With our second, we were so excited to have the first girl in the family in generations. While in a long labor, I asked the nurse at one point how often the gender is wrong. "Never," she said, "Not with today's ultrasounds."
A few hours later our baby girl - born with a very obvious…Â
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With our third, I was checked when we came in and 5cm. I was in a lot more pain than with the first two, so I got nervous that it hurt so bad so early. Literally ten minutes later, I was dying - unable to talk, almost crying - and I burned (didn't realize it was crowning…Â
A few days before I had our 4th, I was watching Sister Act and during the first "Hail Holy Queen" song, I was so proud of how well they were singing that I started crying. Uncontrollably. My husband has come to expect some weird stuff during pregnancy, but he doesn't let me forget…Â
We are having our fourth any day now, and today at work (I'm a teacher), a colleague stopped me in the hall to say goodbye. I stared at her awkwardly until she went, "Well you obviously won't be coming back to work, right? Those four kids need their mommy at home."
First, please…Â
John Galt. Actually, all the men in Atlas Shrugged started it - Rearden's metal bracelet, Francisco's everything - but when she finds John Galt in the gulch, I just die a little inside. His clothes, workmanship, mind, motor! - ugh. I'm dying thinking about it now.
I was recently at the crowded grocery store with my three kids - 4, 3, and 9mos. We were walking down the main aisle toward the checkout when a lady from a side aisle cut us off without even pretending to stop. I was calm and held the cart back, but my 2-yr old screamed, "Watch it,…Â
My 4-yr-old son bumped into the kitchen island while running through the house and yelled, "Ow! My testicle!" Trying to hold back laughter, I asked him how he hit his testicle. He pointed to his elbow and said, "My testicle banged into the counter." To this day, I still let him believe…Â
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