LOL- Leigh, I have been reading daily, but i also love the "view this thread" when posting tool!! hehe, i can just go through the posts again!!
Victoria- I agree that who needs fly-by friends at this stage of our lives? I think some people just don't get it. Now, I will say I can see how talking about baby stuff is ALL you do...basically because now that's all I do...but there is that line where it crosses from conversations to annoyance bragging or lecturing. And as for that "big announcement" that friend i was talking about called when she found out she was pg and went "Oh my gosh I'm PREGNANT, okay gotta go!". Nice, and it was LITERALLY said just like that. Now, i know how you have to call a MILLION people but dang, i mean COME ON!!
Also, a cousin of mine just found out she was pg, just graduated college, going to medical school, her dh was going to graduate school, no medical insurance, anyways big deal, she's happy but freaked out. I call her on Thursday wish her congratualtions, doesn't call me back until Weds, called her back like 30 min after (i was in a meeting with the adoption agency at the time) and haven't gotten a call back since. That Weds was May 17th. Nice, and we were pretty close. People keep saying "maybe she doesn't know what to say, or is just busy" but to me that is just rude. Besides i'm not that "little engine that could", I'm ADOPTING and am PROUD of it!! I could care less who gets pg and has a baby, that's not MY baby, i want MY baby!! Does that make sense??? I think i might be blabbing
Natalie