Probably more likely they fat-fingered your number instead of theirs. I'd delete and ignore unless something else suspicious happens. It's worse for them since you now have their personal info (not your fault, though).
I cannot sit comfortably in DH's new car. I feel bad complaining to him about it since his car is his baby. But it forces you into a recline that kills my pregnant back. Anyone else have trouble sitting at a reclined angle while pregnant?
We owned an older house in the Boston area for 4 years before relocating to Seattle. I wouldn't be overly concerned given you have a lot of places to cut, but you'll probably eventually want to add in a "home maintenance" budget line item. A good estimate is 1% of the purchase price annually. We were similarly stretched after buying our first house, then the boiler died 3 months after we moved in, in February. I wish you better luck! We figured it out, but it was no fun for that first year. But...worth it. Congrats!
Ugh, I hate when DH books his travel last minute...which is pretty much every time he travels. He let them book him on a 6am flight which would mean leaving our house at 3am and driving almost 2 hours (ferry doesn't run that early so he has to drive the long way around). He promised me after the last time he did that and nearly fell asleep at the wheel that he'd never do that again. Now I'm the unreasonable one for putting my foot down and telling him he can't do that.
DD has always gone to a center. We had a nanny for DS's first year and DD still went to a center. Now DD and DS are both at the center, but when DD2 is born, we'll get a nanny again, DD1 will switch to part time at the center until Kindergarten, and DS will still go to the center full time. Then after DD2 turns 1, she'll join her brother at the center.
First G then X climbed into my bed right as I was drifting off to sleep tonight and woke me up. They kept shifting/wiggling so I couldn't fall asleep. I tried going to G's bed to sleep but couldn't get comfortable. Then went to rant to DH who was still up playing computer games at 2am. He moved them back to their room, but I've been tossing and turning since. Good thing it's Friday.
ashleydl83, you're beautiful, scar or not! My dad had neck surgery about a year ago that initially left a big ugly scar right on the front of his throat. He joked at first they tried to cut his head off, but he's too tough for them. A year out, it's much much smaller and much harder to see. I hope yours does the same!
I always do our calendar around November so it's good to go for the following year, but I always use pictures from the year before. So this years calendar only has pictures from 2015, and I try to have the picture I use for each month to follow the timeline from the year before. So since C wasn't born until March, I just had B by himself for Jan and Feb and then dedicated March to C's newborn pictures and the rest of the year had them together.
BUT since baby (did you pick a name btw?), isn't showing up until Oct, it might be a little weird to only have her in 3 months at the end. My kids were both born in the 1st quarter, so I didn't think it was a huge deal.
If I were you, I'd wait and have one ready to go in January and include at least some of her in it. But I don't think she'll mind either way .
No name yet. I like your plan for spring babies, but yeah, not for late fall. January would give me enough time to snap a bunch of newborn/Thanksgiving/Christmas pictures, though, so that should work.
I have a wall calendar with pictures of the kids hanging in the kitchen and I love it. September is the last month. I really want a new calendar, but if I make one now I won't have any pics of our new baby in it. That seems weird that she'll be 10 months old before appearing in the family calendar, right? But...then when DO I make the next calendar? If I make it in November I'll be using only newborn pictures for her entire first year. But the longer I wait, the longer I have to go without a kitchen calendar. I know it's a little silly, but I'm obsessing over here.
At least it's entertaining and you weren't in bed yet?
According to my dad I once peed on my kitchen chair as a kid in my sleep. Luckily it was wood, not fabric. I walked downstairs instead of across the hall to the bathroom. He heard me and saw me get up, pull up my pants, fumble around for the handle to flush, then return to bed. No recollection the next morning.
My parents bought me a used 10-year-old Toyota when I got my license which lasted until I overheated it 5 years later. I then got handed down my mom's 12-year-old Toyota until I graduated from college, then that car went to my brother for a few more years. After college graduation, I was told to get my own car/insurance (I had a job lined up, so this was a reasonable expectation). I'm still not sure if the overheating incident with my first car was directly my fault or just bad luck, but another vote here for used Toyota/Honda/Subaru.
I had this problem then I read the book Life changing magic of tidying by Marie Kondo. It talks about having stuff that is joy sparking. I got rid of half of my wardrobe by doing this. I could probably get rid of more now that I'm looking at less clothes. I also got rid of my clothes that I had to wear with khakis. I know if I have the choice between black pants or khakis I'm picking black. So what was the point of keeping shirts that only went with khakis.
I did this too and it helped immensely. Apart from pregnancies, I've been the same size for 18 years and was still hanging on to some things that weren't worn out but weren't stylish when my mom bought them for me back in 2000. I actually got rid of about 2/3 of the clothes that I had been hanging on to.
I also used to buy random stuff from clearance racks that didn't fit well/didn't last. But now I do basically what @lauralynne suggests and highly recommend it. I don't go shopping myself, practically ever (having young kids helps with this). Instead, I've done 4 major trips 6-9 months apart with a Nordstrom personal stylist. Over 2 years, I've now gone once per season and have a modest number of pieces that work together and that I love. He works with my budget (basically half my yearly clothing budget since I'm only going twice per year). I definitely end up spending more per piece that I would on my own, but I end up with things that look great on me and have been much higher quality.
The only downside I can see is if your DH comes home wrecked from a weekend of partying, expecting to sleep it off at home, you might want to kill him then. But your parents sound awesome so I think you'd be perfectly fine with the trip itself.
My DH went on a work trip when DS was 2 months old and I was so pissed he didn't come home well rested bc I was in the midst of sleep deprivation hell. He came home telling me about how he was working really late, blah blah blah. But...I had crappy help. My ILs were only willing to help me from 9am to 7pm so I figured out double bedtime and double night wakeups on my own. You should be in loads better shape I hope.
B can be persuaded into whatever I want this year still, sooo I'm thinking either batman and robin OR B a fire truck and C a Dalmatian. What do you guys think?
Love the fire truck and dalmation idea! One of G's daycare buddies went as a firetruck last year and it was adorable. They decorated a box then attached a pair of suspenders so he could wear it. It even had a red flashing (bicycle) light on top.