cutting in line

One of the first things we learn as a human being is to wait your turn and no cutting in line. I waited in line anxiously for those $.25 popsicles in elementary school, occasionally yelling “hey no cuts!” when Ray Cunningham the obnoxious nose-picking bully & his buddies tried cutting in line. I even had the guts to tell the lady who obviously did not read “line forms here” at Michaels Craft Store “Oh, Ma’am, the line’s behind me”. I secretly knew the folks behind me wanted to give me high-fives all around. We police line cutters all our lives. So when friends and family started getting pregnant and even delivered all around me, I just about lost it. I was first! I couldn’t ask for a manager to complain about such injustice. I just prayed.

Let me elaborate just how crazy pregnancy water sells around here. Everyone seems to drink it. Mine just seems to be poisoned, that’s all:
I was pregnant in 10/08 & 3/209 – both m/c’d at approx 6 weeks.

• My college roommate got pregnant in 11/08 and delivered a perfectly healthy girl this past summer. I didn’t go to her shower. I’m a terrible friend.
• My coworker D got pregnant 11/08 and delivered a perfectly healthy girl this past summer
• My coworker S’s wife got pregnant 12/08 and delivered a perfectly healthy girl this past summer. I enjoyed the shower the best that I can.
• My friend and also my dentist’s sister M got pregnant in 12/08 and delivered a perfectly healthy girl this past summer. My dentist does not know about my m/c’s…I haven’t been to the dentist in over a year now. Last time I went, I was pregnant EDD 6/18/09.
• Apparently the good, unpoisened, babygirl water got passed around quite a bit last winter.
• My sister’s BFF got married on 8/1/09, got pregnant on her HONEYMOON (really? I mean REALLY! Just like that!) and is now expecting in May/10. She’s much older than me. And frankly I think I’ll make cuter babies than her.

It appears there is no rule about cutting in line in the world of pregnancy. God set the no cutting rule on everything but that. The rule even applies to fighting for fresh brewed coffee in the morning at work for God’s sake. But nope! Not for pregnancy. The first come first serve rule does not apply there. I’ve been there twice and have witnessed people cutting both times…so here I am at the back of the line again!

The Hubs recently mentioned his friend J and wife V are trying. I’m mentally preparing myself for their news.