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December Randoms

bigworldlittlegbigworldlittleg member
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This is our December thread for anything and everything you want to share! Doesn't have to be pregnancy-related. A fun weekend trip, a job rant, etc....share it here!
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Re: December Randoms

  • bigworldlittlegbigworldlittleg member
    How’s everyone doing with holiday prep? I feel like I’m behind this year and being in 1st trimester doesn’t help lol! We put up our lights outside but I still haven’t put out my Christmas decorations or the tree. Presents-wise I’m doing okay. And Christmas cards are ready to send out. Where’s everyone else at? 
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  • lappymom2019lappymom2019 member
    I am SO behind with Christmas preparations. Thank goodness for online shopping. I am going to try to go shopping this weekend to finish up the presents. I skipped cards this year and it is pretty bare bones. We are packing to sell our house so I wasn’t planning to put a lot out but it is worse than I had planned. Oh well. Growing a baby is hardwork!
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  • rainwaterdropletrainwaterdroplet member
    I'm somehow ahead of holiday prep. I think having a 7 year old who is excited to help put up the tree and decor helps and I was already shopping for gifts before I got pregnant. Now I just feel like my house is never clean and I'm overstimulated the week before family comes to town.
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  • bigworldlittlegbigworldlittleg member
    @lappymom2019 Good luck with selling your house! It really is so much work. We sold our house when my son was 9 months and keeping it clean for viewings was so tough!

    @rainwaterdroplet Having a 7 year old helps for sure! My son is 2 and he still doesn’t fully get what Christmas is all about, so there’s much less pressure to get the tree up, etc.
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  • routtymamarouttymama member
    @bigworldlittleg I have had to scale waay back this holiday. It makes me sad because I love Christmas, but I keep getting sick on top of being exhausted. The boys are still young enough that there is enough excitement and thrills without me going over the top. I’m so thankful for that. Presents are ordered and the tree is up. I still need to mail our holiday cards and I’m hoping to make a few batches of Christmas cookies. But that’s about all I’m trying to tackle this year. It’s sad to not be doing all the usual traditions (e.g., I usually make four or five different cookies and mail them to our family), but it’s also been nice for the holiday to be more simple, too. (Less pressure on myself) I’m trying to enjoy it knowing subsequent years might be more of the usual hustle and bustle. 
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  • routtymamarouttymama member

    @rainwaterdroplet I hear you on the house never being clean! It’s awful. We have so many laundry baskets full of clean clothes around the house right now. They are taunting me. I’m ready for the second trimester when I start feeling better and can get my life back! Though, I am so thankful to be in this position so trying not to complain. I’m bad at finding value in being efficient and productive, so it’s been good (and hard) for me to rely more on others and let other things go. I’ll be thinking about you with family in town. I hope maybe they can help take care of you and love on you well during your time together. 
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  • routtymamarouttymama member
    @lappymom2019 goodness! Packing? I feel exhausted just thinking about moving when I’m not pregnant! You are a trooper! 
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  • bigworldlittlegbigworldlittleg member
    @routtymama Well I think it’s really good that you’re recognizing your limits this year and making adjustments. Better than trying to go all out and just being miserable!
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  • mrsaliciab87mrsaliciab87 member
    so behind and not really worried. I finally decorated last week. Took me a few days due to being tired. I haven’t done any shopping but may do a little this weekend. My family and husbands family know we are expecting our first so I think Grace has been given. 
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  • mrsaliciab87mrsaliciab87 member
    edited December 2024
    Couldn’t figure out how to delete my post but I changed my user name
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  • bigworldlittlegbigworldlittleg member
    @mrsaliciab87 I can see your new username! And yes, if there’s anytime you get a pass, it’s when you’re pregnant! 
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  • linh18linh18 member
    I definitely haven't been getting ready. The only decoration we have is a cheap Christmas tree we put up last week and a small nativity scene that will hopefully last the season without being knocked over. Gifts are light this year (a book for each kid and a new outfit) and hubby definitely knows what I got him and I saw what he got me 😅

    I'm not sure if I'll have the strength to make our traditional Christmas day brunch for our immediate family. Maybe I'll just buy fruit, can't go wrong with kids and fruit right? 

    We are also supposed to go to a Christmas dinner tomorrow with friends but really doubting that's going to happen. It's a 2 hour drive away and I get so nauseous in the car. 

    @rainwaterdroplet my house if definitely not clean either. My MIL came over yesterday to help watch the kids and she cleaned, bless her heart, though it's far from pristine still. I'm just proud of myself that I folded 3 loads of laundry in one sitting (not so proud that 3 load accumulated...)
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  • bigworldlittlegbigworldlittleg member
    I know a few people in the group were planning to share the news with their families at Christmas! How did it go?! What were their reactions like? So much excitement I’m sure!!
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  • summersweetheartsummersweetheart member
    edited December 2024
    It was so fun to tell our parents at Christmas! With my family, we had a Christmas Eve brunch and I asked who wanted mimosas and then I said, oh well I can’t have one. Everyone was elated. For my husband’s parents, he grabbed a picture frame of him as a baby and said “we’ll have to take pictures like this of your granddaughter.” His mom about passed out. It was a lot of fun! We also got our NIPT results back the day before Christmas Eve so it was fun to be able to share that it’s a girl.🩷
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  • butterflyhunnybutterflyhunny member
    We shared with our families on Christmas Eve as well! I was actually surprised at how surprised everyone seemed to be, I guess because my husband and I have been together a long time everyone thought we were never going to have kids. I think my mother-in-law was most excited, this will be her first (and quite possibly only!) grandchild.
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  • peach93peach93 member
    We shared on Christmas Day and everyone was ecstatic, in a crazy turn of events my sister also announced her first pregnancy as well 😂

    I will say our poor grandparents were confused and kept asking who was pregnant, by the end of the day they understood that it was the both of us. 

    What are the chances that my sister and I would be pregnant with our first babies at the same time and due within a month of each other. Next Christmas will look very different 🤗
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  • bigworldlittlegbigworldlittleg member
    @peach93 Omg!! What a coincidence! How are you feeling about that? Admittedly, it can be nice to have the pregnancy spotlight all on you 😛 But it will also be nice to go through pregnancy and the newborn period together, and have the little cousins grow up together! We found out that my husband’s sister is also pregnant (with her third) and is due a few weeks before me. So I’m in a similar boat!
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  • peach93peach93 member
    @bigworldlittleg in an ideal world it would have been nice to have our pregnancies spread out a little more😅

    My sister has suffered 3 miscarriages in the past so this little nugget is a blessing already. She has some health issues so her pregnancy is high risk, and she had expressed in the past that when she gets pregnant she will need a lot of support from me and my mother. I’m a bit worried that since our pregnancies are close together I won’t be able to support her as much as she will need.

    My husband has been showering me with attention so I don’t feel like I’ve lost the lime light too much 🤗
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  • bigworldlittlegbigworldlittleg member
    @peach93 I’m wishing the best for your sister! Your babies will grow up together and it will be beautiful for both of you to witness 🙂
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  • watermelonsunshinewatermelonsunshine member
    edited December 2024
    It’s so exciting reading about how the announcements went! I’m glad your families were excited. 

    We haven’t even announced it yet but we got so many half-joking “are you going to have kids?” comments from my husband’s family at a Christmas gathering. Things like MIL saying to one of the grandsons: “you better hope when they have a baby, they have a baby boy so you’re not my baby grandson forever!” and the 5yo youngest grand saying “I’m the baby, no one else can be the baby” (lol) and different siblings-in-laws saying things about us having a baby. We’ve only been married a year and we never told anyone we had been hoping/planning to have a baby. 

    Very awkward and honestly it makes me want to wait even longer to tell them we’re expecting. I find my husband’s family very difficult to navigate, and this sounds horrible but I’m really worried about bringing a baby into the mix. I guess I’m afraid it’ll just be overwhelming. I don’t know if my feelings are valid or if it’s just pregnancy hormones, everything feels annoying. 

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