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both sides live very close to each other so the swapping years would never go over very well and honestly, as long as they pick similar days, it isn't too bad to get in time with both. But requiring multiple trips to attend all events will likely come to an end.

Do they get along? If they are that close you could do one big happy family party.

My in-laws are in southern Minnesota so that's harder for us. They've come to birthdays and such though.
 
Oooh, tough one. Taking a small child to a night game might not be my first choice, especially a rivals game. Sunny afternoons are more family time friendly and less drunken ******* friendly. Downside of pro sports today although MLB is not as bad as NFL by any means. :(

Mini-Hopp's first game was the UNI at ISU game just after he was born. He just slept in his wrap on mommy the whole time (with ear protection). People behind us didn't even know we had a baby until we changed his diaper at halftime.
 
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I see an article on Yahoo about some plaque being made for Soccer star Brandi Chastain.

People really need to vet these "artists" a bit better. The plaque looks more like Bill Fennelly than Brandi
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I still have the stack of grad party invites from this year—71. Most of them handed out to the boys at school. We went to maybe 40? Harder when you have your own.

I don’t feel bad for the kids with lots of people there. Usually the adults are there because of the parents or grandparents.

I do feel bad for the kids that when you show up, you are most of the crowd. You feel like you should stay so it isn’t just the kid and his parents but you have more places to hit, cake to eat. One of these, son texted some friends to hit up the party and the honoree looked pretty relieved when a carload of guys showed up. When place was rocking, easier to slip out.

Did you get sick of eating pulled pork sandwiches?
 
Opinion requested here. For HS graduations, did you guys have your kids invite people they had never talked Toni their lives but you thought they were important? Such as their grandparents friends? I said I wouldn’t expect the son to invite these people he didn’t know if they weren’t relatives. Wife says you offend these people if you don’t invite them. Apparently saying that there are a lot of old people she knows that get butt hurt easily is not looked upon favorably by wives
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I hate how true this will be. I especially dread the fact that one side has.....stuff of far more interest to most kids and we're going to have to figure out how to manage that. Maybe I'll be wrong though and my kids will prefer doing only quiet, indoor things. Holidays will be a big one to manage. One side is already far more demanding than the other. It becomes easy to skip out on the non-demanding side since they tend to be more understanding about it, but that's not really the way I want to handle it either.


We quickly learned that too many people infant Z wouldn't eat. So, even though grandparents and family didn't believe us we had to set limits on people and time. Personally, I almost want to tell the person that already took time off: DH and I already decided on x amount of time for adjusting. We don't know how the baby will be when born. For example eating issues/jaundice and we want to have time to get through that before having people stay over.

It's worse now for us with E's allergy. They think they've gotten it out of their clothes/homes but even going to the park brings allergen back into our house.
 
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Do they get along? If they are that close you could do one big happy family party.

My in-laws are in southern Minnesota so that's harder for us. They've come to birthdays and such though.

I mean, they wouldn't kill each other but the only way that would happen is if we host. And I'd rather just drive down than host. Basically, I'm fine coming down for a day or two and attending what we can. But we probably will have to stop attending the full spectrum of events. Which I feel that's pretty natural as families grow anyway. Trying to do my side, DH's side, our own, plus a parent's side and the other parent's side is just going to be too much. Especially considering that there's no divorced parents involved. Other holidays they seem to keep it to one each which doesn't always work out timing wise but is generally manageable.
 
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We quickly learned that too many people infant Z wouldn't eat. So, even though grandparents and family didn't believe us we had to set limits on people and time. Personally, I almost want to tell the person that already took time off: DH and I already decided on x amount of time for adjusting. We don't know how the baby will be when born. For example eating issues/jaundice and we want to have time to get through that before having people stay over.

It's worse now for us with E's allergy. They think they've gotten it out of their clothes/homes but even going to the park brings allergen back into our house.


that allergy stuff blows my mind every time you guys talk about it. It seems that what you've suggested is likely the route we'll go. We're using this time to bond as a family, we'll call you if we need help/you can come visit on X day at X time type of thing.
 
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Doing a push up workout while reading RT. Figure Ineed to keep in shape to keepin the running for push up queen. CG is currently out of the running, figure I have to keep up with Carvers. And Emily.

I did one push up last week to see if I still could. Decided that was it for the duration. I did them up to when I was in Hawaii, so that was late 2nd tri. That one last week didn't feel good so yeah, you do more than 1 I'm beat now!

Burpees aren't the most fun now either, I take too long getting down and up. And jumps, jumps are not my fave anymore. Especially when I think somebaby's hard noggin is sitting rather uncomfortably.
 
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