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elsa1688 · March 2014

@joules235‌ yikes! Baby brain is the worst

chickpea912 · March 2014

ElTrain5 said:

chickpea912 said:

jwarnerb said:

Anyone have meal ideas for a picky toddler? DDs diet is basically pb&j, pancakes and mac & cheese.

I'm probably a super mean mom, but I don't really cater to my kid in terms of food. I make dinner, and we all eat together (I'm actually really proud that we've made family dinner - AT A TABLE, even - work and a totally normal thing). Now, if I'm going to make a green veggie (I do do that on occasion ), I might go out of my way to choose something she likes just to tilt the scales in my favor that she might actually eat it. But yeah... I make one dinner, and if she doesn't eat it, I get all dramatic and I tell her "Well, after dinner is done and we clean up and turn off the lights, the kitchen is closed. It will reopen in the morning for breakfast. If you are hungry, you can eat breakfast in the morning." It works wonders for us.

Good to hear that this actually works...because that is totally my plan!

I should give the caveat both with the food thing and with the sleep thing - individual results may vary. This approach worked with us with M - who knows, maybe it had absolutely NOTHING to do with what we did, and she was just the kind of kid who would have been fine either way. I can only share what we did and share how it worked - if we had a different kid, who knows, maybe it would have blown up in our faces.

chickpea912 · March 2014

Big time AW share here - Tuesdays are my late nights, so I JUST got home, and found M's "report card" from her first swim lesson class. Well, first group lesson class in a kid-only class (we did a brief parent-kid class in August) - well, she apparently is ready for Level 2 already! I have no idea if this is normal or not, but I'm choosing to believe she is a swimming prodigy. Or something. I grew up at a pool, joining a swim team when I was 4 and working at the pool once I hit 11 (that was legal at the time), so I thrill in the fact that she LOVES Tuesdays because they are swimming days.

fsumom · March 2014

Quick question...would any of you leave your LO to go on a day trip with friends to the river when they're approximately a month old? Travel is around a 3 hour round trip! **just looked it up and it's approximately 1 hour 50 minutes one way.

Dh sort of planned a trip with friends down the street. I explained to Dh that I don't really think I want to leave DS that soon especially since I hope to BF. So he said that I could stay home with DS and he'll take DD without me. Besides my Dh and DD, it would be my friend, her DH, a good friend of theirs and 3 other kids. I don't really know what to think.

abastian00 · March 2014

MegEL85 So sorry to hear it

supgabs · March 2014

I am soooooo hungry!!! I haven't had a real meal in over 24 hours and I still can't eat until after my c-section which about 3hours away.

jacksoha · March 2014

I got my new maternity clothes from Old Navy in the mail yesterday. They fit perfectly and I was so excited to have clothes that are comfy and fit well that I danced around the house like a little kid, much to the amusement of my DH and brother.
Old Navy currently has select maternity tanks for $5, I got one to try out but I plan on ordering more, they are so comfy!

diagonalley · March 2014

ohyealovely said:

@ohyealovely‌ , WTF? I've thrown several showers and never spent more than $200, usually under $150. Total You just do it smart and budget-minded.
I knew it would cost a little more since there were going to be 50 people, but I wasn't expecting the grand total to be $800. She just went seriously out of control with decor and alcohol. Eff you, Pinterest, for giving her all of her expensive ideas!

I was in a wedding where there were 6 bridesmaids (including MOH) and the step mother contributed, and we each paid $300...talk about a little excessive in terms of cost.

But seriously, the other BM should have contributed to the shower. As the MOH, the other girl could have dictated what she wanted help with (if any help at all) but it should have been everybody paying for it. $800 for a shower for 50 people IMO isn't totally outrageous, except for the fact that only 2 of you are covering the costs.

otter1103 · March 2014

AW moment: Breakfast at the office this morning! Pancakes & sausage. I'm so excited since my kitchen is still out of commission.

steprozz · March 2014

Tdonatoni said:
We went and did the hospital tour tonight. I was happy with it and felt more assured that my hospital would be able to provide the birth experience I am looking for... Great tour until.... She loaded 14 people onto the elevator, it made a slight dip when the last few got on and then wouldn't open when we got to the first floor. After about 10 minutes, the doors finally opened, we weren't on the right floor and then as people started to get off, the elevator moved up two feet so the rest of us had to step down out of the elevator while watching our heads. Awesome. Think I'll be asking to take the stairs from now on.

10 minutes?! sounds like you handled that really well! I probably would have shit my pants. that happened to me once in a hotel and I had a full on panic attack.

jc51206 · March 2014

ohyealovely said:

I. Am. Pissed. At the beginning of the month, I threw a bridal shower with the other MOH in the wedding. Us and the bride are all really good friends. I bought the cake and paid for the invitations while the other MOH did food, champagne, and decorations. We had agreed to just split the cost at the end because we live 80 miles away and couldn't ever get together to shop at the same time. Today she asks me if I've added up how much I spent. I tell her yes, that the cake (for 50 people) and the invitations and the flatware I bought ended up costing $205. I ask how much she spent. She replies with $605. Wtf?! The food was $250. She spent $350 on champagne and decorations. Why would she continue to shop and not ask me if I could afford what she was doing?! Instead she surprises me two weeks later?!

Lord, where do you live???? I'm in the rural Midwest, so I'm certain we have very different costs of living, but I'm even trying to figure out how a cake, invites and flatware could have cost you $250, much less how all the food and champagne could have cost her $605! And how much booze did she buy for crying out loud!??!?

fsumom · March 2014

Thanks ladies. For those that asked, I'd assume we'd be in a canoe of some sort. I don't know how comfortable I'd feel taking a newborn out in the water like that. Plus, possibly having to breastfeed in front of everyone. It just sounds more stressful than relaxing. Maybe I'll just tell Dh to have fun with DD without me.

steprozz · March 2014

fsumom said:
Thanks ladies. For those that asked, I'd assume we'd be in a canoe of some sort. I don't know how comfortable I'd feel taking a newborn out in the water like that. Plus, possibly having to breastfeed in front of everyone. It just sounds more stressful than relaxing. Maybe I'll just tell Dh to have fun with DD without me.

yeah newborn in a canoe sounds way more stressful than fun. let DH take DD and then you and LO can have relaxing bonding time

diagonalley · March 2014

yellowbird219 said:

@ohyealovely‌ you mentioned she bought to much booze, around here we always open a few at a time and the stores encourage us to return what wasn't used. Is that the case here or did everything get opened? If she's keeping the unopened stuff, she better not be adding that to the tab!

Good point...we provided the alcohol for our wedding and were able to return all unopened bottles. Ended up saving us a lot vs. having to pay for an open bar!

k2k2tog · March 2014

I learned on the weekend that my BIL and SIL are expecting their first baby in November! So excited for our LO because she'll have a cousin her age! DH and I both have good memories of growing up with cousins, so I was so excited to hear their news.

rainbowdashh · March 2014

yellowbird219 said:
@ohyealovely‌ you mentioned she bought to much booze, around here we always open a few at a time and the stores encourage us to return what wasn't used. Is that the case here or did everything get opened? If she's keeping the unopened stuff, she better not be adding that to the tab!

I don't think she returned it. I should ask though, I didn't even think about that.

I'm in California and the shower was in Orange County, so yeah, the cost is higher just because of that. $800 wouldn't be so bad if it was divided by the 4 of us instead of only the two MOH. I'm just so annoyed she didn't want to include them then went crazy buying decorations that weren't really necessary. And alcohol.

I text her asking if I did my math right, I spent $200, she spent $600, so I owe her $200 more. She never answered me again.

wtfisup · March 2014

@supgabs, so many thoughts for you today. I hate that you've struggled with illness so, but you're going to meet your kiddo soon and that's awesome!

chickpea912 · March 2014

lyracelesti said:

@chickpea912 i may have found footage of your DD's swim class. She is clearly amazing.

@lyracelesti Oh thanks! I can totally see it now - prodigy! She's the next Michael Phelps... she's Michal Phelps!!!

supgabs said:

I am soooooo hungry!!! I haven't had a real meal in over 24 hours and I still can't eat until after my c-section which about 3hours away.

Good luck with everything today, @supgabs!

ricecakes1216 · March 2014

I can't find an outfit for my shower on Saturday. Everything I think will look cute doesn't. I put it on and I look like I should have "WIDE LOAD" attached to my ass. I may have to wait until Saturday to find something since I will be in a better town that actually has selection.

ElTrain5 · March 2014

@ktcort13 said:

ugh I'm super bummed. We're only halfway done tiling our downstairs and it looks like we're going to have to stop at that point. DH is getting too frustrated trying to do this along with finishing his last couple months of his MBA. So I can't really blame him but now we're going to have an ugly halfway finished floor (luckily we only tore up the sections as we went along). It just really sucks because our main living area will still be the dirty carpet. I wish we could pay someone to finish it but it would probably still be a few thousand bucks. O well, at least half the house will look good. gotta look on the bright side.

Does your hubby have a friend or relative (or you if you're up for it) that can help him? I know on big tiling projects at casa de renovation (aka my house), my DH goes 10 times faster when he has a "cut-man" working the wet saw and handing him pieces to finish off the rows. I'm usually working the bucket making sure there's enough wet cement/clean water for grouting. Once you get a good system going you can get a large room done in a couple of hours, as opposed to a one-man-crew doing it over the course of a few days.

ElTrain5 · March 2014

I just started a home renovation thread for all of us going through the same craziness to commiserate in. Come check it out! (before your laptop goes dead when you DIY husband trips a circuit again).

jshrop · March 2014

The photos are finally proofed from my little sister's wedding (3 months later!). They are adorable. I feel like someone should have told me to go with an actual maternity dress rather than the one I'm in, but oh well. Here's "pirated" photos of her and i. I can't wait to see hard copies

I'm so excited!!!

otter1103 · March 2014

Beautiful pictures @jshrop‌!

ElTrain5 · March 2014

Someone just bought me a $10 pacifier with a plastic mustache attached and marked it for my registry. Seriously....who are these people?? I'm going to have to practice my "thank you!" face for my shower.....

abastian00 · March 2014

supgabs - crossing every finger for a good c-section! I just know it'll go great.

Who is your LB? Wanna make sure we're all in the loop!

Pepper6 · March 2014

ElTrain5 said:

Someone just bought me a $10 pacifier with a plastic mustache attached and marked it for my registry. Seriously....who are these people?? I'm going to have to practice my "thank you!" face for my shower.....

My BIL bought us one for Christmas as a joke gift, which was fine because it was meant as a joke. I can't imagine someone seriously buying that at marking it for a registry....

jshrop · March 2014

congrats!!!! @astalyons

flojo973 · March 2014

ElTrain5 said:

Someone just bought me a $10 pacifier with a plastic mustache attached and marked it for my registry. Seriously....who are these people?? I'm going to have to practice my "thank you!" face for my shower.....

Yikes. I hope they include a gift receipt. MIL already mentioned she bought DD some of those headbands with a giant flower on them. I am going to have to be extremely conscious of my eye-rolling at my shower.

curlylocks3 · March 2014

@lizardbreath14 you betcha! It makes me crack up every time I see those test posts and since you fine ladies had already covered anything I would say to our friend I had to do it. And I giggled like mad when I did.

rainbowdashh · March 2014

joules235 said:
Patients and patience are not the same thing. Same goes for apart and a part, FB posters make me nuts with this! Whole and hole arghhhh!!!!

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means!

Inconceivable.

Pepper6 · March 2014

I have good/bad news. We're a little slow at work (in between bigger projects), so my boss asked if I'd like to cut my schedule to 4 days/week. Obviously, it sucks that I won't be getting a full time paycheck, but I'm also excited about having 3 day weekends. I want to be more upset about losing money when I won't be getting paid maternity leave either...but eh...DH makes enough that it's not really a financial burden...so I'm officially going with 'Yay! 3 day weekends!'

otter1103 · March 2014

I am totally stalking @supgabs thread for a new update on how she and baby are doing

jshrop · March 2014

KrystaJ said:

otter1103 said:

I am totally stalking @supgabs thread for a new update on how she and baby are doing

I don't see her on the LB list. Does anyone know if she has one?
@joules235‌ headed that up. Any clues lady?

wtfisup · March 2014

So, I know some tomatoes my get thrown my way, but I kind of wish we didn't enforce the threads so much. I.e. the symptom thread, this one, the check-in threads, etc.. I do LIKE THIS THREAD, but I also don't mind random other threads. I feel like posting has just slowed down a lot. When I come to the forum, it's the same thread titles all the time. It's so standardized that it's hard to see the interesting bits you'd like to click on without combing through everything else, and that's really time consuming.

nunzchucks · March 2014

joules235 said:

jshrop said:

otter1103 said:

I am totally stalking @supgabs thread for a new update on how she and baby are doing

I don't see her on the LB list. Does anyone know if she has one?
@joules235‌ headed that up. Any clues lady?

Nope I dont have a LB for her. You could check out her caring bridge site. I believe @lilnunz1 put the link in the blog

Yup! Linked on blog home page.

Pepper6 · March 2014

wtfisup said:

So, I know some tomatoes my get thrown my way, but I kind of wish we didn't enforce the threads so much. I.e. the symptom thread, this one, the check-in threads, etc.. I do LIKE THIS THREAD, but I also don't mind random other threads. I feel like posting has just slowed down a lot. When I come to the forum, it's the same thread titles all the time. It's so standardized that it's hard to see the interesting bits you'd like to click on without combing through everything else, and that's really time consuming.

It depends on what the SS thread is about. If it's something small and fairly insignificant, then I think it makes more sense for it to be in here. If it's something that's maybe a more specific question, etc...then I don't mind a separate thread. I do feel like it's much easier to keep up with this thread now though since we make a new one twice a week, that way it doesn't get too huge.

MrsCase1 · March 2014

Guys, I can't stop eating today. I am ravenous and it is insatiable. This can't be good.

nunzchucks · March 2014

lizardbreath14 said:

LoHerrim said:

ugabamafans said:

Can we start a new FTM questions thread? It is so damn long, and I am so damn behind that I won't even open it. Maybe there could be a weekly thread?

Love that idea.

I love this idea, too.

Me too. However, I bet @brighteyes112 would be happy to take a break from all the notifications if anyone else wants to start it.

Kinipela7 · March 2014

I can't find a thread for today so I will just post here.

When my friend was planning my shower, she asked my mom and my MIL what dates would work for them and she picked the date that would work for both. Invites went out. Shortly after that, MIL decides she "forgot to check her calendar" and that she can't come because she said she would babysit her other grand-daughter as well as go to a dance recital. Before the shower was planned, MIL stressed how she needed to be a part of it pretty much every time I saw her. She also favors "the other side" of the family all the time. She babysits these kids at least half the weekends in a month and she has gone to numerous events that these kids do (because they do everything). They are not desperate for baby sitters and there will be many more events.

While I'm annoyed at her decision to babysit instead, especially after she said that weekend was good for her, I'm more nervous about her favoring the other side of the family all the time when it comes to my daughter. We see it with DH's brothers kids all the time and it's sad.

Also, MIL has not even told us the reason why she cannot come yet - she texted us to say that she had a conflict. (I heard from my mother who was kind of annoyed as well). We will see them this weekend so I assume they will tell us then. Should I even bother mentioning that her decision is really disappointing to us - or just let it go? I don't want to create any tension, but having it stew in my mind is making me even more upset than I originally was.

nunzchucks · March 2014

@Kinipela7‌ In the interest of family harmony, I think you need to let it go. Technically, it is really none of your business why she can't come. It is a bummer, but I feel like if your DH feels he is being neglected, it is up to him to address it with his mom. If you need to say anything, "I'm sad you can't come. We will really miss you!" is about as much as I'd do.

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