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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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Thank you.
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Re: Flame Free Friday!
I am such a mean wife - we were watching a recording last night and it was a pretty old one. The station broke in on the show with a weather alert and J jumped up and ran outside to pick up the backyard and to get ready for the 'storm' coming -- I was too busy laughing to tell him to come inside that there wasn't a storm coming that he had forgotten that it was a recording
For some reason he didn't find it as funny as I did and you would think he would know better, he has done this before!
Ha! That is awesome.
I feel guilty that the main thing I buy at the Whole Foods next to our house is beer when most people are buying healthy food. In fact, that is usually the only thing I go in there to purchase. What am I to do though? They are one of the few places that sells the kind we like.
So one of our college friends, who got married 2 weeks before us, and his wife are expecting. They really wanted a family and I am really happy for them. I must say, I was surprised because I thought they were going to wait until he was done with school and they got a little more settled, but i am happy for them regardless.
*background: DH and I don't know if we want to have kids, and even if we do decide to have children, it won't be for a while. My good friends know this*
I told one of my bridesmaids this along with some other reasons whyI really just can't wrap my head around that they are having a baby. That is when she says "you say you won't have babies, but you are, you just don't know that yet"
This isn't the first time my close friends have said this. I tried to brush it off but I just really feel like they can't accept the fact that it just might be me and DH, and frankly it is pissing me off. Not everyone has babies right after they get married. I am 23 for God's sake, why do I need to make this decision now, my brain isn't even fully developed yet! Some people don't want to have kids at all. Also, isn't a good thing that DH want to wait until we really know that is what we want and are financially stable? I thought that was the responsible way to bring a child into the world...
even though I have told them it bothers me when they act like I don't know what I want for myself, they still say "whatever, you are totally going to be a mom, you just don't know it yet" augh, I am just frustrated and I don't really know how else to explain it.
*this was more of a vent, thanks for letting me get this off my chest*
this week can suck it.
yes, it has been THAT bad, and it's likely you don't want to know all about it. it will exhaust you.
JacAg.. get used to it(the comments and such)... I am 30 DH is 34 and we don't have kids and may never have kids, and THAT IS OK.... we are not freaks of nature or hate children, we just are not 100% sure we want them. It is a big life decision not to be taken lightly like the purchace of a new car or something. It is really hard for people to hear us say we may never have kids and they feel the need to try and "convert us" over to parenthood. I just take with a grain of salt and move on.
JacAg - wait until people start pitching fits for you to hold their babies so that you can "maybe your your clock a'ticking" yep - has happened to me
People make stupid assumptions all the time about others - just ignore them
Oh ladies. I know how you feel.
1/2 of our family is baby crazy... every time i sneeze they ask if i am pregnant. the other 1/2 always makes snarky comments about how i better not have a baby within the first 2 years of us being married.
seriously people... get outta my uterus!!!!!!!!
LOL
and my flame free friday fun: I AM THE BRIDE. THIS IS MY WEDDING. I understand that it is important to you, too, but the only person other than ME whos opinion matters is my fiance's. I will take what you say into consideration, but I will make the final decisions. THIS IS MY WEDDING. YOU HAD YOURS... TWICE.
(im not resentful at ALLLLL am i?)
Oh yes, my MIL does this to us. And then she goes "joo! joo! joo!" and waves her hands like she's flicking fairy dust at us, and she says she is throwing baby making dust on us. I kid you not!
this.
about me
oh man - that would be awful!
and when people do it to me I either want to hit them, say something nasty, or start crying.
if you're going to dish it out, you better be able to take it - and if you're expecting rainbows and sunshine, then maybe you shouldn't post all of your business on a public message board - there are bound to be people who will judge, including you!
and if you'd take the time for a little self-reflection, maybe you'd realize that people aren't being "mean" to you - maybe you did something that gave them a geniuine reason to dislike you!