I see that it's Monday again. Who let this happen?

[flexagon]

This is definitely an interesting article.

I don't know what to say about this weekend except that a) it was okay and b) I wish HLM would get better. The poor thing was really good last night about trying not to wake me up with his coughing, but I think that just meant he wasn't in bed much until 6 AM. And oddly, he doesn't want to call the doctor because he "keeps feeling like he's getting better." Whiskey tango foxtrot? He's not better, and he's usually the hypochondriac of the two of us! I think maybe this is some insidious disease that attacks the very centers of the brain that would normally worry about disease.

And for one more link, there's a cool poll on the CF board about birth order and being childfree. *blinkblink* The results do make sense, but I'd never heard of this correlation before.

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[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry HLM is still sick. :( I understand about him not wanting to go to the doctor, they're useless. Coming from a girl who has an appt today. :P Thanks for coming on Friday anyway. :)

The childfree poll is interesting. I do suppose it makes sense, older children might end up feeling like they've already been parents.

[saltwatersound.livejournal.com]

That is exactly it. I am the eldest sibling of 4, and the distance in years between myself and the 3rd is 9 years, and myself an dthe 4th is 11 years. Needless to say, I spent much of my teenage years helping to raise babies while my mother worked. I always tell people that I had a pager through highschool not cause I was really cool and had lots of people calling me, but so that my mother could call me and ask me to make dinner, or bathe the kids, or pick up so and so from the bus stop. Ugh.

My husband and I do not want to have children. My being the 2nd mother to my siblings is a HUGE reason for this. I've already been a parent, and I don't want to be one again. [Funny how when I say this, it usually accompanies a jab in the arm by my mother.]

[flexagon]

Argh, I keep forgetting to add you back. :)

As for the poll, I completely understand where you're coming from. I am sure that experience would have had the same effect on me. (As an only child in a pretty disturbed household, I can only say that I felt too much responsibility while I was growing up even though there were no other children involved.)

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

I hear ya. I too come from a childhood with way too much responsibility (though for myself, not other kids), and have plenty of nice bits of baggage from that. Strangely not childfree issues though...I have few problems with the concept of taking care of a child, I'd just like to stop taking care of my mother at some point. :P

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

PS - I love your icon photo.