Emotional ball of Yarn!

[FiberLover]

That might unravel at any second!

Anyone else?

(The Pedigree commercials during the dog show last night turned me into a weepy mess, the ones where there is a dog in the shelter that needs a home.....gah! *sniff*)

[Sunshine4004]

Originally Posted by FiberLover

(The Pedigree commercials during the dog show last night turned me into a weepy mess, the ones where there is a dog in the shelter that needs a home.....gah! *sniff*)

We have ASPCA commercials around here that can make me cry even when I am not pregnant! Those kinds of commercials are tear jerkers.

[FiberLover]

Originally Posted by Sunshine4004

We have ASPCA commercials around here that can make me cry even when I am not pregnant! Those kinds of commercials are tear jerkers.

I know! And we already have 2 dogs (that came from the shelter), and 5 cats....but it makes me feel guilty!

[LoobyLoo]

I was so convinced the crying would sort itself out once I recovered from hellish 1st tri mood swings, but I'm still very teary (as opposed to simply being cranky as all hell). I even burst into very public tears at work last week, which was hugely embarrassing and now everyone's treating me like an unexploded bomb!

I always mute animal charity commercials or similar. Our doggies already donate regularly to 3 animal charities - they save up all their pocket money and donate it to doggies who don't have families to give them cuddles or to animals that people are mean to (yes, my husband and I are soppier than a wet kleenex) - but I'll still be busy online 30 secs after an animals-in-need commercial in floods of tears donating money that we don't have. So I've learned to hit the mute button just in case it ends up costing me half my monthly salary! Lord knows what I'll be like once I'm a proper mama, too, I'm bad enough just with my fuzzy babies

[sunnymw]

Watched the South Pole episode of House today and I wasn't teary, I was actually crying.

Don't get me started on all the UC videos on youtube, I just SOB.

[yvonnemlv]

i've been crying off and on for the last 5 hours.. yay me.

[Mom2Lex&Cay]

I made the mistake of watching a sappy Hallmark movie a couple Sundays ago, between the movie and the sappy commercials it was all over. DH was just laughing that I was so easy.

I was also in the store reading V-day cards for DH yesterday and nearly burst into tears in an aisle full of people.

I don't remember being so emotional with my first 2!

I'm so bad with the animals, we've been a foster home for almost 6 years now. We also have 4 adopted dogs of our own. That can be an emotional ride in and of itself. It can be hard, but the happy endings make it.

[xixstar]

it's just hit me the past few days -- i've burst into tears so many times and then i have no patience for dd either.

dh has at least been supportive of the "crazy rush of hormones" as he keeps pointing out.

[FiberLover]

Whew.

So, the bawling at the birth show the other day wasn't just me either....

[mhaddon]

I was reading from Birthing from Within to DH and started sobing. He didn't say anything

[JennaW]

I haven't had any crying episodes lately but I did have a laughing one! I was watching America's Funniest Home Videos (which I haven't watched since I was a kid and Bob Sagget was the host!) and I was just laughing my head off. DH said he has never heard me laugh so much since he has known me.

[so_blessed]

I can definitely feel my hormones affecting my emotions this time around.

It's more like my emotions are postpartum, so much unlike any of my other pregnancies. Good thing DH is so understanding!

[kgmack]

If I read or see anything about people helping other people I tear up. It makes me so happy that people can be nice to others. So shows on HGTV like Deserving Design, or Trading Spaces those make me cry all the time. I've seen only one episode of Extreme Home Makeover and lost it completely at the end. I've never watched another one, I can't take it.
Also, everytime I read a birth story in my books. Especially the ones where the dads feel so helpless and are in awe of their wives. I'm tearing up just thinking about it.

[mrs rockstar]

I cried during American Idol last week. American. Idol. And I still can't read anything about Heath Ledger and his baby girl without bawling. I'm a mess.

[LoobyLoo]

Originally Posted by JennaW

I haven't had any crying episodes lately but I did have a laughing one!

I had that in 1st tri - my mood were all over the place (like the worst PMT I'd ever had, only for 3 months) but at least they'd occasionally go on an upswing... the slightest thing would have me laughing so hard I'd be gasping for breath with tears running down my face! It felt wonderful. Of course, 10 minutes later I'd be in floods of hysterical tears over how I'm going to be an awful mother, or raging so hard at Dh I was ready to punch through walls

So once my moods settled down, which was about the same time my m/s and sore bewbs went away, I figured the tears were over but they're the only bit that's carried on! I'm definitely in much more control of my moods than before and have stopped biting everyone's heads off, but the laughter's gone and the weepy fits have remained. NO FAIR!

for all the weeping mamas. You wipe my eyes and I'll wipe yours?

[anonymousk]

Count me in...

I'm trying to blame it on being sick and therefore more vulnerable, but my boss was talking to me about a new project I've been working on and how people were confused about it, needed some time to process, etc etc.... had to wave my hands and plead pregnancy as I ran out of his office. Then I cried in mine for awhile. Then I had some pudding. Then I was better.

It's been a few weeks since I teared up at work (someone snapped at me, others snapped back at him so I know it wasn't my imagination) and I thought I was going to do so great with my new rule about not crying at work... yeah right. Why this doesn't ever happen at home in front of the TV, I wish I knew.

[Ligeia]

I work in a pet store 6 to 7 days a week and there are tons of regulars whom I've gotten to know once a week for years. Anyway, they tell me touching stories about their animals everyday and I can't take it! I get teary eyed all the time and have to start doing something else so I don't all out start crying over some abstract story!

[pazerific]

oh yes! when i was pg with dd, i was worse, but this time around i still cry quite easily. i almost lost it multiple times this past saturday when we took dd to see Sesame Street Live for her 2nd b-day. i think i was just so touched that my parents treated us all (we're BROKE) and just amazed to look at this TWO YEAR OLD who is MY CHILD...i dunno, i'm sure there were a million reasons. i kept blaming my watery eyes on fake yawns i produced every few minutes.

the best part about it all, is that this time around it doesn't phase DH in the slightest. he knows to just give me a hug, hand me a tissue, hold my hand, and then just wait for it to pass.

[SeekingSerenity]

I probably cry at work at least three times a week. I try to blame it on allergies.

Last week I was folding laundry in the living room and DH turned on some crime drama - not "Without a Trace" but something like that. Some little girl goes missing in a mall and they're looking all over for her, etc. etc. Well at the end of the show they found her and she was bound and gagged, no pulse, and they just flopped her down and started doing all that CPR stuff that you can't do in real life (can't shock an asystolic heart, guys) but of course they revived her. She coughed and cried "Mommy!" and everything was rosy and I'm sitting there on the floor like one of the little Charlie Brown characters from the old cartoons - my head thrown back and tears flying off on either side! I was bawling, ladies, absolutely beside myself. The whole time, I am thinking, "Jeez, woman, get a grip!!!" but I completely lost it anyway.

DS came up with a tissue and his doll and said, "It's okay, mama, it's just a TV show!" and gave me both the tissue and the doll. Then I really fell apart.

I swear, the more you have, I think the worse it gets. PLEASE don't get me started on the pregnant stray cat DH has been trying to lure into the house... I can't let him do it, we can't afford a cat and then her kittens, I have to say no, but then - oh, the GUILT!!!

[pazerific]

Originally Posted by SeekingSerenity

DS came up with a tissue and his doll and said, "It's okay, mama, it's just a TV show!" and gave me both the tissue and the doll. Then I really fell apart.

oh man, that's the sort of thing that gets me going even worse. our dd turns 2 on saturday. every time i'm having a crying jag, dd looks at me with a sad face and says "mommy sad" and then comes over and pats my back and tells me, "it's ok mommy." it always makes me cry even more cause it's so sweet!