I've thoroughly enjoyed reading the entries from yesterday's Parent Bloggers Blog Blast. You know, the one about the annoying preggo or new mom questions...
MAN, do they take me back! I'm beginning to think that all moms get asked the exact same questions eventually... and mostly by people we barely know. (Rule: if we are not close friends, it is none of your business.) While being asked "were you trying", "when you're going to have another one", or "are you going to stop now" is totally awkward in most circumstances, I started thinking of the reverse. As in, volunteering that information.
Every year my in-laws and their friends take off for a week-long vacation at a lake. They've gone to the same place at the same time every July for over thirty years and it's grown into a HUGE deal, especially now that the kids have married and spawned grandkids.
I've never been, but NOT because I'm "prissy and hate the lake" as my mother-in-law would have everyone believe as THIS IS WHAT SHE TELLS THEM. I assure you, I may be prissy, but I do not hate lakes. I promise. I've never been because my husband would rather spend a week off anywhere other than vacationing with his parents and their best friends. Bless him.
In missing these little trips, I've also missed the grand announcements that BOTH of my sister-in-laws have made to EVERYBODY about how they are going to start trying for a baby in "such and such" month. (Read: They are not pregnant yet, but will be having lots and lots of hot monkey baby-makin' sex later this year.) This "news" is followed by ample congratulations and a phone call from my mother-in-law to relay the info to me.
Yes, a new family member may or may not be conceived within the year. Oh-la-la! I better head to my nearest Babies R' Us and stock up on baby gifts RIGHT NOW!
Sure enough, we receive another phone call from a brother-in-law a few months later to announce that their endeavors were indeed a success and exactly when they planned it. Then, I'm left to ponder why, oh why did I need to know that detail...
MAN, do they take me back! I'm beginning to think that all moms get asked the exact same questions eventually... and mostly by people we barely know. (Rule: if we are not close friends, it is none of your business.) While being asked "were you trying", "when you're going to have another one", or "are you going to stop now" is totally awkward in most circumstances, I started thinking of the reverse. As in, volunteering that information.
Every year my in-laws and their friends take off for a week-long vacation at a lake. They've gone to the same place at the same time every July for over thirty years and it's grown into a HUGE deal, especially now that the kids have married and spawned grandkids.
I've never been, but NOT because I'm "prissy and hate the lake" as my mother-in-law would have everyone believe as THIS IS WHAT SHE TELLS THEM. I assure you, I may be prissy, but I do not hate lakes. I promise. I've never been because my husband would rather spend a week off anywhere other than vacationing with his parents and their best friends. Bless him.
In missing these little trips, I've also missed the grand announcements that BOTH of my sister-in-laws have made to EVERYBODY about how they are going to start trying for a baby in "such and such" month. (Read: They are not pregnant yet, but will be having lots and lots of hot monkey baby-makin' sex later this year.) This "news" is followed by ample congratulations and a phone call from my mother-in-law to relay the info to me.
Yes, a new family member may or may not be conceived within the year. Oh-la-la! I better head to my nearest Babies R' Us and stock up on baby gifts RIGHT NOW!
Sure enough, we receive another phone call from a brother-in-law a few months later to announce that their endeavors were indeed a success and exactly when they planned it. Then, I'm left to ponder why, oh why did I need to know that detail...
So AWKWARD!
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