I'm going to SCREAM...

I hear one more person say...

"Just wait... you'll see!"

-or-

"It wont be long before your life is over, too!"

-or-

"Yeah, you wont be doing [insert ANY remotely interesting activity here] much longer."

Listen, people. I know a LOT OF moms and dads who have GREAT lives with and WITHOUT their kids. Sure, things change a lot--I KNOW THAT--but give me freakin' break! Just because YOU went off the deep end when you had kids and forgot that there is a whole great, wide, wonderful world out there that has nothing whatsoever to do with babies doesnt mean that EVERYONE does... or that I WILL. LEAVE ME OUT OF IT!*

Ok... ok..... This is really directed at about 6 specific people, not the rest of you. I'm just trying VERY hard not to scream at them until its absolutely necessary. Two in particular are women who really have lost it since they've had kids. By "lost it" I mean, for example, that they are incapable of having conversations about ANYTHING else. Both of these women have zero prior experience with kids (no sibs, no cousins to speak of, not really babysitters, etc.) so maybe this is, in part, a "novelty" thing. I know, too, that one of them had a pretty unrealistic/idealistic picture of what parenthood would be like (think "Stepford Mom") and her comments to me are motivated by sheer shock....

I'm not cavalier about this. I'm not under the assumption that I know exactly what will happen and how to handle it... I'm just not going to panic. Why are they trying to MAKE ME?


Oh, and perhaps the BEST comment of the weekend was a woman who said to me (after a very trying day with her children), "If you'd asked me today, I'd have told you NOT to have kids...." Um... thanks? but its a little late for that now... (even if I werent pregnant I'd be seriously annoyed by this).