Stop with the D, already.
Dear writers of blogs and posters on message boards,
Please STOP referring to your husband as DH, your son as DS, and your daughter as DD. It bugs the heck out of me! If you don’t want to reveal the names of your family, fine. Make up a cute nickname for them, like lots of people do. But please, I just can’t read another paragraph that says “today, DH and I took DD and DS to the pumpkin patch. DD and DS wanted to buy the biggest pumpkin they had. DS’s pumpkin must have weighed fourteen pounds! DD’s pumpkin was around ten pounds. DH said no, we have to get small ones. DD and DS started whining so we had to leave early.”
Let’s be honest here. The first “D” stands for “Dear”. Do you really expect us to believe that your children are always “dear”? That when they have flung themselves face down in the pumpkin patch screaming and crying, that you are thinking “oh, my DEAR daughter is so upset”?
And that when your husband leaves you home alone all day with two toddlers and a newborn to go watch the World Series at the sports bar (GO TIGERS), that you call your best friend and say “can you believe my DEAR husband left me alone with these kids all day?”
I’m giving a pass to my friend Lanna, because that’s how she refers to her family, and she is a faithful reader and commenter, so she can do whatever she wants. P.S. Hey, Lanna? Can I have your spaghetti sauce recipe? It looks really good. Thanks.
But everyone else? Just cut it out with the D. Seriously.
Hahaha … I have often thought the very same thing!!!
From now on, I’m going to say:
my DH is my DAMN husband most days (can I coin a new one? FH? I’ll leave that to you to figure out).
my DS is my drooling son, most days. Oh he is so drooly.
Seriously this post is so right on. Haha.
GO TIGERS!!!!
Haha… Actually I’ve been trying to think of cute nicknames for ‘em because sometimes I get confused with boys 1 & 2. Any thoughts on a nickname that starts with “A” for the evil toddler? And I’ve already figured that “ass” probably isn’t the best idea.
I’ve got a cute one for the crawling one, but not the running one.
I’ll think about the spaghetti sauce thing - it’s actually my MIL’s (secret) recipe… But if you tell me you won’t pass it onto anyone but to your kiddos…
But but but…
My husband really IS “dear.”
:-(.
YEAH!
And while you are at it can everyone also stop using the word “hubster”?
Mrs. F-Oh, yeah, there are days where my husband is definitely an FH! And I hear ya on the drooliness. Kaitlyn has five teeth already!
Lanna-Hmm, nickname that starts with “A” for an evil toddler…Animal? And yes, I promise not to reveal the secret recipe to anyone!
Dinky-Yes yes, I know. Newlyweds are so cute.
Huh. I thought DH stood for Dildo Head. At least that’s how i enjoy reading it.
Sarah-Oh gods, don’t even get me started on the use of “hubs” and “hubster”. How would we like it if our husbands referred to us in their blogs as “wifey”?
Meno-Yeah, there are days when my husband is definitely one of those, too.
Other possible interpretations
Dumb
Dork
Dull
Delicious
Delicate
Deputy
Dippy
Dread
Dead
or, it could mean “dickhead” which is how I always read it.
But you are so right!! I loathe those little “names’–who calls their husband/ kids “dear” these days anyway?
yeah for dildohead believers!!
ummm, yes i used it actually as dildo-head in a post months ago.
my dh asked that i refer to him as dh - as it can mean ‘designated husband’ which he thinks is nice, and i really appreciate the variable potential of dh.. disgustingly horny and DipsHit just to name a couple! …and i will not not not change. even for you, df.
Oh hell I thought it meant DAMN and I had never noticed is used on people’s kids……usually I see it in reference to the husband who has done something annoying - therefore the reference as DAMN in my mind.
What about Jackass? That’s a cute nickname.
I like Gidge’s read - Damn Husband. Damn Daughter.
I don’t mind - I use - hubs sometimes in comments simply because it’s shorter. But I hear ya.
Hey! I say Hubz. But, as yu can see, I write it with a “z” at the end, thus making it infinitely cooler.
And I swear he actually likes that I refer to him as such on my blog. But if he calles me Wifey…he’s a dead man. “Mama” is bad enough.
As for DS, Dh and all that…I must concur. That crap has been driving me buts for years…partially because it took me so long to figure out what the hell it even meant. Yick.
Ahahaha..I said it’s been driving me “buts”
…of course i meant NUTS!
Or “Nutz”
I am SOOOO with you on the “d” thing. Hate it.
Hey honey, what’s your email address? I can’t find it in my email, and changed my address recently. And do you want the regular or double (what I do) recipe?
That “dear” business makes me gag a little bit.
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