Yesterday, for the first time in a long time I held a newborn. I think the last time I held a newborn was my cousin's first kid and now he's about 13(?) and a surly pre-teen lady-killer (happas turn out so cute!).
I had a nervous oh-my-God-don't-let-me-drop-this-kid-in-front-of-mom-dad-grandma feeling at first, but at one point I became overwhelmingly giggly just looking at him. I have feeling that I said something possibly misinterpreted like, "Ohh he makes me laugh just looking at him", but I hope the parents didn't take it the wrong way. It was just seeing this little mini-human, not yet even 24 hours into the world, contentedly sleeping in my arms like he didn't have a care in the world that set off the giggles.
Inevitably, someone is going to throw out the "biological clock ticking" accusation so let me just beat you to the punch. I don't deny I want one of those eventually but to put things in perspective, let's see what other things I want "eventually":
- new digital camera
- live in a different city
- buy a house
- eat lunch
These are all general goals in life and the timelines are pretty hazy (except for lunch, I'm pretty sure I want that soon) so when I say I want to have a baby "eventually", it's up there in that list somewhere but it definately doesn't share the same urgency as say, "eat lunch".
I also completely refrained from squealing "oohh lookit da widdle biddle bebe snookums" even once and that ought to count for something.