1. Wishing I could take a nap right about now. And also eat a taco or two. 2. I can't wait for my gender results! Wish I would have done this testing sooner! 3. Going home early today from work to finish painting our nursery 4. A night of painting calls for PIZZA for dinner! 5. I'm toying with the idea of only my DH and I knowing the gender.. it's kind of fun. 6. I've been doing 4 people's jobs at work this week and last week.. I am kind of feeling like a boss ass bitch. 7. I got extra PTO hours because of it! 8. I had a slight freak out last week about finances and actually being able to afford things for the baby. Not sure why... I know God will provide and we will be fine. Still started to really sink in though... 9. I can't wait to go pick out pumpkins. It literally is my favorite time of the year! 10. I can't decided on what to dress up for this Halloween with the bump. My DH wants me to be an avocado.. I'm not going to be an avocado. lol
1. We found out we were exposed to headlice. Awesome. 2. Do I want hot cocoa right now? Can't decide. 3. I need to start Christmas shopping... 4. Fall candles are so great. 5. How tf do you clean a microfiber couch? DD's yogurt hands have destroyed it in some places. 6. Woke up to a clean house, garbage taken out, and coffee maker prepped for me. I really felt loved. 7. Now I want to make my SO feel equally as loved. Potato soup for dinner would probably do it for him, lol. 8. Also I'm sick of referring to my partner of 6 years and father of my child (and unborn child!!!) as my boyfriend. Put a ring on it dude. 9. Seriously still thinking about that hot cocoa... 10. I have banned myself from eating bagels this pregnancy. They just put the pounds on too quickly for my liking. I love bagels!!
1. I keep feeling flutters in my tummy, and go back and forth between thinking it's LO or gas. I'm 13 weeks. 2. I'm having a game night on Friday with my roommates from a church women's retreat over the summer and I can't wait!! 3. I hate Ragweed. 4. Has anyone else been told to avoid hummus while pregnant? 5. I have been having crazy vivid dreams. It's nuts. 6. Debating watching Dancing with the Stars this season. 7. Last night I had MAJOR stomach cramping and got super scared something was wrong. Then I went to the bathroom and felt better. 8. I want to go see Pitbull at Winstar Casino in January - I will be super pregnant, but it sounds like so much fun! 9. I'll also be super pregnant at my sister's wedding in late Feb. She is glad I won't be able to drink to keep her costs down! LOL 10. A friend's baby shower is later this month and I told her sister I would help. She keeps piling on and it is annoying me and taking the joy out of me helping. Boo.
@crossfitbabybump I love the idea of only the parents knowing the gender! Like a beautiful precious secret. That I couldn't keep for more than 5min myself. But I respect that ability in others! (;
@gh515 - HAHA! I honestly wouldn't be able to keep it a secret! I feel like I'm going to explode with so much excitement! We are keeping the name a secret, though. That I've been able to do... with only a few almost slip ups, lol!
1. Tuesday's are legit a second Monday 2. Why can't we have nap after lunch at work? 3. Give me all the fried food 4. I can't wait to feel baby move so I am less of a hot mess 5. The weather (in NJ) is crazy! 6. Ordered dinner in tonight because Tuesday 7. Can't wait until my threenager goes to sleep so I can eat ice cream in peace 8. I lost 12 pounds this pregnancy 9. I wish scrubs were cuter 10. Excited for Survivor to start!
1. I was able to pack 3 days worth of clothing, for 4 people, into one large duffle bag. I am proud. 2. I have a wedding this weekend and I am pretty much most excited for the food. 3. This weather is not flying for me. It's Northern/Central Ontario...why is it 31 degrees in September? 4. I found 3 fall candlea I didn't use last year! 5. My SO is hogging the bed. 6. I still have to call still my boyfriend after 9 years, 2 children and 1 on the way...I feel your pain @jeanbean15. 7. One of my closest friends is being induced to have her identical twin boys tomorrow! 8. She lives in my hometown, but I will be there this weekend and she wants me to visit. 9. I'm hungry. 10. I want McDonald's.
1. I just had a Greek salad for dinner and it was EVERYTHING 2. I wish I could wake up to a clean house like @jeanbean15 3. @ivfgotthistwice is right, scrubs deserve to be cuter 4. My MFM wants me to go part time and I'm not here for it 5. My DH made sure to let me know my job should know about my restrictions if I don't go part time, but I had to take out the trash. Really. 6. I think I felt baby boy move this morning but don't know for sure 7. My 14 year old male beagle is humping my 8 year old male beagle and I don't really care to do anything about that right now 8. I'm putting out fall decore this weekend even though it's super hot outside and no one else on my street has yet 9. I dare any one of my neighbors to fight me over #8 10. My brother just ate all the left over pizza I wanted for tomorrow Bonus: I just realized all the males in my house are ridiculous. Except my LO, he's awesome
@kalawa 9 years and 3 kids? You deserve like 5 rings at this point! TBH I don't even care about the ceremony or gifts or traditional wedding stuff. I want it all low key. And, I already feel comfortable that the commitment is here to stay with or without marriage. What we have is working and it's fine. But. I'm ready for the rings and the husband wife title to go with the life we basically already live.
1. 142 more days of work until maternity leave...but who's counting 2. My 2 yr old son is going to be the best big brother, he keeps trying to share his milk, toys, etc with "the baby" (my stomach) 3. Can't wait to get out of the awkward, is she pregnant or did she gain weight stage 4. I love fall! Is it too early to buy pumpkins? 5. Excited for all the fall tv shows to start 6. It's my birthday next week 7. Team Green, but I really want to know the gender 8. I also want to wake up to a clean house like @jeanbean15 9. I'm so over work...oh yeah 142 more days 10. My SO is the best, lucky to have found such a great husband & Dad to our son & baby on the way
@cford08 Would your neighbors really confront you about fall decor? Nosy neighbors make me stabby.
Yeah girl, I've had some sly comments before about me making them look bad by having my decor out before everyone else. I wish somebody would say something now with all my hormones going crazy.
1. Finally moved into our new house yesterday! 2. My body feels like death from all the packing, moving, unpacking, cleaning... 3. My body also feels like death from this horrible cold I got from my kids. 4. I had a sudden coughing fit that was so long and violent that I peed myself more than a little but thankfully less than a lot. In front of our painters and handyman. 5. So grateful to be seeing the decrease of nausea!! 6. The neighbor next to us in the new house is retired and mows his lawn twice a week. And works on some part of his yard every single day. Today I watched him blow every leaf off of his half acre lawn. 7. I need a nap. 8. For some reason, fall always makes me think of Harry Potter?? So I watched some Harry Potter while folding clothes during nap time today. 9. I'm ready to have our first bonfire here! 10. I'm too tired to think of another. Ha.
@HappyMonkey817 - the train of thought wasn't that complicated and yet it totally escaped me. Thank you for helping me put it together - that's totally why I associate it with fall!
1. I cannot wait until fall harvest is over! DD and I would like to see DH before we go to bed! 2. I keep thinking I feel movement, but it happens once or twice then I go a few days before feeling it again. 3. I may get to go camping this weekend with the rest of my fam! Not for as long as I would like but a day and a half is better than none. 4. The 4 kitties that someone left on my porch were gone by morning. But then last night after work I found two in the barn and a few hours later realized two were in a tree, higher than my ladder would go. 5. I may have bought a new lens for my camera at work 6. I hope hummus is fine, because I have eaten 2-3 tubs of it so far. 7. My babysitter basically potty-trained DD for me last week. She seems to have the hang of it! 8. Thursdays are normally my day off, but tomorrow I have to work. 9. I'm stressing out about tomorrow because thinking I would be off I invited most of DH family over for supper. Now I will be up late doing all the things I was going to do tomorrow. 10. I just saw that a popular donut place in town is doing deliveries using a clown that looks like 'IT' so you can scare the crap out of a friend or family member.
1. I went to a concert last night that didn't even start until 8-we didn't get him until after 11:30, waaaay past my bedtime
2. I definitely felt movement last night during above mentioned concert, might have been the baby protesting the loud music and trippy lights
3. I had to get up early this morning to go to the dr to get a shot of Rhophylac which was torture after my late night
4. I swear the nurse hit a nerve when she was giving me my shot (it has to be given in the butt) because it hurt like hell when she was pushing the medicine in
5. After talking about how I didn't want to eat chicken in the what my preg self is eating thread I went and had a chicken salad sandwich yesterday and it was delicious
6. I'm really craving sweets recently ( which I normally don't) and just got a strong craving for Swedish fish
7. I get weird nesting urges at weird times, seems to mostly happen Saturday mornings
8. Wish I could wake up or come home to a clean house like @jeanbean15
9. Going along with my sweets craving I'm also craving juice, I take a large water bottle full of it everyday to work. I craved juice with DD and not with DS, could baby be a girl?
@triplejplus1 We've lost the man of our house to the fall harvest as well. Can't wait till all of it settles down. At least long hours = bigger paychecks. But it sure is exhausting! My SO has been harvesting during the daytime hours and spraying pesticides at night about 3 times a week. He's so tired
Ugh, @jeanbean15 summer is the worst with jobs like that. Our first 5 years of marriage DH harvested in the day and baled hay all night. He pulled several 24 hr days in the summer and summer used to be my favorite time of year. I got tired of never getting to do all the things I wanted like camping, vacations, fishing and just picnics outside. Finally last year he sold out of his baling business and started working for another farmer and its sooo much better. And way less stressful! So even though I complain about fall harvest now, its a million times better than it used to be! I hope you get your SO back soon! Do they do corn beans and milo? or cotton?
@triplejplus1 TBH it's not corn beans or milo hay or any of that. We're in WA state so, legal marijuana. (And before you think it, no, I do not smoke weed! I don't enjoy it at all and have no interest in using it. But I think it has great medicinal purposes and it's important that it's all legal now and tested for mold, bugs, dust, etc. that could really get patients sick if they were getting it from unregulated sources. I know this was a big discussion on this board a few weeks ago but I didn't chime in.) Anyway he runs 2 farms just outside of town and takes on a good chunk of the responsibility. Harvest goes from now until November. If we're lucky the end of October. Its exhausting.
@jeanbean15 Hey, no judgement here! I didn't get into all that discussion either. But dang, that is a long harvest! I hope the next few months aren't too rough on you!
@triplejplus1 Thanks!! Yes it lasts forever. Different strains take longer to mature I guess. He explained it to me but I always accidentally stop paying attention cause it's all so technical lol. We will make it through! I hope the same for you!
@jeanbean15@mdfarmchick, at least you guys pretend to "accidentally" stop listening. When my SO goes on a rant about work, I literally tell him I'm not listening.
@crossfitbabybump Just a heads up that I had a friend who did that - her and her H knew the sex of the baby but decided to keep it a secret from everyone else. Initially I believe she planned to keep it a secret until the baby was born. Unfortunately for her she and her H kept accidentally letting it slip - saying "he" or "him" while talking about the baby. I always pretended to not notice because I felt bad and didn't want her to be upset. Plus it was a bummer for me being her good friend and finding out on accident rather than on purpose. Eventually she realized the cat was crawling out of the bag so she decided to do a "reveal" at her shower where the cupcakes had frosting on the inside that was blue. It was the most awkward, anti-climatic thing I've ever seen. People either already knew and were faking surprise, or just weren't THAT excited. The thing is that apart from your immediate family and maybe your best friend, no one really cares very deeply if you are having a boy or girl so when the parents already know and try to surprise other people it's not usually as thrilling. People DO really like watching the parents of the baby find out though - that's really fun!
Anyways that's just my cautionary tale on the subject.
1. Only one more week until Fall Break. GAHHHHH Two weeks off!! 2. I'm really craving maple sugar candy. 3. I'm so excited to be in the 2nd tri next week! 4. I really hate living in the desert this time of year. I want a nice cool fall breeze and apple picking and hot cocoa... 5. My midwife said my nerve damage from my PIO shots will last another 6 months at least. Sigh. 6. H is interviewing with a few jobs next week and I'm so hopeful he will get at least one of them. It would be a huge step up pay wise and lord that would be helpful with a baby on the way. 7. I think I might be getting slightly more energy - I was able to go to an extra yoga class yesterday, which I haven't done since before getting pregnant. 8. As a teacher I still have to take yearbook photos each year and I look extremely young. I just always still look awkward and I hate that this continues to haunt me into my adult years lol. 9. I am slacking so hard on grading. I just don't wanna. 10. I am a psycho and have already purchased my outfit for my shower. Odds are that I will change my mind and never wear this outfit, but I just like feeling prepared.
1. My passenger-side rearview mirror just randomly fell off my car about 5 min from my house (and then I ran it over), only moments after I finally put on clothes and went on a Grand Adventure to buy burrata (lol). I had to detour to the dealership, where they charged me $108. I have no idea what happened! I didn't hit anything and there's no other damage! 2. Better news is that I'm making this salad with the rest of my garden tomatoes (except using burrata, obv): https://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/heirloom-tomato-salad-recipe.html 3. Also made smoky baba ganoush this morning and bought ciabatta, so food-life is good. 4. I hate pants now. And bras. 5. What planet can I move to where it is acceptable to wear underwear and t-shirt all day? 6. I guess I should buy new clothes. 7. My anatomy scan in two weeks feels eons away. 8. It's almost the weekend and I'm off, which means my husband and I will actually have time to hang out together. 9. Maybe even have some sex. 10. Call your reps about the Graham/Cassidy repeal bill!
@antoto I have the same issue with looking young. I also hate it and everyone tells me that I am lucky and when I'm older I will be glad for that. Well, for now I don't really like being asked if I play sports in high school or look like a pregnant teen when really I am going to be 30 in a few short months. DH thinks its funny when people ask me things like that.
@antoto@triplejplus1 - I used to have the "problem" of looking really young. I got carded for booze and even lottery tickets (you had to be 18 here at the time) until I was about 32. Not so much now, lol. My daughter turned me gray.
ETA: I was once mistaken for an eighth grader when I worked at a middle school. I was 23.
@antoto@triplejplus1@HappyMonkey817 I have this problem. You have to be 19 here to by alcohol here, and I got ID'd last time. She looked and said..."omg you're 31...I'm sorry!" I wasn't offended...tell me how radiant, and youthful I look (I pretend this is why I get carded)...I know what I look like without make up though.
Re: Ten Things Tuesday
1. Wishing I could take a nap right about now. And also eat a taco or two.

2. I can't wait for my gender results! Wish I would have done this testing sooner!
3. Going home early today from work to finish painting our nursery
4. A night of painting calls for PIZZA for dinner!
5. I'm toying with the idea of only my DH and I knowing the gender.. it's kind of fun.
6. I've been doing 4 people's jobs at work this week and last week.. I am kind of feeling like a boss ass bitch.
7. I got extra PTO hours because of it!
8. I had a slight freak out last week about finances and actually being able to afford things for the baby. Not sure why... I know God will provide and we will be fine. Still started to really sink in though...
9. I can't wait to go pick out pumpkins. It literally is my favorite time of the year!
10. I can't decided on what to dress up for this Halloween with the bump. My DH wants me to be an avocado.. I'm not going to be an avocado. lol
2. Do I want hot cocoa right now? Can't decide.
3. I need to start Christmas shopping...
4. Fall candles are so great.
5. How tf do you clean a microfiber couch? DD's yogurt hands have destroyed it in some places.
6. Woke up to a clean house, garbage taken out, and coffee maker prepped for me. I really felt loved.
7. Now I want to make my SO feel equally as loved. Potato soup for dinner would probably do it for him, lol.
8. Also I'm sick of referring to my partner of 6 years and father of my child (and unborn child!!!) as my boyfriend. Put a ring on it dude.
9. Seriously still thinking about that hot cocoa...
10. I have banned myself from eating bagels this pregnancy. They just put the pounds on too quickly for my liking. I love bagels!!
2. I'm having a game night on Friday with my roommates from a church women's retreat over the summer and I can't wait!!
3. I hate Ragweed.
4. Has anyone else been told to avoid hummus while pregnant?
5. I have been having crazy vivid dreams. It's nuts.
6. Debating watching Dancing with the Stars this season.
7. Last night I had MAJOR stomach cramping and got super scared something was wrong. Then I went to the bathroom and felt better.
8. I want to go see Pitbull at Winstar Casino in January - I will be super pregnant, but it sounds like so much fun!
9. I'll also be super pregnant at my sister's wedding in late Feb. She is glad I won't be able to drink to keep her costs down! LOL
10. A friend's baby shower is later this month and I told her sister I would help. She keeps piling on and it is annoying me and taking the joy out of me helping. Boo.
@crossfitbabybump when will you find out your gender results?
1. Tuesday's are legit a second Monday
2. Why can't we have nap after lunch at work?
3. Give me all the fried food
4. I can't wait to feel baby move so I am less of a hot mess
5. The weather (in NJ) is crazy!
6. Ordered dinner in tonight because Tuesday
7. Can't wait until my threenager goes to sleep so I can eat ice cream in peace
8. I lost 12 pounds this pregnancy
9. I wish scrubs were cuter
10. Excited for Survivor to start!
2. I have a wedding this weekend and I am pretty much most excited for the food.
3. This weather is not flying for me. It's Northern/Central Ontario...why is it 31 degrees in September?
4. I found 3 fall candlea I didn't use last year!
5. My SO is hogging the bed.
6. I still have to call still my boyfriend after 9 years, 2 children and 1 on the way...I feel your pain @jeanbean15.
7. One of my closest friends is being induced to have her identical twin boys tomorrow!
8. She lives in my hometown, but I will be there this weekend and she wants me to visit.
9. I'm hungry.
10. I want McDonald's.
2. I wish I could wake up to a clean house like
@jeanbean15
3. @ivfgotthistwice is right, scrubs deserve to be cuter
4. My MFM wants me to go part time and I'm not here for it
5. My DH made sure to let me know my job should know about my restrictions if I don't go part time, but I had to take out the trash. Really.
6. I think I felt baby boy move this morning but don't know for sure
7. My 14 year old male beagle is humping my 8 year old male beagle and I don't really care to do anything about that right now
8. I'm putting out fall decore this weekend even though it's super hot outside and no one else on my street has yet
9. I dare any one of my neighbors to fight me over #8
10. My brother just ate all the left over pizza I wanted for tomorrow
Bonus: I just realized all the males in my house are ridiculous. Except my LO, he's awesome
2. My 2 yr old son is going to be the best big brother, he keeps trying to share his milk, toys, etc with "the baby" (my stomach)
3. Can't wait to get out of the awkward, is she pregnant or did she gain weight stage
4. I love fall! Is it too early to buy pumpkins?
5. Excited for all the fall tv shows to start
6. It's my birthday next week
7. Team Green, but I really want to know the gender
8. I also want to wake up to a clean house like @jeanbean15
9. I'm so over work...oh yeah 142 more days
10. My SO is the best, lucky to have found such a great husband & Dad to our son & baby on the way
2. My body feels like death from all the packing, moving, unpacking, cleaning...
3. My body also feels like death from this horrible cold I got from my kids.
4. I had a sudden coughing fit that was so long and violent that I peed myself more than a little but thankfully less than a lot. In front of our painters and handyman.
5. So grateful to be seeing the decrease of nausea!!
6. The neighbor next to us in the new house is retired and mows his lawn twice a week. And works on some part of his yard every single day. Today I watched him blow every leaf off of his half acre lawn.
7. I need a nap.
8. For some reason, fall always makes me think of Harry Potter?? So I watched some Harry Potter while folding clothes during nap time today.
9. I'm ready to have our first bonfire here!
10. I'm too tired to think of another. Ha.
2. I keep thinking I feel movement, but it happens once or twice then I go a few days before feeling it again.
3. I may get to go camping this weekend with the rest of my fam! Not for as long as I would like but a day and a half is better than none.
4. The 4 kitties that someone left on my porch were gone by morning. But then last night after work I found two in the barn and a few hours later realized two were in a tree, higher than my ladder would go.
5. I may have bought a new lens for my camera at work
6. I hope hummus is fine, because I have eaten 2-3 tubs of it so far.
7. My babysitter basically potty-trained DD for me last week. She seems to have the hang of it!
8. Thursdays are normally my day off, but tomorrow I have to work.
9. I'm stressing out about tomorrow because thinking I would be off I invited most of DH family over for supper. Now I will be up late doing all the things I was going to do tomorrow.
10. I just saw that a popular donut place in town is doing deliveries using a clown that looks like 'IT' so you can scare the crap out of a friend or family member.
Late to the game but here goes
1. I went to a concert last night that didn't even start until 8-we didn't get him until after 11:30, waaaay past my bedtime
2. I definitely felt movement last night during above mentioned concert, might have been the baby protesting the loud music and trippy lights
3. I had to get up early this morning to go to the dr to get a shot of Rhophylac which was torture after my late night
4. I swear the nurse hit a nerve when she was giving me my shot (it has to be given in the butt) because it hurt like hell when she was pushing the medicine in
5. After talking about how I didn't want to eat chicken in the what my preg self is eating thread I went and had a chicken salad sandwich yesterday and it was delicious
6. I'm really craving sweets recently ( which I normally don't) and just got a strong craving for Swedish fish
7. I get weird nesting urges at weird times, seems to mostly happen Saturday mornings
8. Wish I could wake up or come home to a clean house like @jeanbean15
9. Going along with my sweets craving I'm also craving juice, I take a large water bottle full of it everyday to work. I craved juice with DD and not with DS, could baby be a girl?
10. Still want Swedish fish
Anyways that's just my cautionary tale on the subject.
2. I'm really craving maple sugar candy.
3. I'm so excited to be in the 2nd tri next week!
4. I really hate living in the desert this time of year. I want a nice cool fall breeze and apple picking and hot cocoa...
5. My midwife said my nerve damage from my PIO shots will last another 6 months at least. Sigh.
6. H is interviewing with a few jobs next week and I'm so hopeful he will get at least one of them. It would be a huge step up pay wise and lord that would be helpful with a baby on the way.
7. I think I might be getting slightly more energy - I was able to go to an extra yoga class yesterday, which I haven't done since before getting pregnant.
8. As a teacher I still have to take yearbook photos each year and I look extremely young. I just always still look awkward and I hate that this continues to haunt me into my adult years lol.
9. I am slacking so hard on grading. I just don't wanna.
10. I am a psycho and have already purchased my outfit for my shower. Odds are that I will change my mind and never wear this outfit, but I just like feeling prepared.
2. Better news is that I'm making this salad with the rest of my garden tomatoes (except using burrata, obv): https://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/heirloom-tomato-salad-recipe.html
3. Also made smoky baba ganoush this morning and bought ciabatta, so food-life is good.
4. I hate pants now. And bras.
5. What planet can I move to where it is acceptable to wear underwear and t-shirt all day?
6. I guess I should buy new clothes.
7. My anatomy scan in two weeks feels eons away.
8. It's almost the weekend and I'm off, which means my husband and I will actually have time to hang out together.
9. Maybe even have some sex.
10. Call your reps about the Graham/Cassidy repeal bill!
ETA: I was once mistaken for an eighth grader when I worked at a middle school. I was 23.