Tonight was NOT FUN! We went to a 90th party for my DH's grandma. SIL was there in all her pregnant glory. She had been to her first baby shower. I was talking with her about the stuff she got, being nice, taking a interest, etc.
But ALL NIGHT it was baby baby baby baby baby baby baby. Baby-to-be. Great-grandma-to-be. Etc.
And the whole time she was standing up in the center of the room in her skin-tight white sweater. She is very skinny by nature, so every curve of her body was noticeable. The whole time she was rubbing her stomach. Seriously! Get some decent maternity clothes! I HATE this new trend of showing off every curve. I shouldn't see your belly button! And I can't help but look at your stomach because all you do it RUB IT! You DESERVE to have strangers pat your pregnant belly if you act like that!
And all the baby talk! ALL NIGHT LONG! And I literally had to put my sleeve in my plate to go to the bathroom and wash it off so that I wouldn't throw up. Not figuratively. Literally. I literally thought I was going to puke. My husband thought I was being a [censored] because I murmured it to him as someone said something about the baby. I was like, no, seriously, if I don't get up right now you're going to see what I had for dinner.
Never had THAT reaction before!
But I've been getting dizzy and nauseous every other night or so for the last week. Of course, I've had countless people suggest I have a bun in the oven. Um, it's called MORNING SICKNESS people! Not NIGHT sickness! And also, I'm pretty sure it's from my sinus allergies because I've had this before because my ears get clogged or something (I also have muffled hearing in one ear from the sinuses.)
I don't appreciate people suggesting I'm pregnant.
Also, someone on the other side of the room mentioned that all their kids are out of college and MIL said, "and now it's MARRIAGE TIME!" and someone else said, "and then BABY TIME!"
Oh lord.
I also totally put my foot in my mouth. SIL and I somehow ended up talking about the book Jo's Boys and I thought it was so fun to have all those boys in one house (in the book, not in my life!) And SIL mentioned that show about the sextuplets and the twins (don't know what that's called.) She said it was SO COOL to have all those kids in one house. Well, I had to put in my two cents about how ridiculous it is nowadays to have that many kids. Didn't realize I was surrounded by people who were part of 8-kid families. I almost got into a fight with SIL because she kept insisting that it was just WAY TOO FUN to have TONS of kids. I said it's so expensive, and FIL pipes in with "but then they all get financial aid in college, so the more, the better." (He was joking. I hope.) Retch.
I have such mixed feelings about my SIL. Half the time I am sick of her and the other half I am jealous (apparently they can afford, even with the baby coming, to get a new computer and a new flat-screen TV.) And the other half I just feel bad for her since she lives so far away from her family (3 hours) and has no friends or family where she lives. How hard is that, and they are having a problem fitting all the shower gifts in the minivan.
How annoying. I ended up crying half the way home, and having a discussion with my husband about why people shouldn't have 8 kids the other half.
Last edited by lngilbert; 12/30/07 12:25 AM.
