Reply #36: I guess I'm lucky [View All]

[TlalocW]

My mom wants nothing more than for her kids to be happy and live their lives how they want so she's never given me crap about having kids. In fact, she refers to my ferrets as her grandkids because she knows how important they are to me, and she even got a little choked up when my first one passed away. Plus, she already has plenty of grandkids and now great-grandkids and doesn't need me adding to the brood.

I remember first getting this vibe from her in high school. I lived near Wichita, Kansas, when Operation Rescue came to town to protest at the abortion clinics there. I was in high school, and both my sisters, being 14 and 16 years older than I, were already out and had had at least one kid between them. The younger of my two sisters is very conservative and pro-life, and when she found out I was pro-choice, she actually told mom on me. Mom looked at her and said, "What do you want me to do about it? I raised you kids to think for yourselves!"

TlalocW