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I'm glad I'm at peace with my decision to cut my losses and stop having babies. I'm madly in love with the two I have, but I'm not particularly maternal. You may have noticed. I'm glad I'm at peace because it seems every where I look there are babies! Delicious, delicious babies.

On Saturday we went to a baby shower for one of Logan's coworkers. It's cute right? Logan works with kids, as I like to call them. James just had his bar mitzvah and now, he's married and having a baby of his very own.

I ended up picking up another Mighty Junior pick for our gift. I chose the Cone Sorting toy because aside from the fact that Jayne and James' baby will come out being super intelligent, it's the kind of toy you could have on a shelf and not want to punch yourself.

Maggie brought me back a bunch of great little party things from Hema in Amsterdam. I showed you some of them before. Also in the box were these mega sized cocktail umbrellas. On Saturday afternoon as we raced out to the baby shower, I realized I had run out of colored wrapping paper and all I had left was Christmas wrap or brown kraft paper, no ribbon, no twine, nothing.

Moment of brilliance.

Comments

[Why Mom Drinks Rum]

Ugh...babies. I'm so glad I put a 'do not enter' sign on my uterus (or rather hubby got the snip)...I like mine...I like other people's newbies...I did NOT enjoy the whole 2-8 year phase.

Great gift idea! I love alternative wrapping...actually, I just love wrapping. If there was money in making boxes look hot I'd be RICH.

[Marla]

I get it! Umbrella, Shower - it's like you did it on purpose. Which you totally did.

[die Frau]

Now, see, I wouldn't have even had the craft paper. I'm thinking of investing in that furoshiki so I can reuse it and always have wrapping stuff on hand. Because I never have bows or ribbons, I just grab a Sharpie and draw them on 'cause I'm all artistic. Or cheap; I get those mixed up.

[die Frau]

FYI: Click to get exciting furoshiki info (like what the hell it is)

[mythoughtsonthat]

You are not maternal?! Oh, but you are! Of course, not all of us mother in the same way but, from what I read here, you ARE maternal! I just needed to say that....

[Laura]

I'm with you -- two babies are more than enough to test my motherin' skills and my patience. (Especially the one climbing all over me as I try to type this.) But now that my little guy is two, all my friends are having babies. So it's good to be at peace, and it's good to be able to sleep all night, most nights.

The umbrella-gift-wrap thing? Adorable.

[Casey]

I thought I was maternal, and in fact I am to a great degree, except when I'm up to my eyeballs in baby who would rather eat glass and kick me in the teeth than have a diaper change. A simple diaper change. Not the iron maiden diaper, either. Just a plain old disposable.

No wait, it was the first baby with her "up every hour and a half all night to nurse" for fourteen months straight that probably started me thinking that two might do me in. So I'm in a holding pattern as well (with two lovely girls).

But I worry that four or five years will pass, and I'll be feeling all smug and comfortable and have that "late in life" baby you're always reading about. Maybe by then I'll be rich and hire live-in help. Like a wet nurse.

I kid, I kid.

[Jayne]

Thank you for the awesome sorting toy and the beautiful wrapping! I know James didn't stop to fully appreciate the wrapping while he was opening gifts, but he's a guy I think he was a little distracted by the guy vibe in the room. I noticed though. Thank you also for the comment about having a smart baby!

I know it may not look like it but we ARE old enough to start considering the possibility of age-related complications in our family planning.

[amy]

You SO rock!

[May]

Hema totally rocks. They've got the most wonderfully bizarre selection of goods - is it a toy store? no! is it a home dec. store? no! it it a wedding list type of store? no! candy store? no! But they have everything you'll ever need. And have you seen the candy packets they sell? Too bad I only get to go once or twice a year, in Belgium.

[Veronica]

I'm not very maternal either and I wonder if my kid can tell.

[Maureen]

I just stumbled upon your site and love it! Hilarious! I'm not particularly maternal either. But then again, I'm only required to like my own kid, right? And thanks for the reminder that my hate for 99.9% of my son's toys is not abnormal.

[Tracy]

Oh my - HEMA was one of my absolute favourite stores when we lived in Luxembourg (we had to go to Belgium for one, but that was what - 20 minutes?)
I couldn't even finish reading your post... I was too tempted to click on the Hema website... drool....

[robinson]

Hi,

This is a wonderful opinion. The things mentioned are unanimous and needs to be appreciated by everyone.

robinson

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