Seattle Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Re: clicky: current state of Seattle Nestie reproduction
I do feel like I get left out...like a married couple can't be a family. I'm 38 so hopefully people have figured out that I'm pretty sure about no wanting kids.
Dude... The nest ate my answer!! I am in your club UW.
Also, if one more person asks me the state of my uterus I am pretty sure I will donkey punch them.
Oh how I love this board.
For right now, I'm in the don't want them camp. I think the mommy gene somehow got left out of my body. But, at the same time, I love the idea of having older/grown children way way out in the future, so I guess that means putting up with having a kiddo or two at some point. H and I aren't totally decided, but I would MUCH prefer to just adopt. We'll figure it out when the baby bug bites, if it ever does.
In the meantime, my ute is NONE of ANYONE's business, I don't hate kids, my decisions are my decisions, and trying to convince me otherwise won't get you anywhere. Sorry MIL, SIL, friends... but having a kid impacts H and I, not you. We're the ones who will raise him, feed him, clothe him, pay for his daycare, pay for his college and deal with the day in, day out stuff of raising a kid. So, we'll make that call, thanks very much.
2012 Racing Plans:
Valentine's Day Dash 5k, 02/11/2012, 33:03
Seahawks 12k, 04/01/2012, 1:23:17
Bellevue 10k, 04/29/2012
Beat the Bridge 8k, 05/20/2012
Seattle Rock n Roll Half Marathon, 06/23/2012
...more to come!
So for discussion sake, and we're going to have to agree to disagree here, but IMO having kids is selfish. If all you want is to be a parent, then you can easily parent or be parent like to a kid and help someone who can't help themselves. You don't have to birth or adopt a kid. I'm sure there are many of us here who grew up with "parents", aunts, uncles, friend's parents, whoever who helped to shape and raise us as much as our own Mom and Dad.
You're future off spring are taking more resources from the planet, you're projecting your own world views on to another moldable person, and you don't have to have your own kids to be a parent.
UWHusky, ahem, *your
Actually, given the state of our planet, having kids IS rather selfish. This planet is already severely overpopulated and growing by the minute. Our resources are blessedly not short EVERYWHERE, but it's definitely a growing and valid and scary concern, the way we rape our planet of non-renewables like potable water and fossil fuels, and destroying the eco-system, etc. (That said, yes I drive a gas-powered car and like my showers, and do want a kid...I'm just aware my desire is rather selfish in terms of the planetary good.)
Shamed! I swear I know the difference. I'm just being a disrespectful azzhat with my typos.