Not Mamas... Yet Tribe, Part XVII (Winter 08/09) - Page 11

[CAndMe]

Originally Posted by texmati

oooh... me too if ya'll don't mind. I know I haven't been posting much lately, but I have been lurking!

: Congratulations!!!!!!!

You are both officially on the preg list!

[jaclyn7]

Congratulations to the new Mamas to be.

What another cold week here, how is it like in your part of the world? I've been staying in doors far too much and I'm so tired of January, I'm ready to make a big deal of Valentines and enjoy some pretty red & pink decorations. I've also booked some tanning appointments as I feel a touch of SAD...

How about you, what are you doing? It is so quiet here.

[jaclyn7]

BTW, I read the Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent last week - it was absolutely wonderful, a definite must read for Mamas and Mamas to be. She has a very gentle way with words and the birth storys provided a wonderful narrative to the midwifery experience of the 1980s.

I'm so happy to live in BC where midwives are covered by my provincial health care plan and I'm looking forward to our future homebirths even more.

[Betnybaby]

Hi. Just wanted to join in. I've been lurking for a while but haven't posted much. I've been married for 3 years and I'm 23 and it's so nice to find other people who aren't actually having babies yet but can't wait and are doing the research. We are looking at TTC maybe 2010 but depends on financial stuff. So nice to meet you all. BTW I live in New Zealand and it's lovely and warm here as we are in the middle of summer. It's 8.30pm and I'm still in shorts and a t-shirt.

[knittinanny]

: Congrats to our mamas to be! It's been a while since I've been here. I've been traveling with DP for our anniversary : planning our garden, and doing lots of TTC research. I have an 'open day' appointment with London Women's Clinic this Saturday.

Welcome, Betnybaby! New Zealand sounds nice this time of year! Here I am trying to appreciate the sunny 8 degree Celsius weather...:

[oiseau]

It's been freezing here...I'm near Boston. We have a ton of snow on the ground. I'm really good at bundling up and wearing lots of layers though, so I'm coping ok. I was babysitting last week and the little girl I watch wanted to play in their guest bedroom while the cleaning people were cleaning the rest of the house. The heat stays off in that room when it's not in use, so it was 7C. After awhile, we just got under the covers on the bed and hid until the freshly mopped floor dried enough for us to sneak back downstairs!

In other news, my good friend had her baby on Friday.: A very cute little girl named Ellie. I'm excited for her, but sad I don't live closer so I can be more helpful (bringing over food and whatnot). I'll get to visit in March, so that's something to look forward to.
I'm also feeling the ache for a baby of my own a little worse now too. I actually physically feel empty, like a part of me is missing. I am officially quitting school at the end of this semester and I secretly hope I can get things together to make TTC happen earlier than 3-4 years from now.

[ladyinred]

Betnybaby - Welcome! I have a cousin who lives in New Zealand. I'm jealous of your weather. It was -31C this morning here, now it's -19 with a windchill of -29. I'm frozen from walking downtown.

Teximati - Congratulations! That's wonderful news!

I have some great news that I'm finally allowed to share, I'm going to be an aunt in August My brother and his wife had been trying for a while and I just KNOW they're going to be wonderful parents. I bought them a sling for Christmas and they're very excited about it. I'm not sure how AP they will be but they have a few friends who are so I think they will be at least somewhat

I got to go visit with my parents and friends and their babies this weekend and talked a lot about babies and pregnancy. I hope I don't have to wait very much longer. We've finally set a wedding date, the long weekend in May, 2010 but I didn't get the job I just had an interview for so I'm still waiting for that magical job that will give me mat leave (as well as the joy of having my own classroom and security etc.)

[Kyamo]

Originally Posted by knittinanny

Here I am trying to appreciate the sunny 8 degree Celsius weather...:

I WISH it was 8C and sunny, lol. Today was a high of -7C and sunny, but we have had several days with highs less than -15C recently.

Originally Posted by ladyinred

but I didn't get the job I just had an interview for so I'm still waiting for that magical job that will give me mat leave

Sorry you didn't get the job. I am not so worried about mat leave from the employers perspective in the sense of getting my job back after, because I think I'll stay home with baby for a few years at least, but what bites my butt is that my tutoring job considers us "self-employed contractors" rather than employees. Which means they don't deduct EI from our pay, which means those hours don't count towards the number of hours you have to work in the year preceding a mat leave in order to get the EI mat leave payments. I don't work enough hours at Shoppers to qualify, but if the tutoring place counted too, then I would!! Bleuuurgh.

[Jenne]

Congrats to JessicaRenee and Texmati! Yay! I've had 5 - tests but no period. I think maybe I need to up my Vitex dose...but since we don't want to concieve between now and April (don't want a Nov-Jan baby! Unless God has other plans for us which we would be open to...but we are trying the family "planning" thing. ) so then I think maybe I should just taper off the Vitex and wait to start again in April.

We have our last meeting for our new house on Saturday. Very exciting. I can't wait to be able to walk normal and not heel-toe although we can now exit the bed on 1 side and sit on the couch...

I received my Nourishing Traditions book today. Good stuff. Any of you practicing NTers?

My BFF and I are taking a quilting class on Thursdays. I'm excited we start this week. I got some gorgeous fabrics from the Moda 1974 line for it.

Hope y'all are warm and happy, fat and sassy!
Jenne

[ladyinred]

Originally Posted by Jenne

We have our last meeting for our new house on Saturday. Very exciting. I can't wait to be able to walk normal and not heel-toe although we can now exit the bed on 1 side and sit on the couch...

Congratulations on the new house, but why do you walk heel-toe in your current place? Do you mean like one foot directly infront of the other because it's small?

It's really quiet in here, how come?

It's snowy and cold here but we're meant to have some warmer weather and rain next week.

[CAndMe]

I agree, it has been quiet. It's pretty gross out in Central PA right now. We just got a storm yesterday and are expecting another tomorrow. I can't wait to not have to wear clothes. :

So Valentines day? Do you to it? What are your plans?

[w8ing4myDD]

hmm, Valentines Day. Never was a big fan, until I met the DH! Now I have a "date and a card" rule. Unfortunately it takes much reminding, which can take some of the fun out of it! This year I already brought up the question of where we should go on our "date" (it's always just dinner out--I know, wild and crazy!), so maybe he'll take the initiative.....one can always hope!

lisa

[zejh]

Heh, Valentine's Day for me was a time to show off my arts and crafts skills and stay up late the night before making a handmade valentine for every one of the 30 kids in my class... Aside from that, I've never taken it too seriously as a date night type of thing. In fact, I just now realized that neither my mom or I thought twice about her visiting that weekend this year... my parents are happily married, but they also have their wedding anniversary in late January. Of course, my mom will happily give me and dh an evening to ourselves anytime she visits, so if we really want to do something, it won't be a problem. The one thing I look forward to about Valentine's Day is that it means there will be a few months without quite so many diamond commercials on TV (at least until it's almost time for Mother's Day, of course...)

As far as the weather goes, it's been dipping below 20 here most nights, and doesn't get enough above freezing most days to melt anything, and was getting close to 0 a few weeks ago, which isn't as cold as some places I've been... (Celsius is all well and good for science experiments, but for weather, I'll take a scale where 0 and 100 are the approximate extremes of temperature through the year...)

[jimblejamble]

I was never a fan of Valentine's day either but Chris has been planning something since December, so this oughta be exciting! Aww, my first non-single Valentine's Day! *puke*

[Sage.Naissance]

My valentines: My friends' band (including the guy I am seeing) are playing a concert that night so I get to watch my boy play drums, drink cheap beer, and then make out in public. Yeah!

[oiseau]

My valetines: This year Valentine's falls the same weekend as President's day and I have a 3 day weekend. I have decided to take the weekend to drive to MD to meet my friend's new baby. Hopefully Josh will be joining me (he keeps forgetting to ask if he has President's Day off). We probably won't do anything fancy....or we might see if my friend and her husband want to double date and take baby Ellie out for her her first Valentine's. I'll of course offer to babysit and let them have a dinner date to themselves, but I'm highly doubting they'd want to leave Ellie yet (she'll be 3 weeks). I wouldn't leave a baby that tiny, but if they want some alone time, I understand that too.
In any case, our dating anniversary is March 3, so we tend to skip Valentine's and just celebrate March 3.....3 years this year!!:

[ladyinred]

Congrats Oiseau on three years My df and I are coming up on three years as well in April.

Sage your valentine's day plan sounds awesome.

We don't have any plans yet. I asked Df and he suggested we celebrate it a week later like we did last year, which would be fine, except I have a four day weekend that weekend because there are two inservice days leading up to it and I'll be going stir crazy speding that much time in the house and I'll want to do something fun. Plus it's February and that in and of itself makes me go a little stir crazy. We keep getting more and more snow here. Had another storm day on Thursday. I drove friends home in the snow and the roads were so terrible. I don't know what is wrong with this city this year that they can't keep the roads clean. You'd think they'd forgotten we're in a really snowy part of Canada and always get this much snow.

I got turned down for a day care substitute job this week. I felt the interview went really well and I was very excited about the daycare, seems like a really great place. I think they turned me down because they'd have to pay me too much because of my degree. It's a bummer. Plus I went in for my debrief from my last teaching job interview and what she said was all really great for the most part and it seems like I should be able to get a job soon, but being a "top player" and having her tell me to apply for everything because she thinks I'll be a great teacher is all well and good, but it doesn't pay the bills. Meanwhile Df wants to quit his job more than ever but we don't want to lose the house. It's so frustrating.

[jaclyn7]

DH & I were never really into Valentine's because we celebrate our love every day in some way and we've found that in our circle the couples that make the biggest deal out of it are the ones with the shakiest relationships. I would gladly give up flowers, cards, and a little chocolate on February 14 to have what we have. Also, I love that any gift, token of affection, or sweet surprise is done on his own.

However, I think this year we're going to try and do something on the Friday night since DH works the Saturday. I cannot believe that it's our 6th Valentine's Day - crazy, the time has flown by. So much fun : and in June it's our 5th wedding anniversary and I'm so excited. Whoot whoot!

[Kyamo]

We don't care too much about Valentines day. Part of the reason is that our birthdays are the 8th and the 10th of Feb, so it sort of gets mushed together. We sometimes make each other cards and/or go out to eat.

My parents are on holiday in Florida right now, and its pretty discouraging having emails every day about how its 20C or somesuch.

Originally Posted by zejh

(Celsius is all well and good for science experiments, but for weather, I'll take a scale where 0 and 100 are the approximate extremes of temperature through the year...)

Nah, Kelvin is for science experiments, Celsius for the weather!

[knittinanny]

We don't do valentine's either. It seems to both of us like a good way for shops to try to get people to buy stuff despite post-holiday belt-tightening.

Jenne - I'm (mostly) a TF'er. I read all of Nourishing Traditions but have never made any of the recipes. I like Full Moon Feast much better (though NT has a lot of good info).

I had an open day session at the London Women's Clinic yesterday to learn about egg sharing. I'm not sure about it still - there are so many options at this point, all of which are really, really expensive. : But I scheduled my initial appointment where they do scans and bloodwork (where's a fainting icon when you need one?) and I might start making *real* appointments after that! I've started to take prenatals and extra B and vitex and I'm drinking my body weight in raspberry leaf and nettle tea (ok, not really, but almost). It's weird that I'm getting to close to trying. It's exciting, but sort of strange.