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October 2012 Moms
~~**FFFC**~~
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This is my husband and I - exactly! We've already decided we aren't doing Christmas gifts for the LO. We don't get the point....
My friends are appalled by our behvaior. But if we need something, we buy it, if we don't need it, we don't need it - saves us money!
Open Heart Surgery @ 5 months old.Happy, healthy, and as normal as could be! We thank God every day.EP/BF for 12.5 months
TTC#2 - November 2012
BFP #4: O'd on CD25 (Aug. 2014). DD May 6, 2015. RCS planned.
Beta@14dpo: 184, 17dpo: 520. 44 hr. doubling time. p4: 54U/S 8 weeks 1 day, 161 bpm
We're the same way. DH and I both agreed that instead of getting each other useless gifts for holidays every year, we would instead upgrade one piece of nice furniture each year. Last year we got a new dining room table, this year we got a new sofa and love seat combo for the living room. I like it better this way, it's much more useful things that we need to make our house more grown up
We do the same with DS. He gets one "big gift" for his birthday and Christmas and a couple other small ones. Honestly, other people buy him so much other stuff that he doesn't need anything else. It's a good way to not go down the route of spoiling your kids too. I grew up getting TONS of presents for my birthday and Christmas and was sort of spoiled, so I know I want to do things differently.
Love it! Let's think of some more! (does this need to be a separate thread? Pregnancy Porn Name Game!)
My husband and I have decided that for Christmas for our kids we are going to buy them gold (at least for the first few years when they don't really need anything) and give it to them when they graduate college, and thereafter only one bigger item and like two smaller things. It gets really too out of hand and I don't need to have a billion things laying around that my kid doesn't play with.
A Womb With a View?!
The only Easter Bunny I can get behind.
Maxwell Joseph 4/09 Lucy Violet 10/12
I donno, I actually kinda feel like this should be a separate thread so we can get more people to give their name options....
My husband and I fill each others stocking with toiletries, socks, and underwear. All things that we would otherwise have to buy.
HAhaha that's the name of the elective ultrasound place that I was considering to go to, whole new meaning now!
Married my best friend 09.18.11
TTC since 12.10.11, BFP #1 02.10.12
Baby E born 10/18/12. 8.5lbs and 21in of pure perfection!
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There's a movie titled Your Vice is a Locked Room (Womb) and Only I Have the Key. I am dying here!
So I guess my FFFC is that I am spending my morning looking up movie titles on the hunt for great preg-porn titles.
The only Easter Bunny I can get behind.
Maxwell Joseph 4/09 Lucy Violet 10/12
After 7 years of no ovulation...
BFP#1 10/24/11 ~ EDD 6/29/12 ~ Natural m/c 11/2/11
BFP#2 2/3/12 ~ Alice born 9/26/12
On it!
The only Easter Bunny I can get behind.
Maxwell Joseph 4/09 Lucy Violet 10/12
We haven't had any since we got our positive test, and I'm only half upset about it. The other half is kind of relieved that he hasn't tried.
We've only done it a handful of times too. I did jump him the other night, though. It was pretty nice, although he was really careful and you could see he was afraid he was going to hurt me or the baby the entire time. I tried to reassure him, but you know how guys are.
I FFFC is that I LOVE that my being "team green" (I absolutely hate that term, BTW) actually bothers other people. I don't get why it bothers people at all, but I have to laugh every time someone asks if we know what we're having and one of us tells them we're waiting until birth to find out and they either let out his disappointed sigh or say "but whyyyyy?!?" I get that it's social norm to find out nowadays, but even if we did know, it wouldn't change a single aspect of how we plan for this baby. I rather wait for the delivery room surprise.
Totally. All of this. My grandma cut me off from receiving gifts when I was 15 because I forgot to send 1 thank you card for a birthday present. She is so hard-up about thank you card etiquette and almost mean about it...kind of ruined my whole attitude about TYC's.
Oh, when I say she cut me off, I mean nothing for a birthday/Christmas since. Same for our wedding.
Remembering my angel baby, Ezekiel, 09/03/2011...you will forever be in my heart.
I've actually been yelled at (by several different people) for finding out. "Kids today have no sense of adventure... in my day we had to wait to find out what the baby was until the doctor said It's a ....."
Yelled at.
I think "Team Whatever" should be your decision and there is really no reason why your decision should upset or annoy others.
I sent her a thank you just for coming, and she totally ate it up
We were always sat down after Christmas and birthdays to write Thank Yous, so it became a habit growing up. Not to bust DH's balls or anything, but I was shocked/appalled to find out that the girls (my SDs) were NEVER made to write a thank you...for anything.
Remembering my angel baby, Ezekiel, 09/03/2011...you will forever be in my heart.
This! I hate cooking and my DH is getting spoiled by my mom while we live with them. He's gonna have a serious smack in the face by reality when we move into our new house in a month. I cannot find the patience to cook after working my job. Baking, though, I love! I think it's b/c I just throw everything in a bowl and stick it in the oven til it's done. A casserole is made essentially the same way, but I refuse to cave...
In college I forgot to send one to my grandpa, so the next thing he sent me was an envelope, and inside was a blank thank you card with a SASE, and a post-it that said, "Just sign your name and put this in the mail." Yikes.
I love not knowing! I'm actually on the other side and can't understand why anyone would want to find out. In my opinion, it's one of life's biggest and best surprises. And this is coming from someone who hates surprises.
Not directed at the above poster by the way -
I will say it really irks me when I have to listen to someone explain to me how they could never not know what they are having and how could I possible do it!! That I must be crazy. How will I plan?? What will the nursery look like?? Somehow we're managing just fine. Imagine that!
Wow that's making a statement. I hate TY cards too. It took me 7 months and about 10,000 reminders from MIL before I finally did them. We got pregnant 2 months after our wedding and it was only because I made a deal with myself that I couldn't start on some other project for the baby until the TY cards were done. I loathe them. I did them for my baby shower and I *think* for DS's first bday but that's it. Oh and interviews. Interview TY's are important. dammit.
I felt like I should say that I think I loathe TY cards because I'm kinda anal about my handwritting. If it doesn't look consistent, I start over. Spelled something wrong? Start over. Two words sandwhiched so close. Start over. FFS it drives me crazy.
For these, I just keep some cards and stamps in a binder in my briefcase. I ask for the interviewer's card(s) before leaving and drive to the post office after the interview. I sit in the car, write it out, put a stamp on and mail that sucker right then! It creates a great second impression and I never forget to do it. (six months of unemployment and 46 job interviews gives you lots of time to work out a system!)
Baahaha I do the SAME thing!!!
Remembering my angel baby, Ezekiel, 09/03/2011...you will forever be in my heart.
I do this too. I actually don't mind the one off TY's as much, it's the sitting all damn afternoon working on a party or wedding or whatever that makes me cringe. Again, it's probably because of my anal handwritting rules I inflict on myself.