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lady dixneuf · July 2013

is this thing on?

AnotherPreggo · July 2013

Finally! Man, I felt so out of touch with life without TB!

Sillygirl85 · July 2013

I like folding laundry. I find it relaxing and a good excuse to watch TV.

clrgrdfrk · July 2013

Our pedi is really old and laid back (the laid back part fits our parenting style to a tee). He has been seen patients for.ev.er. I loved that the only milestones he asked about at her nine month appointment yesterday were crawling/scooting and babbling. I see people post about all these other things and tests that their pedi's do and I feel like it's overdramatic.

nealbl · July 2013

clrgrdfrk said:
Our pedi is really old and laid back (the laid back part fits our parenting style to a tee). He has been seen patients for.ev.er. I loved that the only milestones he asked about at her nine month appointment yesterday were crawling/scooting and babbling. I see people post about all these other things and tests that their pedi's do and I feel like it's overdramatic.

That is what I loved about my pedi. He was actually my pedi when I was a baby. He became partners with three other pedis and they opened an office together. I like all of them but always tried to go when I could see him. He recently retired so sad!

Ziegeficker · July 2013

My UO is that I don't think people should be allowed to buy a second home until everyone on the planet has a first home.

lady dixneuf · July 2013

I kind of hate all the stuff from Marc by Marc Jacobs.

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Mrs.G123 · July 2013

I don't get when adults refer to their pet names for grandparents. Eg "this necklace was my nonna's". Um, that means nothing to me. Just say grandmother!!!

Rachelilly23 · July 2013

I had a good one earlier this week and totally forgot it. Now it's bugging me trying to remember what it was.

Mrs.G123 · July 2013

mbm1983 said:

Mrs.G123 said:

I don't get when adults refer to their pet names for grandparents. Eg "this necklace was my nonna's". Um, that means nothing to me. Just say grandmother!!!

haha my mom tried to pull the "nana" crap with my sister and I. uhhh no. you're grandma. DEAL WITH IT.

I'm not opposed to the use of nick names WITH grandparents, but don't tell random people that your nana gave x to you, etc.

Cbeanz · July 2013

wonknessmonster said:
I hate Facebook. I don't think this is an UO. I swear a million and one things annoy me about it. I would delete it but it keeps me connected to family in Europe. That is the only reason I keep it. I often feel depressed after reading my FB feed and I also think it is super boring.

QUIT IT!!! I did. My family and I started a group on Tumblr and we share pics on that now.

Cbeanz · July 2013

FB brought out so many negative feelings it had to go. I refused to keep that crap in my life. Ugh it was awful.

CnAnA · July 2013

I miss gaming. I am shopping for a new laptop, and out of habit I went straight to the gaming laptops. Then it hit me that I don't game, and couldn't even if I wanted to because I don't have time anymore. This makes me sad.

obviously I wouldn't trade Alice for all the games in the world. but still. I miss being able to spend Saturdays camped out at my computer gaming with Husband.

Rachelilly23 · July 2013

@LauraT25 My parents picked Nanny and Poppy, which I personally love, but I don't think anyone in my family would be offending/offended if someone called my mom Nan/Nana or whatever and her grandmother was Nana. We just don't take it that seriously!

To piggyback though, I don't love when you try to get all cutesy with a whole slew of family members' names. My cousin's parents (my Aunt and uncle) are Mimi and Pops to her daughter, and then her 2 sisters are Aunt Lulu and Aunt Kiki. Why???

Mrs.RockyM · July 2013

LauraT25 said:

wonknessmonster said:

DH's parents want to be Nana and Papa. We call them that when we are all together. But at home with LO we call them Gingi and Pop-Pop like on Arrested Development We want her to start calling them that, and they will think it's cute, and we will laugh at this FOREVER!!!

It really bugs me (maybe irrationally) when the grandparents want to pick what they get called. Bonus pissy points if it is something stupid, like MIL always comes up with. IMO, the parents get to pick, and if the kid comes up with something on his/her own, that's really the best option.

My family is boring, people are just Grandma/Grandpa Firstname (or Lastname, when referring to them in conversation). My husband's family has done some nicknames but they are pretty 'normal' ones, and I used to always get confused because I couldn't remember who was who. Once I referred to his living grandmother by his recently deceased grandmother's nickname (Nan vs Nanny) and everyone got all upset about it. I felt really bad, but it kind of pissed me off that people were making me out to be some kind of horrible person. PICK MORE DIFFERENT NICKNAMES.

We do Grandma (first name) and Grandpa (first name). It makes things easier for everyone. DH's mother at one point tried to change what DD1 called her when she was like a year and a half and it was just silly. We told her to stop and move on.

Cbeanz · July 2013

wonknessmonster said:
DH's parents want to be Nana and Papa. We call them that when we are all together. But at home with LO we call them Gingi and Pop-Pop like on Arrested Development We want her to start calling them that, and they will think it's cute, and we will laugh at this FOREVER!!!

We are referring to my dad as PopPop for the same reason! My niece (first baby of the family) named my parents Grammie and Papa. I figure PopPop is close enough! Hahaha!

CnAnA · July 2013

mbm1983 said:

mrs.ike said:

I miss gaming. I am shopping for a new laptop, and out of habit I went straight to the gaming laptops. Then it hit me that I don't game, and couldn't even if I wanted to because I don't have time anymore. This makes me sad.

obviously I wouldn't trade Alice for all the games in the world. but still. I miss being able to spend Saturdays camped out at my computer gaming with Husband.

Ike you can! we still do. :-B

now that our game room is set up we even got a second playstation 3 so we could play co-op games. Audrey LOVES jak and daxter.

it is harder to play for more than an hour at a time i admit. but oh well.

you give me hope!

CnAnA · July 2013

On my dad's side, Grandma=old. So she is Granny. On mom's side, Granny=old so she was Grandma. LOL My mom is Nana.

LorMor · July 2013

mbm1983 said:

my great grandmother was "little gramma" when we were kids. she was like barely 5 feet haha.

looking back that seems like quite a jerk thing for us kids to call her. she embraced it though. and she made the best damned cookies ever. i miss those.

you guys just took me back, did you catch that? grandma nostalgia.

We also had a Little Granny! I was taller than her when I was 10!
In my family we have Granny and Grandpa (First Name) x 2 because both sets of parents didn't want anything else. My gran is Gogo. (It's "granny" in many South African languages, pronounced to rhyme with door-door, but a shorter vowel, if that makes sense.)

lady dixneuf · July 2013

My dad calls my mom granny Grigio. She does not appreciate it though
Lol

lady dixneuf · July 2013

She drinks her Pinot Grigio nightly

NoelBird · July 2013

LauraT25 said:

wonknessmonster said:

DH's parents want to be Nana and Papa. We call them that when we are all together. But at home with LO we call them Gingi and Pop-Pop like on Arrested Development We want her to start calling them that, and they will think it's cute, and we will laugh at this FOREVER!!!

It really bugs me (maybe irrationally) when the grandparents want to pick what they get called. Bonus pissy points if it is something stupid, like MIL always comes up with. IMO, the parents get to pick, and if the kid comes up with something on his/her own, that's really the best option.

My family is boring, people are just Grandma/Grandpa Firstname (or Lastname, when referring to them in conversation). My husband's family has done some nicknames but they are pretty 'normal' ones, and I used to always get confused because I couldn't remember who was who. Once I referred to his living grandmother by his recently deceased grandmother's nickname (Nan vs Nanny) and everyone got all upset about it. I felt really bad, but it kind of pissed me off that people were making me out to be some kind of horrible person. PICK MORE DIFFERENT NICKNAMES.

I agree with it being tacky to pick your own nick names. I think if a child/grandchild picks a unique name for you then it has sentimental value and that's cool. Two of my sister in laws got together a couple years back and decided they wanted cool Aunt nicknames. They decided on Aunt Sweetie and Aunt Honey. The Aunt Honey never stuck but Aunt Sweetie did. All of her nieces/nephews call her this and it just grates me every time I hear this. I pray that when DS is older he doesn't use this name.

chricast · July 2013

Ugh my MIL picked names for them I told her the baby would never call her these names and would make up her own names for them but she insisted on: Grams M__ (her first name) and Poppie P__ (his first name) I absolutely hate these names, and my child will never call their grandparents by their first names! Dumb. Wow ...sorry that one has irritated my for 9 months now lol.

chricast · July 2013

@LauraT25 The thought came across my mind several times that my child would call him poopie P__ lol another reason I disliked the name.

stephcarter · July 2013

My IL's go by Grandma and Grandpa. My dad is Pop and my mom is Memom. My goddaughter started the memom/pop thing and it just stuck.

My MIL insisted on FaceTiming with Bailey yesterday. For more than a half hour. It was ridiculous. She talks to Bailey like shes a small dog. She kept trying to get her to say grandma. Bailey says Mama and MIL swears she's saying grandma. Not sure if its UO, but FaceTime is the worsttttt. It's not like we never see the ILs. We see them at least twice a week... It's toooooo muchhhhhh.

[Deleted User] · July 2013

I can't get on the grandparents nicknames talk. My UO is I don't think I like the new Bump format. I was told there'd be sigs on mobile and there aren't. LIARS!!!

[Deleted User] · July 2013

ThisIsBrea said:

Betty&Co said:

I can't get on the grandparents nicknames talk. My UO is I don't think I like the new Bump format. I was told there'd be sigs on mobile and there aren't. LIARS!!!

Oh that picture of Cora...I die, Betty! She's ADORABLE!!

Thanks. I'm pretty fond of her. I kind of love E in your sig as well! I never get to Bump from a computer anymore, I miss sigs damn it!

[Deleted User] · July 2013

Hehe, I know how you feel @ThisIsBrea. Oh, and I can't be tagged. TB hates me lol.

[Deleted User] · July 2013

ThisIsBrea said:

Betty&Co said:

Hehe, I know how you feel @ThisIsBrea. Oh, and I can't be tagged. TB hates me lol.

That is unacceptable! I want to tag you. I now understand your real disdain for the new format.

It is real. I feel left out. I should sue TB for pain and suffering. EMOTIONAL DAMAGES

[Deleted User] · July 2013

LauraT25 said:

I am ESPECIALLY annoyed that I am missing out on a picture of Cora X(

Tee. It's this picture @LauraT25:

Mrs.G123 · July 2013

Betty&Co said:

LauraT25 said:

I am ESPECIALLY annoyed that I am missing out on a picture of Cora X(

Tee. It's this picture @LauraT25:

ADORABLE!

[Deleted User] · July 2013

Mrs.G123 said:

LauraT25 said:

I am ESPECIALLY annoyed that I am missing out on a picture of Cora X(

Tee. It's this picture @LauraT25:

ADORABLE!

Thank you! :-)

Cbeanz · July 2013

My SIL wants to be called Uncle Fun and I am 100% supportive.

stephcarter · July 2013

Cbeanz said:
My SIL wants to be called Uncle Fun and I am 100% supportive.

Sister in law- uncle fun? Did I read that right? Lol

Cbeanz · July 2013

You sure did read it right The name is pretty fitting. ~:>

3:-O >-) :bz

Mrs_Lady · July 2013

a free 1/2 glass of wine should be offered instead of bread when you go to a nice restaurant!

I'd rather drink carbs any day:)

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