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Weekly Randoms 12/22
blackgirlmagic
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Married: August 2012
TTC #1: July 2015
BFP 1: October 30, 2015; EDD: July 6, 2016- Team Pink
TTC #2: September 2019
Re: Weekly Randoms 12/22
I'm trying to convince myself that it would be faster and less time to make my own cookie dough for cookies than. It would to get dressed, drive to the store, fight crowds and check out from buying Pillsbury dough, then drive home. I know realistically its faster to make it myself. But I am at a whole new level of tired.
Pregnancy #2 Natural Miscarriage at 6 weeks 03/2014 Due date 11/9/2014
Pregnancy #3 DS 02.23.2015
Pregnancy #4 Missed Miscarriage at 11 weeks 11/2018 Due date 5/22/2019
Pregnancy #5 Positive test 12/11/2019 Due Date 8/17/2020
My mil asked what to get my son for his birthday last year. I told her some more age appropriate books would be nice and some small toys. He likes the imaginext toys and he has some of their buildings.
She bought him a trampoline for indoors!
Pregnancy #2 Natural Miscarriage at 6 weeks 03/2014 Due date 11/9/2014
Pregnancy #3 DS 02.23.2015
Pregnancy #4 Missed Miscarriage at 11 weeks 11/2018 Due date 5/22/2019
Pregnancy #5 Positive test 12/11/2019 Due Date 8/17/2020
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@riatortillaxo I was hoping to wrap the gifts and run some last minute errands because Christmas tomorrow, but since my daughter would have been at daycare, but she caught some type of cold from daycare Friday so I’m keeping her home tomorrow. I could wrap while she naps but I like to nap while she naps. But I’ll figure it out. I hope you can squeeze in some time for a nap tomorrow! Remember we have to take care of us as well.
Only certain brands fit him because hes petite. I would tell her which fit. Its not even a brand preference. Its a i like my sons clothes to fit preference.
Everytime she would buy him the exact brands I said didnt fit him.
Pregnancy #2 Natural Miscarriage at 6 weeks 03/2014 Due date 11/9/2014
Pregnancy #3 DS 02.23.2015
Pregnancy #4 Missed Miscarriage at 11 weeks 11/2018 Due date 5/22/2019
Pregnancy #5 Positive test 12/11/2019 Due Date 8/17/2020
@blackgirlmagic Two years ago, we were living in a tiny house in London and my friend sent my daughter one of those play tents that looks like a castle! I couldn't believe how huge it was! We could only keep it up once in awhile. It was thoughtful, but clearly not thinking about small houses in UK vs USA.
@psychobutthead doesn't a trampoline seem like such a random gift to give without asking the parents? Why bother asking if you don't use the ideas? I send my MIL website links to tell her exactly want my kid has been asking for, within reason.
This week my brother is coming into town and I rarely see him. Several years ago, he, my other sibling, and I agreed to not exchange gifts anymore for financial reasons, and just because we don't really want anything or see each other enough to know what the other one wants. Now, he's staying with us for 5 days and I feel bad if he doesn't have anything to open on Christmas day. I am trying reassure myself that this shouldn't be about gift giving but more about being together and the feast but I am having doubts. My mom will be here and is bringing him something, but I just feel bad. He doesn't have much. I think I am just going to run to Marshalls and get him a gift card... I know he could use it. Sorry- I totally just had a weird vent there!
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1 LC, girl 5 years old
TTC #2 Summer 2017
BFP 1/5/2018, MC (D & E) 2/23/2018
TTCAL May 2018
BFP 9/20/2018, MC (D & E) 11/16/2018
Did I mention our drier broke? 🤦 luckily I had already dealt with most of our holiday attire, but yesterday I had to wash three loads of DHs work clothes so he could bring them to the laundromat to dry. Good times.
FIL is coming in to town today and I'm ready for our Christmas dinner. We always do a Prime Rib roast and I've been craving steak hardcore.
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1 LC, girl 5 years old
TTC #2 Summer 2017
BFP 1/5/2018, MC (D & E) 2/23/2018
TTCAL May 2018
BFP 9/20/2018, MC (D & E) 11/16/2018
@radiohd18 I think whatever you decide about the gift for your brother will be just fine. Not needing to pick out return gifts can be the greatest present of all, especially when financially stressed. I’d suggest doing something to make the whole gift opening process celebratory and inclusive of everyone — put on some good music or a Christmas movie, pour everyone a hot chocolate with candy cane stirrer, etc. etc. It’ll be fine!
FWIW, I celebrate my dad by carrying on his favorite traditions, telling funny stories about him, and listening to his favorite music (which is now mine). Grief is different for everyone and has to run its course.
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1 LC, girl 5 years old
TTC #2 Summer 2017
BFP 1/5/2018, MC (D & E) 2/23/2018
TTCAL May 2018
BFP 9/20/2018, MC (D & E) 11/16/2018
So hard to believe that it is Christmas already! I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas Eve today for those who celebrate!
We are working on going down for a nap so mommy can pull out the paper cutter, finish wrapping presents, hang stockings, and take down the playpen. Daddy should be arriving home with the tree (hopefully while we are still napping). If I can manage to get it up with the angel/star on too before she wakes up, I'll consider it a success! But ideally with lights too, so she can come downstairs to it all set up and glowing. 😊😊😊
Stage one of our fingerprint cards is complete. Mommy needs them to dry enough to do the marker part, and then Rudolph's nose + fingerprint lights are first on our agenda when we wake up. Then shower, dress and off to SILs. We can finish decorating the tree tonight if we run out of time during the day.... 🤷
And, we're sick. The girls had colds a couple weeks ago, and now they do again. So snotty and snuffy. And H is sick, too, and (while I do think it's at least partially "man cold") he tends to be bad and sick for awhile. Lovely, so probably no help from him.
This morning I may have snapped something at him about how I have the same cold as he does AND am growing a human inside me, so I really shouldn’t be the one getting up early with our son.
@BusinessWife This is my 2nd without him as well. And the permanence of this year has been harder somehow than last.
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Then Saturday is my birthday and then New Year's! What a crazy time of year!
It wouke be one thing to ask and someone said something with a huge selection like barbie, or pj masks, or legos. Then you could just do whatever.
But my mil sent a gift over for my son with my sil.
It was a vtech toy for 2 year olds. My son turns 5 years old in 2 months. It even says it's for two year olds.
My son has a speech delay but hes not developmentally delayed at all. And his speech is delayed because he was tongue tied.
Pregnancy #2 Natural Miscarriage at 6 weeks 03/2014 Due date 11/9/2014
Pregnancy #3 DS 02.23.2015
Pregnancy #4 Missed Miscarriage at 11 weeks 11/2018 Due date 5/22/2019
Pregnancy #5 Positive test 12/11/2019 Due Date 8/17/2020
DD born June 2016
Second due August 2020 (team green!)
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