Comments on: Fertile cousins and jealousy

By: mariposatomica

mariposatomica — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 05:04:23 +0000

What a cute little baby! It’s always fun to wonder what your kids will look like or act like. It sounds like you have a lot of fun with your nieces and nephews. Disfrutalos y apapachalos mucho!

By: Pedro

Pedro — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:27:14 +0000

ha! that was a great read. I see myself having kids, sure. not any time soon or anything, pero mas alla… algun dia!

By: Julissa

Julissa — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:17:01 +0000

Yeah, I’d stay away from that HP if I were you

By: cindylu

cindylu — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:03:43 +0000

HP,
Thanks for the offer, but I’ll pass. My kid has to like liberals, or else she/he is really going to annoy me, my friends and a lot of my family members.

Normies,
I can see how you’d get nervous carrying around a newborn or other small baby. I try to make sure one of the parents is nearby so I can easily pass on the kid if I don’t feel like holding him or her.

Kelly,
Eek! Don’t scare me, mujer. Readiness is important, and right now I’m still learning about all the things I need to do to take care of myself.

CAD,
Your niece makes me think of the Ramon Ayala song “Vestida de color de rosa”. That was my favorite when I was a little girl. And yeah, I know sometimes they do get annoying.

Tin,
What I really want is for one of my siblings to get either get knocked up or knock someone up. Heh. For now though, I don’t mind babying our puppy and playing with the nieces and nephews.

EMC,
Thanks, but I really didn’t have anything to do with making my family beautiful. They do that on their own.

My teeth are one of my favorite parts of me. Strange, no. I get told now that I look like my mom, but that’s only when I’m in Mexico. I think I’m probably the kid who looks most like a mix between my parents. The brothers look like my dad and my sister looks like my dad’s sister. I’m the oddball.

Jeff,
Be careful with those Mexicanas. I hear they just want itty bitty babies.

Coco,
But, but, but I already have canas! I’m not that young.

El Grito,
I wonder what’s more work, a dissertation or having a baby and caring for it. Nevermind, I know the answer. On another note, I have a lot of respect for student parents (especially the ones with infants).

By: El Grito

El Grito — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:38:57 +0000

The whole graduate education thing and children seem to be mutually exclusive phenomena for many people. I don’t think they have to be, but it would be hard to juggle both. As for the “oh you’re still young crowd” I think it’s B.S. I think mid to late 20′s is the best time to have kids and even as a man (yeah I know I can have them in my 80′s) I regret not already starting a family. At this rate, my kids (which I do not have yet) will be graduating high school and I will be thinking about retirement. I don’t want to end up like some viejito chasing my toddlers in their walkers while I am reaching for mine. My sister has two children (one she had at 26 the other at 29) and I don’t care how many pinchi degrees I have, she has accomplished a million times more with her two little angelitas. It’s all about familia in my book.

By: Coco

Coco — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:39:29 +0000

No tomes “ansias”! Todo a su tiempo…you are still very young.

Un fuerte y caluroso abrazo.
Cuidate!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:28:33 +0000

I heard this from someone and it always sums it up best for me:

I LOVE babies, just other people’s babies tho”

By: EMC

EMC — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:02:19 +0000

Have I ever told you that you have a very beautiful family?

By: EMC

EMC — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:00:57 +0000

Growing up in the Diaz family, I didn’t really look like anyone, until I lost weight people started to tell me I look more like my brothers–pues, of course, I’m flaco now, just like them.

It’s interesting to me how our Mexican-American culture focuses a lot on the likeness of kin. For example, the lip thing or even eyebrows or the nalgas (oh, those come from your mother’s side…) or my big white teeth, which I didn’t start showing until a few years ago, always making gestos and never wanting to open my boca.

Then I realized, hey, why should I be ashamed of my teeth, when they’re much nicer and better than most people!

By: tin

tin — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:39:46 +0000

ja! your honesty is amusing. i’m sure your babies will be as cute as you and the daddy. meanwhile, you can enjoy your primo’s children without having to sacrifice all the free time you have, weekends, etc.