<p>:: Grabs mop to wipe off drool ::</p>
<p>(Our kids better not read this thread.)</p>
<p>owlice, yum! Midori sours. Mmmmmm. Thank you.</p>
<p>mythmom, that’s awesome.</p>
<p>H and I lived together a couple of years before getting engaged and then were engaged close to two years before we got married. We were pretty sure it was the best thing ever, but then again he was at the end of an ill-advised marriage lasting all of 6 months when I met him. So we waited a bit. Married 21 years in May; together 25 years this coming winter.</p>
<p>mountains: We never bring freeze-dried. My H carries jars of pasta sauce and canned meat. Loads start out insanely heavy and get miraculously light by end of trip. But seriously, my H does all of the cooking. Your H can rest after carrying my load!</p>
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<p>lol!! Funny, that!</p>
<p>gladmom - Um, H actually weighs each and every item that he puts in his backpack. Serious business to him. Boy, he would love to do the Sierras.</p>
<p>4 years…married at 26, S1 at 28, S2 at 30, D1 at 33</p>
<p>Speaking of vigils, do we get to tell labor stories next??</p>
<p>Met H in October, married him the following July. Had baby the July after that. (After one looong on-again/off-again relationship that dragged on for 9 years…can you say “commitment phobic”.) So, I say, when you know, you just know.</p>
<p>Dang, mythmom–I have the wrinkles AND the fat!</p>
<p><em>Dated</em> hubby for 12 years before I twisted his arm into marriage-- “Why do we need the piece of paper? Why should we let societal expectations…?” “Can it, Bud–we’re getting married–NOW!”</p>
<p>Hmmmm. We moved in together after almost a month of knowing each other, but we maintained two apartments for close to two years as a charade for the benefit of H’s mother. Got married at just under 2 years of knowing each other, but would have married at least 6 months earlier had it not been for siblings with earlier engagements that we didn’t want to upstage. First child 16 months later, second almost 22 months after that. Married 21+ years as of this past January.</p>
<p>bethievt, I have fat, wrinkles, AND ZITS!!! How on earth is this fair?!</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, my hair’s going silver, too.</p>
<p>Well, at least you HAVE hair! OK, I do too, but it’s pretty thin!</p>
<p>2 1/2 years before marrying at 25
Kids at 28 and 29 1/2
Happily married for 20 1/2 years</p>
<p>Owlice, may I have a Midori sour too, please? What pleasant company here at the vigil!</p>
<p>Harriet - Labor - very easy: three hours and pushed for 15 minutes. Took as long to make home-made bread.</p>
<p>Fortunate to still have all hair, no grey and a little fat decided to hold its own vigil during the college app process. Wrinkles? Don’t have any, but do have wisdom lines.</p>
<p>Labor-- not much of a story-- c-section after going 2 weeks past due date…</p>
<p>mountains, uh, well, my second (S1) was about like that - water broke, parked the toddler (D) with friends, zoomed to the hospital, contemplated wallpaper for a few minutes, welcomed the baby.</p>
<p>The other two were tougher - D required the salad spoons (low forceps) after way too many hours of pushing (they let me keep going because she’d turned, from breech, and I guess they were expecting another miracle??). S2 was not that bad, but thanks to the ten-year pause, was much less of a walk in the park than his brother.</p>
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<h2>No significant gray yet; not particularly fat but I figure that’s my compensation for never having a bust to speak of; not so many wrinkles, er, wisdom lines on the face but my neck looks twenty years older than any other body part. Owlice - the occasional zit here too - but that’s rosacea and mostly under control.</h2>
<p>Maybe that’s all just wishful thinking - I pretty much look my age. The fact that H is a handful of years older, and has vision that is just that much worse, seems to help. :)</p>
<p>s#1- was 2 weeks past due date. Told OB to get a roto-rooter and a plunger. I wanted that kid out. Come to think of it, he’s still hard to get moving…</p>
<p>Sorry to change the ‘topic’, but is anybody else having a tough time with saying goodbye to the schools not chosen? It’s hard to let $96,000 go, even if my D did get a pretty good deal at the school of her choice. Not to mention all the perks she was given to sweeten the deal. And the fact that the faculty making the offer are friends of ours…</p>
<p>Opera, I am!!!</p>
<p>I can’t even go into it right now, I’m tired and it’s going to be a long day tomorrow, which is my punishment for spending way too much time on here today instead of being productive on my day off.</p>
<p>Geez. After the horror of waiting to see if she’d get accepted, then the furor of making a decision, you’d think I’d just be glad to be done…</p>
<p>Labor, oy…S1 born on due date, 4 hours of labor, 8 hours of pushing, finally had a small nurse climb up and push from the outside! S2, 3 weeks early, mild labor all night, water broke,threw S1 over fence to neighbor (literally!), barely made it to hospital…D, 1 week early, 4 hours labor, OB and her partner say, “it’ll be hours” and go into surgery on another case, D born 30 minutes later, 3rd partner called out of office to deliver. Those were the days.</p>