Shelly's thoughts about her friends having babies.

All I hear about is babies, babies and babies. 

Many of my coworkers and friends are having children. It is quiet common to see monthly e-mails about all the new births and invitations to baby showers. Everywhere I go, I get bombarded with baby talk on a daily basis. It also doesn't help that I'm a newlywed. When I was single, no one at work even mention children. After I got married.. that all change and now I get asked quiet often, "When are you going to have kids?". It's getting to the point where I think my coworkers expect me to get pregnant. 

An example of this would be when I was talking about "babies" with my coworker Petri. His wife is four months pregnant and we were talking about her pregnancy. Well, another coworker was ease dropping into our conversation. He instantly jumps into our conversation and ask, "Shelly, are you pregnant?" I was quiet shocked. I never expected someone I barely know to ask me that kind of question.

This made me realize that saying the b-word around my coworkers is unwise. They would assume it's about me and not about other people. I have my new social status of "newlywed" to thanks for that. Being newlywed must mean you are trying to conceive. 

Khoo and I have no immediate plans for children. To assure this; I use my birth control religiously, we don't take risks and I pray to god. So far--So good. Even though we are not trying, I have been thinking about other baby-related items. 

A few weeks ago, I went shopping for baby clothes. Not for me but for my cousins. I currently have two cousins who are about six-seven months pregnant. I couldn't make it to their baby shower but I decided to buy them something anyways. 

Cute. Yes? That's the one thing I love about baby showers. It is all the adorable gifts. Baby clothes are so cute. Seriously, if I could get away with wearing ducky shoes all day.. I would. When I was searching baby clothes online, I came across this.. 

Can you imagine a cute little kid in these clothes? Just-Wow. 

Speaking of baby showers... .

My coworker Petri is best friends with my husband Khoo. Khoo will probably host a "diaper party" for him. They are quiet popular in my workplace. It's basically the guys version of a baby shower. Except the guests only bring diapers and a lot of alcohol. (Drunk Fest) 

I'm just hope I don't have to clean up any puke. 

I'm Mid-20s, and my friends are having Babies.

Yesterday, I went to my second baby shower this year. And at all baby showers, girls talk about life. Single women talk about dating ( especially the lack of dating) and getting married, and married women talk about having babies or taking care of babies. At this particular baby shower, none were married and most were not in any kind of dating relationship. So, we could all sympathize with each others.. hahaha..

Its weird to slowly see my acquaintances and friends getting married and having babies, and I ..... am in Dallas, TX. NOT TO SAY that I don't enjoy being single, but its just weird to see them in different phases of their lives; when only a few years ago, these same people were in the same life phase of being single and studying.

Sometimes I am a bit envious because they are going through all these new kinds of experiences, but other times, I am grateful that I can avoid all the troubles associated with those experiences. Ultimately, I have to continually remind myself that God knows what was going to happen to me, and trust God is ultimately working ALL things for good- beyond my short- sightness on things. Cause who am I to question his judgement?

And I am actually enjoying watching others go through these transitions. Because it definitely true being a Wedding Guess is a heck a lot more fun than being in the Bridal Party ( even though I was MIA in planning my own sister's wedding. I get tired just hearing about other girls experiences in planning a wedding )

Anyways, the baby shower was cute. It had its baby cake, the typical party games of measuring the mommy's stomach, and the other what-nots..

However, the cutest thing at the party was this Diaper cake.

This is a picture of the diaper cake from the baby shower. When I first saw it from the distance, I was thinking, " Wow.. that's a lot of money to spend on a cake for a baby shower?" I came up to the cake and thought how mad cute it was to roll up all those diapers and staking them up with ribbons and flowers. Good job!!!!!


AND ALSO:
SHELLY RUINED MY DREAMS OF MOVING TO CALIFORNIA FOR SCHOOL... NOW WHY WOULD I GO TO OMAHA, NEBRASKA ??? THAT WOULD BE LIKE A STEP DOWN FROM DALLAS.. URGGGGG