown: CT, where I live now: Syracuse area
Married on: 5/23/09
LO(s) name and birth date: Owen , 5.28.11
Will you have any more children?: Yup - Ideally, just one more -probably will start trying a little after O's first birthday
Favorite thing about being a Mom: Snuggles, Nursing, Baby Smiles, Belly Laughs.
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Not being able to SAH. Feeling like there is never enough time in the day.
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I work from home, with some travel - I work for a microbrewery!
Share one random thing about yourself: In honor of the Miss America pageant this past weekend: I once entered a beauty pageant, and came in last
Name (If you feel like sharing): Wendy
Age: 37
Hometown/Where you live now: HT: Colonie, NY; Now: Waterford, NY
Married on: Oct. 9, 2004
LO(s) name and birth date: Ian May, 2008
Will you have any more children?: Maybe
Favorite thing about being a Mom: The hugs and snuggles
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Trying to do everything and still give him my time
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? WOTH, School psychologist at local HS, oversee preschool special ed services for my district
Share one random thing about yourself: I played tennis in high school and college
Name (If you feel like sharing): Marcy
Age: 35
Hometown/Where you live now: HT: way up north closer to the border on Lake Champlain / Now: Albany
Married on: 7/21/2007
LO(s) name and birth date: Ryan - 10/16/2009
Will you have any more children?: Yes
Favorite thing about being a Mom: To ditto Mrs. White - seeing everything through their eyes; and how quickly they pick everything up. Even emotions - he just knew when I was sick one day and came over and gave me a big hug and kiss and said "feel better, Mommy" - and I hadn't even told him I didn't feel well. Oh - and the look on his face when he sees me for the first time each morning or after work. Ahh - I love so many things!
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Lack of Sleep
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I work for a very large international company where I manage self-service applications and websites.
Share one random thing about yourself: I lived in Germany for a semester and loved it! Wished I remembered as much German now as I did then. ;-)
My first haircut!
Severe MFI - on to IVF w/ ICSI
IVF#1-2: BFN
IVF#3: BFP! - 1/24: ET - 5d - 2 blasts - 2/02: Beta #1: 16.2 ...... 2/04: Beta #2: 35 ...... 2/09: Beta #3: 401.5 - I'm pregnant! - 2/13: u/s #1 - baby boy, due 10/12, born 10/16! ...... 8 lbs 0 oz, 22 inches!
Age: 30
Hometown/Where you live now: Angola, now near the NY/PA border
Married on: May 26, 2007
LO(s) name and birth date: Vincent Michael, 4/30/11
Will you have any more children?: We hope so!
Favorite thing about being a Mom: Everything. I never wanted to get married, or have kids. And I wouldn't trade my life now for the world!!
Biggest struggle being a Mom: I work full time, DS is in daycare. And I hate it.
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job?
I work full time for our county clinic as a mental health therapist doing MH/ addictions counseling.
Share one random thing about yourself: I'm a straight shooter; what you see is what you get!
Name (If you feel like sharing): Marysa
Age: 34, as of today
Hometown/Where you live now: from East Setauket, LI. Now just outside Albany.
Married on: 11.23.04
LO(s) name and birth date: Natalie - March 07, Hailey - Oct 09
Will you have any more children?: no
Favorite thing about being a Mom: experiencing new things with the kids
Biggest struggle being a Mom: not having independence, not having help
Do you work or stay at home? SAH
If you work outside the home, what is your job? n/a
Share one random thing about yourself: I am a vegetarian
Nest Bio ~ ~ Baby Food Blog
Since we don't have kids yet, I'll answer the kids ones with what I hope things will be like...knowing it might not turn out like that.
Name (If you feel like sharing): Melissa
Age: 31
Hometown/Where you live now: Liverpool, NY/Liverpool, NY
Married on: 10/11/08
LO(s) name and birth date: we like the names Molly and Colin
Will you have any more children?: our plan is 2
Favorite thing about being a Mom: I can't wait to have a special bond with a child. My mom died when I was 10 and my father shut me out of his life, so I feel like it is something I lost out on.
Biggest struggle being a Mom: I can only imagine how difficult it can be at times
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I am a high school special ed teacher, and I plan on continuing to work after kids.
Share one random thing about yourself: If I'm watching something scary, all my limbs have to be on the couch/bed. If I have a blanket, I have to cover myself up totally., and if I'm wearing socks I have to pull them all the way up. I don't get scared easily which makes it even more weird.
Name (If you feel like sharing): Kristen
Age:26
Hometown/Where you live now: Syracuse
Married on: June 16, 2007
LO(s) name and birth date: Catherine & Emily, June 28 2011 (twins)
Will you have any more children?: Probably not
Favorite thing about being a Mom: Everything! The cuddles, the laughs, watching them grow, watching them interact with each other....
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Well twins are tough, no doubt about that! I'm going to use the line my mom always used: "there aren't enough hours in the day!" I also wish I were brave enough to go out on my own with the girls more often.
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? SAHM
Share one random thing about yourself: I crochet hats (mainly for babies/toddlers) for a little extra cash!
After 2 years, Injects, PCOS diagnosis and 2 IUI's, we were blessed with our beautiful twin girls!
Baby Girl #3!
Name (If you feel like sharing): Courtney
Age: 31
Hometown/Where you live now: HT; Syracuse, LN: Utica
Married on: 6/12/04
LO(s) name and birth date: Owen 10/28/08, Mia 6/8/10
Will you have any more children?: Nope
Favorite thing about being a Mom: hugs, cuddles, giggles
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Lack of Sleep and the never knowing if you are going to get the sleep you planned for
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? SAHM, but probably will be returning to work in 1.5 years as a special ed teacher.
Share one random thing about yourself: I haven't puked since I was 8. A ruptured appendix, a kidney stone with each pregnancy, 2 c/s, etc.Name (If you feel like sharing): AmyLyn
Age: on the verge of 37
Hometown/Where you live now: Buffalo, ny (actually a northern suburb)
Married on: 05/13/06
LO(s) name and birth date: Michael Joseph 05/23/09
Will you have any more children?: nope
Favorite thing about being a Mom: everything
Biggest struggle being a Mom: the terrible twos
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job?
work full time, executive assistant to the GM of the distribution division
Share one random thing about yourself: i love snow
Name (If you feel like sharing): Ashley
Age: "late 20s" my mom made me weird about sharing it.
Hometown/Where you live now: Grew up in Vestal now we live in Tioga County
Married on: 1/15/04
LO(s) name and birth date: Calyn (cal-lynn) 12/14/09
Will you have any more children?: one due 3/2/12 and we are undecided in a third
Favorite thing about being a Mom: the unannounced hugs and kisses and watching her grow and mature.
Biggest struggle being a Mom: work/life balance
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I work in occupational medicine at Lockheed Martin, and am currently work in my BS to MS program in healthcare administration
Share one random thing about yourself: I'm completely OCD and HATE fish
Name (If you feel like sharing): Daniella
Age: 37
Hometown/Where you live now: HT: Queensbury, NY, Now: Niskayuna, NY
Married on: 9/15/06
LO(s) name and birth date: Chelsea, 1/25/08, Molly 7/1/10
Will you have any more children?: We haven't decided!
Favorite thing about being a Mom: So many things...snuggles, kisses, watching them grow and learn new things...
Biggest struggle being a Mom: Patience
Do you work or stay at home? If you work outside the home, what is your job? I work...I stay at home! lol
Share one random thing about yourself: I used to be a really good bowler. I was on the varsity team in high school, averaged around 190. Lame, I know.