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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.
Good Thoughts & Confession Session Thursday!! 1/3/13
Let's hear it ladies!!!
And happy new year!
Wife, mom, attorney, blogger, runner - trying to learn to love all the good things in life!!
"It's not a sprint, it's a marathon." - Alex & Ani bracelet
My blog: Dodging Acorns
"It's not a sprint, it's a marathon." - Alex & Ani bracelet
My blog: Dodging Acorns
Re: Good Thoughts & Confession Session Thursday!! 1/3/13
Good thoughts: to a recently-made friend's daughter, Belle, that she kicks leukemia in the arse!!!!
Good thoughts: as a dear friend awaits word on some biopsy results.
Good thoughts: for everyone in this new year. Wishing everyone well.
Confession: I have barely done any work today. I'm tired. Cranky. AF is about to arrive. I snapped at my kids this morning and cried. I'm scared and frustrated and just can't focus. *sigh*
Confession: I really think I need to step back and reconsider some of the people I'm friends with, groups I belong to, etc. I think it's time to focus on ME more than others, and get away from worrying about keeping up with everyone else when it just isn't possible for me anymore, and reading about it all just fuels my sadness (whether it be material things, snarkiness, whatever). Time to focus my energies on where I want to go in my life, not where I've been, I think.
"It's not a sprint, it's a marathon." - Alex & Ani bracelet
My blog: Dodging Acorns
Good thoughts: To my brother in law, who is just 33 and is in the ICU with a failing pancreas. He has been there for 3 days and just took a "turn for the worst". He's across the country and so we don't have a lot of info but hoping for the best.
Confession: I have the same as Michelle. Funny enough on the nest just popped up a thing that said "do you have toxic friends". NYE was a total bust for us and it was all because of one particular person that I already vowed to let into our lives on a limited basis (which is difficult because he is good friends with DH..mostly because it was the first person DH met here and he doesn't have a lot of friends here..and he's my friend's husband). And I let my guard down and again was let down by this person. I know its my own fault for being let down, I can't expect his behavior to change, but I've pretty much had it and don't need to let that toxic relationship into my life.
Also, confession regarding the above. I feel bad and want to wish my brother in law good thoughts and send prayers his way. but you know what... at the same time I have to opt out of the constant texts from my SIL about his conditiion while I am at work and my phone keeps lighting up every half hour to hour. Plus, I feel a twinge of selfishness. I lost my grandmother a month before our wedding and never heard from aanyone in my dh's family... and My dad was in the ICU for 3 weeks last year over christmas and new years,and had a risky surgery that he barely made it out of. Not once did MIL, FIL, or my SIL or BIL give me a call, check in, send a card or anything...so it makes me feel like, stop giving me the updates. ill call and check in on him but don't push this down my throat when you were so ignorant to something i went through exactly a year ago.
Good Thoughts: To all who need them. The new year brings new hope for many -- the promise of better things. But, a rough start to the new year can also bring so much hopelessness. I wish that everyone's year has more ups than downs, more happiness than disappointment, and more love than pain.
Confession: I want to lose weight, and have been good on my food choices, but I really need to exercise. The weight is not going to come off if I'm just sitting on my butt and doing nothing about it. But, it is so hard for me to get motivated to move when it is so friggin' cold outside! While my daughter would gladly play out in the snow all day, my son hates being outside too long when it's this cold. So, unless my husband's home, I can't really just go out and "play" with my daughter and exercise that way. By the time they're in bed, I'm mentally spent. And, my house is too cold in the mornings for me to get up early to work out before they wake up. But, I have to figure something out. Ugh.
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"It's not a sprint, it's a marathon." - Alex & Ani bracelet
My blog: Dodging Acorns