Thursday, November 15, 2012

A Luke Warm Welcome

I was watching Morning Joe this morning and a footline scrolled across the bottom of the screen saying "Elizabeth Banks welcomes new baby" or something like that.

I don't even know who Elizabeth Banks is but it's the "welcomes" part that got to me. Sounds so goddamn antiseptic. Like she shook the kids hand.

You don't welcome newborns. You marvel at them, you rejoice in their existence, you celebrate them in wine, whiskey, and song, you dance around your house and sing at the top of your lungs, you call everybody you know and cry and laugh about it, you taunt your barren female friends.

Save "welcome" for your mother-in-law.

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