***We start to bud in our blouses at 9 or 10 years old only to find anything that comes in contact with those tender, blooming buds hurts so bad it brings us to tears. ***Enter the almighty, uncomfortable training bra contraption the boys in school will snap until we have callouses on our backs. ***Next, we get our periods in our early to mid-teens (or sooner). Along with those budding boobs, we now bloat, we cramp, we get the hormone crankies, have to wear little mattresses between our legs or insert tubular, packed cotton rods in places we didnt even know we had. ***Our next little rite of passage is having sex for the first time which is about as much fun as having a ramrod push your uterus through your nostrils, leaving us to wonder what all the fuss was about. ***Then its off to Motherhood where we learn to live on dry crackers and water for a few months so we dont spend the entire day leaning over Brother John. Of course,
amazing creatures that we are (and we are), we learn to live with the growing little angels inside us steadily kicking our innards night and day making us wonder if were having Rosemarys Baby. Our once flat bellies now look like we swallowed a watermelon whole and we pee our pants everytime we sneeze. ***When the big moment arrives, the dam in our blessed Nether Regions will invariably burst right in the middle of the mall and well waddle with our big cartoon feet moaning in pain all the way to the ER. Then its huff and puff and beg to die while the OB says, Please stop screaming, Mrs. Hearmeroar. Calm down and push. Just one more (or 10) good push, warranting a strong, well-deserved impulse to punch the bastard (and hubby) square in the nose for making us cram a wiggling, mushroom-headed 10lb. bowling ball through a keyhole. ***After that, its time to raise those angels only to find that when
all that cute wears off, the beautiful little darlings morph into walking, jabbering, wet, gooey,
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