We put our house on the market...we were supposed to have a showing at noon today. I dropped DD off at 9, came back and got everything cleaned and ready. 10 min ago they cancelled. Thanks a lot a**holes!
@ieles2531 that's annoying! hopefully someone else will make an appointment today and you will have the hard work finished already! Good luck with selling!
I know I mentioned this elsewhere, but it's haunting me (I've seriously been having bad dreams about my car), the check engine light came on in my car. Grrr...
My BF today is my failed 1 hour glucose test. I know there's still a chance I could pass the 3 hour, but my numbers were pretty high, so I don't know. I was already feeling disgusted with my body, but the possibility of having GD just makes it that much worse.
@soprano19 FX you pass the 3 hour. What was your number for the 1-hour? With DD my 1-hour number was 197 and they were just going to diagnose me since it was so bad. I was in denial and pushed for the 3 hour test and of course I still failed. My fasting and 1 hour numbers were great, but then it went up by a ton at the 2 hour mark, went down at 3 hour but not enough.
@pirateduck I hope the check engine light is something simple!
@ieles2531 I do not envy your position. Keeping a home "show ready" when you are living in it with other people is no easy feat. I hope you have a good offer quickly so you don't have to keep up with all the hard work of a constant immaculate home! I think next time I have to do this I'm going to box up and move as much as I can into storage first.
@soprano19 I know how you feel. With DD I had GD and cried my eyes out for the two weeks between the 1 hour and 3 hour test, and then cried my eyes out when I got the diagnosis. I was only 5 points too high on the 1 hour and failed all the 3 hour test parts aside from the last (3 hour) blood draw. I will say, it's not as bad as they make it out to be, the hardest part was coming to the realization that your eat whatever you want because you're pregnant excuse is out the door. Once you get through that it really isn't that bad. Join a facebook community on it for the tips and meal ideas I found that very helpful, though the one I joined this time in anticipation of it has so many people who don't follow the recommendations and then just post to vent about high numbers when they eat a half of cake so I might need to go find the one I was in last time.
@m6agua@jhysmath thanks for the stories of solidarity my number after the 1 hour was 187, so I'm fairly certain I will fail the 3 hour. I had an easy pregnancy and recovery with DD1, and I guess I thought it would be similar this time, plus I internalize everything negative in life as being my own fault, so naturally I feel like I did something wrong that caused this. I'm hoping that worst case scenario, I will just need to watch what I eat a little bit better, which I know I could do anyway.
@soprano19 I think it is a normal thing to feel like it's somehow your fault or something you did, but really it's not, and try and remember that. Hang in there.
@Soprano19 I hope you do pass, but if you don't it isn't anything you did. I had a really hard time coming to terms with that last time. Especially since I was eating well already and doing cardio kickboxing at the Y 2x per week. I ended up being able to get through pregnancy diet controlled, had my baby close to her due date (avoiding induction) and she was 7lbs 2oz and her sugars were fine. So even if you do have it, things can still go well. I will say that I listened to my own body versus the nutritionists/endocrinologists at the diabetes clinic I had to go to. They wanted me to consume more carbs than I was (based on ADA recommendations) but for me that didn't work. They also wanted to put me on insulin for one week of slightly high fasting numbers (90-100) and I pushed back (around 36 or 37 weeks). The next week they were fine, later I figured out that was around the time when things with the placenta start changing so it made sense that things were a bit wonky.
My BF is that I don’t work until later in the afternoon on Mondays, and today MH decided to work from home. Did he decide to work in the office that we literally put together last weekend, $400 brand new desk and all? No! He sprawled out in the living room, and every time he had a phone call he’d make me pause the show I was watching and he would pace the whole house having his conversations. Not happening again!
I just bitched about this in our group check-in BUT DF was home all day with down with something DS who slept most of the day, So someone, anyone explain to me why I came home to a sink full of dishes and no laundry done period, after I asked him to do both of these things!?!
My BF is my body which insists on eating every couple hours, but won't let me exercise, and keeps gaining a ton every week.
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Me: 33 DH: 32 Married 7/18/15 1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16 Team green turned BLUE! 2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18 Team green turned PINK! Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
My wonderful husband, who did the grocery shopping this week and who I am very grateful for, bought smoky flavored salsa for tonight's Instant Pot taco bowls I'm making. I haven't been able to handle smoky flavored anything this whole pregnancy, and now I'm sad because I was really excited for taco bowls. I didn't have time to run out and grab regular salsa, and I had it half thrown together already when I noticed the smoky smell. So now I'm eating cereal and feeling sorry for myself while it cooks. The leftovers were going to be for my lunch tomorrow, too. He also ruined the nachos I was craving last weekend by adding pulled pork to them. C'mon man! This isn't anything new! It's been 6 months of me not wanting smoked things.
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Me: 35 | H: 40 Married Sept. 2013 DS1: Nov 11, 2016 MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d) CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d) BFP! 8/24/19 DS2: May 10, 2020
My BF which I just posted about in weekly check in is that yesterday before grocery shopping no one would suggest anything for dinner this week. Worked all day, came home and made beautiful tacos with spaghetti squash boats, regular hard and soft shells and no one ate except me because they don’t like it. DH eats chipotle almost daily. My tacos are similar and super healthy.
Also, the only time I get a moment alone is when I use the bathroom so I usually end up in here for a minute. Just now DS, DH and SS all came in to say nothing but see what I was doing. Yesterday DH asked me to massage his sore sides from CrossFit while I was pooping. Uh.... no. Just no.
Good news! The mechanic pulled the codes from my car and it’s absolutely nothing to worry about and my car is totally safe to drive!
My new BF is that the cat is in heat, so annoying. The other part of that is that my husband refuses to get her spayed. She’s an indoor cat, so no accidental kittens and all our other pets are spayed/neutered, but ugh.
@pirateduck Ick, I can't handle the yowling cat in heat every freaking 3-4 weeks. At least, that was how often ours was. I think not getting her fixed is asking for trouble. Ours always tried to escape while in heat.
@JStill0603 I hate when my husband comes into bathroom to ask me anything non-emergency.
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Me: 33 DH: 32 Married 7/18/15 1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16 Team green turned BLUE! 2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18 Team green turned PINK! Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
I have another bitch, Braxton Hicks can suck it. It’s so annoying to just be going about my life and then boom! Let us come bother you and make you stop what you are doing
@soprano19 What @m6agua said there is really nothing you did that caused this. It's genetic and some placentas work well and others do not. It really helped me eating healthy, my dietitian wasn't as strict as I see others are in groups making people eat an enormous amount of carbs. I was given the "max" amount of carbs I should eat and encouraged to eat less than that. There's a really good book I see recommended often on GD groups ( https://www.amazon.com/Real-Food-Gestational-Diabetes-Conventional/dp/0986295000 ) this really stresses that you eat as your body needs and not consuming a ton of carbs and fake sugars. I haven't read the book but have heard about the idea of it and it's more what my dietitian went with. My daughter was born via c-section at 39 weeks (due to breech) and was 7 lbs 2 ounce and her sugars were fine.
One example I see in GD groups is that breakfast is usually the hardest on your blood sugar and many people are being told they HAVE to eat 30-45 carbs for breakfast and can't go under that. I found if I had 30 carbs for breakfast my sugars would spike, not dangerously, but close to my limits and I didn't feel comfortable working with that every day so I cut back to about 10 carbs for breakfast and my dietitian didn't care as long as my numbers were good. Perhaps read up and do research before meeting with yours so you can ask questions on how they feel about the Real Food guidelines instead. Also with all the protein you'll be eating...stock up on stool softeners.
@jhysmath that’s great advice. I have my 3-hour test tomorrow and I’m mentally preparing to fail it. Worst case scenario I have to make some dietary changes that are probably better for me in the long run anyway. I’m in a much better place about it today than I was yesterday, and hearing stories and advice like yours is helpful. ❤️
My BF is school fundraisers that guilt a confused 7yo into believing he can't participate in special class activities because he doesn't like cookies and didn't want to sell cookie dough. It was completely a misunderstanding on his part, but he was heartbroken today because he thought he couldn't have movie day tomorrow since he hadn't done the fundraiser, for which paperwork and money is due tomorrow. Everyone we know is either 2000 miles away or their kids go to the same school, so we decided to blow it off when the catalog came home last week.
Added to this is that his class is competing against the other 1st grade classes for extra recess and popsicles if they raise the most money. I offered to buy cookies if it would ease his mind, but in any case, "if your class wins, you still reap the benefits of recess and popsicles without having to put forth effort!" It's an acceptable instance of mooching off the system
@thepretzelchick Ugh, I hate most school fundraisers! Most of it is extremely overpriced and the kids come home so excited because they want to earn all the cheap toys they offer as incentives. The only fundraisers I like are ones where you can buy made to order items like hoagies, pizza, etc from a local place. My kid just came home with a book full of crap and I refuse to buy a $40 box of chocolates!
@peachnectarine When I was in 6th grade, we had a candy bar fundraiser. I spent two months, or however long it lasted, eating candy bars. My mom ended up having to pay for the value of all the candy bars I ate. I didn't sell a single bar. 😬
@peachnectarine Right?! Like, I love my children, but I'm not spending money on food I shouldn't be eating anyway I'm on PTO and we have some decent fundraisers, like Fall Festival and Spirit Nights at various restaurants around town, but this one is district-wide so we have nothing to do with it.
My niece is always fundraising for her school. I'm totally confused as to why because I'm pretty sure her parents pay tuition. I feel that if you have to pay for your kid to go to school that the rates should cover the operating costs of the school.
My kid's school does one fundraiser each year. The school holds a 3k run/walk for families and a movie night in the gym. Kids simply ask for donations that go directly to the school(we ask grandparents only). No cheap prizes, no buying items you don't want or need. It is the best fundraiser I've ever been a part of!
As a high school music teacher, fundraisers are a constant part of my job, but I also despise selling crap from catalogs. So I always do fundraisers that are event-based, like a jazz night, or we sell poinsettias and hot chocolate at our holiday concert. Stuff like that.
My mom was a bartender when I was in high school, and when we did the candy bars (which are at a 50% profit to organization, much better than some!) she would put the box on the bar and customers bought them up! I think we only had to pay $15 for our whole family, out of 6 $40 boxes sold.
I'm so glad that so many fundraisers at our schools now just have a spot to donate without getting crap for it. But I do remember being sad that I never got any prizes like so many other kids.
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School fundraisers are the worst! The cheap toys and incentives for the kids are beyond the worst! I don’t mind donating to the school, I support the PTO and like that they put on a fall festival and a play day in the spring for the kids. But I don’t like the “walk a thon” where we give money to the kids so they can walk as many laps around the school as they can in a given time. Everyone walks. And then the American heart association one where you donate to AHA because the kid pledges to “be healthy” and they get prizes for the amount they raise. Oh and the included social media links so all the “kids” friends can donate. My kid also goes to camp next year so there are 4 separate times they sell chocolates to raise their camp fees and I just feel like I’m asking my family to pay for my kids camp admissions.
As a teacher and an adviser I have to run a multiple fundraisers in a very small town and I hate it because I feel like we're always asking the town for money. Our seniors take care of the cook shack for homecoming and do 50/50 raffles during basketball games. My travel club does fundraisers that they receive the profits for as an individual so they are much more motivated to sell the items. We usually pick food related fundraisers as they tend to do better. We don't do any of those prize incentive ones though thankfully I think high schoolers think that is dumb and I opt out of it every time. I wish we could sell the candy boxes as they would go over really well, but we can't even have a bake sale during school hours because of our "wellness policy" it's a little ridiculous.
@jhysmath yeah, we can't sell homemade goods, so no bake sales, but I think that's primarily because there's no oversight of ingredients or health code as it relates to food allergies specifically. I'm not sure about the policy on candy bar sales, since they are prepackaged and the companies are vetted by the FDA and can provide nutritional facts.
@pirateduck most private schools actually rely heavily on fundraising - since they aren't getting the government funding that public schools get and tuition barely scrapes the surface as to how much it actually costs to run the school. I can definitely see it as frustrating for a parent though - like hey.. I know you just wrote us a check for an absorbent amount of money, but please please please give us a bit more!
I think it's frustrating/annoying in general that our education system is broken in a way that kids have to fundraise in these ways to keep schools going.
I think it's frustrating/annoying in general that our education system is broken in a way that kids have to fundraise in these ways to keep schools going.
Re: Monday BF 2/10
Married Sept. 2013
DS1: Nov 11, 2016
MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
BFP! 8/24/19
DS2: May 10, 2020
WORK. Sometimes it seems like if you want something done right you just have to do it yourself. Mondays....
@pirateduck I hope the check engine light is something simple!
- BFP: 3/10/16 — Baby Girl born 11/20/16
TTC#2 April 2019- BFP: 3/10/16 — Baby Girl born 11/20/16
TTC#2 April 2019DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
Married Sept. 2013
DS1: Nov 11, 2016
MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
BFP! 8/24/19
DS2: May 10, 2020
My new BF is that the cat is in heat, so annoying. The other part of that is that my husband refuses to get her spayed. She’s an indoor cat, so no accidental kittens and all our other pets are spayed/neutered, but ugh.
@JStill0603 I hate when my husband comes into bathroom to ask me anything non-emergency.
DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
One example I see in GD groups is that breakfast is usually the hardest on your blood sugar and many people are being told they HAVE to eat 30-45 carbs for breakfast and can't go under that. I found if I had 30 carbs for breakfast my sugars would spike, not dangerously, but close to my limits and I didn't feel comfortable working with that every day so I cut back to about 10 carbs for breakfast and my dietitian didn't care as long as my numbers were good. Perhaps read up and do research before meeting with yours so you can ask questions on how they feel about the Real Food guidelines instead. Also with all the protein you'll be eating...stock up on stool softeners.
Added to this is that his class is competing against the other 1st grade classes for extra recess and popsicles if they raise the most money. I offered to buy cookies if it would ease his mind, but in any case, "if your class wins, you still reap the benefits of recess and popsicles without having to put forth effort!" It's an acceptable instance of mooching off the system
I'm so glad that so many fundraisers at our schools now just have a spot to donate without getting crap for it. But I do remember being sad that I never got any prizes like so many other kids.
DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green