I'm going to be an aunt.

[wendyzski]

My brother and his wife are expecting. She's just around the end of her 1st trimester - they waited to tell my mom so they could do it in person this weekend at a childhood friend's wedding in NY.

I'll bet Mom is ecstatic. She was asking me when I thought they'd decide to do it when I saw her at their wedding - and the only "grandchildren" she's likely to get on my end have long ears and fur!

So there will in fact be another round of small people with a really long name.

Comments

[surlywench.livejournal.com]

WOOOT!!!!!!

[stealthbunny.livejournal.com]

Being an aunt is great fun! You can spoil them all you want, and give them back when you're done. AND when they're angry at their parents, they come to you! And when they're in trouble, it's their parents that have to yell at them, not you, so you're always the Fun One!

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

That has always been my plan. You're SUPPOSED to have an "eccentric aunt" or two. It's in the rule book.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I've always been fond of your description of possible future family gatherings which might involve dancing to something like "Rock Lobster" - "Why is Aunt Wendy rolling around on the floor?"

Conga-rats!

[stealthbunny.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY! My game plan was to teach my neice that the word for "rabbit" was "fluff-butt", but I never got to be around her during that stage (she lives 3000 miles away), but it was a good plan!

She was, however around when she was a toddler, and had never seen a rabbit before. She lived with a lot of dogs, however, and one of her first words was "woof". Which was how she greeted Gekko. And took a ball to Gekko.

Gekko was NOT impressed and ignored her.

Until she discovered the box of yogurt drops and Gekko was suddenly her very best friend.

Except that SHE was eating the yogurt drops when her mom found out with a LOT of loud yelling and panicing.

My perfectly calm response was that they never hurt the rabbit.

It wasn't quite the response my sister was looking for.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

A dear friend has already said that Aunt Wendy can teach Breena to swordfight, but only after she turns 6.

[rose1thorn.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!!

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Isn't it nice when someone else's procreation takes a bit of the 'burden' off of you?

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I'm not sure my mom finally got the idea through her head that I'm not going to have kids until I turned 40, despite the fact that I'd been telling her that since 25 or so.

I never ruled out "parenting" - adopting, or finding a guy that came with a spare. But I have pretty much always felt that my medical issues would not be fair to dump on a kid.

[gretchen2149.livejournal.com]

YAY! {{{hugs}}}