October 2017 Moms

Weekly Randoms 5/8

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Re: Weekly Randoms 5/8

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  • Also, only three of the four people on the Weekly Leaderboard are O17 moms. Come on ladies, let's step this up!
  • @TallMomma29 +1 for Target! thanks!
    BFP#1: 12/3/13 EDD 8/15/13. Heartbeat found on 12/26/13, HB gone on 1/4/13. D&C 1/7/13
    BFP#2: 4/19/13 EDD 12/28/13. Team Green for pregnancy and Baby Girl arrived 12/21/13.
    BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!

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  • @jessirh does anyone know what actually goes into the leaderboard calculations? lol
    BFP#1: 12/3/13 EDD 8/15/13. Heartbeat found on 12/26/13, HB gone on 1/4/13. D&C 1/7/13
    BFP#2: 4/19/13 EDD 12/28/13. Team Green for pregnancy and Baby Girl arrived 12/21/13.
    BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!

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  • yasandsonyasandson member
    edited May 2017
    @purplestarz im heartless. I just call and say happy mothers day mom, i love you. And then move on 

    Eta to be fair she lives in morocco. When she used to live here, id buy her flowers
  • I will buy the cards for both of our mom's but for MIL, it's up to DH. My brother and I usually fix lunch or something for our mom and I might get her a book or something small. I got her an Amazon gift card to load up her kindle since she's getting ready to go on a major trip for 3 weeks. MIL is hard to buy for and we generally end up taking her out somewhere expensive (she hates cooking and can't understand that SIL and I absolutely love it and actually prefer it over spending a ton of money in a restaurant). So I might get her a small thing of candy since we spend so much in restaurants. If she let us just cook for her, I might be more likely to buy something bigger. But she doesn't have hobbies and is incredibly hard to buy for, so this has just been our arrangement for as long as I can remember. 
    BFP#1: 12/3/13 EDD 8/15/13. Heartbeat found on 12/26/13, HB gone on 1/4/13. D&C 1/7/13
    BFP#2: 4/19/13 EDD 12/28/13. Team Green for pregnancy and Baby Girl arrived 12/21/13.
    BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!

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  • @natleilynn it's based on points. Which are earned through posting, earning love-tits, and being tagged... I think...
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  • @aprilsarahjune we had to read that when we got married and I thought it was great. I definitely use it for DH and my mom. I'm just always at a complete loss with MIL. She says all she wants is to spend time with her family, but doesn't appear to actually be pleased with that soooooo....haha
    BFP#1: 12/3/13 EDD 8/15/13. Heartbeat found on 12/26/13, HB gone on 1/4/13. D&C 1/7/13
    BFP#2: 4/19/13 EDD 12/28/13. Team Green for pregnancy and Baby Girl arrived 12/21/13.
    BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!

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  • We stopped doing gifts on Mother's Day a few years ago. To be honest it's so hard to be creative and come up with a gift for birthdays, Christmas, and Mothers Day. My mom appreciates flowers and just getting to spend the day with us. We just invite them over for a barbecue and hang out. 
  • @aprilsarahjune we had to read that when we got married and I thought it was great. I definitely use it for DH and my mom. I'm just always at a complete loss with MIL. She says all she wants is to spend time with her family, but doesn't appear to actually be pleased with that soooooo....haha
    Good point - some people are hard to decipher their love language.  You just made me think about my mother and MIL, and honestly, I have no idea what their love languages are.  Ugh.  Maybe I should buy them each the book this year and have them report back to me on how to show them love :neutral:
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    Preemie ID DDs; then DS; then natural M/C; now due 10/17
    High risk for pre-term: weekly Makena injections
  • i get my mom either flowers or wine nothing major but something. she does a lot for us. MIL i hate buying for. she doesnt use/need anything. and she really doesnt do much for us so i am pretty resentful about the whole thing.
                                      DD1 - 10/11/13                 DD2 - 5/07/15

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  • ugh. my sister just invited me over for mothers day brunch. which is sweet. but overall it just pisses me off. i dont want to eat freaking vegan food. and the amount i go out of my way to make them vegan shiz and they don't do the same to me in return is annoying (my mother and i split hosting holidays). but i always decline invites for the very reason and i feel like my "nos" are stacking up too high at this point.
                                      DD1 - 10/11/13                 DD2 - 5/07/15

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  • @natleilynn No hobbies?  Doesn't read?  No clear interests?  I can't even.  My MIL is retired and obsessively goes to garden and birding club meetings and bible studies; I complain about it being impossible to schedule events with her, but at least she has something to talk about!!
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    Preemie ID DDs; then DS; then natural M/C; now due 10/17
    High risk for pre-term: weekly Makena injections
  • my MIL's hobbies are spending 24/7 with my nephews/SIL.
                                      DD1 - 10/11/13                 DD2 - 5/07/15

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  • my MIL's hobbies are spending 24/7 with my nephews/SIL.
    Same. I never know what to get her and she is def a gift person. Grand gestures to be more specific
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  • Omg @jessafishy I'm dying for an EC planner!! You lucky biatch, you. 

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  • migdalamigdala member
    @aprilsarahjune I love the Love Languages, I've found them really helpful not just in how I interact with DH (he's definitely Words of Affirmation) but also in how I interpret some of the people in his crazy family.  Like I'm more forgiving of his mom's weird tendency to plant herself an inch away from you while talking now that I've realized she's a Physical Touch person.  So glad we read that book!
  • @ariz17 THAT is the kind of mother I aspire to be!!!
    BFP#1: 12/3/13 EDD 8/15/13. Heartbeat found on 12/26/13, HB gone on 1/4/13. D&C 1/7/13
    BFP#2: 4/19/13 EDD 12/28/13. Team Green for pregnancy and Baby Girl arrived 12/21/13.
    BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!

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  • @aprilsarahjune nothing. She hates to cook. She doesn't drink. She doesn't read. She isn't part of any social groups. She only goes to church on Easter and Christmas. She walks like a maniac and cleans a lot. She likes to shop, where she buys whatever she wants. I pride myself on being pretty awesome at gift-giving but she has completely baffled me.
    If she likes to walk, maybe something like a fitbit so she can track her activity? 
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