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Procrastination 101 July 20, 2004

I really need to clean our apartment. My brother and sister-in-law are coming to visit on Thursday, and my other brother is coming to visit on Friday. They’ve never visited us in Houston, so I don’t want things to look like total crap. I’ve been slacking in the cleaning department, because I’ve been concentrating on nursing my kitty back to health lately. Plus, I don’t really like cleaning to begin with. I don’t mind doing laundry, dishes, etc., but I could do without having to do the deep cleaning and scrubbing.

The other thing I’ve been putting off is buying our plane tickets for next month. My husband’s grandparents are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, and the celebration is in their hometown in Michigan. Every time I go to try to pick out flights, which can be quite complicated, because they live in a little town in the upper peninsula, I get nervous. I just get this really funny feeling about going. I don’t know if it’s because I don’t want to leave my kitty that I just spent nursing back from the brink of death, or something more.

I know I’m kind of dreading going, because it will be the first time we meet my husband’s cousin’s new baby. I’m sure their baby will be the center of attention. It was hard for me when I found out she was pregnant. They got married 4 years after we did, but of course had a baby first. Heck, we had already been trying to get pregnant for 6 months before they even got married. I guess it’s selfish of me, but I always wanted us to have the first grandchild on both of our sides, and the first great-grandchild on my husband’s side. We’re both the oldest children in our families, and my husband is the oldest grandchild on both sides. It just seemed right. I’ll really freak if any of our siblings have kids before us.

We’ve known about this anniversary celebration for over a year. I told my husband a while back that if I wasn’t pregnant by the time of the anniversary shindig, I wasn’t going. I’m not sure if I’m going to stick to that or not. Infertility sure does mess with your mind.

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