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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Dec 30, 2017 22:06:58 GMT -6
DD has a half finished baby book some where. Eventually my goal is to just do a photo book/album of their pregnancy and first year for each kid with a nice letter in it. That’s all I think I can handle... sorry kids.
I also haven’t worked out in months and months and am legitimately concerned some days that I won’t be strong enough to give birth. I need some one to come and teach me to be a more efficient and responsible human so I can have a clean house, times to work out, make dinner, and quality time with my kid, husband, and for myself. I KNOW it’s possible, I just don’t know how to do it.
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Dec 30, 2017 22:11:59 GMT -6
alwayscheese do you ski/snowboard normally? I learned in middle school but eventually was like nope, not for me. I waterski and wake board and generallh like fast, sporty things but snow sports are so so scary. YH is super brave to take a bunch of kids! cp3 so cute! I think I’m going to splurge and do one as well. Did your LO like seeing their sibling? I want to bring DD but I’m not sure she’d care.
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Post by alwayscheese on Dec 30, 2017 23:26:59 GMT -6
Leaf 🌱 yes we usually go at least a couple times a year. But I'm not that good and there is no question I absolutely would have been falling on my belly. 😩
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Post by babybean on Dec 31, 2017 0:16:22 GMT -6
I went from yoga everyday to not working out at all. I’ve lost a lot of tone and feel like a bum. I didn’t work out last pregnancy either but was feeling good since starting a routine earlier this year. I also haven’t read any birthing books for mental prep or done my RRL tea religiously. I’m praying this birth is still similar to last time, or better, because life totally works that way, right?
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Post by katietopaz on Dec 31, 2017 7:49:59 GMT -6
Good morning and happy NYE! We're about to spend the day on a plane again, and I seriously can't wait to just be home. It's been a wonderful visit with ALL THE FAMILY but I'm mentally and physically exhausted after the most jam-packed week and a half of traveling.
Hope you've all been enjoying your holidays and I'm looking forward to doing more than skimming and LTing here again. Also, 2018 - the year we have our babies!!
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Post by mattsgirl2004 on Dec 31, 2017 9:28:26 GMT -6
Good morning ladies! How are you all ringing in the new year? Any plans? It's going to be a record low of -35F (wind chill) tonight. That combined with young kids and being pregnant, my plan is to stay home where it's warm and probably go to bed early. I doubt I'll make it to midnight.
Putting away all my Christmas stuff today too. I'm sad the holidays are about over, but am looking forward to what 2018 has in store.
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Post by cornpop on Dec 31, 2017 10:03:51 GMT -6
Happy NYE everyone!
Our big adventure was going to be having appetizers for dinner... But my H has found this diet bet online and is now super into that. So he wants to do healthy stuff for dinner instead. I'm happy for him to be healthy but I wanted apps! Womp.
Other than that... Probably nothing. I'm trying to get back on a work like sleep schedule after being off so I'm probably not going to be up too late. Although my daughter spoiled us and was cool playing in her room until 10am so I got to sleep in.
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Post by auri on Dec 31, 2017 10:06:28 GMT -6
We might have a few friends over to hang out and play some games tonight. We're still waiting to hear back if they still want to come over. I will say though, now that it's almost 2018 our babies feel like they are going to be here soon. Maybe this is the push I need to start getting ready for him.
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Post by mintyblueair on Dec 31, 2017 10:18:30 GMT -6
Happy NYE! It's still freezing cold here so we'll be spending the day inside. My parents are coming over this evening for a cheese fondue and a chocolate wafer/whipped cream log for dessert. There is no way we'll be staying up until midnight lol.
I still have so many things to get ready for the new baby! I'm making that my new year's goal, along with setting myself some strict rules regarding budgeting and being more organized. I've never made a resolution before but 2017 was completely overwhelming for me and I need to hold myself accountable to some new ways of keeping on top of things.
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Post by cp3 on Dec 31, 2017 11:43:37 GMT -6
Leaf 🌱 I don't remember how old your daughter is but mine is 3. She was super excited at the beginning but did get bored at times especially since we kept having to try to get baby to move from facing my spine so we could get a good look at her face. They only do the ultrasound for 20 minutes so it wasn't too bad with her. She just kept talking to the tech about her baby sister. She also kept lifting up her shirt because she says she has a baby in her tummy and when we were done she tried to stretch her pants up her belly like mine lol.
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Post by cp3 on Dec 31, 2017 13:34:37 GMT -6
Your dessert sounds so good mintyblueair. Happy NYE! We are heading to the movies to take DD to see Ferdinand the bull. Then home for game night and appetizers. She got a ton of board games for Christmas so I told her we can play with them tonight. We'll see how long that lasts because she cheats. And I got way too much food for tonight. Ordering groceries while pregnant and hungry is a bad combination. We are making chicken wings, little smokies, meatballs, maple balsamic brussel sprouts, and chips and dip. I'm going to make peanut butter blossoms for dessert because I didn't make any for Christmas and have been craving them.
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Dec 31, 2017 14:48:52 GMT -6
If i make blueberry muffins, can I freeze them? I need to make some chili or something. If I don’t meal plan we’ll eat out all week and I’m so tired of it. Plus, expensive. cp3 she’s almost 2.5 so I think/hope she’d be able to hang for the 15-20 minutes. I’d really like to take her.
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Post by auri on Dec 31, 2017 15:45:47 GMT -6
cp3, Yum! That all sounds really good. I'm glad I didn't read that before I went to the grocery store. We just grabbed some meat and cheese trays, because I didn't feel like cooking. Now I have bacon wrapped little smokies and meatballs on my mind. Leaf 🌱, Maybe you can see if someone would go with you to the u/s just in case she does get bored. My 4 year old definitely got bored after a while when she went to my a/s. It did take longer than 20 minutes though because he wasn't be super cooperative with all the things the tech needed to look at.
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Post by nuggetrn on Dec 31, 2017 15:55:14 GMT -6
Happy New Year's Eve!!!
So far we are planning on going to a friends apartment for a few hours just so we can say that we did... and so we can interact with her new fiance because I feel bad that we barely know him. I am really not feeling tiny apartment with lots of people because we have had such a busy weekend already but I also hate to miss out seeing them. After that we are likely going to go to another couple's house with our dogs and just hang out with the four of us. Hopefully just chill and watch movies. DH and I are curled up on the couch at the moment and it is hard to think about ever getting up...
I am baking apple crisp right now. All I really want to eat tonight is cheese and crackers. They had a tray at DH's parent's last night and now for some reason I am craving more. Lol. My friend is making me a cheeseball and I have to assume there will be crackers.
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Post by nuggetrn on Dec 31, 2017 16:08:02 GMT -6
alwayscheese DH has snowboarded for a long time. He was an instructor last year at our local place mainly because he wanted to teach me and it was much cheaper for him to be able to get in for free and I got discounted passes. It was a lot of fun and I didn't die. Which I really thought I would injure myself somehow. It's a bummer I can't go play this year, for good reasons of course. We have awesome snow this weekend and DH was looking for someone to go with Friday night but it was a last minute thing and no one was free. I felt so bad I couldn't go with him He would have had so much fun taking his younger nephews!! He loves that kind of thing! I hope they had lots of fun!
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Post by cp3 on Dec 31, 2017 16:14:36 GMT -6
If i make blueberry muffins, can I freeze them? I need to make some chili or something. If I don’t meal plan we’ll eat out all week and I’m so tired of it. Plus, expensive. cp3 she’s almost 2.5 so I think/hope she’d be able to hang for the 15-20 minutes. I’d really like to take her. I think she will be fine. And the tech was very understanding. I'm sure they are used to little kids all the time.
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Post by mintyblueair on Dec 31, 2017 16:46:31 GMT -6
Leaf 🌱, I've frozen blueberries muffins and they were fine when thawed.
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Post by cornpop on Dec 31, 2017 17:46:24 GMT -6
Is anyone else thinking of doing maternity pictures?
We didn't do legit ones with my first, we just took them ourselves and they actually came out pretty decent.
I wasn't planning on doing any this time but one of the mom's from my toddlers class is a photographer and is offering discounts to build her storytelling maternity pictures portfolio.
She also does like in labor/delivery pictures which are $$$ but I'm kind of intrigued by the idea..
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Post by snowmoon on Dec 31, 2017 18:11:27 GMT -6
cornpop I'm also kicking around the idea of birth photos. With DS it was just J and I and it was very fast and chaotic so there are no pictures until he was a few hours old.
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Post by cornpop on Dec 31, 2017 18:28:35 GMT -6
cornpop I'm also kicking around the idea of birth photos. With DS it was just J and I and it was very fast and chaotic so there are no pictures until he was a few hours old. I just mentioned this to my H and he was like WTAF are you thinking? "Do you want one of Em's classmates moms to see your vag?". "Do you remember what you felt like during/after having Em?". "how expensive?" Sooo I think that's a no on birth photos.
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Post by alwayscheese on Dec 31, 2017 19:43:34 GMT -6
Ok a week of family and people are getting 😬
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Dec 31, 2017 20:08:31 GMT -6
cornpop i think we’re going to do a fresh 48 session instead of maternity photos this time around. I look decently pregnant in our Christmas pictures so I feel like that’s covered. Also, I looked busted AF during DD’s birth andIm sure this one won’t be much better. DNW to pay $$$$ for that. I also like to have a few people around me as possible while in labor.
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Post by katietopaz on Dec 31, 2017 20:34:37 GMT -6
Oh my goodness, what a day. After waiting at the airport for five hours watching our flight get delayed in 20-minute increments, we cemented missing any possible connection to our final destination and rebooked for tomorrow. I started crying in the airport like the crazy emotional pregnant lady I apparently am. I just want to be home.
Now I have to get my 2.5 y/o up for us to be at the airport by 6am and then we still have a 6-hour layover in Dallas before our connection home. I may cry again.
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Post by cornpop on Dec 31, 2017 20:53:18 GMT -6
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Post by dizzycooks on Dec 31, 2017 20:54:13 GMT -6
@lead yes to freezing muffins! Freeze all muffins and quick breads!
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Post by mattsgirl2004 on Dec 31, 2017 22:03:54 GMT -6
katietopaz I'm so sorry. I would have cried too. I hope you're day tomorrow goes as smoothly as possible.
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Post by mattsgirl2004 on Dec 31, 2017 22:05:52 GMT -6
I have a stomach bug. 😩 Way to ring in the new year and nothing like taking care of my younger ones while puking every 20 minutes. MH won't be back home until the morning. I just hope by some miracle my girls will sleep good tonight. This stuff is awful.
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Dec 31, 2017 22:25:44 GMT -6
I live in the most suburban of neighborhoods and at this point it’s mostly empty nesters and young families... and some one is throwing a rager while some one else has been setting off professional grade fireworks every hour or so. I want to file a noise complaint SO BADLY but I’m trying not to be the lamest person ever. I’m also trying to be realistic bc there’s no way our sheriffs department is taking time away from DUIs/major NYE idiocy to tell whatever college kid is home for winter break to turn down their music. mattsgirl2004 ugh. Good luck and I hope you feel better soon!! Stay hydrated and let your LOs enjoy a nice day in front of the TV tomorrow. dizzycooks do you recommend wrapping them individually in anything or can i toss them in a ziploc bag? auri we’d be going to a boutique place just for fun so DH would be with us and we wouldn’t be trying to get anything besides a decent picture of the baby’s face. And I don’t blame your DD - I think I got a little bored at my own AS. Wahhh I really want a glass (or three) of champagne.
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Post by whatsit on Jan 1, 2018 0:58:41 GMT -6
Ugh katietopaz I hope tomorrow goes smoothly! Feel better mattsgirl2004! Hope the girls have given you a good night! We have our glasses of sparkling apple juice and waiting for the countdown.
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Post by polson on Jan 1, 2018 6:25:15 GMT -6
katietopaz im so sorry about your travel plans! i would have cried too. good luck today mattsgirl2004 hope you feel better soon! Leaf 🌱 i’ve frozen muffins and haven’t done them individually. if you do quick breads i usually wrap in in foil then put them in ziploc bags. i hope everyone had a good nye. i feel like i’ve been mia! trying to catch up. i woke up yesterday and our thermostat said 50 and our gd boiler was out again. got the pilot light re-lit, but that didn’t do the trick. had someone come out and it’s some valve that needs to be replaced and he didn’t have the part because our boiler is ancient (we were planning on replacing this summer as we were told it was running great at our home inspection). it is currently -13f out and i’m trying not to freak out. we have 8 space heaters going and are boiling water on the stove. dd is staying with my mom, but i’m hoping we can find the part we need today. i definitely needed a glass or two of wine yesterday! sorry for the rant i just feel bad i haven’t been around
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