Drive-by posting
Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to commiserate/give advice/provide much needed hugs to me over the last week some odd. *feels loved!*
I am pleased to announce that all is right with my best friend. She and I met in person and she was gratifyingly reasonable and apologetic about all the things that bothered me. She even made notes, the better to ensure that all issues were dealt with to satisfaction and that she did not misspeak again. It's not often in our relationship that we have these incidents where one of us must be called on the carpet, (last time was my turn), and I think it is a testament to our relationship that we can have these issues and survive them. If anyone is wondering, yes, she is still in charge of my baby shower. I have every confidence that she will do her best with it. Anyway, that'll teach me about making bold statements in the heat of anger.
I miss writing. It always seems to get shoved to side these days and I feel rather annoyed at myself because of it.
The closer I come to having a kid, the more I realize that I'm going to be a lot like my parents someday. I love my parents and feel myself blessed in them but they can make me want to whack my head into a wall. They are crazy and crazy making. And I know that my children will say the same of me and my husband. They will get off the phone with us and turn to their spouse/friend/cat/understanding fern and say "It's like they don't *want* me to be sane. Were they always this crazy? And vaguely annoying? And weird?" And the answer will be no. We became this way when we had you and your siblings.