Diaper cakes are overrated. Sure, they're a fun way to gift diapers, but depending on size and how you construct it, it ends up being a giant glitter bomb that you can't return if you have too many. And really, who needs a 4 layer diaper cake with lights and martini glasses?
DD1: June '16 DD2: March ‘19 :::: Married since 2011 :::: USN Wife ::::
Diaper cakes are overrated. Sure, they're a fun way to gift diapers, but depending on size and how you construct it, it ends up being a giant glitter bomb that you can't return if you have too many. And really, who needs a 4 layer diaper cake with lights and martini glasses?
WHOA... lights and martini glasses? What kind of diaper cake is this??
For my first, I got a cloth diaper cake (made from prefolds) with a bottle of champagne in the middle. It was awesome--my friend Kelly made it, though. Are there pre-made ones with glitter and lights?
TTC#1 since May 2011
BFP #1 June 2011 m/c@6wks
BFP #2 December 2011, EDD 8/21/12, born 7/21/12 at 35w4d
The martini glasses separated each of the layers and each layer was covered in glitter covered tulle and ribbon. It was gorgeous, but the aftermath was a pain. I had to disassemble it in my car because I couldn't carry it into the house. I'm glad I did because it's easier to have someone else vacuum my trunk than it is for me to vacuum the glitter out of my house.
@meggyme That is super fancy and gorgeous... but I totally get what you mean. Glitter is forever. This is mine from 4 years ago--much smaller (and what came to mind).
Diaper cakes are overrated. Sure, they're a fun way to gift diapers, but depending on size and how you construct it, it ends up being a giant glitter bomb that you can't return if you have too many. And really, who needs a 4 layer diaper cake with lights and martini glasses?
Yeah, I'm not a fan either. My friend made me one for my first. She had little rubber bands around each diaper to keep them rolled up, so it took a long time to deconstruct. Then it turned out my son was allergic to those particular diapers and since they couldn't be returned or even really re-sold after being handled so much and rolled and unrolled, I just gave them away for free on a local facebook group. What a waste.
Freshman year of college my roommate pledged a sorority. Her big came and decorated her side of our room and put glitter all over her bed. I found glitter from that incident on my carpet junior year because it got into some of my stuff that then got packed, moved, unpacked, used for a year, repacked moved and unpacked again. The herpes of craft supplies doesn't even begin to cover it....
It irks me when people interchange the terms 'natural' and 'vaginal' when it comes to birth and/or act like 'natural' is the only way to go (and brag about it). I had a vaginal birth the first go-round, but there was nothing 'natural' about it. I had an epi and several interventions to get him out--and thank goodness I did. I think calling any and all vaginal births 'natural' implies that there is something wrong with having a c-section--which isn't fair. I think the 'natural' thing is to do what's best for your baby, no matter what that thing ends up being. If you are able to have an unmedicated vaginal birth, fantastic! If you had an epidural, that's great! If you had a c-section, fabulous! As long as you have a healthy child at the end of the process, I think we should drop judgment on the details of how it happened.
TTC#1 since May 2011
BFP #1 June 2011 m/c@6wks
BFP #2 December 2011, EDD 8/21/12, born 7/21/12 at 35w4d
It irks me when people interchange the terms 'natural' and 'vaginal' when it comes to birth and/or act like 'natural' is the only way to go (and brag about it). I had a vaginal birth the first go-round, but there was nothing 'natural' about it. I had an epi and several interventions to get him out--and thank goodness I did. I think calling any and all vaginal births 'natural' implies that there is something wrong with having a c-section--which isn't fair. I think the 'natural' thing is to do what's best for your baby, no matter what that thing ends up being. If you are able to have an unmedicated vaginal birth, fantastic! If you had an epidural, that's great! If you had a c-section, fabulous! As long as you have a healthy child at the end of the process, I think we should drop judgment on the details of how it happened.
Just because my whole office and the hospital I work at smells like onions....My UO for today are onions and ketchup are the worst, most disgusting food in the world. I can't stand when people eat onions then have B.O breath......blehhhh.....this whole hospital smells like BO which is not agreeing with my pregnant nose.
@alileecam glitter literally is the worst part about making costumes.... Lol.
My UO is that I can't stand when projects are assigned to certain people and they make others do their work for them, just because they feel they aren't going to be compensated properly for it. By now, most of you know I make skating costumes. I offered to HELP with costumes for our ice rinks spring recital. Apparently my HELP is to make about 30+ costumes or accessories for various numbers, and the show is next week. I got stuck designing, purchasing items and putting together a group of 12 costumes for Under The Sea from the little mermaid, and the coach (the one who was supposed to figure it out on her own) is making the pregnant lady do it all. I've seriously had like, a week and a half's notice. Ugh.
I think having to watch every game of any sports team or sport is an utter waste of time. I enjoy sports, but I just don't understand how it can take such a priority in some people's lives. Who has that kind of time?
Just because my whole office and the hospital I work at smells like onions....My UO for today are onions and ketchup are the worst, most disgusting food in the world. I can't stand when people eat onions then have B.O breath......blehhhh.....this whole hospital smells like BO which is not agreeing with my pregnant nose.
I work with a couple of rather smelly people. One guy is Bulgarian and I swear he showers once or twice a week and some days I can smell him from across the room. The other guy is Vietnamese and regularly eats fish for lunch, so talking to him in the afternoon is brutal.
DD1: June '16 DD2: March ‘19 :::: Married since 2011 :::: USN Wife ::::
I don't think you should be allowed to bring fish into your place of work. I want to gag when I go into our office kitchen and someone has microwaved fish.
Just because my whole office and the hospital I work at smells like onions....My UO for today are onions and ketchup are the worst, most disgusting food in the world. I can't stand when people eat onions then have B.O breath......blehhhh.....this whole hospital smells like BO which is not agreeing with my pregnant nose.
I work with a couple of rather smelly people. One guy is Bulgarian and I swear he showers once or twice a week and some days I can smell him from across the room. The other guy is Vietnamese and regularly eats fish for lunch, so talking to him in the afternoon is brutal.
Yea, I work with some Indian people, and because of their diet they smell like curry and other strong foods they eat. Also, we since it's a psych hospital, a lot of patients don't shower.....so I avoid going down the patient hallways to avoid those smells. The hospital/office smells like onions today because we were treated to lunch for "mental health month" and they gave us subs and huge TUBS of onions on the side.
It irks me when people interchange the terms 'natural' and 'vaginal' when it comes to birth and/or act like 'natural' is the only way to go (and brag about it). I had a vaginal birth the first go-round, but there was nothing 'natural' about it. I had an epi and several interventions to get him out--and thank goodness I did. I think calling any and all vaginal births 'natural' implies that there is something wrong with having a c-section--which isn't fair. I think the 'natural' thing is to do what's best for your baby, no matter what that thing ends up being. If you are able to have an unmedicated vaginal birth, fantastic! If you had an epidural, that's great! If you had a c-section, fabulous! As long as you have a healthy child at the end of the process, I think we should drop judgment on the details of how it happened.
Or vaginal = "normal" as my HR department calls it - and I work for a medical school. So an induced, vacuum assisted vaginal delivery is normal? Or a precipitous birth in an emergency room or your home (when you didn't plan on a home birth) b/c you couldn't make it to your hospital? Define normal. Ugh.
I think having to watch every game of any sports team or sport is an utter waste of time. I enjoy sports, but I just don't understand how it can take such a priority in some people's lives. Who has that kind of time?
Oh I'll disagree here! We have season tickets to Virginia Tech football games. It's about a 3 hour drive and we go for every home game and stay the weekend. It's a big event every time that involves lots of family and friends and football. Away games are watched at our house and we will TiVo them to watch later in the day sometimes, but I never miss a game.
Essential Oils. What's the point. People act like they make you walk on water and cure everything from a wart to cancer. Sure, it might make my homemade scrub smell pretty and tighten my skin, but I'm not spending $40 on a tiny bottle of oil unless it makes me lose 20 lbs a week! I'm sorry, I just don't get the obsession.
I don't think you should be allowed to bring fish into your place of work. I want to gag when I go into our office kitchen and someone has microwaved fish.
I worked in an office where smelly foods were prohibited, and they actually enforced it. It was wonderful (I thought so... the woman who constantly ate hardboiled eggs and was told to stop probably didn't). I worked in another office where someone came in and reheated leftover chitlins in the kitchen microwave. HOLY SH#T that became legendary. Reheated fish was no big deal compared to that smell. I still can't even believe it. (I hope that someone here is Southern/rural enough to understand how disgusting that would have smelled...)
TTC#1 since May 2011
BFP #1 June 2011 m/c@6wks
BFP #2 December 2011, EDD 8/21/12, born 7/21/12 at 35w4d
@alileecam I'm pretty sure I almost vomited just reading that. I have a co worker who is a grown adult who thinks it's hilarious to bring in really smelly foods for lunch. Um, no, it's not. Are you 8?
Yes to all of you today! 1) the semester is over (thank bejeezus), but this semester my students routinely weren't showering. One was having some severe mental problems, one insisted on bring slippers to change into when he worked in our costume shop that reeeeeeked like poopy diapers, and the rest were just being a-holes. When I was in college I showered like 3 times a day.
2) @Goocran17 agreed with the essential oils. A friend's wife has been schilling those to me hardcore since she found out I was pregnant. She believes she and her kids don't have to go to the doctor since she has oils.
3) @sdLindenberg I'm also a costume designer (for theatre) so I totally understand. I'm planning to never tell any schools where my kid ends up what I do for a living, for fear that someone is going to make me create an entire musicals worth of costumes and call it "volunteering"
@26pointrunningfor2 there is glitter, tulle, mesh/net, sequins, threads and scrap spandex all over my house! Mostly because my mom, who is amazing and helping me, doesn't realize that it's ok to put trash in a trash bag instead of making many different piles. Lol
Re: UO Thursday 5/12
For my first, I got a cloth diaper cake (made from prefolds) with a bottle of champagne in the middle. It was awesome--my friend Kelly made it, though. Are there pre-made ones with glitter and lights?
BFP #1 June 2011 m/c@6wks
BFP #2 December 2011, EDD 8/21/12, born 7/21/12 at 35w4d
BFP #3 October 6, 2015. WHAT???
The martini glasses separated each of the layers and each layer was covered in glitter covered tulle and ribbon. It was gorgeous, but the aftermath was a pain. I had to disassemble it in my car because I couldn't carry it into the house. I'm glad I did because it's easier to have someone else vacuum my trunk than it is for me to vacuum the glitter out of my house.
BFP #1 June 2011 m/c@6wks
BFP #2 December 2011, EDD 8/21/12, born 7/21/12 at 35w4d
BFP #3 October 6, 2015. WHAT???
BFP #1 June 2011 m/c@6wks
BFP #2 December 2011, EDD 8/21/12, born 7/21/12 at 35w4d
BFP #3 October 6, 2015. WHAT???
Preach it!
My UO is that I can't stand when projects are assigned to certain people and they make others do their work for them, just because they feel they aren't going to be compensated properly for it. By now, most of you know I make skating costumes. I offered to HELP with costumes for our ice rinks spring recital. Apparently my HELP is to make about 30+ costumes or accessories for various numbers, and the show is next week. I got stuck designing, purchasing items and putting together a group of 12 costumes for Under The Sea from the little mermaid, and the coach (the one who was supposed to figure it out on her own) is making the pregnant lady do it all. I've seriously had like, a week and a half's notice. Ugh.
BFP #1 June 2011 m/c@6wks
BFP #2 December 2011, EDD 8/21/12, born 7/21/12 at 35w4d
BFP #3 October 6, 2015. WHAT???
1) the semester is over (thank bejeezus), but this semester my students routinely weren't showering. One was having some severe mental problems, one insisted on bring slippers to change into when he worked in our costume shop that reeeeeeked like poopy diapers, and the rest were just being a-holes. When I was in college I showered like 3 times a day.
2) @Goocran17 agreed with the essential oils. A friend's wife has been schilling those to me hardcore since she found out I was pregnant. She believes she and her kids don't have to go to the doctor since she has oils.
3) @sdLindenberg I'm also a costume designer (for theatre) so I totally understand. I'm planning to never tell any schools where my kid ends up what I do for a living, for fear that someone is going to make me create an entire musicals worth of costumes and call it "volunteering"