I have always judged people who eat a bag of chips/popcorn/whatever and turn up the bag at the end to get all the crumbs... My thoughts have always been, really? You need to get EVERY last bit??? UNTIL TODAY..... I totally just did it with my white cheddar popcorn, because I had eaten them all but wasn't ready to stop...... So, I turned up the bag!!! AND IT WAS GLORIOUS!!!!
I have always judged people who eat a bag of chips/popcorn/whatever and turn up the bag at the end to get all the crumbs... My thoughts have always been, really? You need to get EVERY last bit??? UNTIL TODAY..... I totally just did it with my white cheddar popcorn, because I had eaten them all but wasn't ready to stop...... So, I turned up the bag!!! AND IT WAS GLORIOUS!!!!
I love rold gold pretzels and I LOVE the salt in the bottom of the bag. I will turn up the bag just for the salt. IT IS THE BEST PART!
George Carlin said it best: "I don't have pet peeves... I have major psychotic fucking hatreds"
Here's two for this week:
1- I can't stand Kirsten Dunst. I feel like she has ruined every movie she's ever been in. I'm REALLY glad she's fallen off the face of the Earth.
2- I also have a MAJOR aversion to the super huge bows for a kid's head. I think they look ridiculous. I bring this up because we had the thread this week about newborn photo shoot clothing ideas. I won't say anything to you about your (albeit POOR) choice for your photo, but I will sit here in silent judgement if you use those damn bows. I'm not talking bows in general, just the ones that are the same size as or bigger than the kid's head.
I think it's weird when parents shower with their young children. Maybe it's just me, but I'm a very private person, especially when it comes to nudity. There's just something that bothers me about the whole thing.
I totally have to agree with this. My BIL still showers with his 3 year old daughter. He does it because he is lazy and says he doesn't want to bathe her separately. He even said she has pointed out the differences in dad and her and has asked questions. It really creeped me out when he was telling me this. =\
George Carlin said it best: "I don't have pet peeves... I have major psychotic fucking hatreds"
Here's two for this week:
1- I can't stand Kirsten Dunst. I feel like she has ruined every movie she's ever been in. I'm REALLY glad she's fallen off the face of the Earth.
2- I also have a MAJOR aversion to the super huge bows for a kid's head. I think they look ridiculous. I bring this up because we had the thread this week about newborn photo shoot clothing ideas. I won't say anything to you about your (albeit POOR) choice for your photo, but I will sit here in silent judgement if you use those damn bows. I'm not talking bows in general, just the ones that are the same size as or bigger than the kid's head.
For Example:
I totally respect your opinion.. I get it.. and I hear it from my friends all the time! But OMGGGGG I LOVE BIG BOWS!!!!!!!!
George Carlin said it best: "I don't have pet peeves... I have major psychotic fucking hatreds"
Here's two for this week:
1- I can't stand Kirsten Dunst. I feel like she has ruined every movie she's ever been in. I'm REALLY glad she's fallen off the face of the Earth.
2- I also have a MAJOR aversion to the super huge bows for a kid's head. I think they look ridiculous. I bring this up because we had the thread this week about newborn photo shoot clothing ideas. I won't say anything to you about your (albeit POOR) choice for your photo, but I will sit here in silent judgement if you use those damn bows. I'm not talking bows in general, just the ones that are the same size as or bigger than the kid's head.
For Example:
I totally respect your opinion.. I get it.. and I hear it from my friends all the time! But OMGGGGG I LOVE BIG BOWS!!!!!!!!
@Mother0fDragons I saw a lady in the KFC drive-thru who had to grab her takeout bag between the middle joint on her thumb and the lowest joint on her index finger. That was the EXACT same thought that went through my head... or grab a tampon string? or blow your nose? or change a baby's diaper?!?!
George Carlin said it best: "I don't have pet peeves... I have major psychotic fucking hatreds"
Here's two for this week:
1- I can't stand Kirsten Dunst. I feel like she has ruined every movie she's ever been in. I'm REALLY glad she's fallen off the face of the Earth.
2- I also have a MAJOR aversion to the super huge bows for a kid's head. I think they look ridiculous. I bring this up because we had the thread this week about newborn photo shoot clothing ideas. I won't say anything to you about your (albeit POOR) choice for your photo, but I will sit here in silent judgement if you use those damn bows. I'm not talking bows in general, just the ones that are the same size as or bigger than the kid's head.
For Example:
I agree with this. I mean, to each her own, it's not bad parenting or anything, but I find huge bows tacky. I actually didn't do any hair accessories at all for dd until her hair was long enough to fall in her eyes without them. Just not my style on a basically-bald baby.
My newborn photographer thought it was so weird that I didn't want bows/flowers on her head for pics though. I was like, "She's a newborn, who cares if her gender is ambiguous."
Little bows though, I think are super cute on my 14 month old, and her sex is still obviously irrelevant to her life, so I guess that is inconsistent. Oh well. Personnel style.
I also hate LLR...I've documented that on here before. I have yet to see an item of their clothing that doesn't immediately make me think "that person is a mom." No shade to moms, I am one, and it would be sweet if I was able to get away with wearing glorified yoga clothes to work bc that sounds super comfy, but I work in a male-dominated field in a reasonably conservative workplace, so (1) if I rolled up in here wearing leggings I would be harshly judged, and (2) the last thing I want my bosses to think when they first look at me is "that lade is a mom" because, believe me, they make assumptions about what jobs working mothers can and cannot "handle" doing. My boss is cool, he has 3 boys and his wife is a serious lawyer, but HIS boss actually told me TO MY FACE the first time I was pregnant that he "couldn't" give me a managerial position that was available because I was "about to go on leave." Now, I didn't want that particular position, and believe me, if I did I would have called HR and reported him for saying that, but I don't even want to tell him I'm pregnant now bc I'm afraid an actually GOOD position will come available and I won't be able to get that one either. It's bullshit. At any rate, I wear only business-formal dresses or suits to the office and when I'm at home I wear sweatpants and look like a homeless person, so there's really no room for LLR to be in my wardrobe regardless.
I think big bows are dumb too but what really annoys me is that people assumed DD was a boy, even when she was literally wearing all pink clothing, CONSTANTLY because I never put a bow of any kind in her hair. She would rip them off immediately, but even if she wouldn't, I don't see the point of them at all. It was just super weird for people to refer to her as "he" when she was clearly wearing pink clothes just because of the lack of bow (and maybe because her stroller is a neutral color? I don't know). She definitely doesn't look like a boy.
I thought of a really good UO the other day and was waiting to use it here but then I forgot it so maybe i'll be back later......
@silliegirlie143 I'm cool with the judging If this child ends up being a girl...... I promise I won't take offense when I post her extremely large (annoying) bow and you make fun!!!
I know ladies love them, but parking spots for "expecting mothers only" (eg Babies R Us) should instead be for mothers with infants/toddlers/kids with special needs. I am more than capable of waddling across a parking lot and into a store at 9 months pregnant without kids in tow. Mothers with babies and young children (pregnant or not) will benefit more from closer parking. Boy was my son cooperative in the womb when I had to go in and out of stores. Fast forward 2 years to a flailing toddler hooked under one arm, a screaming infant in the bucket seat hooked under the other arm and bags falling out of my hands. I was dying walking those extra 10 spaces while some barely showing bump hops out of her car and waltzes into the store. Some pregnant woman glared at me for taking one of those posts a couple of weeks ago. First of all lady... I'm pregnant. Second... How about you cart around two toddlers while running errands and tell me which is causing you more issues. The toddlers or your bump.
The Kroger stores (grocery store chain) near me don't have expectant mother parking but they do have spots reserved near all the cart returns and closer to the store for mothers with small children. I thought it was a pretty cool idea.
To piggyback on your UO I wanted to say I really, really hate it when some woman parks in the expectant mother parking spot when looks like she's about 16 weeks pregnant with barely a bump who seems to be perfectly healthy, no waddling etc. I'm not saying you can't have crappy symptoms early on because you totally can. I'm just saying that, in my mind, those spots should be reserved for ladies who are much further along and having trouble getting around. Or for ladies with severe SPD/pelvic girdle pain and things like that. If someone is still getting around just as easily as she was pre-pregnancy then those spots aren't for her just because she's technically pregnant.
edited for clarity.
Me: 28 Husband: 31 TTC#1: January 2015- September 2016 Infertility, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Rainbow baby born June 6, 2017 ❤️
My UO is that I don't believe gluten is harmful unless you are actually intolerant to it or have Celiacs or something. People who say they are avoiding gluten just to be healthier.... no, that is just a random protein. You feel healthier because you are probably eating less carbs/sugars/preservatives when you restrict gluten. Go on a diet that makes sense, or at least don't act like everyone else should follow your lead or cater to your not-medically-necessary food restrictions. It's also annoying/dangerous for my cousin who actually has Celiac disease that no one takes her dietary restrictions very seriously because so many people are gluten-adverse for no good reason.
I have a new UO. Yes, I'm being a UO AW this week:
I'm usually on my phone, but the past couple days I'm on my computer, so now I'm seeing everyone's signatures. I don't know if this is supposed to be funny/ironic, but WILL ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE FOOD AS YOUR BABY SIZE PLEASE STAHP. I am craving a chili cheese dog and a Starbucks frappuccino now, thanks so much. LOL
Mine stems from a post this week. If your child is too young to be on/in a playscape without you, they shouldn't be in it.
I bring my kids to play. They shouldn't be in there with adults, end of story!!! Its absolutely ok for parents to sit and watch and for kids to actually play independently. Find an age appropriate gym or whatever for you baby to play on.
I'm team the bigger the bow the better. Bow obsessions are real, ask my 4yr old. She literally can't leave the house without one (cue mental breakdown if she can't find the right color) I created a monster.
I'm still torn on LLR. I have a few Carly dresses and Sarah dusters that I LOVE...but if I saw the same things at Target for what LLR consultants charge, I'd absolutely laugh and keep walking. It's a strange phenomena.
My UO is that I think husband and wife joint Facebook accounts are kind of strange. I always wonder if there are some trust issues going on...why else wouldn't you just make 2 separate accounts?
I'm still torn on LLR. I have a few Carly dresses and Sarah dusters that I LOVE...but if I saw the same things at Target for what LLR consultants charge, I'd absolutely laugh and keep walking. It's a strange phenomena.
My UO is that I think husband and wife joint Facebook accounts are kind of strange. I always wonder if there are some trust issues going on...why else wouldn't you just make 2 separate accounts?
And finally...
Price for LLR also confuses me. I get that it's comfortable, but Target has a ton of comfortable stuff for much cheaper. (Well, not for me, since they left Canada, but for most of you guys!)
I agree about husband/wife joint anything is weird--email, whatever. DH and I have separate computers. But then, my first "adult" purchase in high school wasn't a new car, it was a laptop all my own so I didn't have to share with the family.
And since it's in the box :-), those chips look gross. Hahaha. I can't do habeñero.
Me: 35 | DH: 46 MMC: 09/13 (9 weeks) DD: Born 8/22/14 Babies #2 & 3: Due dates 6/9/17 And my other love: writing
@ellie111227 My H is one that has diagnosed himself as being gluten intolerant and it's annoying. Yes dear, you might feel like crap if you eat a bunch of pizza or burgers. Note that you do not feel this way if you have a simple English muffin with your well-balanced breakfast. It's not too much of a pain since we never fully incorporated gluten back in after trying the Paleo diet but I just get tired of hearing about it.
Mine stems from a post this week. If your child is too young to be on/in a playscape without you, they shouldn't be in it.
I bring my kids to play. They shouldn't be in there with adults, end of story!!! Its absolutely ok for parents to sit and watch and for kids to actually play independently. Find an age appropriate gym or whatever for you baby to play on.
This maybe is a reply to my post this week?
I I have to disagree to the first part. My son is 2 and is perfectly capable of playing on 99% of the playgrounds we visit but there is always that one stupid bridge that's just 2 bars you have to balance across or a fireman pole my 4 year old can do by herself but my 2 year old can't and wants to try so as most is the time I don't climb on the playscape with him I do follow hIm around the outside to make sure he doesn't get really hurt. I'm not going to stop him from playing because he can't do 2 things on the play area. Especially when I have another child that can. I think it teaches him boundaries and how to take risks. There aren't a lot of small toddler safe play areas in my town and they would be boring for my 4 year old or she isn't allowed.
Im cool with active playing parents and parents watching from a bench. I do both off and on depending where we are! And if my 2 year old climbs too high or gets stuck and I have to climb my big booty up and save him I will. I don't think that really obstructs other kids play time.
My UO is I cannot stand when someone's comment about un-medicated birth is "I'm not trying to be a hero" or anything along those lines. The implication is that that is why those who choose it are doing it. I think it's sad that someone's perspective could be so extremely limited that they would think that was the reason women choose to do it. There are so many other reasons for preferring an un-medicated birth and I am sorry those people cannot see outside of their own preferences enough to understand that.
I totally agree! I chose an un medicated birth with my second for a lot of personal reasons and non of them were bragging rights.
@ellie111227 My H is one that has diagnosed himself as being gluten intolerant and it's annoying. Yes dear, you might feel like crap if you eat a bunch of pizza or burgers. Note that you do not feel this way if you have a simple English muffin with your well-balanced breakfast. It's not too much of a pain since we never fully incorporated gluten back in after trying the Paleo diet but I just get tired of hearing about it.
My DH also claims to be gluten intolerant, even though he was tested and it came back negative. He also claims to be lactose intolerant. Basically, the older he gets the more ailments he imagines. He's getting a procedure done sooon to test for GERD. I'm not sure why because regardless of the outcome of said test he's going to say he has it .
I don't have an UO as of now. I just wanted to commiserate.
I hate newborn portrait photography. I just don't understand the whole squishing your baby into a ball, wrapping them up in gauze and burlap, putting cutesy little things on their head, sticking them on a piece of faux fur, taking their picture and then Photoshopping the crap out of said photo to make the baby's skin so smooth it's obviously fake. I only like lifestyle/journalistic newborn photography. I also really dislike nude baby photography.
I also don't like bare bump pics. Sure, if you're in a swimsuit, it's one thing. It weirds me out because I usually see women who would never wear crop tops or a bikini or a sports bra without a top over it in public, but all of a sudden she's pregnant and comfortable sticking her bare belly out there. What? It's still your belly even with a baby in it. And the bump picture is still adequately seen and shared wearing a t-shirt or anything else over the bump. The baby being in there does not magically change everything. It's still your skin. That's also the same reason I don't like bump touching without permission.
@lovesclimbing I'm also fully out on the newborn portrait photography. I think the cell phone photos I got of DD were just as good if not better bc I didn't have her squeezed into a bunch of weird unnatural positions for them.
Hearing that LLR is comfy makes me want to check it out. I would live in pajamas if I could and I'm the asshole you see at the store in pajama pants and Uggs at the store looking like Frank Gallagher.
Add me to the Kirsten Dunst hate train. That smarmy braless has-been. I also despised Dakota Fanning as a child actress. She scared me.
I felt so awkward at my bridal shower that I started doing the stanky leg.
I'm kind of relieved to see other people don't like newborn photos. I don't hate them, but I'm kind of on the fence about them and so I can't see taking my newborn out, having him or her all squished into poses, and spending the crazy amounts of money local photographers charge to do them for something I feel "meh" about. I thought maybe I was missing something given how many people seem to think they're completely necessary.
Our neighbor is a photographer, so she did our newborn photos as a baby gift and in our house. Most of them were just DD in a white onesie, snoozing, or us holding her. A couple I look back on and sideye myself, but on the whole, they were just pictures of her as a newborn. And also, free, because I don't know if I would really pay for it. (Although now I feel obligated for the next ones since I don't want them to think we love them less.)
Now that shit where people put their babies in pumpkins and butterfly costumes? Nooooooope.
Me: 35 | DH: 46 MMC: 09/13 (9 weeks) DD: Born 8/22/14 Babies #2 & 3: Due dates 6/9/17 And my other love: writing
DD's newborn pictures were taken at the hospital, in her going home outfit, and were unedited. I'm not really sure why you would pay for pictures of your newborn and then have them edited since the whole point is to capture how they looked when they were a newborn... but maybe I'm missing something.
Re: UO Thursday 1/5
Im with @mombod I too love all the parties! If there's cake... well you can count me in!
I have always judged people who eat a bag of chips/popcorn/whatever and turn up the bag at the end to get all the crumbs... My thoughts have always been, really? You need to get EVERY last bit??? UNTIL TODAY..... I totally just did it with my white cheddar popcorn, because I had eaten them all but wasn't ready to stop...... So, I turned up the bag!!! AND IT WAS GLORIOUS!!!!
Here's two for this week:
1- I can't stand Kirsten Dunst. I feel like she has ruined every movie she's ever been in. I'm REALLY glad she's fallen off the face of the Earth.
2- I also have a MAJOR aversion to the super huge bows for a kid's head. I think they look ridiculous. I bring this up because we had the thread this week about newborn photo shoot clothing ideas. I won't say anything to you about your (albeit POOR) choice for your photo, but I will sit here in silent judgement if you use those damn bows. I'm not talking bows in general, just the ones that are the same size as or bigger than the kid's head.
For Example:
I had this shirt made for DD3 -
And my friends have sent me these to tease me -
Whole lot of NOPE! hahahaha
My newborn photographer thought it was so weird that I didn't want bows/flowers on her head for pics though. I was like, "She's a newborn, who cares if her gender is ambiguous."
Little bows though, I think are super cute on my 14 month old, and her sex is still obviously irrelevant to her life, so I guess that is inconsistent. Oh well. Personnel style.
I also hate LLR...I've documented that on here before. I have yet to see an item of their clothing that doesn't immediately make me think "that person is a mom." No shade to moms, I am one, and it would be sweet if I was able to get away with wearing glorified yoga clothes to work bc that sounds super comfy, but I work in a male-dominated field in a reasonably conservative workplace, so (1) if I rolled up in here wearing leggings I would be harshly judged, and (2) the last thing I want my bosses to think when they first look at me is "that lade is a mom" because, believe me, they make assumptions about what jobs working mothers can and cannot "handle" doing. My boss is cool, he has 3 boys and his wife is a serious lawyer, but HIS boss actually told me TO MY FACE the first time I was pregnant that he "couldn't" give me a managerial position that was available because I was "about to go on leave." Now, I didn't want that particular position, and believe me, if I did I would have called HR and reported him for saying that, but I don't even want to tell him I'm pregnant now bc I'm afraid an actually GOOD position will come available and I won't be able to get that one either. It's bullshit. At any rate, I wear only business-formal dresses or suits to the office and when I'm at home I wear sweatpants and look like a homeless person, so there's really no room for LLR to be in my wardrobe regardless.
I think big bows are dumb too but what really annoys me is that people assumed DD was a boy, even when she was literally wearing all pink clothing, CONSTANTLY because I never put a bow of any kind in her hair. She would rip them off immediately, but even if she wouldn't, I don't see the point of them at all. It was just super weird for people to refer to her as "he" when she was clearly wearing pink clothes just because of the lack of bow (and maybe because her stroller is a neutral color? I don't know). She definitely doesn't look like a boy.
I thought of a really good UO the other day and was waiting to use it here but then I forgot it so maybe i'll be back later......
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To piggyback on your UO I wanted to say I really, really hate it when some woman parks in the expectant mother parking spot when looks like she's about 16 weeks pregnant with barely a bump who seems to be perfectly healthy, no waddling etc. I'm not saying you can't have crappy symptoms early on because you totally can. I'm just saying that, in my mind, those spots should be reserved for ladies who are much further along and having trouble getting around. Or for ladies with severe SPD/pelvic girdle pain and things like that. If someone is still getting around just as easily as she was pre-pregnancy then those spots aren't for her just because she's technically pregnant.
edited for clarity.
TTC#1: January 2015- September 2016
Infertility, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
Rainbow baby born June 6, 2017 ❤️
Baby #2 due June 12, 2018
And when you see this, you'll know it was from me, with love!
I'm usually on my phone, but the past couple days I'm on my computer, so now I'm seeing everyone's signatures. I don't know if this is supposed to be funny/ironic, but WILL ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE FOOD AS YOUR BABY SIZE PLEASE STAHP. I am craving a chili cheese dog and a Starbucks frappuccino now, thanks so much. LOL
MMC: 09/13 (9 weeks)
DD: Born 8/22/14
Babies #2 & 3: Due dates 6/9/17
And my other love: writing
I'm not a big bow person myself, but they don't bother me and I think that saying is hilarious.
edited for punctuation.
I bring my kids to play. They shouldn't be in there with adults, end of story!!! Its absolutely ok for parents to sit and watch and for kids to actually play independently. Find an age appropriate gym or whatever for you baby to play on.
My UO is that I think husband and wife joint Facebook accounts are kind of strange. I always wonder if there are some trust issues going on...why else wouldn't you just make 2 separate accounts?
And finally...
Price for LLR also confuses me. I get that it's comfortable, but Target has a ton of comfortable stuff for much cheaper. (Well, not for me, since they left Canada, but for most of you guys!)
I agree about husband/wife joint anything is weird--email, whatever. DH and I have separate computers. But then, my first "adult" purchase in high school wasn't a new car, it was a laptop all my own so I didn't have to share with the family.
And since it's in the box :-), those chips look gross. Hahaha. I can't do habeñero.
MMC: 09/13 (9 weeks)
DD: Born 8/22/14
Babies #2 & 3: Due dates 6/9/17
And my other love: writing
I I have to disagree to the first part. My son is 2 and is perfectly capable of playing on 99% of the playgrounds we visit but there is always that one stupid bridge that's just 2 bars you have to balance across or a fireman pole my 4 year old can do by herself but my 2 year old can't and wants to try so as most is the time I don't climb on the playscape with him I do follow hIm around the outside to make sure he doesn't get really hurt. I'm not going to stop him from playing because he can't do 2 things on the play area. Especially when I have another child that can. I think it teaches him boundaries and how to take risks. There aren't a lot of small toddler safe play areas in my town and they would be boring for my 4 year old or she isn't allowed.
Im cool with active playing parents and parents watching from a bench. I do both off and on depending where we are! And if my 2 year old climbs too high or gets stuck and I have to climb my big booty up and save him I will. I don't think that really obstructs other kids play time.
I don't have an UO as of now. I just wanted to commiserate.
I hate newborn portrait photography. I just don't understand the whole squishing your baby into a ball, wrapping them up in gauze and burlap, putting cutesy little things on their head, sticking them on a piece of faux fur, taking their picture and then Photoshopping the crap out of said photo to make the baby's skin so smooth it's obviously fake. I only like lifestyle/journalistic newborn photography. I also really dislike nude baby photography.
I also don't like bare bump pics. Sure, if you're in a swimsuit, it's one thing. It weirds me out because I usually see women who would never wear crop tops or a bikini or a sports bra without a top over it in public, but all of a sudden she's pregnant and comfortable sticking her bare belly out there. What? It's still your belly even with a baby in it. And the bump picture is still adequately seen and shared wearing a t-shirt or anything else over the bump. The baby being in there does not magically change everything. It's still your skin. That's also the same reason I don't like bump touching without permission.
Add me to the Kirsten Dunst hate train. That smarmy braless has-been. I also despised Dakota Fanning as a child actress. She scared me.
I felt so awkward at my bridal shower that I started doing the stanky leg.
Now that shit where people put their babies in pumpkins and butterfly costumes? Nooooooope.
MMC: 09/13 (9 weeks)
DD: Born 8/22/14
Babies #2 & 3: Due dates 6/9/17
And my other love: writing