My bad, I meant infant 2 when I asked about your toddler room age. If the youngest there is 11-12 months that doesn't sound too bad to me, but understand it's annoying to have more transitions than necessary/anticipated. Hopefully either way they figure it out soon so you're not in limbo!
I would just go with it. It'll be crowded but people will deal with it, especially if it's all adults. Set up your kitchen counter like a buffet line and have people grab food, add a few folding chairs or outdoor chairs inside to add seating, and roll with it. I agree with PPs that if people aren't into it they will duck out early.
I think it would be fine to change it to an open house, keeping your original time frame, and letting people know what time cake will be served. Like, open house 4-8, cake will be served at 5. That way some people will come at 4, leave after cake. Others will arrive closer to 5, leave whenever.
I have a boring day today, I'm on a photo set for work but all my tailoring work was finished yesterday. So I have nothing to do but sit around and hang out. I don't think I can be dismissed because I need to be here if anything comes up, but I hope the day goes fast and I don't have to drive home during rush hour. Unlikely, though.
my friend delivered at a baby friendly hospital last weekend and they DON'T HAVE LCS COME IN ON THE WEEKEND. WTAF? So they stayed an extra night so they could see an LC once or twice before discharge. Sure the nurses are trained to help, but dude, if you are going to put breastfeeding on a pedestal and make all your policies all about it, then have a freaking LC available every day of the week.
This was my experience. DD was born at noon on a Saturday, by the time we were in the recovery room, the LC was gone and not there on Sundays. I got to see one for a short visit on the day of our discharge, but only because I kept asking for one to come.
Some of my nurses were great, even took DD out of the room for a couple hours the second night for us, but others weren't as helpful. The biggest one that still annoys me is that I had wanted to delay DD's first bath after being born, until after we did skin to skin and first nursing. Somehow she didn't get a bath until day 2, and I had to ask the nurse if she could give her a bath, and ask if I could take a shower myself, I want sure since my IV line was still on my arm, not connected. I couldn't believe no one offered for either of us. I was tired and overwhelmed, and we had visitors for much of the first day. The nurse told me she didn't want to interrupt my visits. I guess?
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Even though I agree it's too early I'd rather transition now vs. at 18 months.
My center starts the toddlers at 15 months, and I had hoped (and expressed interest in) having DD start in that room at 13.5 months when we begin going to daycare, vs. having her start in the older infant room and transitioning after 2.5 months. But they told me that licensing wouldnt allow her to start early in that room, so we would have to start in the older infant room. I wanted to even more after visiting the daycare with DD and seeing that the room was really 5-15 months rather than the 8/9 months being the youngest. I feel a little weird about having her be the oldest and only walker. Although they told me that 2 other 13 month olds would be starting around the same time and I am hopeful about that.
Would your DD be the only one her age if you transition now? How far apart would she be from the current youngest in the toddler room?
I'm actually blown away by these low numbers. I pay for cloud storage to back me up, and practically never delete photos.
Do you guys take way less photos than I do, or do you routinely clear out your roll?
I also have the largest storage capacity iPhone. Whatever that is.
My phone asks me if I want to delete backed up photos when I near the storage limit. So I have like 20,000+ photos on Google photos, but (right now) only 778 on my phone. Although I have access to them from my phone easily, I didn't count it for this since technically it's not "on" my phone.
I have a babysitter coming over for 4 hours this morning. I fully intended to spend the morning at a park by a lake, just relaxing. So of course it's now supposed to rain heavily. What should I do instead?
I'd probably hang out at a coffee shop or bookstore with a coffee and a book.
I'm on a work trip and have to say, it's so nice to only be pumping twice a day and not having to lug my pump and cooler around all day!
I wish I were getting more sleep as a result of being alone in a hotel but don't really feel more rested. But I did treat myself to a Mani/Pedi yesterday.
I admit am jealous of people who have more disposable income for taking big vacations, and living in nicer homes. I think our income is actually pretty good, but we spend more than we should on things like clothes and eating out, where we could be saving more. Working in fashion I do feel some pressure to keep up with things, although I have gotten more lax since working from home, having a baby. I think the major thing that bugs me more than any of the specific things I'm "missing", is that I'm sour about paying student loans and wishing that money could be going towards something else, vacation fund, retirement, etc.
DH and I do see both sides within our friends and family of people who have much more or much less than us, so even while wishing for more, we do know we are well off in most regards and lucky to have such a good situation.
Co-sleeping, BFing beyond 6 months, BFing beyond a year
TBH though I wasn't against any of these things just didn't think I would. In general I don't have any major "will do this/won't do this" expectations.