Oh, yeah, Bev. My friend Kelly's mom is like that she says "Michael was my condom baby, Kelly was my IUD baby, and Steven was my Pill baby"
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Vortex - Sep 23, 2010 11:03:53 am PDT #25699 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
amych - Sep 23, 2010 11:13:23 am PDT #25700 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
DJ, I never get the urge to corporate schadenfreude -- as petty as it is, there's totally a satisfaction when some individual asshole gets what's coming, but "woo-hoo, GM/MS/BB/B&N is flailing. HAR!!" is just. Dude. Actual people are gonna get fucked by this, no matter how much you like to snark at the corporate entity.
SuziQ - Sep 23, 2010 11:17:19 am PDT #25701 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
"Michael was my condom baby, Kelly was my IUD baby, and Steven was my Pill baby"
One of my mom's friends was like that. She had 5 kids and could name each failed birth control for each child.
Before I had CJ, I really wanted my kids to be close in age. But that ended up being a 6.5 year gap. My cousin has a ten year gap between her two youngest.
Cashmere - Sep 23, 2010 11:19:47 am PDT #25702 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Facebook was up for me long enough to read that a friend from high school just got a Trisomy 18 diagnosis with her child but not long enough for me to send a supportive message to them in response.
Fucking Facebook FAIL.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2010 11:20:00 am PDT #25703 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My mother has five siblings. There are five years between each of them, and they althernate boy/girl/boy/girl/boy/girl. By the end of the run, Miss Mary was just doing the birthing, not the raising. Youngest girl thought oldest girl was her mother.
Slowly approaching sanity. Good god, y'all.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 23, 2010 11:23:53 am PDT #25704 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I know at least one woman who got pregnant while breastfeeding a new baby.
I'm pretty sure at least one of my older siblings was conceived while my mother was nursing, given the birth dates.
I was the opposite - a menopause baby.
Daisy Jane - Sep 23, 2010 11:25:22 am PDT #25705 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Facebook was up for me long enough to read that a friend from high school just got a Trisomy 18 diagnosis with her child but not long enough for me to send a supportive message to them in response.
What is that?
DavidS - Sep 23, 2010 11:25:24 am PDT #25706 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've been talking about it in Bitches, but I'll share two things over here.
1) Today is Emmett's birthday! He's 14. Matilda's birthday is on Sunday.
2) Matilda got accepted into Grattan Elementary pre-school, after something like two years on the waiting list. She already goes to the UCSF preschool where JZ works, but this is much cheaper. Also it would give her a priority to select that school (a highly rated one) for kindergarten next year. It will be a tough transition for her since she loves her teachers and classmates but there are too many benefits for us to forego this opportunity.
Daisy Jane - Sep 23, 2010 11:26:02 am PDT #25707 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Happy birthday to Emmett and yay for Matilda!
shrift - Sep 23, 2010 11:27:02 am PDT #25708 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I looked at my vacation balance a few weeks ago, and realized that I clearly needed to take more vacation days. Today is a random vacation day. My body decided it needed to sleep for 11 hours, so that's what I did. Now I'm puttering around the apartment doing cleaning and maintenance.