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jennuinne
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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.
Confessions.
Re: Confessions.
I really want kids, but lately I can't help thinking about all the things we could do and have if we didn't have kids...travel, live where we want w/o considering family neighborhood/good school, so much more money, etc. Maybe I'm just scared.
But reading legalbrit's posts made me so excited and happy for her, I realize I really do want a baby!
Also, I meant to go to work for a while today, and I'm still at home...not looking good. Why do today what I can put off until tomorrow, right?
Can this be my confession too? ....H calls me selfish sometimes, and at times I think it is true. I like my lifestyle now and the lifestyle I envision us having without kids.
When I think of the lifestyle we will have with kids, it doesn't seem pleasant, at all. Maybe I just didn't have any positive family models as I grew up....but I just envision horror with kids.
I feel the same way about kids. I really want to get KTFU and that doesn't change. But I do think about all the things that will change.
DH asks me how I will handle the lack of sleep. I have no clue. I love sleep so much! Heck, I just woke up from a nap!
my currently-reading shelf:
well, while were on the kids-topic....
1) i still don't really feel like it's real..i think i'm just getting fat, and the kicks just feel like muscle twitches. h and i have barely bought anything for the baby, just because it's still completely unreal. we don't have names picked out.....i don't know when it will sink in. maybe when they place the baby in my arms?
2) i'm also absolutely terrified that i'm going to be a bad mother. i can sleep thorough a *lot*, and i'm afraid i'm going to sleep through my babies cries. which means i probably will not sleep AT ALL for days....which also terrifies me, because i don't function well w/o sleep.
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
My confession isn't kid related, but could be considered a lil' flameful:
DH is currently on Jury Duty (except today, since it's a holiday). I keep asking him questions and am trying to find out stuff about the trial, but he won't tell me much. But I plan to keep asking, even though I know he isn't supposed to tell me anything.
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wow. the kid one is crazy close to how i feel.
first, i really want children but it scares me because i am the bread winner in our family and i know that i'd have to go back to work. i'd probably only be able to take 6-12 weeks off.. but only if we saved my salary for that long... my work doesn't offer maternity leave. there would be no way for me to stay home.. h's current salary wouldn't cut it. and i'd be pissed that h got to stay home and not me..
also, jenn- i feel the same way about sleeping through things. when i was on vacation, the fire alarm in the hotel was going off and i slept through it until my friend was telling me we should evacuate. that kind of stuff freaks me out.
Insomnia confession... I have a coworker that irks me like nobodys business. Before we had mandatory scrubs she dressed totally inappropriately (fishnets and miniskirts) while I constantly got in trouble for silly little things like wearing brown boots with black pants. She shows all her tattoos while the rest of us get written up for showing one. Never wears the required socks, has piercings...
She is basically me at 18 and it kills me! She just popped up in my newsfeed wearing a dress that barely covers her ass and being drunk at a coworkers wedding (she is 19) I want to shake her and tell her to stop and grow the eff up.
This makes me think I am 12
Oh and I am realizing I am entirely too selfish to ever have kids. I have mentally planned our vacations for the next 15 years.