No thanks!

A few days ago I found out that another old roommate of mine is pregnant.  This girl 'lasted' a bit longer than other roommates, but I can't say I'm too surprised.  I've had several roommates in the past 3 years I had roommates get married & have children, and I'm clearly one of the few childless ones.

-Leslie (F06) has had three kids, another is due this fall, I believe; married since Nov 06
-Ali (W08) had her daughter Emma last July (?); married since Dec 08
-Sam C. (F09) had her son Warren last month; married in Mar 09
-Sam P. (W08) is due in June, I think; married Aug 09
-Kaitlin (F09) is due this fall; married June(?) 09
-Deb (W08) is due this November; married Aug 08

That is intense.  The other two girls (Jennifer, W08; married Jan 10 & Stephanie F08; married Dec 08) are the two I liked the least and at the moment, do not seem to be knocked up.

Not that having kids is a bad thing, but come on!  Some of these girls didn't even know their now-husband for 9 months before they got married and got pregnant.  Is it just me or is that insane??  I've had this conversation many a time, but I just can't wrap my head around the LDS ideal of 'meet & marry within 6 months, child within 1 year thing'.

That's not to say that everyone does that, there are some definite exclusions, but really-6 out of the 8 old roommates I've lived with are expecting or have already had their child??  Geez!

When I've talked about my feelings on this, I usually get some strange looks.  Well, I guess the person is still adjusting to the fact that Zak & I dated for 2 years before we got engaged before they can understand that we are waiting another 5 or so years to have a child.  It's not that we are against having kids at all, we just want to wait.  Which isn't a bad thing, in my opinion.  Oh and just FYI, there was only one girl on that list who's older than me, so all of those girls are under 22.  Soak that up.

Because, seriously, Zak and I still like to play video games and stay up late and eat unhealthily now and then.  We are enjoying being a young, married couple without the arduous task of being responsible for a tiny human being.

I just think it's crazy that all those girls I lived with are mothers or will be soon.  I'm sure they are / will be excellent moms (some are just perfect for being a mom, in my opinion), but that is so not what I want to be doing with my life at the moment.  I'm 22 years old!  I just graduated from college!  Zak is going to school for at least two more years and I will be working the entire time to support us, to throw a child in on top of that would only make my head explode.

I know people have made due with one or more children at the age and position I'm at, but I'm not ready for that.

I hope I didn't jinx myself too bad just now.  Next week I better bleed.