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Oct 8 2008

More family lore

Category: Just Me

In some families, all the kids are born the same time of year. In my family, my sister is born in late October and I'm a mid-November baby. This is because my parents used to take vacations in Florida the same time each year. My mom had to go away on a trip to relax enough to get pregnant.

While I didn't have to go on vacation to get pregnant with Nathan and Lucie, two things did have to happen. One, it had to be July. Two, we could only get pregnant in the Midwest. Nathan was conceived in the Chicago area, where we lived at the time. Lucie was conceived in Green Bay, Wisconsin on a trip to a rockabilly music festival.

Even though their due dates were a week apart, they were born in different months. That's because they're both preemies -- Nathan was born seven weeks early and Lucie four weeks early. While it's nice to have their birthday parties a month apart, it certainly wasn't convenient for them to be born so early. (That's a story for another day.)

Now guess where we'll all be next July? At Blogher 2007 in Chicago! (Blogher is a convention for women bloggers.) Great. Unless I want another baby -- which I don't -- I guess I'll be staying in a different hotel from my husband.