Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs

So it’s Christmas Eve and it appears as if we’re getting closer to the big event. I’ll stick with my prediction of Thursday, the 30th, but I don’t think it’s going to go much past that if I’m wrong.

At the doctor Wednesday, Tiffany was slightly dilated and later that night she had what we think was her first contraction. There have also been other “signs” that I won’t bore you with. Friends of ours just had their first baby two weeks ago today and when I talked to Matt he said that Andrea had been showing “signs” since Monday.

I, of course, asked him what these signs were and he said they were better off not spoken, I now know what he meant. Tiffany’s comfort level is still pretty good though her feet swelled up at church this afternoon. She also started holding her stomach part way through the service and immediately I thought she was having a contraction.Turns out she hadn’t felt the baby move for a while so she was pushing on her stomach. Shortly thereafter activity began again so no worries.

I was slightly relieved she wasn’t going into labor as I am hoping to get through Christmas. For the kid’s sake, I didn’t want her to share a birthday with Jesus. Not bad company, but let’s face it your kind of an afterthought when you’re sharing your birthday with Jesus. A few days later will be hard enough. Plus, I wanted to enjoy our last Christmas as “DINK”s, though since we’ve been buying stuff for this kid since May, that doesn’t really apply.

Oh, what’s a DINK? It’s a term I first heard at work at GS Marketing. DINKs are the highly desirable demographic “Double Income, No Kids”.  These folks are desirable because they have plenty of disposable income, or at least that’s the theory. Being a DINK was nice, but in reality, we haven’t been DINKs since we found out about the pregnancy.

Which brings me to my next point. Why do you have to wait until the child is born to claim them as a dependent? I don’t really want to add it up, but we’ve spent plenty of money on our child this year, yet no tax credit if she’s not born before the 31st. That doesn’t seem fair, but I’ll save that sad story for our daughter the first year she doesn’t get something she wants for Christmas :).