On another note, I must say I can get really stubborn and mean when it comes to the topic of the nursery or names. I had lunch with my family the other day and my grandmother asked if we had been working on the nursery. I first popped off with a tad rude reply of "well, I'm waiting to have the shower first." I believe at that point I was pissed that I was out of chips for my salsa and had no refil of my beverage. Oh yes and I was starving. I said something nice right after that to make it better. Then, she asked what theme or decor we were going to use. Right then my mother had started talking to me so Eric began to answer her with "we aren't quite sure, but probably a very light sage green, or blue gray and brown or black or white furniture..." Before he could finish she started shaking her head and getting that finger out and began to lecture about how if we want this baby to be smart then we MUST surround him with stimulating colors. I immediately jumped in when I caught the finger pointing out of my peripheral vision and said "I don't care WHAT THEY say, my baby will be smart no matter what and I'm not making a tacky nursery with all those bold primary colors and tacky bedding!" Then my mom jumped in with what she thought I should do...at this point, I just shut off every and all emotion other than top grade bitch. I cannot stand it for someone to ask what you are going to do with something and then interrupt you to tell you that you are a) doing it wrong, or b) that you should do it another way b/c it's the "right" way. ARRRGGH!!!! Eric pulled me over and told me to back off and be nice even though he agreed that I had a right to get angry. I'm glad he does that b/c I would never know. I can get pretty vicious. I know, shocker right. Well, since I popped off like that the conversation moved to another subject and I never really got to talk about what I wanted to say. So then that made me mad. I tried to engage in pleasant conversation for the rest of the lunch and I left on a good note. But for the rest of the day I felt upset that I reacted that way, and also upset about people trying to tell me how to do things. I am ALL ABOUT taking advice from people, especially my elders but give me a friggin' break people. I called my mother afterwards and explained why I got upset and she completely understood. Mom and I are going to look at furniture hopefully this week/weekend.
If anyone wants to suggest a good place to go look or buy, I'm all ears!!
You lucky readers of my blog can see a couple of bare belly shots, I decided to not put those on facebook b/c of weirdos and noseys.
This picture just makes me laugh. I was trying to show how heavy my belly is starting to feel.
I like the last one. It's funny
ReplyDeleteI would have lost it at lunch, too. It's hard to find a nice way to say, "Thanks, but NO!" when people tell you stuff that you disagree with. I think you're right about the nursery - he's supposed to sleep in there, not have playtime in there. So calming colors are better. But he'll be smart no matter what:)
I agree with Courtney... neutral is better for the nursery -- not overwhelming bright colors. You look great in your pictures - I plan on doing many more belly shots my next go around:)
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