All of mine shall be Thanksgiving food related...I blame all of you. These are just preferences. I "suck it up" and eat whatever deliciousness is served.
1. Dry stuffing (dressing, apparently...?) only.
2. Sweet potato casserole that could double as a dessert.
3. I prefer canned cranberry sauce. The jellied kind. Gotta cut along the lines!
4. I could totally skip Thanksgiving dinner and skip right to dessert and then leftover sandwiches. I won't. But I could.
My UO is I hate when people touch my stomach or talk about my hair or face and conclude whether in having a boy or girl based on how I look. Just stop commenting on my body and my face and my hair and always touching me. I know some of these ppl are trying to bond or even just making conversation so I feel like a huge brat... But just because I'm having a baby doesn't mean you can comment on my appearance.
My UO is that I really really really hate talking about my pregnancy ... at all. I'm a person, I have other things going on, and it really bothers me that the first and often only thing that people ever want to talk about is pregnancy and the baby.
It's probably me just being done telling people how I'm feeling, whether I'm ready, etc ... but it goes so far as to that I avoid hanging out with my friends with kids because they seem to think that my life now revolves around this little one that's almost here. Yes, a big part of it does, but I still like to hang out with my other friends, talk about non-baby related stuff, etc, etc. I didn't disappear just because I'm becoming a mom.
@VesperLove I could not agree more! I am a person, not a baby holding container! I know people are trying to be nice, but seriously I have a life outside of this pregnancy. I gave a presentation for my PhD committee recently, and I realized it was the first time in months that people have been interested in my brain and my work and not my pregnancy. It felt AMAZING! I felt like a real human being again.
I don't like pie. Or pastry of any variety. While an unpopular opinion to the general public, this opinion is very popular among my relatives, who see an opportunity to eat an extra slice of pie that I will not be eating
I can't stand pie, I can't do anything with cooked fruit in it. Blahh
I'm not sure if this is going to be unpopular or not, but I hhate when people ask "is your mom coming to help with the baby?" she is going to be here as we live in the different country and I do want her to see the baby as soon as she can, but honestly I don't want help, this is something my husband and I need to figure out on our own! We will be alone sooner or later. Having her help around the house will be great and soooooooo appreciated but I would like to do all the baby stuff. I want to teach m husband how to change a diaper. I think we need that bonding time.
I feel the same way. I've had more experience with babies than DH but it's minimal so I'd like that time for us to learn and bond together.
Luckily my parents understand but his mom is upset with us. She lives close enough to visit (1 hour drive) but she doesn't understand why we don't want her to come and stay for weeks at a time. So frustrating.
I have quite a bit of experience with infants (although I know there is still a lot to learn) so ma that I where i'm coming from. She does know this and I don't think she will intentionally overstep her bounds.
I really do want my mom here, just not all the time. I wish we still lived in the same city so she can come an snuggle and then go home.
I don't want to sound ungrateful. She is his only official grandmother, as we lost my MIL 2 years ago and I know my hubby wishes she could be here but I really truly feel bonding time is important
Edit to add one I just thought of! I can't stand Adele. I don't think she's a horrible singer I just don't like her voice and I think she's super overrated
I like turkey and whatever dressing/stuffing outside the bird.
I don't like pie. I like peach or blackberry cobbler.
I have a friend who has birds: cockatiels and parakeets. They can be cool.
Those fruit/jello salads talked about = yuck! I don't like pasta salads, either.
I did not want anyone at the hospital or visiting us for at least two weeks after DD was born. DH and I needed to figure things out on our own without someone telling us how to do it or that what we were doing was wrong or offering advice on how to do things. And that is how we did it. I was happy to have people visit after we had that crash course time to ourselves. We then had a routine and a good handle on how we were doing and handling things. Is that because we are in our mid-30s starting out as parents? Not sure. We are both independent and neither need our mamas to handle things. We have both been way past that for a long time. Maybe that's part of it? Our families are two and six hours from us, also.
First in the south we call it dressing. I love a big pan of cornbread dressing. I hate giblet gravy. I will put cranberry sauce on everything (the can kind with whole berries.) I hate green bean casseroles and sweet pea salads. I do not like the sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top (blech). My mom makes hers with some sort of crunchy sweet nutty crumble topping. I could eat a whole pan of that too. I think baked turkey is dry, tasteless, and hard to swallow. I prefer a nice deep fried Cajun turkey. Not a fan of fruit filled pies. And I love deviled eggs. And now I can't wait until Thursday because I want all this now!!
Oh and the dressing cooked in the turkey is soggy and nasty. Who even does that?
My UO is I don't like Thanksgiving. I would rather skip it and eat take out Chinese. My family is too big / dramatic and SO's can't cook (INSTANT potatos ladies and they add garlic powder and shredded cheddar cheese )
My UO is I don't like Thanksgiving. I would rather skip it and eat take out Chinese. My family is too big / dramatic and SO's can't cook (INSTANT potatos ladies and they add garlic powder and shredded cheddar cheese )
You poor thing. That sounds disgusting I usually get 3 or 4 thanksgiving dinners between our families and they are all delicious.
First in the south we call it dressing. I love a big pan of cornbread dressing. I hate giblet gravy. I will put cranberry sauce on everything (the can kind with whole berries.) I hate green bean casseroles and sweet pea salads. I do not like the sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top (blech). My mom makes hers with some sort of crunchy sweet nutty crumble topping. I could eat a whole pan of that too. I think baked turkey is dry, tasteless, and hard to swallow. I prefer a nice deep fried Cajun turkey. Not a fan of fruit filled pies. And I love deviled eggs. And now I can't wait until Thursday because I want all this now!!
Oh and the dressing cooked in the turkey is soggy and nasty. Who even does that?
I'll take a double serving of butthole bread thank you very much!
Not a fan of fruit pies? Now we can't be friends..
Well now I can't wait for thanksgiving even more. My uo, thanksgiving is better then Christmas. People are happier because the holiday pressure is not on yet, the food is better, and it's about what you already have vs. what you want. Also I was born on thanksgiving so sometimes it's my birthday which is awesome because I get the best diner with my entire family together, plus birthday pie.
After reading all the turkey day meal posts I have to say my new UO is that I will be ever so pissed if I go into labor between the morning of the 25th and 7pm on the 26th (right about when the meal will be wrapping up). This kid better not screw with his mom getting her turkey, oyster stuffing, taters, rolls and pie. My DH is convinced my water is going to break right as I serve the bird to our family and guests (we are hosting this year). If that's the case, I'm sitting down like nothing happened and cramming as much as I can fit in my face before he drags me to the car.
Oh, and I agree butt stuffing is gross and I think cranberry dressing looks like congealed blood in a can *ick*
My UO this week is that I want to go into labor on Thanksgiving because I love all the things but can't eat any of them and I would rather blame skipping dinner on the birth of my son. Also I am going to be a major B and request that when I can eat someone needs to make me Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas Dinner, and all the snacks from New Year's Eve on the same day. I want turkey, ham, deviled eggs, buffalo chicken dip, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and desserts up the butthole.
BFP #1 April 14th, 2014 MMC at 17weeks with a baby boy D&E
BFP # 2 March 23rd, Rainbow Baby Boy Jayce Michael born 12/9/15
BFP#3 January 26th EDD October 9th! Hoping for my girl!
I'm hoping to go into labor on Thanksgiving, which would be super UO with my MIL since that's whose house we're supposed to go to this year. In fact I already cooked a fresh turkey breast complete with mashed potatoes with gravy and stuffing last weekend so I wouldn't miss out on dinner.
I just can't take her asking me what date we're planning on having the baby for a fourth time! I get it that she's excited and wants to plan to take the day off work to sit in the waiting room while I'm in labor but if I can help it that will NOT happen.
Following this week's theme...
First in the south we call it dressing. I love a big pan of cornbread dressing. I hate giblet gravy. I will put cranberry sauce on everything (the can kind with whole berries.) I hate green bean casseroles and sweet pea salads. I do not like the sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top (blech). My mom makes hers with some sort of crunchy sweet nutty crumble topping. I could eat a whole pan of that too. I think baked turkey is dry, tasteless, and hard to swallow. I prefer a nice deep fried Cajun turkey. Not a fan of fruit filled pies. And I love deviled eggs. And now I can't wait until Thursday because I want all this now!!
Oh and the dressing cooked in the turkey is soggy and nasty. Who even does that?
I love everything about this! Except I love the giblet gravy, mixed with the dressing & cranberry sauce. (please don't hate me)
Re: UO Thursday 11/19
1. Dry stuffing (dressing, apparently...?) only.
2. Sweet potato casserole that could double as a dessert.
3. I prefer canned cranberry sauce. The jellied kind. Gotta cut along the lines!
4. I could totally skip Thanksgiving dinner and skip right to dessert and then leftover sandwiches. I won't. But I could.
Just stop commenting on my body and my face and my hair and always touching me. I know some of these ppl are trying to bond or even just making conversation so I feel like a huge brat... But just because I'm having a baby doesn't mean you can comment on my appearance.
It's probably me just being done telling people how I'm feeling, whether I'm ready, etc ... but it goes so far as to that I avoid hanging out with my friends with kids because they seem to think that my life now revolves around this little one that's almost here. Yes, a big part of it does, but I still like to hang out with my other friends, talk about non-baby related stuff, etc, etc. I didn't disappear just because I'm becoming a mom.
That's where you're doing it all wrong lol!
*ETA growing up my mother would save the heals of bread and bake them to make homemade stuffing.
I really do want my mom here, just not all the time. I wish we still lived in the same city so she can come an snuggle and then go home.
I don't want to sound ungrateful. She is his only official grandmother, as we lost my MIL 2 years ago and I know my hubby wishes she could be here but I really truly feel bonding time is important
Edit to add one I just thought of! I can't stand Adele. I don't think she's a horrible singer I just don't like her voice and I think she's super overrated
Jamie
First in the south we call it dressing. I love a big pan of cornbread dressing. I hate giblet gravy. I will put cranberry sauce on everything (the can kind with whole berries.) I hate green bean casseroles and sweet pea salads. I do not like the sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top (blech). My mom makes hers with some sort of crunchy sweet nutty crumble topping. I could eat a whole pan of that too. I think baked turkey is dry, tasteless, and hard to swallow. I prefer a nice deep fried Cajun turkey. Not a fan of fruit filled pies. And I love deviled eggs. And now I can't wait until Thursday because I want all this now!!
Oh and the dressing cooked in the turkey is soggy and nasty. Who even does that?
You poor thing. That sounds disgusting
Instant potatoes.... I can't even.
Not a fan of fruit pies? Now we can't be friends..
That's where you're doing it all wrong lol!
*ETA growing up my mother would save the heals of bread and bake them to make homemade stuffing.
Yep. Gotta be homemade. Boxed kind is nasty!!!
Oh, and I agree butt stuffing is gross and I think cranberry dressing looks like congealed blood in a can *ick*
BFP #1 April 14th, 2014 MMC at 17weeks with a baby boy D&E
BFP # 2 March 23rd, Rainbow Baby Boy Jayce Michael born 12/9/15
BFP#3 January 26th EDD October 9th! Hoping for my girl!
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I just can't take her asking me what date we're planning on having the baby for a fourth time! I get it that she's excited and wants to plan to take the day off work to sit in the waiting room while I'm in labor but if I can help it that will NOT happen.