One night last week, I strode out of the bathroom waving my toothbrush to corner H in the study. ‘H,’ I said, mintily, ‘I’ve just had an important thought. Two important thoughts. One, if we ever get to heartbeat stage, we could always nickname the creature ‘Willow’, given that it’s having its life saved by acetylsalicylic acid.’
H agreed that this was a pretty cool idea. He likes the name ‘Willow’ anyway.
‘And two,’ I continued, ‘If I ever get pregnant again, you must take a photo of me at once. We don’t have any photos at all of me pregnant. We ought to have a photo of me pregnant, even if you can’t tell that I am. We may not have a chance to get a photo of me obviously pregnant. But I have been pregnant. It ought to be commemorated.’
So H hugged me tight, and promised to take the photo.
I have no particular reason for sharing this right now. I haven’t even peed on a stick yet. I just wanted to write it down before I forgot, or before we get overtaken by events again.
Willow is a lovely name. And also happens to be a seriously kickass TV character, but you knew that already.
“I said, mintily”
I laughed, heartily.
I really like the way your mind works.
Love the name Willow!
Willow is adorable. And not fair having me tear up at the bus stop!
Mintily. My new favourite word.
Good thinking, May. xx
Cool!
Then again, not surprising.
I like Willow as a name, but it’s quite feminine. If you wanted more gender-neutal, I’d go back to the latin and plump for “Salix”. But possibly not “Aspro” or “Anadin”…!
Are you the chief photographer of the house? My Mr never seems to remember that a snap or two of me would be nice. I have ONE photo taken when I was pregnant (when the fact that I was pregnant was the point of the photo), and that was done by a friend. Hey ho.
Two excellent ideas. I’m a huge Buffy fan and LOVE the name Willow.
*holds the hand of May*
I’m here, if you need me.
*hugs*
Hi, May
I found your blog over at Stirrup Queens.
I always have found IF incredibly funny and absurd, in a tragic way.
Good ideas, both of them. Here’s to many, many photos over the course of several months…
I love Willow! Maybe for a middle name since you don’t seem quite as keen on it as H is?
I hate to bring up hard times, but might there be any pictures of you from that Christmas before you knew about Zombryo? I mean, you might not have them, but maybe someone snapped a quick shot that you could get your hands on, just to make you feel better.