March 2009 Weddings
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
SAHMs
Do you get lonely? Tired of being at home? Today is my first day alone w Carly (DH back at work and my mom left) and I'm thankful I have some visitors coming. Just feeling like I'm going to be lonely, I miss adult interaction and I'm tired of being stuck at home. Hopefully this gets better once my c section restrictions are lifted (can't drive, can't put Carly in her car seat, etc.) /vent
Re: SAHMs
I'm not really home every alone since DH works from home, but we definitely have to get out of the house at least every other day.
Have you tried going for a walk? Can you do that yet? I guess since you can't put Carly in her car seat that probably doesn't work.
I haven't had a chance to get lonely yet with all of the company we have had. By the time they leave, I'm ready for some peace and quiet. We go for about 3 walks a day around the neighborhood though and I try to go run errands a few times a week to get out and in the real world with adults. I know you can't do any of that yet though
I have also purchased the motivated moms app - it gives me a checklist of things to do around the house everyday and I can add my own to-dos to it as well. I used to be an all day once a week cleaner, but can't do that anymore with the baby, so I like how it breaks up the chores for me. It also makes me feel more like this is my new job and gives me a purpose everyday (aside from caring for Margot). It's interesting trying to check things off this list during her short naps!
It will get better though, I promise... especially when she "wakes up". i'm so much busier with her now since she went through her 6 week growth spurt and is awake more.
It will be better once you get out and run errands. My restrictions were only for 2 weeks, but I don't think I ran errands with him by myself until after I was back at work. He wasn't tough to deal with, but I couldn't handle lugging him around, putting him in the car, taking him out, etc, when I had trouble walking on my own, you know? Once I was back at work, I kind of had to.
The 6 months I SAH while I was unemployed were awesome because I could actually go do things with him.