ireadyermind
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Swimmy - Congrats on maintaining since Thanksgiving! I'm sure I haven't. I'm afraid to step on the scale! lol
Urs - I don't know of any home remedies to force AF to start, sorry! The only one I know of for hormone balance at all is Maca, but I don't think it's for bringing on AF.
Krissie - Oo, yay for early ovulation! I hope this means your system's primed and ready for another BFP!
AFM - Christmas with the in-laws, OMG. It's always a sh*itshow, but this year was particularly bad.
Prepare yourself for a wall of text! lol.
First, DH's sister decided that since no one was going to clean her house for her, she wasn't going to host Christmas there anymore. And she decided this on Dec 23rd. Hubby's family does all of its gift opening stuff on Christmas Eve, then family dinner and stocking gifts on the 25th. So cancelling Christmas at her house on the 23rd had everyone scrambling to make arrangements.
So DH's younger brother steps in and says we can all go to HIS house, only it's a teeny tiny house and barely fit everyone all together there.
His wife, meanwhile, bitched and moaned about everyone being at her house all day long, and nearly had a meltdown when dinner was finished and everyone cleared the table and put their dishes in the sink. She starts washing dishes, and as we're all helping store leftovers and putting more dishes in the sink, she flips out and storms off, leaving everyone else to do dishes while she sat in her bedroom.
So THEN we find out that we were expected to provide some food for Christmas dinner, only no one bothered to TELL us that. DH's mom just called us up and was like, "So you can bring [dish they expected us to provide] to my house to put in the fridge!" and DH was like, "Uh - what?" Thank God I had decided to make a rice/casserole side dish and bring some desserts for Christmas dinner. But when DH told his mom that my side dish was rice, she was like, ".... oh. Well, [Great Aunt] brought rice." DH is like, so? Is it this exact recipe? Is it going to hurt anything to have extra of something? There are 20 people showing up for dinner! So the two of them decide that, no, it's not a big deal. They serve my rice.
Great Aunt goes down the 'buffet line' serving herself a dish when dinner rolls around. She gets to my casserole, glares at it, and shoves the dish across the counter! Then she goes down the line and serves herself her OWN rice without touching any of what I made.
As though I was somehow being rude and/or thoughtless for contributing to the meal! And let me just say, her dish was a tomato based Spanish rice dish, whereas mine was a cheesy, green chile rice dish. It wasn't like we both brought the same thing.
She also refused to touch any of the dessert I made, because SHE brought desserts.
Then she and her husband were getting ready to leave, and they gave EVERYONE hugs goodbye, and well wishes, EXCEPT for DH and me. DH and I didn't even get a sideways glance.
I couldn't believe it! In what universe is this kind of behavior acceptable?
There was a lot more that was just ridiculous, but that was the most shocking one. It was like Great Aunt, who is in her late 60s or early 70s, had suddenly reverted to being 3 years old and throwing temper tantrums. I basically spend every Christmas with DH's family in silence, simmering over every slight they direct at us because even though DH and I have been together for 10 years now, they still treat me like absolute sh*t.
I told DH that for Christmas 2018, when we would generally go to visit with his fam, we can invite his parents to our home instead, and avoid all the drama completely.
Ugh.
Anyway! I hope everyone else had an excellent Christmas!
Urs - I don't know of any home remedies to force AF to start, sorry! The only one I know of for hormone balance at all is Maca, but I don't think it's for bringing on AF.
Krissie - Oo, yay for early ovulation! I hope this means your system's primed and ready for another BFP!
AFM - Christmas with the in-laws, OMG. It's always a sh*itshow, but this year was particularly bad.
Prepare yourself for a wall of text! lol.
First, DH's sister decided that since no one was going to clean her house for her, she wasn't going to host Christmas there anymore. And she decided this on Dec 23rd. Hubby's family does all of its gift opening stuff on Christmas Eve, then family dinner and stocking gifts on the 25th. So cancelling Christmas at her house on the 23rd had everyone scrambling to make arrangements.
So DH's younger brother steps in and says we can all go to HIS house, only it's a teeny tiny house and barely fit everyone all together there.
His wife, meanwhile, bitched and moaned about everyone being at her house all day long, and nearly had a meltdown when dinner was finished and everyone cleared the table and put their dishes in the sink. She starts washing dishes, and as we're all helping store leftovers and putting more dishes in the sink, she flips out and storms off, leaving everyone else to do dishes while she sat in her bedroom.
So THEN we find out that we were expected to provide some food for Christmas dinner, only no one bothered to TELL us that. DH's mom just called us up and was like, "So you can bring [dish they expected us to provide] to my house to put in the fridge!" and DH was like, "Uh - what?" Thank God I had decided to make a rice/casserole side dish and bring some desserts for Christmas dinner. But when DH told his mom that my side dish was rice, she was like, ".... oh. Well, [Great Aunt] brought rice." DH is like, so? Is it this exact recipe? Is it going to hurt anything to have extra of something? There are 20 people showing up for dinner! So the two of them decide that, no, it's not a big deal. They serve my rice.
Great Aunt goes down the 'buffet line' serving herself a dish when dinner rolls around. She gets to my casserole, glares at it, and shoves the dish across the counter! Then she goes down the line and serves herself her OWN rice without touching any of what I made.
As though I was somehow being rude and/or thoughtless for contributing to the meal! And let me just say, her dish was a tomato based Spanish rice dish, whereas mine was a cheesy, green chile rice dish. It wasn't like we both brought the same thing.
She also refused to touch any of the dessert I made, because SHE brought desserts.
Then she and her husband were getting ready to leave, and they gave EVERYONE hugs goodbye, and well wishes, EXCEPT for DH and me. DH and I didn't even get a sideways glance.
I couldn't believe it! In what universe is this kind of behavior acceptable?
There was a lot more that was just ridiculous, but that was the most shocking one. It was like Great Aunt, who is in her late 60s or early 70s, had suddenly reverted to being 3 years old and throwing temper tantrums. I basically spend every Christmas with DH's family in silence, simmering over every slight they direct at us because even though DH and I have been together for 10 years now, they still treat me like absolute sh*t.
I told DH that for Christmas 2018, when we would generally go to visit with his fam, we can invite his parents to our home instead, and avoid all the drama completely.
Ugh.
Anyway! I hope everyone else had an excellent Christmas!
Thanks for your well wishes. We're super hopeful (and impatient)!
