Babies, babies, everywhere!

Help! I’m surrounded by new mothers! What happened? Did my age group decide as a collective that the biological clock had ticked enough? This is so weird.

I hope you guys don’t mind:
Helen just had Sebastian.
Molly is having twins.
Diane’s due next month.
Amy is next.
Megan is having one in February. And I’m sure I’m forgetting someone. Mom mentioned somebody last week. Though I got to give Sarah kuddos for keeping my whole high school class up to date on what’s going on!

Now, I understand wedding showers. I’ve been to wedding showers galore. I’ve cut cake at more wedding receptions than I can remember. But baby showers. This is incomprehensible. It’s imposible even to buy a gift. There are millions of sizes of diapers, and they are expencive! And there are rows and rows of baby clothes that the baby won’t even fit into after a month. Then, there are 6 month toys, and 1 year toys, and toddler toys…and how soon do they start on the learning games. Blocks vs. Music toys. What to do? And now they have coed baby showers. When did that start? I’m all about the coed wedding showers. It’s humorous seeing the couple getting a playstation for the wedding…but baby showers. There were more guys than girls at the last shower I went to…and they had more kids! As for me, I’m positively clueless.

Then, one of my classmates gave me a good deal of encouragement to take in foster kids when I grow up and get settled. She said she had never planned on kids until she met one that really needed her. Cool story, but somewhat out of the blue.

Okay, that’s my baby rant. I’m just a little fazed. I still don’t feel grown up. How can all my classmates be mature adults already?

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JoeyGirl Says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:54 am
No babies anytime soon for the little sister! Yea!

Sorry. Just had to celebrate.

jen_archaic Says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Hmmm, JoeyGirl. You kinda increminate yourself. Makes a sister wonder if you were wondering….

JoeyGirl Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 6:24 am
No, I wasn’t, thank you very much (poop head). I have been thinking about it recently, in that many friends/coworkers have expressed the desire to have children in the last couple of weeks. I find that interesting, as I don’t, still. I rather expected myself to by this point, but nope. No baby hankering for me. At least not yet…I won’t say it isn’t possible, but right now…nope.

JoeyGirl Says:
December 10th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Okay, chica. Blog already.

Hey, how’d the interview go?

JoeyGirl Says:
December 11th, 2007 at 10:15 am
You know, you could write on the ice storm. That’d be interesting.