archives: March 2009
Oh deer
March 13th, 2009 @ 12:54 pm | Comments (3)
Filed: Gone Country | Tags: bumper sticker, hunting, redneck
Sometimes you see something that makes you think, “This could only occur in my town.”
I understand feeling pride for your child’s accomplishments, but really Pennsylvania? Really? If that’s not redneck, I don’t know what is.
(Although I kind of expect my sisters to sport similar bumper stickers when their children reach the designated hunting age.)
Dang, Boy!
March 2nd, 2009 @ 11:00 am | Comments (3)
Filed: Pomdering | Tags:
Over the last several months, I’ve watched relative after friend after blogger after sister announce she was expecting a baby. Some of the announcements made me laugh, for I am evil, like the cousin who married a woman with three children. They had one more little girl and then whoops! She got pregnant again - with twins! Some announcements, like my sister’s, made me cry. Some made me cheer, because a viable pregnancy was so hard fought.
As a single woman without an umbilical cord in sight even in the very distant future, so many babies are a mix of contradictions. There’s the initial squee! factor - who doesn’t live a squishy, snuggly, itty-bitty baby?! There’s the financial factor - babies are expensive and I enjoy giving pretty gifts. Then there’s the bittersweet fact that I’ve always loved babies, always wanted to be a mother, but I don’t know that it’ll ever happen for me.
I just found out my cousin K just had a baby boy named John. It’s her second child and he was almost two weeks late. Oh, and he weighed 11 pounds.
So maybe not having to push out something that size isn’t so heartbreaking afterall.
