Weekly Randoms (week of November 6)

marcus7676 · November 2017

What's going on this week ladies?!

ffw0617 · November 2017

so today my scary pregger dreams woke me up an hour early, so I used that time to head out early and stop at a popular taco place for a couple breakfast tacos that I never have time to have for breakfast. I couldn't even finish one. I almost cried, I love tacos, and I left extra early to get them. WHY DOES THIS CHILD HATE ME???

krash_ · November 2017

@ffw0617 OMG breakfast tacos sound amazing! Now I want that but I'll stick to my cereal. Sorry you couldn't finish them

catlady1215 · November 2017

I woke up to something comical today...

my mother has a habit of group texting pics out... she groups all kinds of random people together. family, friends etc. her one friend replied at 3am. so my sister questioned her on why she had to reply at 3am to the whole group... so the lady told her to 'get a life and go to sleep'. sooo my sister went off. I hate turning my phone off or vibrate cause of family emergencies and I use the alarm for work. but it had to be turned to 'do not disturb' for all people involved. so I didn't see any of this till I woke up. now my mom is upset with my sister... and another person on the text (that I don't know) is all pissed off saying it was all rude and disrespectful. so I'm sure my mom is going to get even angrier.

.... lol. I just can't. there should be a smart phone 101 class for people that just can't get it.

I make sure to not group text. or if I do, its a few people that know each other. for this exact reason!

ffw0617 · November 2017

so I couldn't eat my breakfast tacos but I have just discovered apple slices in salt water. I cleaned and cut 4 apples Saturday, put them in a zip lock bag with about 2 oz of salt water. I grabbed them this morning, not only can I easily tolerate them with the nausea but they actually help settle my stomach.

LaceyBee522 · November 2017

@ffw0617 Are we the same person??! I've been eating multiple apples a day. And I really don't want to eat anything else.

doxiemoxie212 · November 2017

Wait wait, with salt water?

kbrown2385 · November 2017

@ffw0617 tell me about these apples. I’m eating endless amounts of them and I’m intrigued.

manda9485 · November 2017

A couple months ago DH and I bought a foreclosed home and have been fixing it up while we've been living in it..{bad idea!} anyways, this past week the whole kitchen was torn out along with all of the flooring on the main floor being ripped out in preparation for new flooring going in...needless to say I'm living in a construction zone and I don't even have a kitchen sink! I've been doing dishes in the bathroom sink! I included a pic below so you can appreciate how bad it is...

#ithinkimightlosemymind

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/hn/0xgpzlalqkvh.jpg

ffw0617 · November 2017

@doxiemoxie212 "in" salt water not with salt water. Don't actually drink the water LOL. The salt is for taste as well as helps keep the apples from browning.

@kbrown2385 well I already ready apples can help if you have MS (https://www.romper.com/p/9-foods-you-didnt-think-could-help-pregnancy-nausea-but-totally-can-4875) I sliced them bc its easier to nibble on throughout the day, the salt is for taste and helps keeps the apples from browning

@LaceyBee522 we might be the same person. I remember on Wedding Wire (kinda like the knot) we had users accused of having several accounts.

doxiemoxie212 · November 2017

@ffw0617 I’ve never heard of that. I’ll hsve to try!

catlady1215 · November 2017

Have you girls seen this? I've seen it posted on fb a few times today

https://youtu.be/URyEZusnjBI

Lilpenguin3 · November 2017

@manda9485 we lived without a kitchen and master bath for about a year until I was about 8 months pregnant with my 1st. It is no fun. Good luck!

doxiemoxie212 · November 2017

@catlady1215 that's so interesting! Def post this on the pregnancy and parenting resources. I feel like this is such a helpful visual for later on in pregnancy.

bkrahn · November 2017

@manda9485 oh girl, I feel you! DH & I bought a realllll fixed upper a few months back and have been fixing it up/living in it. Most days it's fun, other days it drives me crazzzzy living in a construction zone!

doxiemoxie212 · November 2017

Just got my blood drawn for NIPT (mat21), am I the first one? Does that mean I’ll be the first to get results?? Lol

ffw0617 · November 2017

@doxiemoxie212 please let us know how it goes. everyone else as well. TW this area really concerns me bc the invasive procedure caused my friend to leak and then miscarry earlier this year. I really don't want anyone doing the invasive procedure but I know some ppl will need to if the NIPT comes back high risk.

doxiemoxie212 · November 2017

@ffw0617 I get the concerns about invasive procedures, but NIPT doesn't make you need to get an invasive procedure; your reaction to the genetic makeup of your fetus does. So fingers crossed no one gets any scary results from NIPT, NT scans or anything else.

lisa2589 · November 2017

I picked up my last 2 week refill of progesterone suppositories this morning! I’m starting to see the light at the end of the first trimester tunnel!

sunshineandwhiskey · November 2017

Do we have a thread where everyone put how/when they are announcing? I need ideas haha

krash_ · November 2017

@sunshineandwhiskey I don’t believe so but I think that would be a good one to start. I always love reading people’s stories and seeing what they do. Everyone is always so creative!

doxiemoxie212 · November 2017

@sunshineandwhiskey I think we might be getting close to starting one of those, and most BMBs pin that thread, so with how things are going getting things pinned I guess we should start trying now.

That said, for ideas, stalk other BMBs for sure.

krash_ · November 2017

So my one friend that knows who also has two kids has been sending me links and posts on Facebook. I know she means well but she is in general a know it all and I feel like she is trying to “educate” me.

It feels very condescending and I’m not quite sure how to tell her I don’t appreciate her unsolicited advice. I haven’t responded to any of it so you’d think she’d get the hint.

manda9485 · November 2017

@Lilpenguin3 thanks, it is absolutely no fun! We are hoping it will be done by Christmas...we’ve basically been living without a kitchen since June. We put our old house on the market then and we really couldn’t “live” in it during that time, and we moved into this house in August so I’m dying for a home cooked meal!

manda9485 · November 2017

@bkrahn oh I’m so glad you know what I’m going through!! Haha everyone thinks we’re crazy! I’m not sure I’ll ever buy a fixer upper again—it definitely doesn’t happen as fast as it does on tv, that’s for sure!! Everything takes twice as long and costs twice as much!

nakoehl · November 2017

@manda9485 You want a home cooked meal and all I can think about is the Philly cheese steak sandwich from the local sports bar...

Austenista · November 2017

Uggghhhhh I’m dying for a home cooked meal! This moving situation has had been out of a kitchen for way too long. I want real food so bad.

marcus7676 · November 2017

We taught DS (25 months) to say "I'm a big brother" so he could tell my sister this past weekend. Well, he's taking his job seriously and is telling EVERYONE. He's announced to almost every daycare teacher separately. Yesterday, during nap, when the room was quiet, he blurted out "I'm a big brother." Today, he told some kid's father at daycare. We haven't told my in laws yet (and won't until I get the results from Mat21 in 2 weeks) but I'm so concerned he's going to blurt it out on FaceTime. He's very proud of his new status and wants to tell everyone.

dinodna3 · November 2017

DH and I are leaving for New Orleans on Friday for a wedding. I’m using this trip as an opportunity to wean DS and I’m feeling pretty emotional about it. I know he will be fine but it’s still bittersweet.

goldenlola · November 2017

I’ve been MIA for about a week or so. Last week was a short week for me as I took a trip to Vegas with my best friend, just got home last night.

@manda9485 it’s going to look so nice in the end!

@ffw0617 Interesting about the salt water. I use a squirt of lemon or lime juice to avoid browning.

@doxiemoxie212 Good luck! I go in 2 weeks.

@sunshineandwhiskey Yes to the thread!!

morristhecatmom · November 2017

I am cherishing laying on my stomach comfortably while I can. Our cat Walter has decided that this means the small of my back is his perch.

I’ve definitely been some kind of mental funk lately and I need to snap out of it. I don’t know I’m mourning that this is our last time getting to tell people we’re pregnant/having a baby etc. But I need to get my stuff together and stop being a lump on the couch.

I also have a handful of people I haven’t told about the baby, arbitrarily. It’s stupid, these people would’ve been the first to know with my
other kids. But one just had a baby and a really Trumatic birth and so I wanted to let her have some time before I told her. The other is struggling with postpartum depression and again, timing doesn’t feel right. The other is pregnant with her first and only baby and had baby showers etc. and I didn’t want to steal any thunder. But now this is longer than I’ve gone without telling some of my good friends and I don’t know the best way to do it.

kmurdock925 · November 2017

Re: announcements...with my 1st I was all about the official announcement...was basically counting down the days until the 12 week mark to make it "official" (everyone close to me knew)...this time around I just don't care. It just sounds like a lot of work. Is that terrible?

ffw0617 · November 2017

The announcement thread sticky is def needed. We don't have much time. I've been thinking about when and how. I'm leaning towards my niece (who looks more like me than her own mother, I call her my clone/ twin/ surrogate daughter niece LOL) wearing something that says "My favorite auntie is busy making me a cousin." I can't find them in her size so I have to get it made and ship it and get my sister to take the picture.

@kmurdock925 some people make it a big to do. I pair of baby booties next to the sonogram, snap a picture caption "#2 June 2018" cheap & easy.

I absolutely hate when its announced in a bad way and inadvertently almost like the child is a mistake. Once MH friend posted a picture of him and his fiance at dinner, someone noticed the bumb and he responded in the comments (on facebook) "Oh yeah." I was like ugh, the child is an "oh yeah" to you. Like oh yeah she is a little pregnant in this picture huh.

kbrown2385 · November 2017

I had so much fun with my 2 year old at the dentist this morning. Why I subject myself to that torture, idk. We went grocery shopping right afterwards, so now I’m ready for nap.

krash_ · November 2017

dill pickle chips...that is all

doxiemoxie212 · November 2017

Can I have a mini pity party for myself? lol

I am freaking out about "friendsgiving." Our friends, who know I'm pregnant and that DH and I are both strictly vegetarian, really want to do a friendsgiving, but it would just be the 6 of us (DH and me, plus our two couple friends), and they are absolutely not vegetarian. Being pregnant and vegetarian means the smell of meat makes me want to die. I don't have to smell it that often, but if I'm at the grocery store and someone in line next to be is getting some kind of hot something meat, I just can't take it. It smells so bad. And normally I'm fine with other people cooking/eating meat. I used to even make meat for other people, no problem. But it's like, DH already freaks out about the idea of meat; he just gets so angry about it. And there are only 6 of us, so like, if we peace out early everyone will freak out. If we don't go everyone will freak out. If we can't have meat everyone will freak out. On top of it, DH has a lot of allergies, so feeding him has always been sort of a pain for everyone, but now with weird pregnancy stuff it's just like UGH WTF. Plus, they want to get "totally slammered" so like, how fun for the pregnant lady. I've expressed all of this, but I feel like they're all just annoyed by it. I just want to skip thanksgiving and all the weird food and smells and be in Christmas cookie and Hanukkah latke season already!!

galactickates · November 2017

@doxiemoxie212 can you show up and leave before dinner or come after dinner and stay for dessert? Think about which one you'd prefer, and make up a lie that you've got something before hand? Fake Dr appt? DH work thing? Or just flat out say you'vegot a serious meat aversion which is the truth but would love to stop by for dessert?

I get the the friend group pressure, and if you guys don't go then your lack of presence is really noticable. That's a tough one

doxiemoxie212 · November 2017

@galactickates I've already been pretty honest about the meat aversion and that I'd rather just leave early, but then they're all like, no no how can we accommodate you. But they can't. None of them really know how to cook, and our friends want to host, and it's nearly impossible to cook in someone else's kitchen (especially when they don't know how to cook and thus don't have the random things you need to season, etc.). I usually host for this reason, but I can tell they really want to (they're recently engaged). But obv 1/3 of the party leaving early is not what they want. I think I just need to accept that we're going to ruin their idea of friendsgiving sort of no matter what. lol

izza2 · November 2017

galactickates said:

@doxiemoxie212 can you show up and leave before dinner or come after dinner and stay for dessert? Think about which one you'd prefer, and make up a lie that you've got something before hand? Fake Dr appt? DH work thing? Or just flat out say you'vegot a serious meat aversion which is the truth but would love to stop by for dessert?

I get the the friend group pressure, and if you guys don't go then your lack of presence is really noticable. That's a tough one

I second the bolded. If meat makes you want to vomit, or just not feel well in general - tell them. They should understand and either go for a fun vegetarian dinner, or not feel angry that you want to leave early or get there late.
Just tell them that you'd really like to go, but you can't stand the smell of meat right now, and don't want to bring down the mood by getting sick in the middle of the dinner...

doxiemoxie212 · November 2017

@Izza2 yeah, that's what I've done. I'm realizing that I just need to accept my discomfort with this. It's probably in my head how annoyed I feel they are at me.

izza2 · November 2017

@doxiemoxie212 - Sorry, you replied when when I was typing mine it looks like! I say if they want to accommodate you, tell them some things that you think would make great vegetarian options, and let them roll with it.
And I can understand feeling like people are annoyed with you sometimes. We had an early Thanksgiving dinner this past weekend, and I definitely felt like I was annoying some of my family because I didn't feel good enough to try everything on our menu. My SIL brought a bunch of food that didn't smell appealing to me, and I didn't try most of it for that reason. I'm sure she didn't really mind, but I felt like she was annoyed at me.

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