Monday Randoms!

LuckyPenny1231 · November 2014

LaBellaVida said:
My house is a wreck. I've still got dinner to cook and laundry to do. Owen won't nap. I'm laying in his bed, alone. ... While he is running around playing.

I'm so tired!

It was a no nap day here too. It's like they know when the house is extra messy and you have stuff to do!

LaBellaVida · November 2014

LuckyPenny1231 said:

LaBellaVida said:
My house is a wreck. I've still got dinner to cook and laundry to do. Owen won't nap. I'm laying in his bed, alone. ... While he is running around playing.

I'm so tired!
It was a no nap day here too. It's like they know when the house is extra messy and you have stuff to do!

Yup, thankfully he just fell asleep on me. Gonna give it 10 min before I move him, then I'll get busy with house stuff and dinner.

honeybeee3 · November 2014

HappyMonkey817 said:

honeybeee3 said:
I just made cowboy cookie bars- they are so yummy! I can't wait to eat one with a big bowl of vanilla ice cream. Yummmmmm!
Oooh, what's that?

I actually created the recipe myself by combining a couple recipes. I used the Joy of Cooking chocolate oat bar recipe but added the ingredients to make them like cowboy cookies.

So the bars are an oatmeal cinnamon cookie dough with shredded coconut + a chocolate chip fudge with pecans. I layered the fudge and the cookie dough, baked it and cut it into little squares of deliciousness.

They are divine!

NatureLovers · November 2014

I'd like to breathe through my nose just once during the rest of this pregnancy...

NatureLovers · November 2014

Oh, here's another one. On FB in a PPD support group (I joined just in case I develop it after birth, I typically only lurk), a woman posted yesterday about she has 3 kids under 3, with severe untreated PPD/PPA and bipolar disorder. She wrote that she thinks her kids are better off without her, and she's contemplating getting a hotel room and committing suicide. She refuses to reach out for help, has every excuse as to why she doesn't have time to attend support group/therapy/psychiatric appointments, and that she deliberately downplays her symptoms to her OBGYN and husband. Basically she's in such a terrible place mentally that she cannot help herself. So I screenshot what she wrote, clicked her profile and found her husband, and sent it to him via messenger telling him she needs help ASAP before this turns into a tragedy. He hasn't seen the message, probably because we're not friends and it went to his "other" folder. I've been thinking about her all day, wondering what else I could do.

NatureLovers · November 2014

Ugh, and the last comment was some fucking asshat telling her to "be careful" because she went through something similar and DFACS nearly took her baby. Like that's what she needs to hear. The OP's last post said she had attempted suicide previously and was hospitalized on a 5150 hold, and that's why she won't see a doctor as she doesn't trust them after the involuntary hospitalization.

LaBellaVida · November 2014

NatureLovers said:
Oh, here's another one. On FB in a PPD support group (I joined just in case I develop it after birth, I typically only lurk), a woman posted yesterday about she has 3 kids under 3, with severe untreated PPD/PPA and bipolar disorder. She wrote that she thinks her kids are better off without her, and she's contemplating getting a hotel room and committing suicide. She refuses to reach out for help, has every excuse as to why she doesn't have time to attend support group/therapy/psychiatric appointments, and that she deliberately downplays her symptoms to her OBGYN and husband. Basically she's in such a terrible place mentally that she cannot help herself. So I screenshot what she wrote, clicked her profile and found her husband, and sent it to him via messenger telling him she needs help ASAP before this turns into a tragedy. He hasn't seen the message, probably because we're not friends and it went to his "other" folder. I've been thinking about her all day, wondering what else I could do.

say what!? Is there a way you can find out what city and state she's in and call social services? That's scary, and she's screaming for help!

LaBellaVida · November 2014

Maybe try and "friend" him and see what he does. I mean, just temporary ya know?

LuckyPenny1231 · November 2014

NatureLovers said:
Oh, here's another one. On FB in a PPD support group (I joined just in case I develop it after birth, I typically only lurk), a woman posted yesterday about she has 3 kids under 3, with severe untreated PPD/PPA and bipolar disorder. She wrote that she thinks her kids are better off without her, and she's contemplating getting a hotel room and committing suicide. She refuses to reach out for help, has every excuse as to why she doesn't have time to attend support group/therapy/psychiatric appointments, and that she deliberately downplays her symptoms to her OBGYN and husband. Basically she's in such a terrible place mentally that she cannot help herself. So I screenshot what she wrote, clicked her profile and found her husband, and sent it to him via messenger telling him she needs help ASAP before this turns into a tragedy. He hasn't seen the message, probably because we're not friends and it went to his "other" folder. I've been thinking about her all day, wondering what else I could do.

Oh my gosh, so sad & scary. I'm glad you reached out to her husband I just hope he sees the message!

I can't imagine 3U3 with ppd on top of it all.

NatureLovers · November 2014

@HappyMonkey817‌ I feel all your pains. I just put a load of laundry in the washer, and have to rest from the exertion. Now I have to trek all the way upstairs to take my HG meds so I don't throw up while making dinner. I'm so out of shape and short of breath that climbing the stairs seems like Mt. Everest. And my baby refuses to dislodge her feet from my ribs.

Edvent · November 2014

@NatureLovers yikes, that sounds like a scary situation for sure! Sounds like you've done what you can though by trying to alert her husband.

I've been in bed all day but couldn't nap because my house = daycare and another toddler (not DD) was cranky and kept screaming on and off all afternoon. I'm getting more nervous about what this is going to mean for my maternity leave. It doesn't help that our bedroom opens to the bonus room where the kids play.

My DH is really stressed with a few big projects for school due this week. He just called me and said he has an ice cream "craving" and is running by the grocery store (It's our joke that he's pregnant too because when I was pregnant with DD a particularly douchy husband of a friend went on about how I need to remember that "we're both pregnant" right when I was in the trenches of all day sickness and I wanted to throat punch him). Then DH asked if I wanted Taco Bell for dinner (my super embarrassing random craving this pregnancy). Why yes I do DH, yes I do!

LadyXaverian · November 2014

@naturelovers You did the right thing. I really hope he sees it.

ShuShubee · November 2014

@NatureLovers‌ that is a scary situation. I hope she gets the help she needs.

@grumpycat88‌ I am so sorry to hear about your friend's mom.

NatureLovers · November 2014

laziestdaisy said:
@naturelovers thank you for taking that step. I hope he sees it. What if you reached out to her via private message and told her that you told him? It might scare her into being truthful with him. Or it might not. I really don't know how to handle a situation like that.

I thought about that, but one of her posts said she "hates" her husband, but she couldn't articulate why. She said he's losing patience with her, and the fact that she screams at all 3 kids (and him) all day long. I thought telling her what I did would do more harm than good.

MusicFanatic · November 2014

grumpycat88 said:

My heart hurts ... I just found out a dear friend's mom passed away suddenly last week. Her father is currently battling pancreatic cancer as well. Her mom was only 60 years old.

@grumpycat88- I'm so sorry to hear this

llambrose · November 2014

elleswarth said:
@Firefly3911‌ - did you know this existed? I just discovered it. Land O' Lakes has changed the breakfast game!

I had this on a pumpkin bagel this morning. So good!

peggels24 · November 2014

bookworm92 said:

I just now figured out that you can review results of a poll without actually voting. I feel so behind

Um....tell me more

llambrose · November 2014

HappyMonkey817 said:
In other news, I'm no longer a vegetarian (after 23 years!). Or maybe I am and the baby isn't.

I have been struggling with this since being pregnant too. The baby really wants me to eat meat but I am holding out. What did you eat? I have been contemplating turkey at thanksgiving.

nursemarie925 · November 2014

I scheduled my Rcs last week, since then I've changed my mind back and forth around three different times. I just can't decide what to do!!! Ugh. Vbac or Rcs. I wish those were options on the magic 8ball. Just kidding. Lol. Sort of. Lol ....~.................... I'm jealous of all the people that got snow. It's one of the things I've disliked the most about moving to Texas.

Mrs_Bennett · November 2014

We took our hospital tour tonight, and I'm so excited to be delivering there (instead of where I've delivered before)!

kellyfo14 · November 2014

llambrose said:

HappyMonkey817 said:
In other news, I'm no longer a vegetarian (after 23 years!). Or maybe I am and the baby isn't.
I have been struggling with this since being pregnant too. The baby really wants me to eat meat but I am holding out. What did you eat? I have been contemplating turkey at thanksgiving.

I have been only poetry for 15 years. I am very close to anemic though and have decided it is time to start with red meat again. It's been way harder than I thought it would be. Also eating a lot of green leafies.

amandad715 · November 2014

Anniversary dinner was a complete success and we even stopped to take a picture of the 4 (er, 5?) us!

mandikins27 · November 2014

@amandad715‌ happy anniversary! And great pic! Gorgeous family

Lanatir · November 2014

@HappyMonkey817-- I'm just reading through the thread now. I'm so sorry today is a crappy day. ((hugs))

stephchris0321 · November 2014

We have 2 reviews at work each year, a performance review in May and a bonus review in November. I'm not excited about meeting my boss tomorrow morning at Starbucks at 7:30 am for it. I think it will be a little awkward and I'd rather have it at our office (even though I can get coffee and a yummy pastry at Starbucks).

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