Questions and Answers

Pregnancy seems to be a time when people let their guards down, if they ever even had one, and ask you those questions they're just dying to know the answer to. The questions baffle me, annoy me, and make me laugh. Here's some that I've gotten so far in no particular order:

• How many kids are you guys gonna have??? Hmmm. I'm not sure really. I've said different numbers at different times and obviously things have changed. I've been "done" before.
• Are you going for a boy? This seems an obvious solution to the perplexity of my multiple pregnancies. Clearly we're not insane, we would just never feel our family was complete without a male offspring right? Wrong. Sure a boy would be great, but I didn't get pregnant as a "one last shot" type of deal. We're well aware of the odds. Sure there's a chance we'll have a boy, but there's the same chance we'll have a girl. Either way we'll have a baby.
• How do you afford all of those kids? Honestly probably the same way most people afford their families. Families much larger than ours do just fine on similar incomes. We are blessed to have what we do and try not to focus on what we don't. It's not always easy but it's not always tough either.
• Do you just love being pregnant? Quite the contrary. I'm not really a big fan of being pregnant myself. It's the result not the process that I enjoy. I'm a private person that doesn't like a lot of attention, so it's certainly not a ploy for that.
• Don't you know what causes that? We're pretty sure. After this baby I plan to drink only decaffeinated beverages. We'll see what happens.

How about you? What's the strangest thing someone has ever said you when you were pregnant?