Comments on: My Sisters

By: canape

canape — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:01:23 +0000

Dadgum, woman. I’m still sniffing from the previous post, and now I’m bawling.

You have said this so very well. So very very well.

By: TammyK

TammyK — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:49:41 +0000

Zoot your are an incredible woman! The genuine feelings you have for your online friends is beautiful!! The thoughtfulness and caring your show to everyone is why everyone loves you.

You are a true friend to all who know you!!

By: Tamara

Tamara — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:55:21 +0000

This is a very sweet post. I just wanted to let you know that I found your blog just after I had a miscarriage and you were pretty far along with NikkiZ. Reading that you were successfully pregnant after all you had been through was one of the things that made me feel like everything was going to be okay. (It was, by the way. I have the most wonderful-and-gorgeous-and-into-absolutely-everything16 month old little boy).

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:44:30 +0000

You’re so kind and sensitive and all that, and it’s one of the things I like best about you! I wish that everyone who truly wanted a child could have a happy healthy one to love.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:05:47 +0000

This is a really nice post. I just found out that my best friend from high school, who is currently parenting a 10-month-old, is about five weeks pregnant, quite unexpectedly. She had to use Clomid and Metformin to have her first, and this was a spontaneous pregnancy, so it is really a miracle.

Add to her my other best friend from high school, who is due in April, the three women I work with who are pregnant, the woman I work with who just had a baby, the bloggers I read who are pregnant, and the many friends-of-friends who are pregnant, and I go a little crazy. I am not really ready to be pregnant, per se, although we do not prevent, but when faced with all those pregnancies, I sort of feel a little sad inside that I am not pregnant yet. Does that make sense? And I definitely know that when I hear yet another person is pregnant, I get a little of the “My God, ANOTHER ONE?” vibe going on.

Anyway, you are a great friend to both your in-real-life friends and your bloggy friends to put this into words. Thanks for caring so much!

By: Jenny H.

Jenny H. — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:42:38 +0000

That is why I love you. Even though we have never met. We were supposed to, but I was a bonehead.

The simple fact that you wrote about something so painful to you, and have such firsthand knowledge of, is the reason why I come back every day. Why I will continue to do so, baby posts or not.

By: brit

brit — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:18:14 +0000

I think every one of us has something we feel guilty about while joyful at the same time. The pregnancy issue was one for me as well….well said my friend. Thank you for expressing this complex issue so well.

By: alli

alli — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:51:30 +0000

Thanks. I feel like you when you say it seemed like every blogger got pregnant. I do tend to click away from pregnancy related entries, or peer at them through my fingers as I cover my eyes, but I do wish them the best and healthiest of pregnancy, as I do for you.

By: Kristabella

Kristabella — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:58:20 +0000

I think it shows how awesome you are as a person that you not only know what others are going through, but you know how tough it is and you feel their pain.

And as hard as it is for those friends, I’m sure they are still very happy for you.

By: Ree

Ree — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:19:47 +0000

I was in those shoes many long years ago. One of the wanted to be pregnant and couldn’t do it – when my best friend got herself pregnant.

I still thank her for her compassion when she told me and her understanding that I couldn’t hang around her like I used to.

There’s a lot of readers with a new respect for the heart that beats in that chest of yours Zoot.