2001-10-13 - 5:24 p.m. - My soap box.

Well, the painting is almost done in the girls rooms. I say almost because we still have to do the trim in Bekah's room. We are planning on purchasing and hanging the border in Natalie's room tonight when mom keeps the girls. Probably will hang Bekah's too, if we can get to it. I"m not familiar with wall paper so not sure how smoothly it will all go.

As I mentioned, mom is keeping the girls. She's actually planning on keeping all her grandkids tonight, and my aunt is bringin over her two grandkids and they will all sleep-over at my parent's house! 5 kids under 5 years old! Glad its not me! Monday is my nephew's birthday, and my sister (his mom) is due any day with a little brother. Mom is calling this Daniel's birthday party. Its for the best. My guess is Naomi needs the time out without worrying about the kid. Of course, now there will be no one there to act as a buffer between her and my BIL.

Here's my soap box for the week. What is it with men wanting babies to pop out on their time-frame!?! I mean, both my DH and my BIL were all wacked out about how our second kids HAD to come on their time-tables, and wasn't there something that us women incubaters could do to get the process rolling. Almost accusing us of not trying hard enough to go into labor! GIVE ME A BREAK! Doctors still don't have an accurate way to predict the beginning of labor, and most will admit that they really don't know what causes all the assorted necessary factors to come together to start contractions. I have known SEVERAL women who were induced using various drugs, and yet 10-15-25 hours later were having no progress and wound up with C-sections! Babies come, when all those factors line up. We, as moms, can do NOTHING to start the process, just as you can do NOTHING to stop labor once it's gotten going. So BACK OFF!

:D Whew! Glad I got that off my chest! :)

You all have a great weekend!

Until next time....