Mom's, do you cry?

[wolftracks]

BTW...........wait till she's a teenager. You think you're crying now???

 

[AK Michelle]

I didn't start crying until after my father passed away. Now I cry at Hallmark commercials

My kids never miss the opportunity to make fun of me.

 

[TigerLilly]

Oh, yeah, the older the kids get, the more they WILL make fun of you (mine give me a big hug when they've gotten their money's worth)...but I love mine & wouldn't trade them for anything. Just had one move back in & one of my DILs asked how I felt about it. Told her I wish they'd all move back home. To make up for my 'empty nest' (which hit me REALLY hard when the 1st one moved out), I have aquired critters. That'll teach 'em to leave me!

Em, if it makes you feel any better--I cried when the Lion King died...and do every time I watch it...yeah, the boys love it!

 

[wolftracks]

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I did too and had taken my youngest daughter to see it for her 6th birthday. She thought i was crazy. She's 23 now and still thinks I'm crazy.

 

[justbugged]

I rarely cry. I had it knocked out of me as a teenager. I wasn't allowed to express feelings. Then after my daughter died, I have had a few knocked down loose it cries about the loss of the kid, but I rarely cry. I think that at some point I am just too hurt to be able to cry much.

 

[TigerLilly]

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That sucks, on so many levels...

I was raised by a DSD that was raised not to show feelings; it's a wonder I am able to show as much as I do. In general, I don't, unless it comes to family or my animals.
I am very sorry to hear about the loss of your daughter.

 

[annaraven]

I found that I got more emotional after my babies were born but it was accentuated once a month. I could always tell when my hormones were going off the deep end - I'd start crying at silly things like dinosaur moms dying. Yep yep. And I still cry over things. Anyone ever see the movie Fly Away Home? When the geese come in for a landing in their new home, I always cry!

I'm married to an Italian, and they cry at the drop of a hat. DH cries more than I do - I mean, he'll cry over a dish of pasta! Italians are just so much more demonstrative than Americans. Of course, he's also more demonstrative romantically as well, so it evens out.

 

[PineappleMama]

Tomboy here too, but it's not just that. I HATE crying. Blocks up my nose, which often leads to sinus crud, gives me a headache... just unpleasant all around. Not quite as bad as throwing up, but close. Plus I just LOATHE letting people/things get to me. It's like an insult, but one I give myself. The killer is that when I (or my Bro for that matter) get REALLY angry we cry... which as said earlier just upsets me so it goes round and round.

There are a few things that get to me... when Claudia is toasted in Interview with a Vampire... always gets to me. Also the end to the His Dark Materials books... KILLED me. I was dripping and sappy for hours over that. Both are absolutely worth the read, any book that is written well enough to summon emotion... those summon sad, Evanovich and Dickens make me laugh, come to that Dickens and Wuthering Heights, etc make me angry.

But for me it really boils down to what you do with those emotions. I use that anger to go on a cleaning binge, so that's quite handy since I'm a packrat procrastinator. Used to that anger would be taken out on a soccer ball, but nowadays I'm too 'adult' not to think of my neighbors windows so off to commune with Mr Clean I go. Dark Materials just made me all kinds of huggy on DH, also nice. Laughter of course improves my day. Sounds like you're just settling into the fullness of parenthood to me... and that is a never ending passel of emotions.

Great big hugs from one sappy Mama to another.

Oh... as to preggers stuff... the biggest BY FAR change in me was my hair. 6-8 mos after I had DS he started pulling on it, drove me NUTS, so I lopped it all off. As it grew out instead of being medium brown and board straight instead it was, and is, almost black and the crown is curly. Go figure.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

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Not as much after the baby is born but I was extremely sensitive to stuff like that during my last pregnancy. My kids would laugh at me because I couldn't read or watch certain things (like sad/sweet FICTIONAL kids books and movies) without blubbering like a lunatic. Sounds like your pregnancy set off some kind of hormonal change in you. Let me warn you, if you have home movies of your daughter and you try to watch those in a few years, have your Kleenex ready because, at least for me, those things trigger the waterworks like crazy!

 

[Robin'sBrood]

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This gets me EVERY TIME...