FFFC!!!

Drea926 · March 2014

Yaaay it's Friday!! :-)

My confession is that I have little to no guilt being away from my baby. The DC trip this summer? Hell yes! Having my day off yesterday? Hell yes! Bringing him to daycare a couple days even during vacation times from school? Hell yes!!

I have so much more patience when I have had time for me and time to get things accomplished that are near impossible with a one year old. And sometimes, Mama just needs a break! Motherhood =/= Martyrdom!

Can I get an AMEN?!

holly321 · March 2014

Yesterday, dd and I were watching Mike the Knight. Dumb show.... as always Mike is doing something selfish. I caught myself saying, "Isn't Mike being an ass?".

Drea926 · March 2014

@DC2London - I did a lot of self work prior to becoming pregnant. I used to spread myself very thin and always put everyone's needs, feelings, etc before my own. I realized that that was an excellent way to slowly self destruct. I actually make a conscious effort to do things for myself because I know it's better in the long run. A lot of the yoga/meditation reading I do all supports the idea of peace and love starting with you. Once you've gotten yourself taken care of, it's easy to spread that to others.

Drea926 · March 2014

DC2London said:

My FFFC is that my feelings of self worth correlate way too much with the number of likes/love its I get on TB and FB.
I'm kind of kidding

I would love that twenty times if I could!

kleigh926 · March 2014

I think I'm prettier IRL than how I appear in most pictures.

I'm vaguely aware that this is probably wishful thinking but I don't care.

jesuisfatiguee · March 2014

lrtrauth said:

My FFFC is similar to @DC2London 's,... I may or may not have gotten a little butt hurt by the lack of likes on my son's pic that I posted on the baby/toddler thread. :-<

My FFFC was butthurt-ness over lack of love tits, too, but this one is sucky! Your babe is precious and deserves all the love-tits.

jbatch · March 2014

My LO has been sick for a month and a half off and on.. I run a daycare. It has been a crazy few weeks work wise then I have had to take time off because of LO being sick. Anyway Wednesday night my MIL was watching LO and she threw up all over my MIL. She has never thrown up until then.. Well Thursday morning I took her to work anyway because she only threw up once.. I don't know why she threw up.. if she was sick or just something upset her stomach. Well this morning she had a crazy diarrhea.. Our rule is 3 diarrhea no daycare.. or two throwing up.. or more than one symptom she wouldn't be able to go. I feel horrible. I took her to daycare because I don't know whats going on and I have a lot to do today. I hope something is just upsetting her stomach not that she is actually sick.. I would feel pretty bad if she gets everyone else sick.. I'm following the rules we have in place but I still feel bad..

jesuisfatiguee · March 2014

je+suis=fatiguee said:

lrtrauth said:

My FFFC is similar to @DC2London 's,... I may or may not have gotten a little butt hurt by the lack of likes on my son's pic that I posted on the baby/toddler thread. :-<

My FFFC was butthurt-ness over lack of love tits, too, but this one is sucky! Your babe is precious and deserves all the love-tits.

Wait - the pic isn't showing up for me. It's just a box with a question mark. I bet that is the only reason people didn't love-tit it. They probably assumed you knew there was an issue with the image, and were waiting for a repost.

In fact, I demand a repost. Start a new thread if you have to! REPOST. REPOST. REPOST.

singingsea · March 2014

holly321 said:

Yesterday, dd and I were watching Mike the Knight. Dumb show.... as always Mike is doing something selfish. I caught myself saying, "Isn't Mike being an ass?".

Dude Mike the Knight is such an a-hole. One of the few shows I don't let DS watch because Mike is such a douche.

nlp1990 · March 2014

My FFFC is that I am totally jealous of all you pregnant ladies. I want to be pregnant now! We say we are NTNP but secretly we are trying. I am too impatient for this!

It doesn't help that DH just texted me saying that his best friend wasn't at work today, meaning my best friend is in labor! I am so excited to snuggle a squishy baby!!

holly321 · March 2014

singingsea said:

holly321 said:

Yesterday, dd and I were watching Mike the Knight. Dumb show.... as always Mike is doing something selfish. I caught myself saying, "Isn't Mike being an ass?".

Dude Mike the Knight is such an a-hole. One of the few shows I don't let DS watch because Mike is such a douche.

We don't usually allow it, but I may have been being incredibly lazy, so to help my guilt, I was explaining that we should not act like Mike, and he is bad.

We also don't watch Dino Dan because he is creepy.

jdilorenzo · March 2014

Mine is my daughter is playing with a spoon, tampons and toilet paper right now so I can brush my teeth.

brachysira · March 2014

I have been so sick from this pregnancy that my hair has just turned into a nest of rats from being in bed all the time. When I have to go out, I just put it in a bun, even for teaching. I've never had this problem before and I don't know if I'm going to have to shave my head or what.

singingsea · March 2014

jdilorenzo said:

Mine is my daughter is playing with a spoon, tampons and toilet paper right now so I can brush my teeth.

LOL I've totally done this before. I was trying to get my makeup on and I let him have my makeup bag. Bad idea. Broke one of my eyeshadow compacts and smeared it all over the bathroom

jesuisfatiguee · March 2014

jdilorenzo said:
Mine is my daughter is playing with a spoon, tampons and toilet paper right now so I can brush my teeth.

The look on her face. Bahahaha

jesuisfatiguee · March 2014

kleigh926 said:

I think I'm prettier IRL than how I appear in most pictures. I'm vaguely aware that this is probably wishful thinking but I don't care.

I am the same. I feel like I look like an obese gargoyle in pictures but when I look in the mirror its like, eh I'm looking okay.

There is actually some science behind this. Something about how the image is manipulated a few times in order to be captured and printed. When I'm on my computer I'll see if I can find citation for this. It also explains why some people are photogenic and others are not.

tamarar5 · March 2014

lrtrauth said:
My FFFC is similar to @DC2London 's,... I may or may not have gotten a little butt hurt by the lack of likes on my son's pic that I posted on the baby/toddler thread. :-<

Your pic won't open for me!

jesuisfatiguee · March 2014

@TamarR4 - check out her new thread. It's showing up now

colinsfebmommy · March 2014

Mine is I have let myself go because I can't find any time to work out, get regular haircuts, etc and it makes me feel cruddy, not to mention I found a gray hair and about died ....I need more hours. I look back and wonder wtf did I do with all my time back then.....

843andme · March 2014

My FFFC is also penis related....my husband finally scheduled his vasectomy consult and when he told me the first thing I felt was sadness! WTF? I have four kids under 7 and I haven't slept since 2007, but I didn't feel all excited like I thought I would. Maybe it's just the finality of it and the realization there will be no more babies in this house. Maybe a hot vacation without having to worry about birth control is what I should be thinking about instead!

Puck1182 · March 2014

MonicaMerkel said:
Mine is I have let myself go because I can't find any time to work out, get regular haircuts, etc and it makes me feel cruddy, not to mention I found a gray hair and about died ....I need more hours. I look back and wonder wtf did I do with all my time back then.....

Same. I did sort of win the genetic lottery, in that my body bounced back quickly without much effort on my part, my stomach is just a bit on the soft side compared to pre-baby, but I really should be more physically active for health reasons.

But I have a ton of gray hair and I have neither cut nor dyed my hair since May, 2013. And my cousins own a salon, so I get a discount on all products and services there, so I have NO EXCUSE.

kleigh926 · March 2014

@Sagen I totally just watched those videos and now I'll probably be taking selfies later to see if I look cooler. Haha! Thanks!

kleigh926 · March 2014

Teacher Clark said:

My real FFFC is inspired by the cock in a sock thread,..

I have a phobia of the uncircumcised peen. And I don't know if the doc didn't take enough off my son or what, but I worry that I am being "punished" for my judgy thoughts of the un-sniped kind.

Don't flame me. This isn't a circumcision debate. It's just my preference.
They freak me out a little too. I wonder if all this shit I'm going through is some karma coming back my way. I don't know what I did to deserve this, but I must have done something wrong for this to happen.

This is probably a UO that I should've posted yesterday, but I don't really believe in karma. Bad things happen to people who don't deserve it sometimes. Good things don't always happen when they should. I sorta think that's just life and my personal belief is that we won't understand why things happen the way they do this side of heaven. But all that to say, I don't think you did anything wrong to deserve what happened. No one deserves to be cheated on.

tamarar5 · March 2014

Bump burp

newmompeanut · March 2014

I just found food in my hair...it was poptart filling...N doesn't eat poptarts, but I do.
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tamarar5 · March 2014

UponAStar63 said:
Holy shit @TamaraR4‌ ! That was very brave of you to share your story, and even braver of you to have been strong and persevered and been an awesome momma to your DD who we all know you absolutely love and adore. I'm sorry things happened that way and that you weren't able to tell your mom the truth, that must have been so hard on top of everything else. Seriously girl you are a warrior.

I hope someday your ex-bf's nether-regions rot and fall off. I'm sure any statute of limitations on getting that POS criminal charges has passed so sounds like he might be another blanket party candidate eh?

I took it down because it's just embarrassing, but thanks. And I agree with that sentiment.

. He also disappeared two weeks later, and I've been high and dry ever since. Better off, for certain! He doesn't even know she's a she. I haven't heard from him since.

tamarar5 · March 2014

@UponAStar63‌ more than once I've found myself still watching dumb preschool Disney cartons long after the kids have left the room!

eriannc22 · March 2014

Oh @TamaraR4‌ and @verovladamir‌ :BIG HUGS: I am so sorry. Despite the shitty circumstances... I bet your kids are both such a blessing.

cinnasugar · March 2014

jbatch said:

My LO has been sick for a month and a half off and on.. I run a daycare. It has been a crazy few weeks work wise then I have had to take time off because of LO being sick. Anyway Wednesday night my MIL was watching LO and she threw up all over my MIL. She has never thrown up until then.. Well Thursday morning I took her to work anyway because she only threw up once.. I don't know why she threw up.. if she was sick or just something upset her stomach. Well this morning she had a crazy diarrhea.. Our rule is 3 diarrhea no daycare.. or two throwing up.. or more than one symptom she wouldn't be able to go. I feel horrible. I took her to daycare because I don't know whats going on and I have a lot to do today. I hope something is just upsetting her stomach not that she is actually sick.. I would feel pretty bad if she gets everyone else sick.. I'm following the rules we have in place but I still feel bad..

My 3YO DD had the same thing and I did the same thing, so I guess that's my confession! Wednesday morning she woke up and threw up once. Well, she's had this cold thing so I thought she might have just thrown up the gunk, you know. So I sent her to daycare. She was fine all day, but tired. Then Thursday morning I go to get her out of bed and she had the worst diarrhea explosion I've ever seen. Felt so bad then, that I didn't keep her home on Wednesday, but at that point there was nothing I could do. Parenting is hard.

DublinMama · March 2014

This may be more of a rant, but I think it can fall into both. Yesterday on our class trip to Boston we had the Pres. of the PTCO in my class with us as a chaperone bc her son is a 2nd grader. She made me nauseous. She was just so over the top, sacchrine-y and fake. She was using little things that happened to prove what a good mom she was. She would take us to places in the museum, which is a very large, overwhelming place, and also very expensive for a family to go to of their own volition saying things like, "You can't tell we come here a TON, huh?" and "Geez, my kid could be a tour guide for this place he's here so often." Then she asked me if she could take her group out of the cafeteria bc they were seated next to a group of middle school students talking about "body things" and stuff not for "little ears." Sure, go ahead.

Here's the confession/rant. I will never be that mom, and I am so, so cool with it. I won't be on my son's PTCO. I actually don't want to go on his field trips as a chaperone. I don't want him in the same school as I work at. My parenting philosophies center around the main idea that my goal as his mother is to teach him how to function in the world without me rightthere. I embrace the idea that he will have a host of experiences without me, that don't include me. That's where a lot of the growth and the learning is going to happen. When the PTCO mom told me that she was taking the kids out, I understood why, but I also thought, "We're in a public place. You can't control and manipulate everything, or shield them from everything. If the kids were exposed to something and have questions, then guess what? That's the job of their parents to figure that out with them and put a context on it that they feel comfortable with. They should understand that when your kid is out in the world, so are other kids that aren't raised like them." I was also secretly impressed that these older kids were comfortable enough with each other to talk about the awkwardness and hell of puberty. Puberty is not taboo, btw. Separate issue lol.

You're not a good parent bc you take your kid to a museum a lot. You're not a bad one if you never do. For me, it's how you parent when the hard things come up that show your strengths, not how good your bake sale cookies are.

Drea926 · March 2014

You're not a good parent bc you take your kid to a museum a lot. You're not a bad one if you never do. For me, it's how you parent when the hard things come up that show your strengths, not how good your bake sale cookies are.

I love you Dubs. This is why we are friends.

Puck1182 · March 2014

DublinMama said:

My parenting philosophies center around the main idea that my goal as his mother is to teach him how to function in the world without me rightthere.

Yes!!!!! I can't agree with this enough!!

It will be wonderful if DD grows up actually me around, valuing my opinion, etc. But if she is incapable of functioning in the world without me by her side, quite frankly I'll have failed as a parent.

I'm also of the opinion that kids are SUPPOSED to get hurt. Not badly, of course. But I think if you make it through childhood without a bunch of scars, you've probably done it wrong. ;-) Seriously though, kids need to learn their limits by making mistakes, and sometimes that means falling down and ending up with some cuts and bruises.

Drea926 · March 2014

Puck1182 said:

DublinMama said:

My parenting philosophies center around the main idea that my goal as his mother is to teach him how to function in the world without me rightthere.

Yes!!!!! I can't agree with this enough!!

It will be wonderful if DD grows up actually me around, valuing my opinion, etc. But if she is incapable of functioning in the world without me by her side, quite frankly I'll have failed as a parent.

I'm also of the opinion that kids are SUPPOSED to get hurt. Not badly, of course. But I think if you make it through childhood without a bunch of scars, you've probably done it wrong. ;-) Seriously though, kids need to learn their limits by making mistakes, and sometimes that means falling down and ending up with some cuts and bruises.

So it's a good thing DS fell on his face at the park today and scraped his forehead?! AWESOME! :P

I agree though - we can't keep them in a bubble. It's just not realistic.

TarheelMama202 · March 2014

fishes said:

Last night DH came home and saw DS in his pjs and said, "is he going to bed already??" And I said something along the lines of yes because I can't handle him anymore. And then said he could stay up a bit longer if H took him. Which he did and by the end H realized what I meant by DS being SUPER ready for bed anyways. The kid was crashing by about 4 yesterday.

Anyways, I realized this morning that I've said something along the lines of "I can't handle him anymore" to H a LOT this week. It's been a tough week. I haven't been out of the house and had any me time in almost three weeks, and it's been really driving me crazy. Plus, molars. (I think that word sums it up, lol).

I did do my makeup for the first time in months and after watching sagen's videos she shared tried taking some self portraits for the first time during naptime. And I was surprised how much better I felt, just making myself feel pretty. So even though I still think duck faces are stupid - I don't think I can judge people for their selfies anymore! (Not that I've shared mine, ha!)

Girl, molars are a huge, heinous bitch. My kid handled teething so well-- until the molars. He was so miserable. I absolutely feel your pain. There were many "I can't handle him!" moments during molar-cutting time.

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