Can The Adults Please Smoke? Part 26: Apparently They Can Drink, too!- Page 16

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 8:12pm

Funny thing - I never really had a desire to be a mom, but I am actually pretty good with kids. My mom used to shake her head and sigh "you would be such a good mother."

I never met someone I wanted to raise kids with, which meant no kids to me.

I never had the desire to have a kid of my own though - I had thought of adopting for a long while.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 8:15pm

My Dad's on my tuchus to get married and have kids. I just tune that out, for obvious reasons.

YWIW - You rock, that's all.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 8:28pm

Kids are the best. I never regret my decision to have them. But for most of my life I didn't want to have any. Loved children, but didn't feel the need to actually have my own.

Then I changed my mind. I had my kids when I was "older," but I really, really wanted them and had accomplished a lot before I made the commitment.

Now I could never imagine life without them.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 8:40pm

I'm torn on the having children thing. I think I would provide for the child fine, but that emotional bond thing, not so much. I'd be more like "Oh, it's crying...ummmm....go see your father?". People keep trying to convince me differently but I dunno.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 8:41pm

You guys don't have to have kids. I'll have them, and you can all be Aunties and Uncles to them all.

EDIT:

And I should note, I will be proud to have you all being involved in my future children's lives.

Updated On: 10/20/08 at 08:41 PM

[D2]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 8:43pm

I will be "that nice gay friend of my mother's" if you don't mind, Shira. I'm done with the "uncle" bit. Thanks anyway.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 8:46pm

Hey, whatever works for you guys.

Wait - some of you will be Grand-Godfathers!

[D2]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 8:47pm

No need to wait - we're already all pretty grand!

[shira467]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:06pm

I really should have seen that one coming.

[D2]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:07pm

It's the antibiotics, Shira. Dulling your usually sharp senses.

ETA: Batten down the hatches, I sense a meltdown approaching.

Updated On: 10/20/08 at 09:07 PM

[shira467]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:10pm

Probably. It's all I can blame anyway.

Ooh, meltdown? Direct me to the excitement, please.

[D2]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:12pm

Brand new poster. 'F*****2." Starting fruit-themed threads.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:14pm

Whoa. I love how if I type "c****nay", it gets *****, but this guy gets through?!

[gettinhep]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:14pm

Well, it is Fall, the time of the year for the Troll and Sock Puppet plant to grow.

[D2]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:15pm

Hello, Hep!

[shira467]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:16pm

Oh, I found a storybook for the sock plants!

[gettinhep]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:17pm

They eat socks and produce fertilizer.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:18pm

Best way to produce sh*t.

[D2]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:18pm

All over the boards, apparently.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:20pm

Momo, you may not feel "maternal" right now, but that can change. It did for me.

But, then again, you may never feel that way, and that's fine.

It always amazes me when people try to "talk you into" life decisions like this. I mean, when you have a child, it's not like you ever say, "I changed my mind. I don't want to have given birth." It's forever.

[gettinhep]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:21pm

This evening's puppet is producing enough fertilizer to have your roses bloom for the next century. Rodney K strikes again.

[D2]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:23pm

Keep posting - keep the thread at the top of the page. It helps.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:23pm

We can just keep talking till we're temporarily out of service.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:24pm

I don't really ever shut up, so I'm fine with it.

[D2]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 9:25pm

Me too, Shira!

Hey Miss P! How's things?