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February 03, 2006
Friday Shuffle - The Kid-Free Edition
It's a melancholy day in these parts, as Clara Jane's going to visit her grandparents for a few days. On one hand, B. and I are looking forward to having some grown-up time (translation: hot, wild, all-night sleeping action). On the other hand, I'm going to miss this little kid with the bad haircut who's been running around the house singing "Oh! You! Look! So! Beautiful! Tonight!" from U2's "City of Blinding Light" all week.
Three years ago this week, I went off the pill. My ob/gyn wanted to start me on Clomid because my chances of getting pregnant were so slim. I said no, that I wanted to try without drugs for a year. It would be wasteful to jump straight to the drugs, and I didn't want to put my body through that unless I knew I couldn't get pregnant otherwise. And while I didn't say it outloud, I wasn't 100% sure I really wanted to get pregnant.
I'm glad I just said no to drugs. Otherwise, this blog would be about life with octuplets.
Two years ago this week I was roughly the size of a bottlenose whale, spending my few waking hours each day issuing terse eviction notices to my overgrown tenant.
A year ago this week, all my friends were so miserable and bitter that I spent a week using Morrissey and The Smiths song names for all my blog titles on their behalf.
But this year, the first week of February will be remembered as the time when this kid - she's a kid now, not a baby - started sprinting through the house, singing U2 lyrics at top volume, and using chopsticks as drumsticks and horns. It'll be remembered as the time when she figured out that she's big enough to crawl on the couch with a blanket and cover us up for snuggling. It's the time when I realized, after months of chanting that she's such a big girl, that she really is.
I need a few days to digest that information. And shuffle.
1. Price of Gas - Bloc Party
2. Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan
3. I've Been Loving You Too Long - Otis Redding
4. Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own - U2 (A song about a grown son sending a message to his departed father about how his father's the reason for the music in his life ... commence sobbing here.)
5. Speedbumps - Luna
6. The World at Large - Modest Mouse
7. Let 'er Rip - Dixie Chicks
8. While the City Sleeps - Irma Thomas
9. This Mountain - Kasey Chambers
10. Entertain - Sleater-Kinney
Posted by Robin at February 3, 2006 08:32 AM
Comments
Too bad we live so far apart or else our kids could play together. :-) Your daughter sounds very bright!
Are you planning on having more? We're hoping to have another one this year....
Posted by: Julie at February 3, 2006 11:31 AM
As hard as it is to grow up, experience tells me that it's harder to watch your own children grow up.
That said, do have fun this weekend. Hot, wild sleep--aww, yeah. You know how to party Summer-style.
Posted by: Summer at February 3, 2006 03:05 PM
Julie, I can't say I have any desire to go through another pregnancy and delivery. We're pretty happy being a family of three, but we have bandied about the idea of maybe adopting somewhere down the line. Not for awhile, though. I want to finish my book and try to sell it first, because if I don't do it now, it'll be even harder with two little ones.
Good luck and have fun with trying for #2! :)
Posted by: Robin at February 4, 2006 12:34 PM
