+ I really, really hate the acronym "AF." If you don't know what it means, it means "as f***" and it's stupid. It also doesn't even make sense. "Married AF." "Tired AF." "Hungry AF." That means nothing.
+ I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but why do people give so many hand me downs as baby gifts? Don't get me wrong, I've gotten some hand me downs that were extremely thoughtful and actually really useful. But we have had three separate sets of people now randomly go to either the thrift store or garage sales to buy us bags full of used baby clothes. And they look used. And they're not our style at ALL. Again, I don't want to sound like a total B and like I'm ungrateful for the things people get us, but we're set with plenty of clothes. We don't need grocery bags full of used baby clothes that we're just going to turn around and re-donate. I'd rather our family and friends say, "Hey, I would imagine Imogen is growing out of her newborn clothes at this point, is there anything you need?" The moral of the story is, if you know someone having a baby...JUST ASK. Don't waste your money. Ask.
+ Fall is not my favorite season. Summer is. Cue the collective gasps. It's just that it's cool/chilly here so much of the year that I basically live for any day over 60 degrees.
+ I don't like Halloween. We don't celebrate it and probably never will.
+ Imogen is 4 months old (tomorrow) and I'm still mostly wearing my maternity jeans. My non-maternity jeans kinda fit, but they're a little too snug around my hips, which have not yet gone back down to normal. "Muffin top" is only good when it's referring to food. My goal is to be out of maternity jeans full time by Thanksgiving.
+ I always thought that babies aren't supposed to start solid foods until they're six months old, but apparently you can start as early as four months? I never knew this until recently, and now when I look at Imogen and think we could start giving her purees/cereal any day now, I get really sad and think we might wait until six months just because I am not ready for her to be so grown up.
+ Usually I am instantly in the Christmas spirit once November 1st hits, but we're going to be traveling this year and I suddenly have no desire to decorate our house when we won't even be here. My husband vehemently disagrees with my opinion so we'll probably still decorate. I don't mind decorating. I just hate taking it all down again.
Tell me some of your confessions. I know I'm not alone.
I hate the AF thing too. James and I say it a lot to joke around because it’s so dumb.
ReplyDeleteWith all the madness going on right now I can’t even THINK about Christmas. This is so weird for me. And I have no idea if we’ll even be able to decorate this year.
I really hate AF because I HATE the F word and I just don’t see why we need to say it so casually with everything. Basically J’s entire wardrobe is used clothes we got from friends, and I’m okay with it. I’m really not terribly picky about clothes, although obviously I do have preferences. But giving someone giant bags is weird unless you ask first if they are interested! Which I was ;)
ReplyDeleteI hate AF too!!! it's just such a ridiculous statement. I don't get it.
ReplyDeleteI don't, either! It seems like a really juvenile thing to say, too, but I mostly see adults using it!
DeleteHand-me-downs are awesome when they're actually hand-me-downs that someone no longer had use for and you need it...a large percentage of the furniture in our house is handed-down...but it's a little odd to go out and buy used things to give to people who didn't ask you to be on the lookout for something.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty staunchly anti-vulgarity in language...the English language is just a whole lot better than that.
I'm definitely with you on Halloween and I'm glad it's over so we can move on to better holidays. Not that anyone even celebrates Halloween but it's been all over social media obviously so I'm glad that'll be over with now.
Do people actually say AF or do they just type it? I feel like it'd sound dumb.
ReplyDeleteI'm likely going to decorate but won't put a tree up. Especially if we won't be here. It's exhausting to think about because our tree is huge.
In your case, Imogen won't remember it anyway.
I am so over halloween. We dressed up for our event at church because it was a ministry thing but goodbye, least favorite holiday.
ReplyDeleteI love decorating for Christmas but hate the taking down which is why it's always still up in the middle of January. We've only stayed home for one Christmas in our entire marriage so if I didn't decorate because of travel our house would be so sad every single year. We've skipped getting a real tree once or twice but we always set up at least a fake tree. I couldn't celebrate Christmas without a tree!
I'm clearly in the minority because I think AF is funny. I got my friend a wooden sign that said "Married AF" on it on one side and "Mr. + Mrs." on the other.
ReplyDeleteYou can start your baby on solids at 4 months, but I'm in the milk/formula only before 6 months. Solids are a PAIN and Molly's had nothing but issues with her regularity since we started.
I'm cool with hand-me-downs and gently used stuff, but 100% agree that asking first would make life so much easier. I feel bad that people have given us so much stuff that Jackson either has already grown out of, or will not fit into when it comes to the weather it was designed for.
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