Moms of Boys

No, not MY baby news, thank goodness! I'm a little too old for that, I'm sad to say. It's my niece's baby news. My niece Kristin is the only girl of my parents' eight grandchildren; we were delighted to find out that Kristin and her husband will be having a baby in November. Then a month or so ago, my sister Mary (Kristin's mom) got a phone call from Kristin telling her that they found out the gender of the baby. At that very moment, my mother and my other sister Gail were in the room (Gail has three boys and no girls too like I do).  So we waited in great anticipation as Mary talked to Kristin. When Mary turned to us and exclaimed, "It's a girl!", Gail, my mother, and I all squealed -- literally squealed. Needless to say, we are all very excited about having a little girl in the family at last. I have been buying pink things for the first time in my life.  But yes, I have to admit, it feels very strange to walk past the little boy things after so many years of buying blue stuff. I'm sure if my niece announced she was going to have a boy, I would have been just as excited to buy the boy things. The bottom line is we can't wait for our baby!