At BlogHer, Hallmark had a booth in the Expo Hall with these shirts to customize and then they took your picture for a virtual mosaic. I stood there for a minute, thinking about what exactly in my life is a special occasion, and the answer came pretty quickly. Chris and I were sure we didn't want kids, maybe because we were still kids ourselves when we first started dating. Neither of us had any experience at all with babies, and when we tried to imagine ourselves as parents, we just couldn't, so we agreed that kids were not in our future. And then I had an unplanned pregnancy that ended in a blighted ovum, and I realized with much shock that I had actually been excited about having a baby, and it turned out Chris knew just how I felt, and a year later, Ryan was born. From not wanting kids at all to having THREE of them, and doing a pretty okay job of raising them, makes the fact that I'm a Mom of 3 a special occasion every day! And so, the caption on the shirt :) … [Read more...]
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