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Dear Community,
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.
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.
DHs/SOs and the Nest
I was telling Matt some story the other day that started with, "So there was this post on the Nest..." and he did his usual cute little "here we go with the Nest again" look. And it made me wonder how much everybody's DH/SO knows about their Nesting activities!
Matt is the first guy I've told about the Nest. I think he even knows my screen name. Another reason I plan on keeping him. He knows too much now! lol
Re: DHs/SOs and the Nest
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I kept Nesting a secret from H until I hooked Daniele up with the mini fridge a couple months ago. I had to tell him how I came across someone I didn't know who was in search of a fridge.
He was a bit skeptical at first but now he gets used to me saying that I'm reading/I've read something on the nest and he just says "oh" and moves along. I don't think he realizes yet how much of a connection I have to it and how much it has given me insight on "this, that, and the other thing".
He knows, but he doesn't much care. I try to keep any sharing I do from TN to things that I don't need to explain the source.
MH has also gotten used to me starting with conversations with "So someone posted on the nest..." He thought it was weird at first, but I've been to enough to GTG's that I guess he got used to the idea of you guys being real people, not just weird internet friends. My mom knows too, and when I ask her a child-related question, she will often say "Well, what do the girls on the nest think?"
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -Henry Miller
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MH says he finds it a little strange but it's bluster at this point. He's used to hearing "So someone on the Nest..." and has enjoyed meeting some of you and even the husbands (hi Kyle and Wayne). :-) The first time was the weirdest for him, when angeliza offered to show us around Portland. His reaction "We're having a complete stranger show us around Portland?" My arguments that I had been talking with her on the knot for months and we used the same wedding photograher did not help all that much, haha! But then he met her and had fun. Now he teases me about it but is actually pretty cool with it.
My Grammy loves the Nest because she feels it gives me another reason to come to Maine to visit her (like I need one)! She was so curious to hear all about the GTG Brianne hosted last summer. It was very sweet.
This is Matt, totally. Sometimes after a conversation that started with "So today on the Nest..." he'll sort of shake his head and go, "The Nessssst" and give me a little grin/wink. But he gets it, he runs a tech company so it's not like he's afraid of internet friends, lol.
My situation is pretty similar to most of the others with DH.
I was on The Knot when we planned our wedding, but I never once posted on a message board. Then I stumbled across The Nest after we moved here and I was trying to figure out where to find info from real people about the area (reviews on doctors and stuff like that). Even though I've never met any of you, it is nice to know there are nice, normal (seemingly...haha) women out there that are happy to help a complete stranger. H is finally at the point where he'll be like, "why don't you ask The Nest?," if we are wondering about something...it's pretty funny...he definitely makes fun of me, but I think he's accepted it at this point.
It's also comforting to have so many of you ahead of us in the baby game, so we'll have people to pose questions to when the time comes...whew...
Yes, I feel the same way about this!!
Josh used to tease me about it... but now if I have a kid question that I ask him, he asks me what you girls said... lol!
He knows I have go to the GTGs when I can, and has gone to Erika's Halloween party, I think he has just accepted it as part of my day!
Back in the knot days he made fun of me a little bit, but ever since we moved back to Boston, he hasn't questioned it, especially since I've been able to go to a few GTGs. (He's even met MR and Fishy.) Now whenever we're looking for certain advice, be it New England advice or baby advice, he tells me I should ask the Nesties what they think.
At this point, many of you have been a part of my life for over five years, and have drawn a lot of support from one another. How is that not "real" friendship?