Longest Thread EVER! (aka Random Thoughts Thread )

Sisimama10 · December 2013

Emily041285 said:
I just brushed my hair and the amount of shedding that ensued is down right scary. I thought this wasn't supposed to happen until after the baby was born. I have think hair to begin with! I can't afford this kind of loss!

I'm getting tangled almost matts in the back of my hair!

snmetz7 · December 2013

@Thomas930 that would be my husbands response too! lol silly boys

Stace0616 · December 2013

Random question for the STMs in da house: does the worrying about money ever stop? Maybe it's because I'm in finance and deal with it all damn day, but this fear of not having enough money to raise baby is really getting to me lately. We are able to save at least $600-1k/mo but I still am in this mindset that I'm living paycheck to paycheck. Ugh. I think part of the problem is our wedding vendors finally cleared out our savings account last month. I mean, that was the plan and still have my entire deductible saved in my HSA, but I'm still like "oh god 4.5 months is sooooo soon".

Leave it to hormones to play up my irrational fears.

Plus, I watched Les Miserables on Sunday and now have nightmares of prostituting myself while my dirty child grows up with Helena Bonham Carter.

katieharpiceland · December 2013

aviola329 said:

@thomas930 This happened to my SIL with her 3rd. She thought she had lots of time and about half way to the hospital they had to pull over because he was coming. She gave birth in the car on the side of the road! hehe, FWIW it can be cleaned :-D
My coworkers little girl was born in the parking lot of the hospital....literally that's what her birth certificate says. It's one of the reasons I may not be going to our family's Easter festivities. It quadruples my distance from our hospital.

Yea, with SIL they actually didn't know what to put on the birth certificate. In Denmark they have an option for home birth or hospital birth and that's it. However, BIL did get a certificate saying he was the delivering midwife at the birth, which he thought was really cool!

Emily041285 · December 2013

Eek! Just placed my order with a certain A14 mama's etsy shop and I'm so excited! Can't wait to take some pictures with my little girl in her chick outfit!

irisheyez7 · December 2013

Mamamonzo said:

This is how you know you spend too much time on The Bump: 1) start referring to DH as DH in normal conversation or go to type DH on Facebook. 2) When signing onto Facebook from a PC you type www.thefacebook 3) you dream about bump people and in said dream you referr to them by their bump name. (This happened last night with @Aprilmay9 and @irisheyez7)

Too funny! I am TOTALLY guilty of both 1 and 2. I have yet to have a bump related dream but I am sure it is inevitable. I am honored to be "a bumpie of your dreams" HA! ;-)

Sorry to hear about your repeat bed rest. Thats no fun :-( I am glad the docs seem optimistic for you though. Just take it easy and enjoy your time off!

natpirt · December 2013

Have a laugh... its on me!

Kiahsimpson · December 2013

thomas930 said:
I had a dream last night that I gave birth in the car on the way to the hospital @-)

Yeah, I'm slightly afraid that this could happen since its an hour drive to the hospital from my house and I went from 6cm to DS being born in 15 mins, that was my second labor. With my first I showed up at 8cm and didn't even believe that I was in true labor.

I told DH about the dream and his response was "hmm, do you think it would hurt the trade-in value much?" lol silly DH.

That thought crosses my mind every other day! My mom thought she was gonna have me on the side of the road, but she was somehow able to get to the hospital!
I told my hubby that we're packing bags for him, the baby, and myself and they will be kept in the car. This is just from watching an episode of A Baby Story where they got all the way to the hospital, then the husband had to drop mom off and go back home because they forgot the bags! The only thing I want to have to grab is my phone, phone charger, and purse.
Even though a side of the road, middle of the night birth scares the hell out of me, I actually really want to wake up in the middle of the night with contractions. I want it to be "dramatic". I just don't want to have a scheduled time to be induced or anything! Idk why, lol.

mrscrcalli · December 2013

kseccomb17 said:
I wish we were going to AZ (in-laws) for Christmas. I don't want to deal with my family.

Heading there in 20 hours!!
Gonna tan this bump!

kseccomb17 · December 2013

mrscrcalli said:

kseccomb17 said:
I wish we were going to AZ (in-laws) for Christmas. I don't want to deal with my family.
Heading there in 20 hours!!
Gonna tan this bump!

Aww, I'm so jealous! What part are you headed to?

fourthnlast · December 2013

Stace0616 said:

Random question for the STMs in da house: does the worrying about money ever stop? Maybe it's because I'm in finance and deal with it all damn day, but this fear of not having enough money to raise baby is really getting to me lately. We are able to save at least $600-1k/mo but I still am in this mindset that I'm living paycheck to paycheck. Ugh. I think part of the problem is our wedding vendors finally cleared out our savings account last month. I mean, that was the plan and still have my entire deductible saved in my HSA, but I'm still like "oh god 4.5 months is sooooo soon". Leave it to hormones to play up my irrational fears. Plus, I watched Les Miserables on Sunday and now have nightmares of prostituting myself while my dirty child grows up with Helena Bonham Carter.

I'm jealous you can put that much away into savings. Seriously, that's awesome!

Kiahsimpson · December 2013

aviola329 said:

Kiahsimpson said:

thomas930 said:
I had a dream last night that I gave birth in the car on the way to the hospital @-)

Yeah, I'm slightly afraid that this could happen since its an hour drive to the hospital from my house and I went from 6cm to DS being born in 15 mins, that was my second labor. With my first I showed up at 8cm and didn't even believe that I was in true labor.

I told DH about the dream and his response was "hmm, do you think it would hurt the trade-in value much?" lol silly DH.
Even though a side of the road, middle of the night birth scares the hell out of me, I actually really want to wake up in the middle of the night with contractions. I want it to be "dramatic". I just don't want to have a scheduled time to be induced or anything! Idk why, lol.

Because it seems more natural...like "It's time!" LOL rather than just showing up at the hospital for an appointment. Honestly either way is good as far as I"m concerned, baby's coming!

Yes! I think it's because when I was growing up, I saw pregnancy how it was portrayed in movies and tv shows. And so far everything I thought was typical hasn't been happening! So I'm just like, let's be dramatic and freak out and have to run out of the door because BABY IS FREAKING COMING! Lol. I really just can't wait for him to be here, *no matter* how it happens!

thomas930 · December 2013

Stace0616 said:
Random question for the STMs in da house: does the worrying about money ever stop? Maybe it's because I'm in finance and deal with it all damn day, but this fear of not having enough money to raise baby is really getting to me lately. We are able to save at least $600-1k/mo but I still am in this mindset that I'm living paycheck to paycheck. Ugh. I think part of the problem is our wedding vendors finally cleared out our savings account last month. I mean, that was the plan and still have my entire deductible saved in my HSA, but I'm still like "oh god 4.5 months is sooooo soon".

Leave it to hormones to play up my irrational fears.

Plus, I watched Les Miserables on Sunday and now have nightmares of prostituting myself while my dirty child grows up with Helena Bonham Carter.

Its normal to worry about finances and I'm sure your career doesn't help....but man, I'm totally jealous that you can put that much away a month. I would love to be able to put $100 away each month but even that would be hard. We live paycheck to paycheck and while some months its hard we make it work.

Mamamonzo · December 2013

@aprilmay9 Get your princess wave on!!!!

ZebNMichelle · December 2013

DD spilt milk on the couch.. and the pillows died in the washer

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olenkapdx · December 2013

ColleenSwerb said:

I am SO MAKING THIS for Swerbaby2.0. https://persialou.blogspot.com/2013/05/herringbone-quilts-part-two.html?m=1 I'll make a boy one and a girl one, and then we'll have an extra for the house/outside no matter what. Win! Now I just need to finish the other 49497372 projects on my list.....

I love herringbone and chevron quilts! I made one that the cat has since claimed. I'm just going to clean it really well and voila! Baby quilt.

Stace0616 · December 2013

I think DH hates me a little for being such a penny pincher somedays. But to be fair, it's kind of my job. So I let him have an allowance

I would MUCH rather keep striving for an emergency fund and down payment than get him that giant TV he is dying to buy.

If I am allowed any maternity leave, it will be unpaid so I'm trying to save 3 months of my take home income right now. I think the anxiety will lessen a bit after that.

Thanks for talking me down, ladies!

mrscrcalli · December 2013

I'm heading back home to Arizona this weekend and it's the last time I'll be there before the baby comes so we are having a baby shower on Sunday.. I'm so excited!

J&NL · December 2013

Every one in the house is asleep, even DH. I'm lovinggggg the quiet time.

BiggerinRealLife · December 2013

Yay @KatieGummow! So happy for you and your little men!

BiggerinRealLife · December 2013

This is for @ImnAtari. I'm nothing if not suggestible.

P.S. EAT ALL THE CAKE!

BiggerinRealLife · December 2013

Post fail.

BiggerinRealLife · December 2013

This is for @Serenla. They were out of eclairs.

mrscrcalli · December 2013

I'm sitting here doing my annual compliance testing, and nothing makes me miss alcohol more than fucking, regulations!!!

MegJ17 · December 2013

embear22 said:
I did it! It took 40 minutes, half a can of shaving cream and a lot of effort, but my lady bits have been groomed! LOL just wanted to share because I'm super proud of myself.

I've painted my toe nails, put on make up, done my hair and shaved everywhere. I swear to god if DH doesn't touch me extremely inappropriately soon I am going to lose my shit.

Plus side is he's bringing me home Chipotle!! Horrays!!

ETA: Success!!

Jealous that you can still reach your toes!

Emily041285 · December 2013

Why won't I learn that my pregnancy hair and hair dye are not friends? This is twice I've dyed my hair and it didn't come out right. I'm so peeved at myself.

On the plus side I did manage to shave my legs for the first time in like 2 weeks.

kseccomb17 · December 2013

I get overwhelmingly excited when I go #2.

SeattleMomma · December 2013

How adorable is that? Awww

cgoldian · December 2013

I am dying over these bunny socks I got today! They are so tiny and I can't wait it see the little feet that will fit them!

Bluebird2318 · December 2013

AprilMay9 said:

How I feel when I get an alert that someone mentioned me How I feel when I go to the thread and realize it's just in a quote tree

Mamamonzo said:

@aprilmay9 Get your princess wave on!!!!

BiggerinRealLife · December 2013

Ok @KatieHarpIceland, you'll appreciate this one.

Parents at the schools I work for are horrible audience members. I remember being shocked at the outright rudeness of parents when watching their children perform when I started working for our schools. I've gotten more used to it, and have been teaching my students to educate their parents about proper concert etiquette, and I try not to let it bother me. But today I was rendered speechless.

I finish setting up things for the show, check in with my performers, and go to take my place behind my conductor's stand with two minutes to go until showtime. They've roped off the front row for me so no parents sit at my elbows. A family is sitting behind me, and the Grandpa come up to speak with me. Again, please remember, two minutes to showtime. I expect the usual banter, "Hi, I'm so and so's Grandpa, I've heard a lot about your class," blah blah blah. Instead I get this:

Him: "Hello. Can you move please?"

Me: "No sir, I'm sorry, but I'm the music teacher." (I'm clearly in performance attire, with a prominent name tag with our school crest.)

Him: "I know, I just need you to move over so I can see."

Me: "I'm sorry, sir, but I have to stay in the center of the stage."

Him: (Taps a spot two feet to my right with his program) "Come on, just move over a little bit. I need a clear shot for pictures."

(What? So all the other people sitting next to you won't be able to see?)

Me: "No, sir, I'm sorry. The students center their positions on stage to me. I can't do that."

Him: "Come on, it's just a little bit. It's no big deal. Just right here." (taps spot harder)

Me: "No, I can't. I'm sorry. This is where I need to be. For the show. That's just about to start."

Him: (Dead serious) "I'll give you twenty bucks."

Me: "Um.....no. That's not how this works. I'M THE CON-DUCK-TORE."

Him: "Ten then?"

So you're shaking me down......because I wouldn't do it for $20 you offer me $10?!? How does that even make sense???

I was gobsmacked at the audacity. Had a good laugh about it later, but man, I shut down the convo after that. People. Are. CRAY!

BiggerinRealLife · December 2013

@JellySparkles We just took up the whole page!!! HAhaha!

Sorry to be a page hog with my convo formatting, everybody!

BiggerinRealLife · December 2013

And @JellySparkles I LOVE that you have MR in your siggy.

Mike Rowe.

janice9821 · December 2013

DH had his head on my belly and was talking to the baby when she kicked him in the head. He told her, "I challenge you to a duel!" and started poking her back. It was possibly the cutest thing I've ever seen him do.

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eireyes · December 2013

Can it be the holiday season all the time? I haven't made this many good cookies in forever, and OMG does it make me happy!

BiggerinRealLife · December 2013

Confession: I totally just went and ordered takeout fish and chips.
The real confession: I'm only eating it as a vehicle for the tartar sauce and ketchup. Freaking cravings.

Bluebird2318 · December 2013

BiggerinRealLife said:

Confession: I totally just went and ordered takeout fish and chips. The real confession: I'm only eating it as a vehicle for the tartar sauce and ketchup. Freaking cravings.

I thought fish and chips were always a vehicle for the tartar sauce and ketchup!

michaelad3 · December 2013

I'm exhausted. It's been a long day, but a good one. The a/s went great! All body parts are accounted for and as they should be. Then we went to lunch and BRU to add some to the registry. Afterward, we went to Michaels to pick up some supplies, came home, made an ornament (that I kept dropping and messing up the glitter glue!), and then had dinner with the in laws. I am so ready for bed