I have now been a wife for 186 days. Amazing! People say that children should come with instruction manuals...every so often, I wonder if husbands should too. Or maybe what I really mean is I should have written a manual for Chris. Let's just say that when I laughed when my brother in law called my sister "borderline stable" on the video we made for my sister's bridal shower, I should have recognized it as a genetically-linked trait.
At any rate, I have observed a few curious phenomena since I have become a wedded woman. First, it's interesting how many people give you verbal or insinuated expectations about what you are supposed to be as a new wife.
"So, what did you make for dinner last night?"
"Don't you just love baking?"
"What? You don't know how to sew? And you just got married?"
"When are you gonna start poppin em out?"
"Oh, you haven't finished moving and decorating the apartment, huh..."
"I'm saving up for a new pie cloth...what about you?"
Usually, I'm not really offended. It just reminds me not to do the same thing to other people. That is, I ought to refrain from implying that other people should be meeting expectations that I have set instead of their own. And expectations are overrated anyway. I'm just enjoying living with the greatest roommate ever. We'll be poppin em out when the time is right, thank you very much.
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Even though people don't say that to me, I'm just incensed by the mere fact that people SAY that!
Nevertheless, I can't wait for little Baileys.
I agree! Goodness Gracious.
awwww. they'll be so cute and short!
and you do your own thing rachel baily. just because you can't sew or bake or decorate your apartment doesn't make you a bad wife at all!
Yes the little Baileys will be fabulous...and probably a little bit wierd...and definitely short. Chris and I affectionately talk about these future offspring as puppies. But they better come one at a time.
...and I do bake, sometimes.
Some people have a very underdeveloped sense of appropriateness. That's the nicest way I can put it. I don't know whether to be irritated by them or laugh at them.
The next time someone asks when you are going to start "poppin' em out," just ask them a very personal question. They'll never ask you about it again. :)
does toasting a poptart count as baking?
cuz if so, i totally bake.
my favorite recipe is toast.
what's a pie cloth?
I'm HOPING you see this.
I lost you and Chris's phone number ( I think, I'll recheck my cell phone.)
If you see this in time (and you haven't already heard yet) it's Crystal's Birthday today and we're getting together a big group to celebrate at Macaroni Grill at 7:30p. Come if you two can.
Love ya!
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