Posts by pickle18

Ok, so March is somehow halfway over without us having a new thread - haha.   Hope nobody minds me starting one, better late than never! How is everyone doing?  Anyone still out there? I'm currently waiting to O, but it...

     March 2013    Welcome to the February 2013 charting to avoid and fertility awareness thread. We are all at different stages in family planning and our own fertility. Some of us are very ardently...

Quote: Originally Posted by whatsnextmom    Again, I think it all comes back to who you surround yourself with. When I was in college, I was a natural in science but my boyfriend had published his first of...

Congratulations, micah_mae!!!    I've been on and off again - I think I've been off the wagon a couple days, or one on one off - hard to recall.  I lost a grandparent this week, which has been very hard -  and...

Quote: Originally Posted by JollyGG    With time we've simply become more confident in our own decisions and our own parenting and quite frankly see no need to explain anything to anyone. When we do we explain...

Still here, still rollin' with the one-a-day sun salutations (except yesterday - I was too wiped out) - mostly after the tiny kid is asleep - kind of more like moon salutations haha.  I love that this thread keeps me...

Quote: Originally Posted by nyssaneala    This describes my parents to a T. It drives me nuts, and actually gets worse the older I get! "Our son-in-law the doctor, blah, blah blah"...and "our grand-daughter...

Quote: Originally Posted by nyssaneala  I also find that it is getting more conspicuous as DD gets older (she's 5). For example, we spent the day at the Zoo yesterday, and we had 4 sets of strangers comment on...

Ok, this thread has caught fire, so I'm not sure I can keep up with everyone I wanted to quote, but I'll try.  Quote: Originally Posted by pek64  It's a shame that the insecurities of some parents cause them to say...

Quote: Originally Posted by Katico  I have found it isolating in that "mom talk" doesn't cover what I want to talk about, ykwim?  Not only do I have to worry about sounding like I'm bragging just by mentioning...