we registered yesterday, what a nightmare. just like registering for our wedding of course, that little gun and brian being completely bored and frustrating, but of course how annoyed he would be if i picked everything out myself and didn't "force" him to do it with me. at least with our wedding registry, i knew what we wanted and needed and what we would and wouldn't use and the hardest decision i had to make was do we want red placemats or blue ones and do we care about china or do we just want to pick out a pretty porcelain pattern and just have one set of dishes (YES thank heavens). but this! i mean, good Lord. i'm faced with an entire wall of bottles, and i'm supposed to know which ones i'm going to like best? and which are the "best" ones to use? i mean, what makes this one better than that one? and they all say "designed to reduce colic" which i guess is a good thing but doesn't help me distinguish one from another. and some are plastic and some are glass and they're all bpa-free which is good, but are they phthalate-free, and is it that huge of an issue because the bottles my mom used on me were likely even more full of chemicals than these are and i'm fine, and glass would be great because it doesn't have any chemicals at all and it is easy to clean, but do i really want to be toting around glass bottles in a diaper bag that's going to get dumped on the ground and tossed into the backseat of the car or the trunk or accidentally dropped when i have my hands full? and in the end i'm sure they're all basically the same, just pick one, but still, the choices! and those are just the bottles! there were two whole aisles of strollers, and all i wanted was an inexpensive umbrella stroller, don't they make those anymore? these were like the cadillacs of umbrella strollers. what about the poor people who can't afford $89 for a flipping collapsible umbrella stroller? and that didn't even include those behemoth graco travel systems, one of which we already have THANK GOD WE DON'T HAVE TO REGISTER FOR IT. and it weighs 25 pounds, do you see why i want an umbrella stroller, why does it have to be so hard?
bright spot:
brian really wants a child-sized armchair for the kiddo. at least, he says it is for the kiddo.
my mother strongly suggested that we register so people would know what we need, or i would have probably not even bothered, because i feel with this kiddo like i did with our wedding - so insanely marketed to, and i hate it. we already get parenting magazine, because you get a couple issues free from motherhood maternity, but they keep sending it anyways, fine, as long as i don't have to pay for it, and it's just full of ads for all kinds of crap that will make my life as a mother so much easier and better and my kids smarter and more beautiful and all kinds of hype like that, and i wonder how in the world did anyone raise children before all this? i mean, seriously, how did anyone ever get along without this?
and i'm trying so hard to resist all the plastic crap and disney princesses and bright colors and commercialism, i don't want to be a walking advertisement for fisher price. brian says i should just give in because resistance is futile, but i'm trying, am i fighting a losing battle?
we are at: 29 weeks.
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