Blogging is a fickle thing. It's not quite a journal and it's not quite a Twitter feed. It's both personal and public. I worry that it's being read and then I worry that it's not being read. I like my privacy and I like my honesty.
I started this blog in 2005 (happy 5th year anniversary, me!) to update people about my year spent teaching English in Korea. From there, it chronicled my travels in the UK, moving house six times, becoming a girlfriend, becoming a wife, and becoming a pastor. It has served me well.
What better way to keep the blog honest and current than dive into the topic of parenting? Anticlimactically, this August marks a year of "trying" (translation: a fabulous year of sex-having!) and this isn't the highly anticipated here's a picture of our positive pee test! post. Nope, not yet.
Still, there are lots of thoughts on parenting that I've been mulling over, and I keep accumulating more, so I'd like to post some of them here. To begin, some on pre-conception:
- Prenatal pills have made my hair grow an inch a month.
- There are acronyms for everything to do with fertility on the internet. "TTC", for example, once meant only public transportation in the city of Toronto. Evidentally also means "trying to conceive" by lots of cybermoms.
- Said cybermoms, or cybermoms-to-be, are an opinionated bunch. You can find advice online that contradicts every other piece of advice you find online.
- When I was single and naïve, I told a friend who was trying to conceive: "It's easy. Just have sex, like, ALL THE TIME." Graciously, she shook her head and said nothing. As many of you are doing now.
Cybermoms welcome!
