how to make your ovaries ache
December 4th, 2006 @ 1:02 am | blonde moments, domestic, miscellany | Post a Comment
New husband + insanely well-behaved four-month-old = ACHING OVARIES
I believe it was on my wedding night (not that I remember well, because HELLO DRUNKFACE) that I first got the question about when we were going to start having kids. In the true sense of TMI I announced that it wouldn’t be for a few years because I was going to get an IUD next month.
It’s not that I don’t want kids right away, but we really are not in a place to be feeding, housing, and clothing another human being right now. Plus, we want to enjoy being newlyweds for awhile. I’m placing my baby bets on three years, which will make me 28 and Andrew 32.9. (Notice that this currently puts him at 29.9 — the big Three-Oh is coming quickly.)
In the meantime, we can gush over our friends’ kids. The baby we hung out with this weekend was so happy and cute that I think he may have helped accelerate our timeline by at least six months. At least I hope so.
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I’ve been tagged! Audrey has challenged me to list six weird things about myself, which can’t really be that hard of a challenge because Andrew only calls me weird at least four times a day or so. The real challenge is to come up with six weird things about me that you also might find interesting or entertaining….
I’m going to blatantly steal #1 from Audrey, who wrote:
- “I have small, pudgy feet with teeny, tiny toenails that I like to keep really short. I hate the feeling of scratchy toenails. So I keep them really short. And I love them that way.” Ditto! We also agreed that if our toenails get too long we will rip them off. Ew, I know.
- I really hate going to the doctor, partly because I don’t believe half the stuff they tell me, and I think I can usually diagnose myself better. Really the only time I will go is for certain annual exams or if I am on my deathbed and they will not write a presciption without an office visit.
- Over the past year I have developed a finicky dislike for most meats, especially lunch meat. As a result, I’ve started eating a lot more veggie-friendly. However, during the same time period I’ve gone through a bit of an obsession with bacon. Yummmm, bacon. It makes no sense.
- I’m a lefty who writes with my pen and paper at a really odd angle. Take a piece of paper and put it in front of you the “right way.” Then turn it 90 degree clockwise. Now write, moving from up (left) to down (right). Does that makes sense? Any other weird lefties out there?
- Andrew and I have developed our own secret language for lots of everyday words. I’m sure if you overheard some of our conversations you would be totally perplexed.
- I admitted this on Isabel‘s blog last week and won an awesome prize: I still sleep with a blankie every night. The same one I’ve had my entire life. Yes, I am a married woman with a woobie.
Okay, consider yourselves tagged, ladies!: RA, Laurel, Alynda, Lindsey, Elise, Zandria
Ooh, I love a tag when I see one. Thanks Janet! Shall pair it with a nice pair of shoes for tomorrow’s daily blog, methinks.
That picture is gorgeous! My cousin just rang and told me she is pregnant with baby #2, my ovaries just recovered from squishable Jackson. Yikes! (Jase wasn’t QUITE so excited, but he’s a boy so.. we won’t get into that!)
I’m with you on the doctors. And the pudgy feet, although mine are large and pudgy. Damnit. I write the same way as you, but with my right. I cannot write neatly with straight paper. Go figure!
Must shut up now and save some for the blog. Hrm.
(And just bought more Colorado shoes today, must be in the name!)
written by alyndabear
December 4th, 2006 @ 3:27 am
Your hubby does look like he’s great with kids… Damn biological clocks!
written by E :)
December 4th, 2006 @ 6:37 am
I would love to contribute to the family planning acceleration. We need to get together soon.
written by Erika
December 4th, 2006 @ 8:27 am
Oh, boy, this is good food for thought during my spacing-out times today…
My husband calls me weird all the time, too (or “special” in that mysterious way that makes you question it), and I can never take it as a compliment, much as he insists it is one. Robots are weird! Those light-up fish at the bottom of the ocean are weird! But not the LIGHT OF HIS LIFE!
written by RA
December 4th, 2006 @ 10:39 am
Michael is banned from holding babies. My ovaries just can’t take it.
written by Sarah
December 4th, 2006 @ 10:44 am
I agree with the waiting, especially because you have plenty of time! We are now almost 4 months pregnant. Although not super public about it on my blog, because I felt like I was stalked by strangers (not unknowns, but STRANGErs) after I announced I was unemployed. We have now just been married 3 years and 1 month.
I too have strange feet. I had a friend tell me once that my toes looked like little cocktail weinies… And I am not a big meat fan… I eat mostly poultry and BACON.
written by Jane
December 4th, 2006 @ 11:04 am
I cannot help but pimp products that I love shamelessly… and one of the things i love very, very much is my birth control. I have the four-periods-a-year kind. And seriously? Why wouldn’t EVERYONE want to have less periods? I don’t understand it.
What I’m saying here, is that I also have a problem with the TMI. I wish I could say it was only when drunk.
written by Jen
December 4th, 2006 @ 11:24 am
That baby is so cute!!! I have the hardest time around AS’s niece… it’s like a twitch that I can’t control.
Now I have to start thinking about things that make me weird…
written by Laurel
December 4th, 2006 @ 12:16 pm
Nothing makes my ovaries ache more than seeing my husband with other people’s kids. He’s just so incredibly good with them that it melts my heart and makes me want to give him lots of babies as soon as possible. But then I remember we’re on the “5 year plan” (3 1/2 years to go!) and also there’s the whole thing about not being financially prepared, yadda yadda yadda.
Love your list — especially number 1!!
written by Audrey
December 4th, 2006 @ 12:17 pm
Andrew looks so handsome in that photo! Oh and the baby is cute too
written by alexa
December 4th, 2006 @ 3:19 pm
This is why Alexa is my favorite.
written by Andrew
December 4th, 2006 @ 5:06 pm
That is a very cute baby! Every time I see one, I am all like, awww I want one, but really I don’t just yet. I just like the returnable kind for now.
written by Viviane
December 4th, 2006 @ 8:53 pm
Damn you for tagging me you weird, weird girl
JK, i’m all about the weirdness. Now I need to go and think of some weird things.
written by Lindsey
December 4th, 2006 @ 10:11 pm
Your woobie was old and raggedy when you used to sleep with it 20 years ago! It’s okay though, I still sleep with my blankie too!
written by Betsy
December 5th, 2006 @ 11:15 am
My but that’s a handsome chap. Andrew’s not half bad either…lol – no really that is a precious picture. Is it me, or is the baby a BIG 4 month old? Can’t tell, but he’s v. v. cute any rate. Have been fielding the “whenareyagonnahave a kid already?” bit for the last 6.5 years. Talk about the aching ovaries. Grrr!
written by Meepers
December 5th, 2006 @ 3:28 pm
Ahhhh, sweet! I’ve been tagged. I’m about to rush off to work so I haven’t even taken the time to read this post of yours all the way through yet…but I will definitely participate!
written by Zandria
December 5th, 2006 @ 3:36 pm
I think some of the best couples (read: my husband and me!) have their own language. We make up words for everything and if other people heard us talk, they’d think we were insane. heehee
written by Jen
December 5th, 2006 @ 8:19 pm
Okay. For serious. IUD? Is it good? Have you had one before? Very interested here. Possibly need an IUD. Pills are hard to remember. Send details!
And, also, Andrew with the baby is pretty freakin’ cute.
written by Janet
December 5th, 2006 @ 11:22 pm
That picture makes my overies ache. Too sweet.
written by Isabel
December 8th, 2006 @ 5:57 pm