Flame-Free Friday Confession (FFFC)

saladflambe · October 2019

Caution: not always flame-free

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saladflambe · October 2019

I'm probably going to only actually work like 6 hours today & then go to home goods and walmart and world market and all the places I'd rather be than here

chaos-and-coffee · October 2019

My friend just invited us over for dinner, and I’m already dreading going, coming up with an excuse as to why I’m not drinking and having to make conversation with other adults. So exhausted.

hayhay2501 · October 2019

I work from home on fridays and most of my time is not spent working 😬. It’s my me time!!!

runwmusic · October 2019

I have two second bday parties this weekend and am tempted to use my sickness to not go.

diagonalley · October 2019

I'm actually excited when I see random posts because that means the board is finally starting to pick up a little. This seend like the slowest start everrrrr.

hayhay2501 · October 2019

@diagonalley from looking at other groups the bump seems a lot slower than it did three years ago! But I think groups move to private groups quicker now? I feel like an old bump lady aha.

pourmeanothermocktail · October 2019

My 1 and 3 year old had coco puffs for breakfast, and I have zero fucks to give about it. Also, I have no intent to offend anyone, but I so rarely talk to adults that in online conversation, it's important to me to be able to say fuck like an adult. Instead of the family friendly OH FROG THIS! statement that gets used at home.

runwmusic · October 2019

@pourmeanothermocktail ds has puffs, yogurt drops, and string cheese for breakfast because they don't smell like food.

I haven't put on non pj's in over a week other than leggings to go to the Dr.

diagonalley · October 2019

@hayhay2501 Ohh that could be it. I believe they existed when I had my second, but my board didn't really use them (at least to my knowledge? Maybe I wasn't one of the cool kids :P) I'm not even sure how to navigate private groups, but I definitely see the appeal. This is my third rodeo but I feel so much more exposed this time around; I don't know why!

pourmeanothermocktail · October 2019

I'm Team public group only until you really know people pretty well, then maybe when getting around to 7 months along, jump into a private group with the most active people.

I'm still in close touch with my second born's group, in some touch with my oldest's group, now I'm just curious to see if I'll find another group for this one.

So I guess I'm always one of those initiating the private groups and helping to police who gets in.

I'm not interested in too many fly by posters, or one-off posts, or drama really.

But I swear, I'm fun.

I also seriously break all the "rules" of pregnancies, and I'm an "argue with your care provider" about all posts of tests and birth stuff.

After suffering birth abuse, I've got no tolerance for provider BS, and I like finding realist people to chat with about real stuff.

No drama for dramas sake, but also no Sunshine and Rainbows either.

But that's just me.

But, if there are some like minded people here, great, hopefully we can get close and end up with a private group.

diagonalley · October 2019

@pourmeanothermocktail I'm still active with both previous BMBs. I've met several people from my first and a couple from my second. My first didn't go private til after the babies were born and the second was like a month before dd. And by private, I mean a FB group. As far as I know we didn't have private TB groups.

I'm all about keeping it real.

As someone who has suffered trauma and PTSD from it, I still think trigger warnings are way overused 😬.

pourmeanothermocktail · October 2019

@diagonalley My first went private Bump first to make sure we did a good job vetting people. Made sure the ones together weren't going to flake, ghost, or flip a switch. After a few months on private group, a small group of us went to Facebook, like 10 ish.

For my second, there was a private Bump group, and after a bunch of vetting and testing there, we moved to a private ProBoards Forum. Not everyone there liked Facebook. It was maybe 25, and I think we've had another 5-7 disappear, and they've been group removed to protect privacy of remaining members. Most of our group didn't exchange real first names even until the final group.

But, there will be vetting of people, that's for damn sure.

kiki75 · October 2019

I love @bestofnextdoor on Twitter.

hayhay2501 · October 2019

@diagonalley mine moved to Facebook like a month or two before we were due. It went from 86 to 50 members after a HUGE battle about women being asked to TW everything. That being said- I’ve made AMAZING friends from it and literally talk to some people from it every day. I’ve even gone on vacation with one of the girls!

saladflambe · October 2019

My May 2016 group moved to FB like...before everyone due in May was even in the Bump group... it was ridiculous.

...I'm in the group anyways, but still lol.

I'm not close with many of them, but I did meet a few of them & they were good people. I'm much closer with my "weight watchers moms group" - a group of friends I made on the Weight Watchers 20s board forever ago & we've all remained good friends.

I was in one of their weddings; she was in mine!

chaos-and-coffee · October 2019

I’m really close with my nov18 group, we talk every day! I agree with not moving until the way down the road.

runwmusic · October 2019

Also talk with the Nov 18 daily but wouldn't want to move until closer to due dates.

kerco925 · October 2019

My birth month board with DD eventually moved to FB, but after the kiddos were born. I am still close with about 40 of the ladies. I met up with a few of them with our 6 year olds a few weeks ago.

starshipcapt · October 2019

My first mom group due Sept 2012 moved to Facebook. After about 6 months PP there was a lot of drama. And someone started a new group, invited a few, and deleted the group. Lol. Someone else started a new one, and there are 60 of us still. We have had so many meetups, with the kids or Just the moms. We are all still active, and seriously support each other through so much! I just told them all I am pregnant again, and 3 others said they are pregnant again too! Sometimes the private groups can be wonderful.

horsesmeetbaby · October 2019

I'm working from home, but not getting much work done. I should be cleaning the house if I'm not working, but instead I'm catching up on TV lol

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