Stuff and nonsense

[ciroccoj]

• Copied from 13oct:
  Before I was a Mom...
  I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.
  I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.
  I never thought about immunization.
  
  Before I was a Mom...
  I had never been puked on.
  Pooped on.
  Chewed on.
  Peed on.
  
  I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts.
  I slept all night.
  
  Before I was a Mom...
  I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests.
  Or give shots.
  I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
  I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.
  I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.
  
  Before I was a Mom...
  I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put it down.
  I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt.
  I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.
  I never knew that I could love someone so much.
  I never knew I would love being a Mom.
  
  Before I was a Mom...
  I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.
  I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.
  I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child.
  I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.
  
  Before I was a Mom...
  I had never woken up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
  I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
  I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much, before I was a Mom.
  
  
  Side note: No, I'm not a person who posts stuff like this to show how much richer life is for anybody who's had children and imply that anyone who has none is living an empty existence. The poem just spoke to me personally because my life is infinitely richer because of my children. Of course, I've wanted to be a mom since I was about ten. Obviously, YMMV ;)
  
  
• Star Wars Episode III MST3K In Our Home:
  Anakin: My powers have doubled since the last time we met, Count.
  Me: And my hands have halved!
  
  Yoda: Careful you must be when sensing the future, Anakin. The fear of loss is a path to the Dark Side.
  Chris: ::sigh:: Everything is a path to the Dark Side, man, come on, give it a rest.
  
  Obi-Wan: (to Anakin) Good-bye, old friend. May the Force be with you.
  Chris: You'll most likely kill me in the morning.
  
  Darth Vader: I couldn't have! She was alive! I felt her! She was alive! It's impossible! No!!! ::stumbles forward, leans back, screams up at the sky::
  Me: KHAAAN!!
  
  
• Went to the sugarbush on Easter Monday and mmmmm, maple. Pancakes, maple muffins, maple cookies, maple butter, mmmaple. Hideously expensive, though. We bypassed the wagon ride and just did the hike through the bushes, looking at the different trees and the sap lines and all that neat stuff. At one point, Chris pointed out a small tree that had apparently somehow snapped from its base but was still being propped up by the larger trees around it, so that it hadn't fallen down but was still semi-upright, hanging suspended.
  
  Chris: Boys! Come look! Wow, these are rare. OK, now, I want you to stand over there - careful, now, don't get too close to this tree. OK, now, look at this tree ::starts approaching the tree cautiously as the boys look on curiously:: You know what type of tree this is? This is a very special kind of tree ::slowly walks a bit closer, putting his hand out in front of him:: and the reason you can't go too fast near this tree is that if you do, all of a sudd- ::stops short and looks a bit stunned:: you'll SMACK up against the trunk, the trunk of the Great North American Half-Invisible Tree.
  
  
• Chris: Didn't you just do your nails?
  Me: No, I was going to, but I didn't.
  Chris: Oh. I thought you had the polish in the car.
  Me: Yeah, I did. I started to, but then I realized why people don't normally do their nails in a moving car.
  Chris: You know, I kinda wondered about that. But then I thought, hey, wow, I've really married a girl.
  Me: Right - I don't own any lipstick and cut my hair about once every four years, but I can do a French manicure in a moving car?
  Chris: I thought it was like you're an Idiot Savant of Girl. But I guess instead...
  Me: Oh, don't say it.
  Chris: ... you're just an idiot.
  
  
• A meme! This one comes via tudorlady and clearbell:
  
  We all have things about our friends that make us slightly envious. Not in a bad way, but in a 'Wow! I wish I had that person's hair/eyes/money/relationship/wardrobe/whatever.'
  
  So tell me what about me makes you envy me... then if you feel like it, post this in your LJ and see what makes me envious of you.

Comments

[scrtkpr.livejournal.com]

I envy your fic writing skills, of course! :)

[shiningmoon.livejournal.com]

I would love to watch a movie like that with your family. ::hearts your MST3King stories::

[owens-mom.livejournal.com]

Obi-Wan: (to Anakin) Good-bye, old friend. May the Force be with you.
Chris: You'll most likely kill me in the morning.

bwahahaha!! and here dh and I only sit and make with the snarky commentary watching Bobby Flay Chefography...

[batita.livejournal.com]

I envy that you have a goal (your law degree) and are going after it. Right now, anything like that seems way beyond me. Even knowing what the goal is, beyond getting through the here and now with an intact family, seems like too much.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Hee - thanks! :) :)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Heh - we're actually kind of annoying, but we have fun anyway :) :)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

here dh and I only sit and make with the snarky commentary watching Bobby Flay Chefography...
::snicker:: Yeah, that's MST3Kable :) :)

You know, every single time I see that icon I giggle. I was a twelve-year-old boy in my previous life ;)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Right now, anything like that seems way beyond me. Even knowing what the goal is, beyond getting through the here and now with an intact family, seems like too much.
Yeah, I can imagine. Or rather, I can remember being in a similar place. Does it help at all to hear that life can get remarkably more doable once there are no kids in diapers/waking up at all hours/needing to be carried around? Because I really found that to be the case. Like a huge weight lifting.

[batita.livejournal.com]

It does help to hear that. I've heard it from others as well. I guess my worry (fear) is that once that time is over that there is enough of me left to know what my goals are. Not our family's goals, not my husband's or children's goals. My goals. I'm sure everything will work out in the end, because it usually does, but I'm really good at worrying about it until then! ; )

[owens-mom.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha you and me both...