The pressure is off

[pressboxer]

My sister-in-law of six months announced today that (she thinks) she's pregnant. It just was Christmas Day of last year that my brother proposed and the wedding was in late June.

Bro isn't admitting to anything until he hears it straight from a doctor, but SIL said it's the first time she's ever been late and the EPT came up positive.

The most important part of this whole thing is my mother will now have a grandchild on this continent (I've got a 9-year-old nephew in Australia). It's a responsibility I no longer have to worry about fulfilling. I can now concentrate on being the creepybachelor uncle who no one talks aboutspoils and dotes on the niece/nephew to be.

I can only imagine what next year's Christmas announcement will be.

 

[Killick]

I actually stopped my Mom short on this one at Thanksgiving. My sisters are both 42, and I'm 38. No weddings, no grandkids. So, Mom happened to sigh at TG, and opine about no grandkids. I responded "Well, Mom, I hoped to tell you when the time was right, but a girl I know from the bar, well... erm... she told me the rabbit died." That shut that **** off tout suite. I was kidding, of course, but Mom did see the peril in getting what you wish for.

 

[Cosmo]

You stopped short with your mom? That's Frank's move!

 

[zeke12]

Just tell your mom you only go anal.

Problem solved.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

PB, you'd think that's the case, but I've found out recently that it mostly works the other way. It just makes the grandparents hungry for more.

 

[slappy4428]

Just tell your mom you only go anal.

Problem solved.

Spoken like a true asshole... ;D

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Future cousin (through marriage, at least) just had a baby in November or October.

They were over at my aunt's -- her soon-to-be step mom -- for Christmas. All damn day, family kept asking when the next baby was coming around.

I'm 23 and single and my oldest cousin is just 17. Unless, God forbid, Jasmine gets pregnant soon, there won't be any other babies for awhile.

 

[pressboxer]

PB, you'd think that's the case, but I've found out recently that it mostly works the other way. It just makes the grandparents hungry for more.

Yeah, but I figure I've got about two years before that becomes a big problem, maybe more. The due date would be late August and mom will be totally wrapped up with grandchild No. 2 through at least the first birthday. Christmas 2010 would be the first where the kid would understand that it gets to rip open presents even if the reason why isn't exactly clear.

 

[bagelchick]

It's a responsibility I no longer have to worry about fulfilling. I can now concentrate on being the creepybachelor uncle who no one talks aboutspoils and dotes on the niece/nephew to be.

All I can tell you is I love being an Aunt more than anything else in this world!

 

[Dyno]

My grandfather died at 101 with no grandchildren. In the 9 years since he died, one cousin has adopted twice. The other three of us -- no marriages, no kids. My family is contracting. I have 10 first cousins, all but one is over 30. Only three are married, only 2 have kids.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

My grandfather died at 101 with no grandchildren.

This makes my brain hurt.

 

[BYH]

It's a responsibility I no longer have to worry about fulfilling. I can now concentrate on being the creepybachelor uncle who no one talks aboutspoils and dotes on the niece/nephew to be.

All I can tell you is I love being an Aunt more than anything else in this world!

Being an uncle is the best.

Not sure if I'll ever become a father (as all of SJ faints at the possibility), but saying "who's my best buddy?" and hearing my nephew say "You!" is about the best feeling imaginable...topped only the other night when he put a pillow on my lap and conked out while watching Charlie Brown Christmas. My sister says "He NEVER does that with anyone but us. EVER."

Pretty awesome.

 

[Paper Dragon]

My grandfather died at 101 with no grandchildren.

This makes my brain hurt.

Mine, too, now that I think about it. Must. Stop. Thinking. About. It.

 

[zeke12]

...but saying "who's my best buddy?" and hearing my nephew say "You!" is about the best feeling imaginable...

Somewhere, a lonely, lonely tear spills down a grown virgin's cheek and into a now-sodden bowl of Fruity Pebbles.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Glad to see others are confused by Dyno's post...

 

[DisembodiedOwlHead]

saying "who's my best buddy?" and hearing my nephew say "You!"

So - you are your own best buddy?

 

[mike311gd]

You stopped short with your mom? That's Frank's move!

He's not going to be happy. There are only two things you don't do in life: Stop short or tell Frank Costanza what to do. Nobody does that.

 

[mike311gd]

...but saying "who's my best buddy?" and hearing my nephew say "You!" is about the best feeling imaginable...

Somewhere, a lonely, lonely tear spills down a grown virgin's cheek and into a now-sodden bowl of Fruity Pebbles.

I'm ruined. Completely.

 

[mike311gd]

It's a responsibility I no longer have to worry about fulfilling. I can now concentrate on being the creepybachelor uncle who no one talks aboutspoils and dotes on the niece/nephew to be.

All I can tell you is I love being an Aunt more than anything else in this world!

Being an uncle is the best.

Not sure if I'll ever become a father (as all of SJ faints at the possibility), but saying "who's my best buddy?" and hearing my nephew say "You!" is about the best feeling imaginable...topped only the other night when he put a pillow on my lap and conked out while watching Charlie Brown Christmas. My sister says "He NEVER does that with anyone but us. EVER."

Pretty awesome.

I'm the uncle of two, and there's nothing that compares to being mobbed at the front door by the both of them: "Uncle Mikey, Uncle Mikey, Uncle Mikey. ..." When the little girl grabs me as hard as she can for a hug and the 2-year-old boy runs to me with a football ... that's the life. I never want to leave their house.

Some of it gets old after a while -- no one likes being repeatedly slapped in the head, followed by laughter coming from all directions -- but I've never known unconditional love like that before they came along.

 

[HC]

My grandfather died at 101 with no grandchildren.

This makes my brain hurt.

I'm thinking Dyno meant great grandchildren.