New to my blog roll
Amy the Humble linked to her, I looked over her blog and I knew I had to make space in my Bloglines feed for her! :) She’s expecting her 12th baby, so maybe she can make up for the hole in my Bloglines that Dominion Family (9 kids) and Large Family Logistics (10 kids) left. :) She’s pretty funny:
The OB who persuaded #10 to come out was my OB for #11, since we put up the white flag after that and capitulated to popular opinion that we needed to forget all that organic crunchy earth mama type delivery philosophy and embrace The Machines That Go Ping.
In other words, I got tired. I really didn’t mind laying like a slab of meat on the table with a drug pump in my back while everybody else stared at the readings from the monitor rather than make contact with me in any human-being sort of way. Being a passive participant in the birth experience was rather novel, but I still had a wet, warm and squirmy passel of loveliness set upon my bosom in the end, so I threw that soapbox upon the pyre of dogmatic doctrine and lit a match.
I decided that I like her. :)
Apparently in my lust for more stamps, I was completely blind to the fact that hosting such an event would entail some obligations on my part.Like, cleaning.And baking.And getting dressed.
And finding something large in which to lock my young children for the duration.
And I highly suggest clicking her “rant” category for gems like this about visiting a health food store “because I like to pretend I’m as prairie as I want to be”:
How bad could it be, anyway? The smiling salewoman wouldn’t lie. Health food store employees aren’t allowed to lie. Their whole existence is based upon raging against the machine, after all. Health food is about truth and strength and stickin’ it to the man, right? This is what I told myself as I shelled out the big bucks for the vitamins, which also promised faster absorption, more energy, and a baby who would speak Russian upon exiting the womb.
And, you have to click through to see that whole post by the way, the picture is well worth it, even if her humor weren’t so great as it is. :)
