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Re: Randoms
Driving into work today was ridiculous. It took me 45 minutes to just get out of our neighbourhood!
I made chocolate chip cookies last night and filled up on the dough so when they were done baking I didn't want any. I do this every single time I bake them.
I have yet to put up the tree. I don't have the energy to watch Ben around it 24/7 but it feels weird not having it up.
I get really annoyed at people who claim that there's a "War on Christmas." If they're so devout, why do they want retailers involved in Christmas anyway?
November, I would not freak out about what Miles is saying. I think one would still be early to have words.
These boots should be waiting for me when I get home today. I'm irrationally excited over it. It took me so long to find a pair of camel boots that I liked.
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"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
The hair grows in thick where the horn used to be.
November, I wouldn't worry about it at all yet. At Andy's second year appointment, he still didn't have a huge vocabulary. The doc said that if he didn't start improving in the next couple of months and if we were getting concerned, we could look into specialists. He keeps adding new words everyday, so I am not worried.
Related - I was watching TV while he was playing in a huge pile of toys the other day. He walked over to me and, while pointing at the toys, he said, "F*ck? F*ck?" My jaw dropped. He kept repeating it and pointing to his toys. I finally asked him what he was talking about. He went over and picked up a little rubber frog. "F*ck."
"Ooooooh! FROG. It's a FROG."
"Yeah. F*ck."
i LOVE THE FUR COAT.
The last piece of my SS package arrived this morning - tomorrow I shall ship!
I am now the proud parent of a Toddler Who Does Not Use a Plug. I was so proud of the little guy this weekend, he was a champ. We started Friday at naptime, and peak difficulty was reached at Saturday naptime. The lingering effect is that he doesn't sleep quite as long (between having to work at falling asleep on his own and then waking up and not putting himself back to sleep with the plug), but I'm sure that will subside over time.
I have made chocolate chip/holiday m&m cookies and also chocolate crinkles so far! My goal is to make lemon bars today and either the no bake cookies or gingersnaps.
Congratulations Fitty! Will slept less for a little while without the pacifier (I think he used to wake up in the morning still sleepy and then use the pacifier to doze back off for a bit, then when we took it away he didn't know how to fall back asleep), but he's back to normal now.
Also: I want to eat your cookies.
Yes, I think that's exactly what he's been doing too. He actually had a nice long nap yesterday so he may be getting the hang of it. Sweet guy.
Dude, I WILL send cookies so careful what you wish for. God help me if I don't start farming some of this stuff out.
I'm going to be late with my gift, SS person. You can blame my baby. I should have had more oomph and foresight to know this was going to happen... but it happeneded and I'm sorry. I'm still trying to pull together the funny aspect of my gift, but the fact that I don't know how to turn on my sewing machine is really hindering things. I may be back at square one or sitching the funny and going for broke on normal. I'm sorry for normal.
I have blood clots the size of quarters in my supericial bikini area veins that aren't going to kill me.
My kid slept for 6 hours last night if you count last night starting at 4:30 this morning while being wide awake for the 5 hours leading up to 4:30. Not awesome.
This is the first day on our own without help and so far so good. It's involved being A-OK with Alex sucking on his gummy vitamin; taking it in and out of his mouth and putting it on the floor and then back in his mouth again, all the while with me being trapped on the couch breastfeeding unable to stop him. Because 'no' certainly does nothing.
There was a bird in my house last night. It flew in when Pete opened the front door and it nearly ate my face off. That was hilarious.
I just made the caramel for my chocolate covered salted peanut caramel cups. I may just dip the chocolate bars in it and eat it that way. I'm a total glutton this year. I also wanted to make English Muffin bread for breakfasts this week but my darn ankle hurts too much to stand very long.
I feel very sad for Fenton and Vicki in an internet-stranger way.
This girl I don't like IRL but am FB friends with posted this A-dub status update - "At the office busy being a vice president while my babies are home with a nanny. I am the picture of conflicted emotions." It reminds me why I don't like her.
I need to craft one "of those" email message to my office to announce that I will be leaving and send it sometime this week.
Happy birthday to Miles!
My MIL made some comments about baby-related things this weekend that I don't know if I should address now or just ignore until the baby is actually here.
We didn't get snow here and I'm ticked.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
I sent out my SS gift. I am so excited for it to arrive.
I got the crappiest gift at the white elephant party I went to yesterday. Like, hideous. I thought about regifting it to my SS to start a tradition, but it was heavy and I am too cheap.
Nov, I am a speech path. Believe me, Miles is fine.
i am in the same boat. rage.
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
1. Me too
2. What was it?
Well, the first was about diapering. We are planning on cloth diapering and I mentioned it. She responded, "Well, we'll use disposables." So I kind of looked at her and said again, "We're planning on cloth diapering," to which she said again, "We'll use disposables."
She also referred to the baby once as "My baby." (I don't know if that was a slip or what, or if I'm just being overly sensitive, too.)
I also think she might have an issue with my plan to breast feed. She made a few comments about how I had better have bottles around so she and my FIL can feed the baby. I'm going to have to transition the kid to a bottle eventually anyway, but part of me wants to keep it exclusively on the boob as long as possible just to tick them off.
Honestly, I like my MIL 90% of the time but I have a feeling having this baby is going to change our relationship, and it's going to become a battle of the wills. And I'll admit that I'm pretty damn stubborn, but come on. It's obviously not her choice how the baby will be fed or diapered.
I think you're being oversensitive about "my baby." I mean grandparents are going to say "my baby" about their grandbabies. It doesn't mean they think it's their baby. They're just excited.
Obviously, you get to decide how to feed and diaper the kid.
This is such a huge issue on the bump, and I have never understood it. I think the other stuff is making you too sensitive on this issue. I wouldn't care if a grandparent calls him "my baby". I would care if a grandparent intentionally disregarded my wishes when taking care of him though.
I think you're absolutely right in regards to sensitivity. And I don't want to go all RBTTTF on anyone either. That's why I'm thinking I won't say anything until the baby is here and when (if) the issue arises with diapering, etc., address it then.