September to November-ish: "The Bet"

Emily is one of my best friends, and even better, my sister-in-law. We are obsessed with babies. She married my brother Charlie in June '09 and I got married in August '10. We want babies. In September, the 2 of us were on a roadtrip with plenty of time to think, chat and talk about nothing. Did I mention we LOVE babies?

2 new brides + babies on the mind = plan hatched.

Both of us grew up close in age to our siblings and with plenty of cousins to play with. Of COURSE we want to be pregnant at the same time! Our unborn kids are already BFF's, duh. We quickly did some math and discovered that if we started trying to have babies in December, we would give birth around September '11 making imaginary babies the start of a school grade in age. That would leave other couple 11 months to also have a baby in order for cousins/BFF/imaginary babies, to be in the same grade in school, further solidifying BFF status. Genius. We thought of all the details, we would prove at the end of November we were both NOT pregnant to officially begin the race to parenthood. Competition could get the husbands on board, and the loser (the last to get pregnant) would have to include a winners' first or middle name in the baby's name. Gosh Me and Emily are smart.

Don't we look smart??

Problem: It takes two to tango. Husbands were not as into this plan as we were. November passed without proving non-pregnancy but the seed was planted. It's on C&E!