Consignment He!!

So I went to my first consignment last week. I figured this was the best way to get what we needed in one location at a discounted price. While all that sounds good I never thought about what could be a downfall of this plan. The website of the sale encouraged you to bring a small tote bag for your items. So I get my little bag and head out. What I was faced with was around 100 moms, dragging screaming snotty nosed little ones, with overflowing strollers. I have never in my life seen such chaos over second hand items. It looked like we were fighting for our lives. The children were just miserable. I am not a mom yet but I have learned a major lesson; I will not take mine to a place like that. There was absolutely nothing for them to do but scream out of boredom and I think some may have even suffered whiplash while being driven around at 60 mph in their strollers to get to the next row of used teddy bears. I do not mind used items at all but I do draw the line at slightly used drooled upon balls of fluff. I have also now come to realize that strollers can be used as weapons. I was hit and rolled upon countless times. Some of the ladies even blocked off certain parts of the aisles with their strollers while they calmly scanned the clothes and us stroller-less ones stood on the outside wondering how women can be so mean. Never mind that last statement, I know women can be mean. I stayed for about 30 minutes and then gave up. I just couldn’t see how fighting the crowd was worth it. I think EBay is the way to go (wow maybe a new sponsor for future IVF!).

I did manage to score a pre-sale day pass to another consignment by my second mom Sue. It was much calmer and much less crowded. This is the definite way to go if you are lucky enough to get a pass. I did get some great things and only spent 5o bucks. Yay!

Our little one seems to be doing well. She kicks/punches in different places and I have even seen my shirt jump a few times from a powerful punch. I will miss her movements when she makes her way into this world. I find it sad that the fathers of all these blessings will never know the way it feels. It is an amazing and almost strange at the same time feeling. One of my good friends said it best, it’s like a little secret that you share with you baby that no one else knows about.

And now changing subjects completely…..
One last thing, a blog that was started to share our life with family and friends about infertility, hope and now a true blessing has been unfortunately sidelined. It seems my disclaimer for the person it was intended didn’t sink in or maybe it was just ignored. So to all my other readers I know you have gotten more then you bargained for (thank you all for your supportive words both on and off the blog regarding this person’s comments).
I guess I will have to repeat what I said; I don’t want to discuss where countries rank in the world on our infertility blog. When I first read the apology from this reader I thought it was sincere. I thought maybe they now understood that their comments should have never been made because they were critical. Plus, I thought maybe this person was now embarrassed that we have never heard from them in the past and then they have plenty of words for us when they want to “correct” something they didn’t agree with. But after reading further it seems like the apology was used as an opener to further criticize what my husband and I have said about Latvia. I/we were once again told I/we were “not correct” and our opinions were “very subjective”. I guess this reader does not realize that their thoughts about their own country could be subjective. As you all could see we were even given places to research what the definition of a third world country was, as if being uneducated was my husband’s reason for stating this. I guess him being raised in the country, having lived there until he was 18 and all of his family still being there has nothing to do with his knowledge of Latvia.
So to Anete, I have changed the way comments are left on our blog so I will not have to read anything else you write because of you ignoring to let this drop as I asked. They will first go to an inbox where I will delete them without reading because as I said this isn’t the time or place for such disagreements (and to be honest I could care less where Latvia ranks in the world as long as Karlis’s family and close friends are safe). If you want to debate the history of Latvia and the state it is in today you can contact Karlis away from this blog. Lastly, if my blog makes you that defensive maybe you should stop reading it all together because this is not the last time you will hear me talk about Latvia (the good and the bad). I am sorry it has to be like this but I asked you to stop.