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Bus🚌24 Dec TTC Itchy nips poking thru homemade wreaths, Peeing on 🎄crafting sticks, Touch me up 🎅🏻baby with your festive 🍆cos all we want for 🎄is a BFP!!

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Minster2012 · 01/12/2020 10:17

Welcome to the longest running funniest bus ride in history! Or so we like to think anyway...

We talk sex, tv, work, more sex, food, slimming, RHR, charts, spicing things up or down, crafting (a more recent addition for 🎄🎅🏻) and help each other out in any way possible. Oh and yeah Trying to make babies gets mentioned a bit too but more often than not our bodies just do what they want!

When I say a few of us have been around the TTC block I don’t mean 🍆I mean as a MN group, not just a bus, a mini sanctuary since March for some of through the highs and lows of making babies through 2020 ❤️🥰

How we roll on this bus...
⁃ No judgement & each to their own on your TTC journey
⁃ Sense of humour DEFINITELY required
⁃ A few of us like a sex toy a few don’t, there may be sex toys discussed! 🤪a few of our fellas have enjoyed this aspect
⁃ Support each other, ranting is allowed, saying you are down is encouraged & celebrating our happy days too 😘
⁃ We have fun
⁃ If you have a pet, it’s welcome aboard
⁃ Now mandatory picture of your 🎄tree when up or Xmas decorations / Xmas jumper or similar
⁃ Ditto Wreath - extra points awarded if wreath is homemade 🥰
⁃ NOTHING IS TOO MUCH INFORMATION

@Vil10 currently holds the 👑for filthiest/most embarrassing story, can you beat her??? Though @lucyrp recently spewed sambucca over her fingers so maybe that’s debatable

Story so far...

June 24 BFPs
July 11 BFPs
August 18 BFPs
Sep 4 BFPs
Oct 7 BFPs
Nov 7 BFPs

2 BFPs in Dec already and it’s the 1st 🥳

How many more 🤔

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Minster2012 · 01/12/2020 14:52

@Florence13 yeah maybe but you could call and see? Sending lots and lots of hugs and squeezes, how much bleeding is it? 🤞🏻😘

@Joanna1009 bloody hell that's it then. Do we need to put that to the top of the list? BOOM Google's local tarot reader

@AHobbyaweek you & @Juno231 are gonna lose me my job as a bus driver. 😳🤬someone send me a slapped wrist. Or do I get a ironic star?

So I realised this morning when I went to put on DS's snowsuit that DH in his 1.5 days in charge of 2 dogs and child that he managed to leave snowsuit at a local common near us when he took them out. Seriously? This is where us women are like "the fairies have packed DC's bag I guess as they sit at the door going why aren't you ready?" He managed to go out with stuff (except he didn't take all he needed) and certainly didn't come back with it all. FFS. It was found and hung on a tree. Don't know if it's still there I've found on local Facebook page he's off to look later. FFS. How can women do this sleep deprived & men can't function on 8 hours sleep??

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HopeMumsnet · 01/12/2020 15:16

Cheers, gang! We have edited it now. Hope you all get what you want for Christmas!

lucyrp · 01/12/2020 15:50

Lol people need to get a life 🤣

Minster2012 · 01/12/2020 15:56

On the crafting...after getting my first official complaint I might get into cross-stitch what do we think ladies??

Bus🚌24 Dec TTC Itchy nips poking thru homemade wreaths, Peeing on 🎄crafting sticks, Touch me up 🎅🏻baby with your festive 🍆cos all we want for 🎄is a BFP!!
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Juno231 · 01/12/2020 15:59

@Minster2012 AHHAHAHAHAHA I'M DYING - I can't believe the title got reported 🤣🤣🤣 hahaha well this way I can browse it at work without triggering tooooo many alerts but please don't think it was me reporting it 😂

Juno231 · 01/12/2020 15:59

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

KateColx · 01/12/2020 16:07

😂😂😂😂😂 if there was ever going to be a thread that gets reported, it would be this one! Good job they don't read the content 😅

Just checking in as one of the lurking weirdos 🙋🏼‍♀️

LunaorJack95 · 01/12/2020 16:12

@InkyPaper @2020mission @SarahTTC2020 @Kirky658 thank you chickas!! ♥️

@Kirky658 it confuses me too! I was sure I was out this month as I got major OV pains and was not able to have sex at the time (maybe around 3/4 days before but I know sperm can live up to 5 days etc) but still managed to get a BFP this month; it's a positive sign!! ✨

LunaorJack95 · 01/12/2020 16:20

I know it's been mentioned before but we started using conceive plus religiously this month and I can't help but think this made a difference so would recommend if you aren't already using! Also I noticed his errrr jizz ( no nice way to say this 🤣 ) a lot more of it stayed up there when using the lube so there must be a correlation! 😎

Florence13 · 01/12/2020 16:25

Haha cannot believe the title got reported that has made my day 😂 cannot believe people have nothing better to do!

@Minster2012 there is barely a smear on my pad but every time I wipe its red sorry for the TMI

Gem176 · 01/12/2020 16:43

Thanks driver @Minster2012

App 1 is predicting ov today and app 2 is predicting tomorrow.... no sign of any ewcm (mainly because I'm sure it's all pouring out of my fucking nose 🤧) I'm a whiny bitch when I have a cold! I'd rather be actually sick sick than coughy, stuffy, snotty and sneezy! Although I'm sporting a very festive Rudolph look 🔴

If either app is right then I'm definitely out this month as both me and oh are full of the cold, not actually managing to sleep and generally not feeling at all frisky! All while little Typhoid Mary herself has bounced right back and is full of the joys while pondering what elfie will get up to tonight.... fml 🤦🏻‍♀️ 😂

Gem176 · 01/12/2020 16:47

Oh and who grassed us up for the title?! Some people really have too much time on their hands 😂

Minster2012 · 01/12/2020 16:58

It was def gonna be us that got reported, well one of the first comments on here was something related to that wasn't it 🙄🤨I'm definitely on the naughty list & LOVE IT 💃🏼😹🚌🚌

@Florence13 so it's still spotting then right, not enough for a pad? Never TMI lovely remember, I so hope it stops for you 🤞🏻

@KateColx love as always, we love our dirty preggers lurkers, we hope to make many more, ps my darling if you feel comfortable can you pm me your address?

@LunaorJack95 jesus if I think there's anything we've all learnt it's that this whole journey is a head fuck but hey! So far you are winning so stick with it!!

@Gem176 I'm with you!! I'm so (good) bad at being ill. And sooooo friggin glad I didn't do the elf thing. Didn't you get it to "elf-isolate" for 14 days like lots have in a jar with a mask on?? Brilliant!

@Hopeful110 lots of days covered there right?? From my total shit eye for a chart!

Bus🚌24 Dec TTC Itchy nips poking thru homemade wreaths, Peeing on 🎄crafting sticks, Touch me up 🎅🏻baby with your festive 🍆cos all we want for 🎄is a BFP!!
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LaceyMermaid · 01/12/2020 17:18

Wow didn’t even occur to me to think what else that phrase meant but baby cats! Don’t think we’re the weirdos if that’s where your mind goes when you read it! Jumping aboard thanks @Minster2012

Minster2012 · 01/12/2020 17:26

I know @LaceyMermaid no accounting for some weirdos! This is what I (obviously) thought when I read it at about 10pm last night. Knowing you lot! Yep. Def.

Bus🚌24 Dec TTC Itchy nips poking thru homemade wreaths, Peeing on 🎄crafting sticks, Touch me up 🎅🏻baby with your festive 🍆cos all we want for 🎄is a BFP!!
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Juno231 · 01/12/2020 17:33

@LaceyMermaid although to be fair - roasting baby cats on an open fire isn't all that much better in way lol!

CD8 here - FW starts tomorrow. Been loving all the christmas decor on here - our decorations are stuck at the ILs in Lincs so probably will have a really bare house - but then again decorating it would be like polishing a turd seeing as it's a dump anyway!

Had a couple of fights with OH about money this week. I don't know if I'm being a scrooge but he's just on a completely different planet atm and I'm finding it a bit upsetting. First he suggested last week that maybe he should do an MBA. Mind you they cost £40k and he'd have to study on top of work for 2 years... it's not like we've JUST bought a house, are planning MASSIVE refurb, failed to sell our flat and are planning a baby? So things like emergency funds and covering mat leave and childcare would also come into you numpty (nevermind having time for a family...). Anyway that was last week - and now he's obsessed with getting invisalign for a minor snaggle tooth or two. Again, those cost like 3k and are just not a priority right now?? And if anyone was gonna spend that money on invisalign it would be me as my teeth are much wonkier! Oh and he keeps banging on about a ps5 on top of that - which I could have tolerated in isolation but makes my eye twitch in relation to the other 2 suggestions as well.

Newbie0818 · 01/12/2020 17:37

Heyyyy. Clearly missed some drama here!

But on a positive note, I GOT MY FERTILITY APPOINTMENT THROUGH! And it's next week 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼

Kirky658 · 01/12/2020 17:42

@minster2012 remember, according to Tesco, no one is on the naughty list this year!

@Juno231 I hate talking about money it's always an argument cause isn't it

@newbie0818 great news!

paintfairy · 01/12/2020 17:42

@Newbie0818 wow that's fast?!

@Juno231 I think men aren't like us. Because you aren't actually pregnant, its like it'll never happen and they carry on living as if everything will be the same as right now? They don't plan in all this stuff.

@Minster2012 men need to be organised clearly. They can't look after themselves never mind children. But do they honestly think it doesn't get exhausting? At least you got the snow suit back though!

LB20xx · 01/12/2020 17:51

Thanks the ride along on the new bus @Minster2012 💞

One of my best friends just announced an out of the blue BFP, I'm feeling happy for her but still deflated ☹️ hate that I'm not ecstatic for her! But my other best friend (all part of a group of 4 us) has just messaged me she is feeling the same, as she's part of the same journey we're all one! Please tell me I'm not being unreasonable?! 🥺

lucyrp · 01/12/2020 17:52

@Newbie0818 ooo great news and I thought mine was fast!

LaceyMermaid · 01/12/2020 17:52

@Juno231 true I guess but jeez people are so literal!
I’m cd11 so FW here too. First month not taking soy to boost OV and I wasn’t convinced my body would do it on it’s own but I have EWCM so maybe this old body is finally working on it’s own! (I’m not tracking or anything though so whether i actually OV is a guess). I’m not really ‘trying this month either as like you @Joanna1009 I have 2 dc born in sept already so it would make it a bit busy! Plus it’s my eldests 18th in September so I wouldn’t like to spoil it. So I’m just not preventing and will try properly again in Jan.

Hopeful110 · 01/12/2020 18:01

Oh my gosh! Who is sad enough to report the title? Blimey! I can't access the group on the web now 🤣 only on the app haha xx

Minster2012 · 01/12/2020 18:05

@Juno231 eek would the MBA actually mean anything? I think in most professions they don't now? Make your eye twitch, would mine too!

@Newbie0818 OMG yesss that's awesome!! Yay!!!

@paintfairy no we haven't got it back, I just posted on the other town group (I had to join especially) and someone said they'd hung it on a tree on Sunday and someone else said it was still there yesterday... he's going now to see. FFS. I mean he brought the child. And the dogs. I guess he would have tempted to leave them all!

@LB20xx totally natural reaction. And it's actually good you have another friend feeling deflated too. Can you talk to her? We've all been there, we've got your back and know the feeling.

@lucyrp where's Luna when you need her???

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AHobbyaweek · 01/12/2020 18:07

Oops are we being naughty again.

Obligatory Christmas tree pic. I can't take good pictures. Ignore the pussies asking for attention.

Bus🚌24 Dec TTC Itchy nips poking thru homemade wreaths, Peeing on 🎄crafting sticks, Touch me up 🎅🏻baby with your festive 🍆cos all we want for 🎄is a BFP!!
Bus🚌24 Dec TTC Itchy nips poking thru homemade wreaths, Peeing on 🎄crafting sticks, Touch me up 🎅🏻baby with your festive 🍆cos all we want for 🎄is a BFP!!