Sunday was our first wedding anniversary, and we spent it picnicking with some friends in the park where we got married. A few highlights from the day:
Waiting for other people to arrive
Kris: How about we call our dads right now to say Happy Father’s Day?
Gene: Good idea. [Picks up phone.]
Kris: And then when we’re done, we can talk about our marriage!
Gene: Maybe we should call later… [Puts phone down.]
Chatting with Christine and Martina
Kris: The good news is, the doctor I talked to says fertility doesn’t just abruptly drop off at 35.
Martina: Oh?
Kris: The bad news is, it already happened at 28.
Christine: We should have been getting pregnant at 17. Every 17 year old should get pregnant. And then give her baby to a 35 year old woman to raise. Then when you’re 35, you get someone else’s baby.
Martina: Genius.
Kris: Genius. Or, oh! Get pregnant at 17 and then have your baby cryogenically frozen. Thaw it out when you’re ready to raise it.
Christine: No one would start raising babies until they were 50.
Martina: [Laughs]
Christine: [Laughs]
Kris: [Totally serious] I think we should market this idea.
Jason and Michele arrive
Jason: We didn’t bring any FOOD-food.
Michele: We brought two kinds of cookies.
Kris: Yeah, we didn’t bring a lot of lunch food either.
Gene: And we also brought cookies.
[Phone rings, Gene chats briefly.]
Gene: Rob will be here as soon as his cookies are done.
More pictures from my beautiful and silly Maid of Honor are here.
i liked the part where christine and adam arrived and rather than saying “hi” like a pleasant person, it went like this.
michele: christine, what kind of food did you bring?
christine: what? stuff for adam and i.
michele: like for adam and you and ALL OF US? give me food!
adam: we brought some snack meat! from the whole pig we had yesterday with crackling skin! here, guys! pig!
christine: i have this to share and this. Oh and these. (brings out large platter of honeydew melon, strawberries, and jelly beans)
adam: and i have one extra wine glass just for you, michele!
michele: muah-ha-ha!
later ivan showed up with hot dogs.
michele: sooooo…how do we get one of those hot dogs?
man, next time i’m going to remember to bring something besides cookies to eat. also, eating primarily cookies and drinking wine all day made me WAY too hyper. out of control.
That thing you were describing, where the 17 year olds have babies for the 35 year olds to raise? That totally happens in (1) Oklahoma and (2) Jersey City. And you thought we were so advanced in California!
i just read a book which is about this having kids at 17 for 35 year olds thing you were talking about and yes i actually remembered this conversation and felt the need to come back and comment on it.
so the book is “bumped” by megan mccafferty and there’s this virus which makes it impossible for people to have babies after the age of 20 (if they’re lucky–sometimes it’s 18). so being pregnant is marketed as a thing. this book is less icky that “wither” was with the solution but still super icky about making 14 year olds have kids for you. anyway, if you want to read something about this subject, you should get this book from the library too. (though “wither” was still better as a novel but not the same point as you were making here).
annnd that is what i have to tell you about today.