Thing you realise after the kids are born...

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Like that DH says scone to rhyme with gone not bone and now our child will grow up conflicted.

Yours?

Being a parent is hard.

Some people will be amazing kind, some will be surprisingly shit. It will never be the way round you expected...

Buying a new wardrobe for a tiny person every 3 months sounds fun but it’s tiresome

Zip up sleepsuits are the future.

I am Scottish. I say tortoys. DH is from London and he says tortis. We just stuck to turtle buttie years but as DD is being brought up in London I think I lost.

And it is scone like gone

twitter.com/bigmonsterlove/status/1040653117006798849?s=19

Map of pronunciation of scone from Cambridge regional dialect mapping project. Other interesting facts from the reports of the project are that most people in England used to say Backend instead of Autumn. Happy backend to you all.

I say neither like "ny-ther" but partner says "nee-ther".

I am from London and say tortus. DH is from north of Watford and says tortoys. Drives me even madder than the scone thing, which he also gets wrong 😬

I realised that keeping your finances seperate like urbane sophisticates is all very well when you’re childless, but means I’m paying for all the baby stuff. ‘Cocktails are on me’ trips off the tongue far more easily than, say, ‘Let me do 8 hours research on cots, then order it on my card’ it seems.

Eight hours of research on cots? We did months then I gave up and bought one myself which he decided to build in the lounge I didn't think it was worth the argument so I let him work it out himself he should have built it in the fucking nursery

I learnt to let shit go but I forget nothing!

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Ni ther
S cone as in cone with an s is my new argument to bloody DH and his sgones

I'd never realised how dangerously fast people drove, until the day I hobbled out of the maternity ward with DS in his little seat.
As it happens we now regularly attend orthodontic appointments in the same building and I've yet to see a true maniac in the car park, so can only conclude it must have been the hormones

Mothercare are bastards for clothes that entice me in even though DD has a huge wardrobe at only 7 months. DH capitulated on the snoopy pinafore dress I've been awwing over for ages but tried to willpower it out. Then as we were leaving, I see their winter range with not one, but TWO dresses with robins on.

I fucking LOVE robins. Bastards.

And it's rhymes with gone here.

Scone/gone and jam then cream definitely.

Now he does beavers, he goes to things without us and that includes sleepovers! It is AMAZING going out without organising a babysitter (only child)