tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post9144052722012721004..comments2024-02-28T05:22:16.853-05:00Comments on I Won't Fear Love: How many children do you have?Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745262857388007041noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-69569692245917152232007-07-12T22:32:00.000-04:002007-07-12T22:32:00.000-04:00Someone just asked me when I started saying I have...Someone just asked me when I started saying I have two kids. (My 11 yr old son died 15 months ago.)The ironic thing is that I also had a son who died at 2 wks over thirty years ago, but I never thought of myself as the mother of 4. Still miss him though and wonder what he would have been like. It never goes away, does it, these holes in our lives. When people ask seemingly innocent questions that bring it all back, it just makes it worse.<BR/><BR/>Shine On,<BR/>LillAdminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05416333739132261312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-73510654341974799012007-07-08T18:12:00.000-04:002007-07-08T18:12:00.000-04:00Julia, the book has a complete table of contents l...Julia, the book has a complete table of contents listed on Baker and Taylor's website. I'll email you the url and password.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957943262402999997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-35173832256498889832007-07-08T01:26:00.000-04:002007-07-08T01:26:00.000-04:00Those kinds of questions always leave me feeling a...Those kinds of questions always leave me feeling as though I am awkwardly straddling between two worlds. Because as the mother of living children, I have answers to most of them. I can swap pregnancy stories, birth stories, spit up and sleepless nights stories etc... The problem is that no matter how much I have to offer as an answer, there is always a piece of the story I either have to leave out, or find the courage to tell.<BR/><BR/>But, as Niobe points out, I do know that I am lucky to have any answer at all to give.Lorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05528541804521203406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-38276049401978793422007-07-07T21:01:00.000-04:002007-07-07T21:01:00.000-04:00oh yes. i've already gone off on this question on...oh yes. i've already gone off on this question on some innocent person's blog, because i didn't know there was a blog blast. but oy. <BR/><BR/>i'm still working my way through answers i like. i get a lot of "is he your first?" with O, and "the first i brought home" just seems so...flip. and yet vague. but i hate the question, and am trying to strike it from my own list of inanities i ask people in moments of social nervousness. if i can at least spare myself treading on someone else's sadness, all good.Bonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14403701620708365171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-55198790770103777322007-07-07T11:41:00.000-04:002007-07-07T11:41:00.000-04:00Your "circle of real-life interactions" seems abou...Your "circle of real-life interactions" seems about the same size as mine. It's nice for now. I need to add a masseuse to mine though, really. But not the one you found, apparently.<BR/><BR/>I hope the event at Monkey's new school goes well, and I'll be here to hear/read the results.<BR/><BR/>And I have an annoying question for the "blog blast:" "So have you entered the honeymoon phase of pregnancy yet?" Um, when would that be? I think I passed it already, the only part of pregnancy that resembles a "honeymoon" for me would be the very first moment and I am grateful for that. But I wouldn't ask anyone how that went for them.Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03887313952590843057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-41040119760186755622007-07-06T20:52:00.000-04:002007-07-06T20:52:00.000-04:00If they only knew how much we'd love to be asked a...If they only knew how much we'd love to be asked any of those "annoying" questions?niobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10685766216611639434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-48045328097188461562007-07-06T20:27:00.000-04:002007-07-06T20:27:00.000-04:00Yup. It is tough when a seemingly polite question ...Yup. It is tough when a seemingly polite question ends up being not as simple as "small talk."Kariannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508403905884601778noreply@blogger.com