Everyone has a right ...

Everyone has a right to know. Not only a right but an obligation to know, right? Everyone has a right and an obligation to know what is going on in my personal life, right?

You are probably wondering what the heck I am talking about. Well, I live in a very nice community with my beau (he is my husband but I am trying out other names to call him for no particular reason) and daughter. Apparently, according to everyone else's timetable, we should be having baby #2. In fact, we are behind schedule and the whole neighborhood is waiting for us to have another one. We have failed in our protocol to stick to everyone else's schedule and have caused a number of folks needless amounts of waiting time.

How do I know that people have been asking questions? How do I know that we are "behind schedule"? Well, I learned this from my daughter's nanny who has been asked at least 4 - 5 times in the last two weeks.

In all seriousness, here is my question. Since when did it become socially acceptable to ask these types of questions? When did it become appropriate to ask continuously about when we are having another baby? Who knows -- maybe we have been trying for months / years and have not been successful? Maybe we have been trying and had a miscarriage? Maybe there were other things going on in our life and the time has not been right?

That is not the point. The point is that I find it obnoxious that not only people are asking when we are having a baby (continuously) but they are asking our employee and putting her in a very uncomfortable position. I am not mad at her ... don't get me wrong. I feel bad that people keep asking her because it is NONE of their business.

Or maybe I am wrong ... maybe everyone has a right to know ...