Random 7/31

katiegeminimoon · July 2017

Here's a new random thread! Monday is the assigned day for a new random thread, plus the old one is suuuuper long.

Tennis11785 · July 2017

Thanks, @ktcakes87!

I was wasting time on pinterest last night, and I came across some links that were discussing making your child's birthday special during the holidays. One of the pictures showed a family that turns the Christmas tree into a birthday tree. You can leave the Christmas ornaments on it, but just cover the tree in balloons and streamers. I thought it sounded like such a fun idea. Perhaps the "birthday elves" could help transform the tree overnight leading into the child's birthday.

failuretofly · July 2017

@Tennis11785 I LOVE that idea! I like to have my tree up by the end of November, so should this kiddo arrive on time (Dec 13) it would be perfect! Thanks for sharing!

kyrwyn · July 2017

I like the birthday tree idea! That sounds like fun!

My random is that for the last three days I've woken up with Christmas carols stuck in my head. Different one each day.

cait5413 · July 2017

DD turns 1 this week and starts transition to the one-year-old class at daycare. She had a great time at her birthday party this weekend and her grandparents are coming to visit her this week, but I'm a little

that she is getting so big!

blueskies17 · July 2017

Is it weird that I get excited when a new bump board goes up? Just noticed that April 2018 is open for business!

Edited wording

ngarciabyu · July 2017

@blueskies17 I was thinking the same thing lol. Makes me feel like we are further along (closer to December) the more BMB I see coming in behind us.

KathrynJ088 · July 2017

I'm having a really hard time waiting for after the baby shower to buy stuff. For example, I stopped by Ross yesterday just to look at maternity clothes (they put the baby stuff so close on purpose), and stumbled upon a 4 pack of Aden & Anais swaddles for $20. Such a good deal, I couldn't pass it up. How do you ladies not buy all the things?

YodaIsGreen · July 2017

@KathrynJ088 This is exactly why I try to exclusively shop online for baby and maternity stuff now haha. I go into Target to pick up moisturizer and come out with a ton of cute baby clothes.

YodaIsGreen · July 2017

We are planning to repurpose the room I currently use as my office/hobby space for the nursery. Every time I walk in I feel overwhelmed. There is so mic work to do in that room and I need to figure out where to put the piano, bookshelf, sewing machine.
Since we live in the PNW I'm now paranoid about earthquake safety and how to bolt everything to the wall so it won't fall on the baby.

mdcd44127 · July 2017

@KathrynJ088 I keep buying adorable onesies that I find, telling myself "I love this so much I don't want to wait around to see if someone else might buy it." It's definitely tough holding off on a lot of the bigger/fun purchases, though, I'm a Type-A planner and I don't like having to wait!

mrsorigami · July 2017

Tennis11785 said:

Thanks, @ktcakes87!

I was wasting time on pinterest last night, and I came across some links that were discussing making your child's birthday special during the holidays. One of the pictures showed a family that turns the Christmas tree into a birthday tree. You can leave the Christmas ornaments on it, but just cover the tree in balloons and streamers. I thought it sounded like such a fun idea. Perhaps the "birthday elves" could help transform the tree overnight leading into the child's birthday.

i saw this too and saved it! my birthday is on 12/19, and i have a twin, and our oldest sister's bday is 12/20...so birthdays at our house growing up (4 kids total) were pretty much combined and the holidays were all jumbled up. i never had my own birthday party til i was 18 in college with my friends.

so, i definitely want this baby to have a special day of their own, even though their birthday will be so close to xmas.

cait5413 · July 2017

YodaIsGreen said:

We are planning to repurpose the room I currently use as my office/hobby space for the nursery. Every time I walk in I feel overwhelmed. There is so mic work to do in that room and I need to figure out where to put the piano, bookshelf, sewing machine.
Since we live in the PNW I'm now paranoid about earthquake safety and how to bolt everything to the wall so it won't fall on the baby.

PNW or not, all furniture should be bolted to the wall so baby can't tip it over when they start pulling up (or climbing--some kids are climbers!). It's pretty easy to do for most stuff, though. You can buy brackets at Home Depot, Lowe's, etc. It is somewhat helpful to have a stud finder so you can screw into the studs, but they are not too expensive.

peachy13 · July 2017

We're not registering for nursery furniture or much room decor, so I've been having fun shopping around a bit for that sort of stuff since our goal is to have the room more or less furnished before my shower on 11/5. This weekend we bought a rug and a hamper yippee! Hamper was mostly for storage of the clothes I've already been receiving. I also found a great deal on a crib and changing table at Babies R Us so I just need to chat with DH when I get home from work and we may have our first official pieces of baby furniture within the week!

breezybee · July 2017

Gahhhhh I want to buy all the things, but we're moving at the end of sept and I don't want to have any extra stuff. It's so hard though! I'm super OCD and am dying to get the nursery started, but I can't. We don't even get the house until Sept 7th, and then we are installing all new white oak flooring through the entire 3000 sq ft home, AND remodeling the entire kitchen. And we move in sept 29th. Hahahahahaha. This'll be so fun (Layered with sarcasm).
Serenity now

MJDsquared · July 2017

Anyone else sometimes have to stop themselves from writing 'DH' like in a text or something? I feel like I'm going to slip up and text it to my mom at some point.

kyrwyn · July 2017

@YodaIsGreen We're in So. Cal so I have similar earthquake (and, let's be honest, tiny climbers like @cait5413 mentioned) concerns about all of the bookshelves in the house. And similar overwhelmed-feelings when I look at all of the office "crap" I need to get out of the soon-to-be nursery.

We've been making excellent progress on our Goodwill donations goal for the year, though.

@KathrynJ088 I... don't wait if it's something I really want. We're registered at Amazon, so if we end up with duplicates then back they go, and we'll have gift-card monies for diapers, etc. I'm sure this is terrible on some level and invites quite a bit of side eye, but I hope it's karmically balanced out by the fact that I already have cute cards AND stamps AND the address book ready to go for writing baby shower thank-yous.

Tennis11785 · July 2017

The only thing helping me from buying so much is that we have no where to put it right now. Once we get the nursery set up and I have places for it, I will totally be buying all the things!

MJDsquared · July 2017

@kyrwyn We're still waiting on buying most registry stuff, but we have both an Amazon & a Target registry and I started registering for the same things on each site. That way if we get multiple, I'll just return extras to Target and get a gift card. No shame!

flowerpower5838 · July 2017

I feel like I've been a ghost, but the app logged me out and I can't remember my login/PW for the life of me and I'm too lazy to figure it out so I am only active when I am working. Womp womp.

Hope all is well with you ladies. I can't believe we are all at or close to the halfway mark!!

jlemons-2 · July 2017

I'm so excited for Christmas season this year. I love it every year but now I get the added bonus of a little boy. I may have been on Pinterest until midnight pinning Christmas ideas. I know I'm crazy, I don't care.

jlemons-2 · July 2017

Also, am I the only one counting down the days until my due date? Like written on a board?

anewadventure · July 2017

jlemons-2 said:

Also, am I the only one counting down the days until my due date? Like written on a board?

i'm the opposite in that seeing the number in the mid-100s just makes me go UGHHHH. SO MANY DAYS. once it gets lower, like at least two digits instead of three, maybe. i think last time it was more of a final month count.

breezybee · July 2017

Yeah really! I was wondering where you'd been @flowerpower5838. Work bumping is still bumping!

kyrwyn · July 2017

@jlemons-2 You are not alone. There may be a white board in my house for just such things...

MJDsquared · July 2017

Below is a link to a map of things each state hates the most. Data is taken from some dating app I've never heard of before. It's pretty funny.

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/news/a45203/map-everything-america-hates-by-state/

anewadventure · July 2017

MJDsquared said:

Below is a link to a map of things each state hates the most. Data is taken from some dating app I've never heard of before. It's pretty funny.

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/news/a45203/map-everything-america-hates-by-state/

i mean, by nature this is pretty random but i did get a good chuckle out of "biting string cheese" and i wondered what year we're talking about here for N'Sync. like who even thinks about them in 2017?

jlemons-2 · July 2017

@MJDsquared I live in Iowa and I guess it makes sense we hate long hair on guys because I never see a dude with long hair!

Amber_Waves · August 2017

@YodaIsGreen kyrwyn Our LO's future room has been my dump/storage room for years. It's intimidating to think about cleaning it out. So far, I've gone through our extra books...listed any worth more than $5 on amazon and donated the rest (about 200) to the local library (they sell them). Now, the dozens of other boxes and piles.

disneyfan0511 · August 2017

@MJDsquared I actually truly hate biting string cheese and I live in IL. My daughter bites it and it drives me totally nuts, pull that apart!

peachy13 · August 2017

@jlemons-2 i can't wait until Christmas stuff starts coming out in stores!! I'm very eager to buy the baby a stocking with her name on it. Pottery Barn Kids has some cute ones but their selection right now sucks because they're trying to get rid of Christmas 2016 stuff. Bring on the new line!!!

peachy13 · August 2017

peachy13 said:

We're not registering for nursery furniture or much room decor, so I've been having fun shopping around a bit for that sort of stuff since our goal is to have the room more or less furnished before my shower on 11/5. This weekend we bought a rug and a hamper yippee! Hamper was mostly for storage of the clothes I've already been receiving. I also found a great deal on a crib and changing table at Babies R Us so I just need to chat with DH when I get home from work and we may have our first official pieces of baby furniture within the week!

Just an update that DH was on board with the items and we purchased last night! I am absolutely thrilled that we got both a crib and changing table, both with excellent reviews, for $200. Now we just need a dresser, chair, and I'd also like a little bookshelf.

For anyone interested, Babies R Us is having a summer sale which ends this Thursday. Here is a link to the things I purchased:

Crib: https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=101909076&cp=2255957.2273443.2256245.3252292.3250660&parentPage=family

Matching changing table: https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=90359016&prodFindSrc=prodCrossSell

mdcd44127 · August 2017

@peachy13 You are amazing! I was just complaining in my Monday ticker change board about how little we've accomplished, but I just showed DH these prices and he seems totally onboard with buying the crib/changing table at such a good price. We have a small house, so space is very limited--I think that knowing bigger furniture is being shipped to us is exactly the motivation we need to get moving. Thank you!!

MJDsquared · August 2017

Everyone go read "What should I do?" in March! Big thanks to @LemmyRN for posting that in January where I was lurking. My Woman Crush Wednesday tomorrow goes out to the March BMB (most of them) lol.

breezybee · August 2017

I've be reading it alllllll day. Simply amazing.

NME44 · August 2017

MJDsquared said:

Everyone go read "What should I do?" in March! Big thanks to @LemmyRN for posting that in January where I was lurking. My Woman Crush Wednesday tomorrow goes out to the March BMB (most of them) lol.

Now I want to know what the "heartbeat" debaucle was...

Tennis11785 · August 2017

@NME44 - I can't remember which thread, but someone said that they believe the heart starts beating at conception. And other people responded that life can begin at conception but the heart doesn't exist and therefore can't start beating until later. And then it turned into a whoollle debate.

peachy13 · August 2017

@djd0404 yay!! I read the reviews too and they were all pretty positive and say both items are fairly easy to assemble.

breezybee · August 2017

@nme44 it was a thread from last week. Basically, someone was adamant that to her, there's a heartbeat at day 1, which is scientifically inaccurate. She kept insisting that it was true - TO HER - but some other people felt that it was misleading and could scare people who went for an early us and don't hear a heartbeat. It turned into a religious thing, I think, and there you have it.

disneyfan0511 · August 2017

Image: https://media.giphy.com/media/u0Tvs45FBjQhW/giphy.gif

Read the thread, this is all I could think of....

cait5413 · August 2017

Those March ladies have already had lots of excitement! Did y'all notice one of the latest posts is from a rando who got kicked out of a FB group somehow because of a conversation related to the thread? Countdown to shut down...

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