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April 2018 Moms
kmalls
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Weekly randoms - week of 10/9
kmalls
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Random thoughts go here!
Re: Weekly randoms - week of 10/9
You guys, we got our pictures back from this weekend's photo shoot and I'm DYING. Dying. This one makes me so happy every time I look at it.
Edit: I pulled the picture down because in my excitement, I forgot about how many people lurk these boards. CREEPY. How about a gif instead?!
As for my random, I took today off to officially implement the first phase of my attempt at authentic Coq Au Vin. The house smells amazing, and I get to watch Americas Got Talent most of the day. I suck at relaxing on days off, so I folded clothes and cleaned the bathrooms too. My husband is doing contract work from home, so he has been watching me all day like I am a huge weirdo. His idea of a day off is not moving from the couch except to maybe get food.
ETA: We usually cut out the chili because I am a spice whimp.
Anyone have a teleportation machine? Because I don't wanna be in the car for at least 12 hours tomorrow night *cries.*
Also, there was a stinkbug in my car on the windshield right in front of me and I was about to die. Luckily I was pulling into a parking lot. Wasted about 10-15 mins with the doors open because, no. I do not get close to gross bugs.
Me: 29 DH: 35
Married 5/3/14, TTC ever since
DX: Lean PCOS, Clomid resistant
Femara 7.5 + Ovidrel = BFP! Due 4/15/18
If anyone is still reading, my random is I totes had a dream about baby last night. It was a boy who we named David David. Weird cause I'm pretty sure we are having a girl and David isn't on our name list.
@bchalm Do we have the same MIL?? Mine is very big on buying clothes for my DD and even me, to the point where she has a bag of clothes for us every time we see her. It just feels weird. And she's definitely more of a "quantity over quality" gift-giver. I try to be graceful about telling her it's not necessary, but I don't think she's getting the message. I'm almost afraid of what this Christmas will look like.
Me: 29 DH: 35
Married 5/3/14, TTC ever since
DX: Lean PCOS, Clomid resistant
Femara 7.5 + Ovidrel = BFP! Due 4/15/18
What @lindsye said +1. I let SO much get under my skin with my MIL when I was pregnant with my first. Now I just shake my head. It's still annoying but if she wants to hold/spoil/etc. I'm more than willing to rest while she takes the lead.
On a supportive note, @klburke88 I know what that feels like...and it gets better- for the most part.
DS-9/2012
DD-7/2015
My maiden name isn't common, particularly in combination with my first name, but I get SO MANY EMAILS meant for someone else. And it's not even the same someone else, apparently there are several of us with the same uncommon-ish name, all over the country. I just got the third email this month meant for someone else with the same name. Weird, right?
ETA: apparently its an international thing. The email I just got was looking for someone with my name in Montreal.
@kmalls that is really crazy. So they just Google the other person or people and then wind up with your email address? Are any of the emails actually about interesting stuff?
I once got accidentally looped into a group text between some big-wig oil field engineers. I politely told them that I was a 33 year old women working in economic development so they might want to take me off the text. To which they responded "sorry ma'am" and then just kept texting away about schematics without taking me off the text. I should've threatened to sell their information and plans to someone in the middle east.
Married: 2/1/2012
TTC #1 since August 2016
DH SA Dec 2016: Low count (11.7 mil total motile), 5% morphology, 73% motility
Blood work June 2017: AMH 1.1 (ugh), FSH 8.4, LH: 5.2, estradiol 28 pg/ML, progesterone 7.4
HSG July 2017: tubes clear
BFP 7/24/17 - EDD 4/5/2018
@Dumbgurl04 That's really frustrating especially because she is the one who said your DD can't go to her house in the first place. I wonder if maybe it would help to ask her in advanced to watch your DD overnight but put the date out into the future. That way the pressure will be put on her to actually clean the house and if she doesn't welllll....
@lund My H has had to change his cell number a few times because he uses a work phone and a lot of my friends and family still have his old number programmed in their phones. So the person who currently has one of his old numbers always gets accidentally called/texted. I do feel bad for this person and I'm like 99% sure it's a young teenage girl because I also accidentally called his old number once and when the VM came up it was a really young sounded female voice. Anywho... one day my friend sent a group text to me my H and her H but she used the old number. We had been talking for a really long time before we realized it wasn't my husband's phone number. So this girl finally responds to us and is SO pissy. We apologized and explained the situation but she just kept repeatedly saying not to contact her again. Well about two weeks later the same friend's husband sent us all another group text and he sent it to the wrong number AGAIN. I was laughing so hard because this poor girl was ferrous and to make matters worse the topic of conversation was a little inappropriate (something about dildos?) lmao
@JJMNO1616 I wish we could do something like. We are already planners so usually when we need someone to watch DD it's planned a few weeks in advanced. My MIL can't really be relied on because she cancels last minute. There have been times she tells she is coming over and then the day arrives and she doesn't show up when she says and we call her and she says some excuse like she doesn't feel well (which understandable it happens) or traffic (she doesn't drive on the interstate so she has to go through downtown Indianapolis) but she won't call and tell us she isn't coming anymore, MH has to call her and ask if she is ok and where she is at. Sometimes we might plan things around her visit or plan for something she can do with us and DD and then she gets upset when she finds out she missed out on it.
Also TBH even if she did clean her house I don't know how comfortable I would be having DD stay over with her. My MIL still seems kind of nervous around DD like she isn't sure what to do. We have let her watch DD while we run to the grocery store but it seems every time we come back she tells me "Well I had to change her, but I don't know if I did it right. Can you check?" MH doesn't seem to worried about it though cause he says she is never going to clean her house so we will never have to worry about it.
DS-9/2012
DD-7/2015
Married: 2/1/2012
TTC #1 since August 2016
DH SA Dec 2016: Low count (11.7 mil total motile), 5% morphology, 73% motility
Blood work June 2017: AMH 1.1 (ugh), FSH 8.4, LH: 5.2, estradiol 28 pg/ML, progesterone 7.4
HSG July 2017: tubes clear
BFP 7/24/17 - EDD 4/5/2018
My MIL commits to things with us regularly.... then cancels. She just did it this past Friday. She's local and constantly complains that she never sees our kids (we see her usually once every two weeks, sometimes weekly, and never go a month without seeing her). So to help mitigate our travel down to her (45 minutes) I invite her to come to us... she always bails unless she picks the date/time. If I pick the date/time, she cancels last minute. Every.Time.
She's constantly asking DH if she can babysit the kids and I tell him hell no because she's unreliable. TWO times in the past year we've asked her to commit and PROMISE to be there for us (not just a normal hangout but we NEED your help). The first was watching DS when I went into labor with DD and the second was staying home with DS for two days during our week of potty training. She canceled both last minute. It took me calling her crying while in labor with DD and my BIL driving her to our house to get her butt to our house (my parents live 5 hours way, despite this, my mom jumped in the car to be with us). Flash forward to potty training and MIL canceled the night before she was due to arrive at our house. My Mom, the saint, took a train 5 hours and 2 vacation days to come to us and help out for those two days.
I clearly have some issues here......... I will reiterate, this is my number one pet peeve for anyone in my life, and has been a pet peeve my whole life. Other than this, my MIL is a really sweet woman who loves the crap out of me and my kids... she just has no respect for my plans. Nor really any clue about how obsessive/compulsive I am about them.
DS: EDD, December 19th, 2014. Born, December 19th, 2014!
DD: EDD, July 18th, 2016. Born, July 19th, 2016!
Baby #3: EDD, April 16th, 2016
The therapist gave her final evaluation and said she got the highest score possible in perceptual-motor, and receptive communication. I am unreasonably proud right now.