Randoms 9.1

ajstevenson · September 2016

I'm starting a new Randoms thread since it's been a few weeks.

In honor of today's date, I give you my random: the tall decaf PSL I enjoyed this morning. Mmm...

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Austenista · September 2016

@ajstevenson jealous.

yellingbanana · September 2016

DH is out of town, and I have been so lazy. There are so many things I need to do, my house looks like a disaster zone. He's getting back tomorrow night, so I'm planning on cleaning like crazy today. But I can't focus on anything! It's like I've been drinking and I just get a little bit done of everything, which means nothing is getting all the way done. And I'm on my phone, I'm going to have to restrain myself today...

dmontgo · September 2016

When Giada de Laurentiis smiles, it seems like she has too many teeth in her mouth.

Kinda creeps me out.

phoenix870509 · September 2016

OMG the amount of food I have consumed in the past 4 days or so is more food than I have eaten in the past 2 weeks! I am so full. And yet I'm hungry. I only put on half a pound in 4 weeks. This time I won't be surprised if it's 10!!!

jennbaylor12 · September 2016

@dmontgo - I can't stand her, for several reasons, that being one of them

I got a speeding ticket three weeks ago on the way to have lunch with my sister and, of course, today is the last day to do anything about it. I'm trying to sign up for defensive driving online but the website is saying the files I uploaded (scanned in driver's license and insurance) are invalid. Which they are not, they're info PDF format. Grrrrr.....

dmontgo · September 2016

@jennbaylor12 I'm glad we can agree on the copious amount of teeth lol. She has some good recipes, but something about her seems...off?

I hope everything works out for you!

Lisa3379 · September 2016

@ajstevenson Whaaaaaaaat?!?!?! My Starbucks doesn't have it yet!

Kacie209 · September 2016

@ajstevenson I went to Starbucks yesterday morning knowing it couldn't be bought yet, but then got that Pass thing that I saw online and am tempted to stop tomorrow morning before work just to get it. I did purchase the k-cups for it (PS Caffe Latte), and will try that out this weekend. I may have to go with the decaf so I can get some caffeine in the afternoon when I start fading around 4pm-ish.

Bring on the pumpkin...

Christinaruth74 · September 2016

My H found pot seeds stashed in the rafters in our basement along with a vintage flashlight, a Father's Day card, and a newspaper excerpt from '87.
I want him to search all the rafters now.

ajstevenson · September 2016

@Lisa3379 and @kacie209 they didn't have anything posted but when I asked the barista he said no prob! I got extra whip too...

@domontgo and Lisa3379 I agree - weird amounts of teeth. Also, do the boobs ALWAYS HAVE TO BE OUT? Come on.

@Christinaruth74 hahahaha, you win for most random comment this afternoon I think!

LinziLoo09 · September 2016

DD fell face first out of her chair yesterday at daycare and busted her lip. I had the carseat in my car and had to rush home so we could take her to the pediatrician. She's doing a lot better now - no stitches needed and her teeth are fine. But she has a cute little fat lip. Poor baby. I'm so tired. I feel like I don't have the energy for these toddler-related emergencies.

slartybartfast · September 2016

LinziLoo09 said:

DD fell face first out of her chair yesterday at daycare and busted her lip. I had the carseat in my car and had to rush home so we could take her to the pediatrician. She's doing a lot better now - no stitches needed and her teeth are fine. But she has a cute little fat lip. Poor baby. I'm so tired. I feel like I don't have the energy for these toddler-related emergencies.

poor baby loo. I feel like when something is about to happen with DS... like he's walking into the street or something - I get pulled out of pregnancy and can rush to it but then afterward I'm like hit by a truck.
Sometimes I wonder, will I ever feel energy again?

ajstevenson · September 2016

@LinziLoo09 I'm sorry to hear that! Last month my girlfriend's 10 month old managed to get out of her bumbo and smacked her jaw pretty hard. They took her to the ER when it would stop bleeding (common with mouth wounds). She was fine but also had a big ol' lip for several days. It's scary when that happens!

LinziLoo09 · September 2016

We're lucky that my dad is a pediatrician. So we got worked in immediately. It had stopped bleeding and she was smiling by the time I got home from work. But man that's a scary call!

penelope4612 · September 2016

@LinziLoo09 - sorry about DD! Hope she is feeling ok.

I had a super weird dream last night. I had the baby. DH wasn't there for some reason. I was then wandering around in the post partum unit which looked like an ER and there were basically just beds with bassinets separated by curtains and you had to walk around and find an open bed. So I found a bed but then I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do with the baby - feed him? Change him? I tried changing him and then tried feeding him but couldn't get him to latch. Then I realized he was cold and I hadn't brought any clothes, so I was trying to call my mom to bring him clothes and he was freezing.

Apparently I'm anxious about this child coming!

cjt121413 · September 2016

@ajstevenson Yum. Mine was iced and decaf this morning.

sourlemon · September 2016

I'm jealous of my 2yo. She gets to wear a pull up to bed so she doesn't have to walk to the toilet at night. I wish there were adult diapers that were comfortable...but mainly I wish they made adult diapers that changed themselves immediately after getting wet. Oh, might as well wish they made baby diapers that changed themselves too! Wouldn't that be nice?

Yup, my mind is shot today.

Austenista · September 2016

So, DH and I did a breastfeeding class tonight and now I'm a little freaked out about life with a newborn. I knew newborn babies needed to breastfeed often, I did not realize that they nurse for like an hour at a time. So if they want to eat 12 times a day for an hour, wow. No wonder your boobs want to fall off.

I was just in the car riding home thinking of all the things I'm going to be dealing with - whatever recovery I'm going through after the birth, breastfeeding, breastfeeding pain, no sleep, diapers, taking care of our three dogs - and just kind of processing. DH is going to try to stay a week home with me, but then what happens when he goes back to work? I'm scared.

Things are starting to feel really real over here, guys.

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sourlemon · September 2016

I don't know about BF taking an hour...I bottle fed but my friend did BF and she was usually tied up for 20/30 minutes. That was after a few months though and I never got to visit when the baby was super little cuz I had the sickness.

But with all things: it's overwhelming at first, but you learn so fast and things always get easier when you've done it 8 million times. Newborns sleep a lot...leaving plenty of time to ask questions on here haha.

bakerstreetboys · September 2016

@dmontgo And she has the most gigantic head ever! She looks like a puppet and creeps me out.

cjt121413 · September 2016

@Austenista newborns tend to BF for long periods of time .... sometimes it's comfort nursing and not eating per se. I'm not sure I remember it being an hour. The good news is they become more efficient after a while and it takes less time.

bakerstreetboys · September 2016

@LinziLoo09 Glad to hear that DD is ok! Head/face bumps are always scary.

@Austenista I think an hour is a generalization. My first DS took an hour and a half at a time, and my second DS wouldn't nurse for more than 20 minutes at a time. I try to approach breast feeding like labour and delivery...you just never know!

SarahF8611 · September 2016

@Austenista Everything you are feeling is COMPLETELY normal. The few weeks are ROUGH but then you get into a swing of things and it becomes your new normal! You will figure it out, everyone does! One of the things that helped me the most was preparing to let other things go a little more and asking for help when I needed it. When my mom came to visit, I asked her to clean. When my DH came home from work, I asked him to do the dishes. And other things like that. With BFing, it will take up a lot of your time the first few weeks, but keeps less and less very quickly after that as the baby grows. And I will say, I don't think I ever nursed for an hour at a time. In the beginning I was probably 15-20 every two hours.

dmontgo · September 2016

@JessCL What if she has a big puppet head so she can fit in her excessive amounts of teeth?! What if she IS a puppet...created by the Illuminati in their secret Chef creation program meant to control media outlets?!

I need a PSL to wake up lol

kattyc-2 · September 2016

Saw this pumping & nursing pod in the Atlanta airport and though it was pretty cool!

And @Austenista I'm right there with you in feeling overwhelmed and downright terrified at times!

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Austenista · September 2016

@dmontgo her smile is more like the baring of teeth than a smile, which is more threatening than charming. She does have a giant head and a tiny little body. Food network tries to distract us from all the snarling and disproportion by making sure we see as much of her cleavage as possible. However, my favorite episodes are the ones where she cooks passive-aggressively with her Aunt Raffy who obviously isn't impressed with her variations on Italian cuisine.

I'm more of an Ina Garten fan myself. I live my best life vicariously through her.

@sourlemon @SarahF8611 @JessCL @cjt121413 As for the breastfeeding conversation, I just took the max times of feeding on the slide and the max length of feedings and said, you know if my tiny human decided to feed that much - Wow. I know there's a million variations, and I'm thankful it won't likely be that much. But the reality that it will still be somewhere around that much is daunting. I'm sure I'll be okay - my husband pointed out how many humans there are and how many of them had parents who got through this, which is comforting. Personalizing the monumental responsibility though, makes it a whole new ballgame in my perspective.

dmontgo · September 2016

@Austenista Italians are very weird about putting new spins on old recipes. My mom is Italian (my dad is German), and I remember one time for Christmas we were making some...I guess a variation of what we would call "Snowball Cookies" in America, but with my Nonni's old family recipe.

So we're making them and laughing and I suggested that we added something extra to the cookies, and you would have thought I dug up my Nonni from the grave and slapped her. My mom just kept mumbling and shaking her head in disgrace and the laughing stopped lol.

>.>

acreight13 · September 2016

@dmontgo @Austenista So true. Italians are that way no doubt. I tried making a variation of my grandfather's lasagna and you'd think I took a family secret and published it in the New York Times. Yikes.

My random is that I heard on the radio that Starbucks is doing a mocha chili latte which sounds terrible to me but I guess if spicy chocolate is your thing then more power to you.

DiFazette · September 2016

@Austenista and I will add to the ladies other great insight - the best way to overcome the overwhelm of doing it all is to accept that you won't. I EP'd - so each feeding for me WAS an hour - and I had to force feed my baby every 2 hours when he was released from the NICU. I fed him, then pumped for 30-40 minutes.

You will quickly realize that the floors don't matter, the laundry wil get done, eventually and things will fall into place. Here's one of my favorite thoughts about early motherhood (and really life in general):

yellingbanana · September 2016

Austenista said:

So, DH and I did a breastfeeding class tonight and now I'm a little freaked out about life with a newborn. I knew newborn babies needed to breastfeed often, I did not realize that they nurse for like an hour at a time. So if they want to eat 12 times a day for an hour, wow. No wonder your boobs want to fall off.

I was just in the car riding home thinking of all the things I'm going to be dealing with - whatever recovery I'm going through after the birth, breastfeeding, breastfeeding pain, no sleep, diapers, taking care of our three dogs - and just kind of processing. DH is going to try to stay a week home with me, but then what happens when he goes back to work? I'm scared.

Things are starting to feel really real over here, guys.

Lol! I guess that's the max time? My kids usually feed for about 15 minutes. Way to scare you about breast feeding....

cjt121413 · September 2016

I have to add that even as a second time mom I have anxiety about BFing.

Last night I had a dream that baby girl was born, but she was a boy with a full set of teeth. (she was also biracial, which is odd because DH and I are both really white). I couldn't get her to latch so I was pumping, but my pump was made of paper. So every time I would pump there was breast milk everywhere but in bottles. The repeated scene in the dream was me trying to get baby to latch and being so stressed out because he/she wouldn't open her mouth wide enough to take the nipple.

So yeah, this shit is getting real y'all.

bakerstreetboys · September 2016

@DiFazette Yep, I had the same experience with DD. She wouldn't BF so I exclusively pumped and bottle fed. It took forever. And my DS1 that was a slow nurser, he had reflux so he'd throw everything up and I'd have to feed him pumped milk. For that 10 months I was almost always attached to a baby or a pump.
The rest doesn't matter...it will eventually get done.

bakerstreetboys · September 2016

@dmontgo Bahaha, yes! My kids are somehow obsessed with the Illuminati and I have drawings of triangles with eyes all over the house. Bottom line...I can't watch that woman on TV.

sreysaw17 · September 2016

+1 to having time to come ask questions on here in those moments when our newborns are sleeping. Or just read what you all are saying. While I'm not often contributing (don't have much to add most times) this group has entirely quenched my need to research everything. Well, maybe I'm still researching diapers and baby carriers but as far as pregnancy goes, you all are a wealth of information! Thanks!!!

bakerstreetboys · September 2016

I'm getting married next weekend and I'm a bit worried about how calm I feel. Maybe I'll have plenty of holy shit balls moments next week, but somehow being pregnant has chilled me out about other things. Huh, who knew?!

DiFazette · September 2016

@JessCL that's awesome. Perhaps because getting married is less of a life changing event than having a child, which is also on deck for you? I was oddly calm going into my wedding and I was super Type A before DS came around. I hope the calm stays with you and that you enjoy your wedding and the moments before and after to the fullest!

bakerstreetboys · September 2016

DiFazette said:

@JessCL that's awesome. Perhaps because getting married is less of a life changing event than having a child, which is also on deck for you? I was oddly calm going into my wedding and I was super Type A before DS came around. I hope the calm stays with you and that you enjoy your wedding and the moments before and after to the fullest!

Thank you! We'll see how I'm feeling at this time next week

penelope4612 · September 2016

Congrats @JessCL!

scatherinem · September 2016

Super long post warning!

Completely unrelated to the current conversation, but I'm really happy right now and feel the need to share. Today was my students' first day (I teach high school English. I'm not doing correct dialogue format..don't judge) and I had freshmen first period.

I took verbal attendance, and had the kids tell me what they wanted to be called as I read their name (Jess for Jessica, etc.) I got to the last one, and read the student's name (changed for anonymity), Elizabeth. She was hunched over, hair in face, sweatshirt on in a 90* classroom. I asked "Elizabeth? Liz? Beth?" and she said so I could barely hear her, "Liz is fine I guess." After I had finished attendance and gone over some things, I sent the kids out to practice their locker combinations. "Liz" hung back, and while I was out in the hallway supervising I noticed that she was still in the classroom. I went in and asked her if she'd like to try her locker, and she said very hesitantly, "actually I didn't really want to say this in front of everyone, but could you please call me Steve (changed)?" "Sure, no problem" I said, and immediately changed his name on my roster. Steve then went out to mess with his locker. For the rest of the class, I made sure to refer to him as Steve when calling on him and didn't make anything of it, so the other students didn't ask about it or anything and were also calling him Steve by the end of our icebreaker. After class, Steve hung back again, and we had the following conversation:
"Thank you, I was really nervous. I didn't want to say anything in front of the class"
"Not a problem at all, I understand. Just be sure that when you get your ID card made, you tell them you want it to say Steve to avoid confusion."
"Oh yeah, good point. I will. I was so nervous because this is my first year as Steve."
"How are you liking it?"
"I love it."
"That's awesome! I'm happy for you"
"I was so nervous about starting a new school and everyone hating me. But you made it so easy and didn't really care and were so nice about it. I think I'm actually going to like English this year"
"Glad to hear it! Do you know where you're headed next?"
"Umm, building 4" (we have an open campus)
"Oh ok, just head down this hall and take a left, go out the door and it's the building right in front of you. Have a great Labor Day weekend and I'll see you on Tuesday, Steve!"

He left smiling, standing up straight, looking like a completely different kid than the one who walked in. I seriously think that I changed a life today, guys. I'm so happy for him and so glad that he was open with me on the first day, first thing in the morning. I really hope the rest of the day went well for him. I had all the good feels the rest of the day

Also unrelated: I've been wearing sandals all summer and forgot that feet swelled during pregnancy. Wedges were a huge mistake today. Blisters galore.

penelope4612 · September 2016

Who wants to give me fashion advice? I want a dress like the navy one in dark purple for my maternity photos (they will be outside in Oct and I'm in the Northeast so I figure purple will look nice with the leaves which will hopefully be changing). I found the purple one below but I'm not totally sold on the sleeves/bow. Should I wait? Thoughts? I've tried looking on other sites but no luck so far.

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