March 2009 Weddings
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FFFC
I need this...
I wanted to KILL my H last night. He was putting his new grill together and didn't help me with Carly until 8:30 pm when I said um, you still need to eat dinner and we need to give Carly a bath. Fortunately, he put her to sleep then. But of course she fell asleep in like 20 min for him and usually fights it for me at least an hour or two. Little traitor, lol.
I'm still wearing maternity pants or using belly bands 
I'm exhausted. I enjoy working, but I miss Carly.
I know I have more, but that's all I can think of at the moment.
Re: FFFC
Don't beat yourself up too much about the maternity pants, I fully expect this to be me. I carry my weight in my belly and this was a BIG pregnancy for me in regards to weight gain. It's going to take me as long to drop the weight as it took me to pack it on.
(((hugs)))
My FFFC - I'm starting to panic and I'm over-googling. I need to step away from Google.
Marcy, stop googling! You and Piper will be fine
I'm really excited to go to lunch with my coworkers without Carly. I'm mourning the loss of my independence and my relationship with DH (it just being the two of us).
Paying for daycare makes me want to vomit.
Pam - I seriously wore maternity pants for the first 6-7 months after JJ was born. I probably could've stopped wearing them sooner, but they're so freaking comfortable. H had to force me to go shopping for new clothes that fit my new shape. :P
Paying for daycare still makes me want to vomit, and the price has dropped twice as he's gotten older. It'll drop again in December, and I'm so excited. Honestly, the price of daycare has held us back from having more kids, but it's finally becoming manageable.
I haven't been sleeping well, and it's bugging the crap out of me. I'm always exhausted. I think a trip to the doc is in order, even though I don't want to go.
I miss H. A lot. I don't admit it that often, but it's been rough the past couple of months. I can't wait to move.
How can you stand to spend so many months in maternity pants? I bought new pants (on sale, at Target and Old Navy, so I didn't spend much $$) about a month after Nate was born. Continuing to wear maternity clothes made me feel so frumpy.
I have one!
I'm planning a little bbq for my birthday in a few weeks. I was talking to DH about who I wanted to invite, and I mentioned my parents, and my neice, since she'll be staying with them. He said "oh, I guess if we're inviting your parents, we won't invite mine." (our parents don't get along)
My first thought (which I did not say out loud) was "F no I'm not inviting your parents to MY birthday party!" This is kind of bratty of me, but I fully feel that, since it's my party, for my birthday, I don't have to invite people I don't want to. He knows I don't enjoy spending time with his parents, because all they do is fight and criticize. Why would I want that at my party?
I want to extract the maternal instinct and insert it in an IV into MH's arm so that when he says "she was fed, burped, and changed an hour ago I don't know what's wrong" he instead just tries to feed her another bottle. Oh wait, that's what I did last night and it worked and put A right to sleep.
I have more. Stay tuned.
The maternity jeans I had were the most comfortable pair of jeans I owned [the other jeans were from my college days and a good two sizes smaller], so I loved them. My work maternity pants did make me feel frumpy, so I got out of them as quickly as I could.
I'm so glad I love dresses so much- jersey dresses are my friends right now. Pants, not so much. Rachel, I am with you- I want to burn my maternity clothes right about now...
I am thinking of sending 2 different birth announcements out. We were fortunate to have a friend take photos of Ava for us and I want to use maybe one of those photos and then our wedding photog took some also, and I want to use some of his.
The money I am spending while home on leave via internet shopping is stupid. I shouldn't be spending so much. I need to get out of this house but am not comfortable really leaving w/ A until she has her shots in a couple weeks. ETA: One of the items I spent frivolous money on is this: http://www.amazon.com/ShrinkX-Belt-Color-X-Small-Small/dp/B004R6CLQ4/ref=sr_1_1?s=baby-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1310148722&sr=1-1
D'oh.
I did get new casual stuff (jeans, capris) but not work pants. It's on my hope to do one day list!
Good!
My confession: I like to drink water and drink a significant amount throughout the day, but since my OB told me to drink more, all I want is soda. Am I just trying to be defiant? Maybe...