Lianna's Life

By the request of Spencer, who says he is bored of my blog & I need to write more... Here is a random post... just because.

I have been asked several interesting questions lately. Most are related to my pregnancy and pretty typical, but I find them amusing. First, I would like to sum up all the questions I have been asked from the beginning of the pregnancy:
1. Are you pregnant yet?
2. How are you feeling? Sick?
3. How far along are you?
4. Is it a boy or girl?
5. When are you due?
And now the most common question is: Have you picked out a name yet? To which I always answer: I have some ideas, but Brandon doesn't want to think about it yet. One lady in the temple, a total stranger, said to me, "Well, he needs a name! What are we supposed to call him?" Like it was going to affect her when I picked a name.
But, those are not the amusing comments & questions I was talking about.
My favorite is when people ask, "How is the baby?" which at first caught me off gaurd, because I thought that they thought that I already had the baby. But when I realized that they were asking how he is doing in my belly I still didn't know how to answer. I thought to myself, "How should I know, I can't see him or ask him how he is doing" And then I thought what a silly question it is. It is like asking someone how their liver is doing. How would they know how it is inside of them.

The other one that I think is dumb is when someone is holding a crying baby and they ask me: "Are you ready for this?"
I just don't know what to say. Of course I am ready to have my baby, I wouldn't have gotten pregnant if I didn't want to be a mom. What they are implying is that no one is ever ready to be a parent because it is "so hard". So, if I say yes then they think, "yeah right, you have no idea what you are getting yourself into." But if I say no then they think that I am a fool for getting pregnant. Some girls might start getting worried that they are not ready & doubting themselves just because somebody pointed out how much work it is instead of focusing on what a blessing it is. So, if any of you have the urge to ask someone who is pregnant, "are you ready for this?" ... just don't. Just let us believe that we are ready & let us figure it out when we have our own issues.
I also love it when people start sharing their traumatic labor stories and going into detail about their episiotomies & such. Like I want to hear that!
I had another funny experience that had nothing to do with my pregnancy the other day at the temple. I was subbing on a Sat. morning shift which was way too early for me & the lady leading the music was super offended that I did not sing the opening hymn. She said to me later, "Why didn't you sing my hymn?" Like it was her hymn.
Ha! I just laugh at the weird things people ask me.