Population Control

After having Audrey, I was feeling kind of sad about having only two kids, since that's what Danny and I agreed to, and that's what makes sense. But when she was about one-year-old, everyone around me was pregnant and I went SO baby crazy, thinking, "Why should the religious wackos be the only ones to have ten kids? Shouldn't the enlightened, intelligent, progressive among us also birth a 'quiver-full' to counteract the scary, miseducated conservative Christians over-populating the country?" (Read Mark Morford's excellent columns on liberals breeding, and on the Duggar family.)


But NOW, now that I am actually knocked up again, I am saying THANK GOD that Danny only wants two kids because I am NEVER doing this again!!! I am wondering how that Duggar woman has spent so many years of her life pregnant. Because it is a pain in the ass! And it makes you feel...not right a lot of the time. But I guess pregnant-weird is her normal.

I think if Danny were not an environmentalist, he might want me to pop out even more kiddos, because dude is BABY crazy!! He gets more excited around babies than I do these days. Mr. Mush. [I am actually feeling excited about Baby Two, also. We'll hopefully find out the gender in a couple weeks, and we've started talking to Audrey about it.]

So, when the times comes, Danny has volunteered to go under the knife to make sure we don't inadvertently follow in the, um, footsteps of the Duggars. I worry a little about the possible finality of such a procedure (especially if something were to happen to me, god forbid, and Danny remarried), but we are just TOO fertile to not take such measures!!! And, Danny already has a support group at work, some guys calling themselves The Clipper Club. Thanks, hon!