I may have a problem, but egg cartons made from hay aren't it

[thistlechaser]

These egg cartons are both cute as heck as well as Earth-friendly!



Apparently they're made by molding hay in a hot press. I had no idea you could even mold hay!



And on to the problem...

I ran to the store on my lunch break, and stopped my car in the middle of the parking lot to let a man and his young son walk by. The kid was SO cute. I found myself smiling and thinking I maybe wouldn't mind having one. WAIT WAIT STOP HALT BACK THAT TRAIN UP I've never wanted kids (not since I was 5 or 6 and didn't know any better). I've never had a desire to spend time with kids. I really really don't want one of my own... so where in the world are these feelings coming from?

If it's my biological clock, it's running more than a little late. (Apparently biological clocks are really a thing -- I googled it!)

That little boy may have been the cutest thing I ever saw. I couldn't even compare a puppy or a kitten to him (which is just wrong; everyone knows that nothing is cuter than a kitten!).

Comments

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

It sounds like broodiness has hit!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it's muchly unwanted! Arg!

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

The stuff of which, sort of, straw hats are made ....

Yes, indeed the biological clock is a real thing. You gotta be very careful during that period it is in effect. Whew!

Love, C.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hmm, so if we put eggs into a straw hat, we can skip a step. It'd be a lot less cute though!

And I'll be careful for sure!

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

It's an astonishing thing, this body taking over. You mind knows what's going on, and it is helpless. Fortunately my partner was not. But I repeatedly warned him that it was up to him to make sure the unwanted thing did not take place, because if it did, we were keeping the consequences because the body was determined that we were.

This was not even remotely similar to anything I ever experienced, before or since. Not even like helpless lust.

Love, C.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

It's good to have a plan like that -- and a partner willing to do his part! It's awfully new and unlike anything else to me, too.

Thanks for sharing! <3

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

It's spooky scary.

But then, it was interesting too.

It explained a whole passel of sudden marriages among women I knew, all of them around the same age, to men I could not figure out why they married, got preggers immediately, and within a year after the baby was born, were divorced.

Love, C.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ugh, wow. NOT a cycle I intend to follow!

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

You definitely don't want to, that's for sure.

Not necessarily wise moves on their parts.

But they had that baby, and that's all that seemed to matter for a while.

The baby, however, gets older, and doesn't necessarily see things the way they did.

Some messy situations -- not every time, let me haste to say. But some of them were extremely so, and those kids, particularly if they were boys, began to hate their moms. Not every one, let me again haste to say. But there weren't 100% happy endings to this.

Love, C.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

The hay carton is adorable!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes! Looks like it would be soft, though more likely it's prickly.

[lokyst.livejournal.com]

Could you send me the link where you read up that its a real thing? I should know what to watch out for...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Haha at first I thought you meant the hay egg cartons. "She wants to know what to watch out for? Maybe... that they're made out of hay?"

I did a number of google searches at work and read the top result pages. I think the best search was "is biological clock real", or something predictable like that. There was one result on a site called... um... something like "The Educated Male" (Evolved Male? Knowing Male? (something positive) Male) that you should skip. Unless you want to know how all women are trying to get pregnant so they can trap men! The best results were from the Huffington Post.

Good luck!

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that biological clock. As soon as they hit 30, all the women around me started going into nesting mode.

Kidlet came along when I was in my early 30's. I blame that biological clock for him too, haha.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it had hit me then, but it's really rather late! It's still possible that I could act upon it, but not for too too much longer! :P

[spike7451.livejournal.com]

Those cartons are cute. :)

(Apparently biological clocks are really a thing -- I googled it!)

... and thank goodness at 62 mine has stopped ticking. I never wanted children and ignored that damned clock completely. lol.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*stands next to you in the Doesn't Want Children room!* Ignoring mine, too. I like my life as-is!

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

Belatedly, GIRL I FEEL YOU, I think we are about the same age, and I had an absolutely CRUSHING biological hormone smackdown earlier this year. Put me in a blue "Nooo, I have to meet a dude and fall in love and have babies IMMEDIATELY OR IT WILL BE TOO LATE" funk for like three days.

And then I realized oh shit, oh fuck, if I did that I WOULD HAVE ONE FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS AND I AM ABSOLUTELY NOT READY FOR THAT. However, I do enjoy meeting and interacting with my friends' and brother's kids, and I am grateful some of them are giving me quite a substantial role in those kids' lives. My brother and his wife actually told me when they learned the gender of the baby that they were glad she would have me as a strong female role model that did what she wanted and didn't take no shit. They are also wildly opposed to spending their vacation taking a kid to Disney, so HOLY SHIT WILL I EVER TAKE THAT ONE FOR THE TEAM, COME WITH ME TINY NIECE, I WILL DISNEY THE SHIT OUT OF SOME VACATION.

Sometimes I feel guilty that I am not really interested in raising kids, because I am SMRT and have my shit together, and you hear so many stories about kids from families that don't, and foster kids who had terrible experiences and ran away and were trafficked. But you also hear a lot of stories about kids who are unwanted. So.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Funny, I think mine lasted for three days, too. I'm quite over it now. THANKFULLY

if I did that I WOULD HAVE ONE FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS AND I AM ABSOLUTELY NOT READY FOR THAT

So much this. And it's eighteen years AT THE LEAST. Do kids ever really grow up and stop needing things? My sister is 40 and my mother just had to fly across country to her to help during/after a medical emergency. A KID IS FOREVER

I totally feel you on the last paragraph, too. I feel like I'd (probably?) be a good parent for a kid. I'd make sure they were educated well, I'd show them how wonderful books are. I'm financially stable and would certainly share interests with a kid (YAY SOMEONE TO PLAY WITH).

If I were going to do this (NOT THOUGH), I'd adopt or take a foster kid. The idea of a baby growing INSIDE me (HI PARASITE) and me giving birth? OH HELL NO THANKS