August 14, 2000
Oh, Baby!
I know. I didn't write anything yesterday. In truth, not a whole lot happened yesterday, to me at least. I spent most of it feeling icky and listless, and the thought of trying to come up with something marginally entertaining to say was just too much.
However... one utterly magnificent thing happened yesterday. Or rather, I just found out about it yesterday. Dawn and Jason found out on Saturday that Dawn is pregnant. When Jason told me (the sneak, he made a reference to 'Aunt Lisa' and waited for me to get it), I let out a big ol' 'Woo-hoo!' I know they've been waiting for this for a while. Congratulations, guys. :-)
It was rather funny. I talked to Dawn on Friday night and she mentioned it was a possibility, and started listing symptoms and such. I knew it then. I mean, I knew it. Dawn said she didn't want to get her hopes up, so I told her not to, that I'd do it for her. They were supposed to come over Sunday and were going to tell me then, but for me getting icky-sick.
This is the first time that anyone close to me has been pregnant. It's an odd feeling, in a way. I mean, I've known the two of them for fifteen years or more and... and now they're having a baby. It's like... I don't know, this big Kleenex moment for me. Seriously, if I stop and think about it, I get a little wow'ed at the whole miracle of life thing. This sounds really stupid, I know, but I don't know how else to put it. Two people that I care about very much started a new little life. One that should be here around April or May.
I have a feeling I may be doing a great deal of vicarious living during all this. Even if I drop the fear of being a crazy cat lady for the rest of my life, I honestly don't believe I'll ever be pregnant. I've had too many problems, and there have been too many opportunities for it to have happened already. Plus, aside from my maternal grandmother and her eight kids, most of the women in my family have had fertility problems.
So maybe I'll never be a mom, but I swear, I'm going to make the best crazy maiden aunt ever. Jason says this child is going to be fourteen before he or she realizes my name isn't 'Crazy Aunt Lisa'.
I'm shooting for eighteen myself.
Posted by Lisa at August 14, 2000 07:15 PM
