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Dear...
Body, Seriously? WTF are you doing ?!?!? I worked so hard to get pregnant, why won't you let me enjoy it? Instead, you are causing me so much stress b/c you are cramping and bleeding (still) for no apparant reason. You caused me to be out of work for an hour on Thursday morning and 30 min in the afteroon only to be told they have no cluse why you are doiing what you are doing. Please stop.
Baby- If you are causing all of this, I beg you to stop. I promise I will buy you some really nice toys if you do (not like I wasn't going to buy them anyways).
Sister- Even though some people may think otherwise, I'm glad you are due the month after me with DC#2. Although I like the attention our family is giving me with being KU, it's nice that it's not always on me. Also, I like that our kids will literally grow up together (both will be in my mom's daycare). It's also nice that we will be able to share a wardrobe at some point (she's currently just 1 pant size smaller).
Closet- Can you please please please clean yourself? We need to store the stuff that are currently in the nursey in you but can't until there is space. Due to issue #1 above, I have been on modified rest ( need to keep my feet up as much as possible). So, those weekends that I had planned on using to clean you have been wasted.
Stomach- Thank you for finally making me look KU and not fat.
Dx: Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism After 2 years TTC & failed IUs,we have our IVF baby born 9/24/11
LO#2 aka 'Miracle Baby' Orig. EDD= 9/28 EDD moved to 10/3/13
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." --Thomas A. Edison
Re: Dear...
updated 10.03.12
My sister and I had our babies 4.5 months apart and it really is awesome. We shared maternity clothes and since we both had girls, we've been able to share baby clothes too. Its also been really cool to kind of experience the same baby things within months of each other. I'm happy that you get to have that as well
Dear Annoying Clients,
Please stop being annoying.
Dear Sun,
Please stay out long enough for Phoenix to wake up so we can take a walk and enjoy you!
Dear DH,
Just because I don't work on Mondays, doesn't mean I like to fill my time doing chores or paying bills. I hate it. Mondays are my break from you and from doing chores around the house. My free Mondays are numbered. Let me enjoy them. And stop telling me I need to "pitch in" more.... Is paying all of our bills, taking our car for regular maintenance, putting away laundry, and straightening up not enough "pitching in" for you?
Dear Friends,
Just because I'm full term doesn't mean it's OK for Evie to be born yet. She'll come out when she's ready.... or at 41 weeks and 3 days when I'll have to be induced........
With that being said......
Dear Evie,
You really have been awesome in utero, but technically you're full-term, so feel free to make your appearance. I'd like to see out of my left eye again... and I really don't want to go in for a MRI on Wednesday to get my eye and brain scanned. So if you so happen decide to make your entrance before then... That would be amazing so long as you're ready, willing and healthy.
Dear Left Eye,
Would you like some Windex? This constant blur is really starting to get annoying. And because of you, I have to go to all these extra doctor appointments and now go for a MRI. In a nutshell, you suck.
Dear Cupcakes,
Make yourself.
My Acme Box last update 3/28/11
Dear sweet child of mine- your killing mommy - SERIOUSLY. I cannot keep my blood sugar up and I feel like crap and I know I cannot handle this for three more weeks.
Work- your driving me nuts and making me wonder why I want to come back... please turn around so I dont have a sour taste in my mouth when I do return.
Dear Mom,
When I said I would be fine, and not to come for my surgery, I meant it. You coming for 7 days just pisses me off. 4 days may have been helpful. Maybe not even though. Now I'm just mad. And you trying to dictate the amount of time I take off around the procedure is not helping anything. In fact, it makes me want to go to work even sooner, if only that were possible.
Dear Grace,
Mommy does a good job keeping you on a schedule for a reason- so you know what to expect at what time of day. Sometimes, I go out of town, and that gets messed up. This does not mean you get to act like a crazy animal. Nor can said crazy behavior continue 3 weeks later. I'm so frustrated already, the last thing I need is to be woken up 3x/ night just to make sure I'm there. You're going to the trainer as soon as my mom leaves.
Dear Surgeon,
I'm letting you cut me open. Please fix me and give me good news. kthxbye.
Stand up for something you believe in.
Dear Macy's,
Thank you for waiving the $2 fee you erroneously charged me, but feel free to skip giving me attitude when I call to complain. When I pay my balance in full, a good 10 business days before the payment due date, I should not get a statement the next month with a balance of $2 for interest charged. Cause seriously, this crap could go on forever. I can pay my $2 balance now, but the 9 days it was posted on my account led to me accruing 37 cents of interest, which I will pay off next month, but the following month lead to 5 cents of interest. Do you not see the problem with this logic? Are you just trying to scam people to make up for the Credit Card Recovery Act?
Dear Knee,
Stop with the random pain. You're pissing me off.
Dear Groceries,
Buy yourself. I don't feel like going to the store tonight. And while you're at it, put yourself away.
Dear H,
I understand that you feel badly that your BF's wife has left the country for 2 months, but did you have to pick the middle of our romantic weekend away to call him to see how he's doing (and talk about pigeons and the Red Sox)? I mean, you talked to him last Sunday and had all week to call him, yet you choose sunset in Newport on our first weekend away in like 7 months to dial that phone? Seriously?
Dear Jay,
All I asked you to do was go and buy me 50 celebratory looking stamps, if you went out. Why is that no less than 2 hours later I get texts while I'm at work asking what kind and how many stamps did I need. Really? Two hours?
Dear BFF's MIL,
If you wanted to plan this baby shower yourself you should have. I appreciate that you and BFF's Mom are pitching in with the costs but that does not mean I owe you a daily phone call or email regarding progress made on shower tasks. My bi-weekly phone call should suffice like it does with her mom. Also, stop trying to add in ideas that are not at all related to the theme just because you think they are "cute", even though in reality they are tacky.
Dear salad I ate for lunch,
I wish that you had been more filling because it is only a couple hours later and all I want are chips...or cookies...or a mocha frappe.
Dear weather,
Please stay beautiful forever, kthanxbai!
My Acme Box last update 3/28/11
Dear 11lbs,
Please go away. I want to comfortably wear my jeans again. You were so easy to lose before the wedding, why are you so difficult now?!
Dear homework,
Oh go do yourself. I'm sick of you.