Me: What are spiderwebs made out of?
Adam: Silk.
Me: Silk! Where do they get it from?
Adam: Their own bum.
Me: No way, you are joking. I don’t understand! Why?
Adam: You’ll have to just ask God someday.
Ever heard of the Perseids? Me, neither. But Adam was determined we were going to watch it. It is a meteor shower that occurred yesterday and early today…I guess.
So, here we are lying on our backs outside looking for all of these stinking shooting stars last night that were “supposed” to be WAY impressive!
What we did see was two bats, three lightening bugs and I got three mosquito bites. Overall…we are stargazing failures I guess. That or it was all a ploy…some little man is up there in a satellite watching thousands like us lying on our backs staring up for the supposed meteor shower and he is laughing his behind off at us!
The skies above us...with no apparent meteor showers
Happy 13th anniversary to us! 13 years ago today we were married in Whitefish..we’ve been together for 17 years!
I love you babe, thanks for loving me.
The Honeymoon…
It is common knowledge that Adam and I have struggled over the years about whether we should have children and if so, when, etc… We always said we wanted to have them probably but wanted to early enough in our lives that they’d be out of the house by the time we are 50 (don’t ask where that number came from). Therefore, we’d need to start a family by the time we were 32…at the latest!
Well, lets just put it this way…err, we are past 32 now. Looking back I know that Adam would have loved 16 kids within the first year of our marriage. The man is a kid-magnet. He LOVES them. I, on the other hand have always worried about my abilities to mother and also wanted to get my career going (the age-old career first, family second..yada yada yada). He is a very patient man, to say the least as we have now been married for 13 years, and yet…still no babies.
Over the years, though he has also changed. We have blissfully traveled whenever we like, gone where we like and whenever we like, etc. We veg out on weekends, eat crap for supper (often) and just basically have learned to take care of just ourselves. More than once Adam has said he doesn’t know if he can imagine having children now, that he likes being able to just pick up and go, etc. So over the years he started having doubts. Throw his doubts in with my doubts and there you have it…13 years of marriage, two dogs and three cats.
We have been doing some SERIOUS talking though lately. First off every time I have a tummy ache I tell him ah, it’s just my uterus aging. Now, he knows that menopause can run early in my family (and I mean like late 30’s early) and so this bothers him.
Secondly I am concerned about my age and complications that may arise because of it. For any of you women out there that have had a baby you had to likely answer a gazillion questions at your first obstetric visit. Heck, I ask the same ones to my patients all the time. Well, you know the little box that says: will you be age 35 or older at the time of delivery? Yeah, ahhh…that is the very box that is bothering me.
They used to call you an elderly mother if you were 35 or older at the time of delivery. Thank goodness they have changed the terminology! Now, you are simply called one of “advanced maternal age”. Yes it sounds much less ominous but it does come with challenges. Genetic abnormalities definitely increase with each year of the mother’s age and because of this they want to do an amniocentesis. Just this week I learned off the increase in the rate of still birth in mom’s of advanced maternal age when they go past 39 weeks of pregnancy. Geesh!
I’ve more to write but have to get going now so check back later for the rest of my thoughts!
A story from CNN yesterday: Why Toilet Paper Belongs to America
When you run out of tp and have to go to the store to buy some have you ever wondered why we don’t just stockpile tp? I mean, lets face it…we’re always going to use it. Why don’t we all buy it by the hundreds…
The CNN story says, “Since the dawn of time, people have found nifty ways to clean up after the bathroom act. The most common solution was simply to grab what was at hand: coconuts, shells, snow, moss, hay, leaves, grass, corncobs, sheep’s wool — and, later, thanks to the printing press — newspapers, magazines, and pages of books.”
Apparently the most popular method of cleansing one’s nether regions was with the Sears Catalogs that used to be put out. For any of you that know Adam you know that he willingly admits that he would NEVER make it on Survivor. Why? Not because he wouldn’t be willing to eat bugs, swim with snakes, etc but because he…shall we say, requires a special type of tp for his bottom? He was thrilled to hear that the very first type of tp created was actually infused with aloe as that is the ONLY type he will use now~a joke amongst many!
Adam's wipe of choice
Further in that article it says that the average American uses 57 square of tp in a day. Geesh, poor environment.
All in all, we should be proud as Americans that it was right here in the United States where tp was created! Take that North Korea!