I have a big announcement...
One thing I think is hard to do, for some reason, is tell people at work that I’m pregnant. Why do I feel that saying “I’m pregnant” is too much information, thank you very much? I’ve been on the receiving end of someone telling me and it feels fine, happy, and normal. But sending it out there has been awkward. Yesterday I told someone I really like and I must have spoken kind of softly because she said, “no, I’m good, thanks.” So I let it go. I also tried to get comfy with it by using the euphemisms like being in the family way, knocked up, with child, eating for two, and bun in the oven which has been just as embarrassing because those phrases only work if you live in the 1950’s or if you are reading them in a book. Because I compulsively google everything, I just found a list of joke euphemisms for being pregnant and the number one was “suing Trojan.” Perhaps an Andrew Dice Clay approach is the direction I need to point in, but the last two times I told someone today I made a gesture with my hands that showed a big belly which would indicate that I am headed in the direction of no words at all.
posted by Big Mama at 2:02 PM
3 Comments:
Hey, pregnant sister! Pregnant much?
You beat me to the blog world. Now you can take me to school when I get rolling up in this piece.
Re: terminologky, Erin & I enjoy the term (heard on King of the Hill) "storked up."
I'll consult the Viz Profanisaurus for more & share the results.
Follow up: if you check synonyms for pregnant on Microsoft Word they are: with child, expectant, expecting, heavy with child, loaded, charged, significant, and weighty. I am partial to loaded and charged, but significant is pretty cool, too.
BABYCAKES !!!! BABYCAKES!!!!! now undeniably, superabundantly, inexorably, irretrievably, (did I forget anything along this line of reasoning?) MOMMACAKES!!!!!!!!
(future headline in the New York Times)
HALLOWED CONCEPT OF MOTHERHOOD IN WESTERN WORLD INEXORABLY CHANGED !!!!!!! RAE GRAHAM BUCKLEY STARTS PARENTING REVOLUTION!!!!!!.
Ms. Buckley throws out the book on motherhood. World media gathers at Buckley residence to seek guidance on new parent paradigm and Billy’s delicious Hushpuppies . Mother Teresa comes back from the dead to seek advice, quoted as gasping, “how could I have been so wrong all those years? Maybe it was because I was never a mother?”. Dr. Spock tries to return but is blocked from leaving the pearly gates by the souls of 1000 suburban housewives. One is heard to mutter, “He’ ll just tell everybody that its not their fault .” As he is rudely hoisted hand to hand over a sea of irate housewives he is heard to mutter, “but its not my fault”.
Ms. Buckley can now be seen most mornings hosting the new “PARENTING???, WHAT EVER !!! ” segment on the Today Show.
From THAT OLD POTATO CAKES
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