If our house sells tomorrow, you know why….My Realtor Might Quit.
Today was a roller coaster of emotions. We got an offer on the house that we couldn’t come to an agreement with the buyer on so we had to let the offer go. I was so excited followed by so down and frustrated. It was rough. But my sister encouraged me and made me laugh.
My sister cracks me up. We gave birth to our three babies at home. In case you don’t know… when you give birth at home.. you still have all the “stuff” from after the birth, such as the placenta. I never threw our placentas away because it partially seems wrong but more so because I just didn’t want to do that to the garbage men! Can you imagine if that trash bag accidentally ripped open and fell onto their feet? UGH Ugh ugh. I can’t even go there. Ok, so I just did… but still!! So I do what every normal person would do with their placenta’s and I froze them. Really we meant to save them only until we were able to bury them but like all things in my freezer, they were forgotten and left there for years. Then when Hurricane Ike hit and we lost power for a week, we quickly buried the two placentas we then had in the front yard since everything was defrosting. If you think that the trash bag story was gross, just consider a defrosted placenta after a week story.
I’m not going to tell you where Princess Newbie’s placenta is at. Just know that the last time my mother in law started to take it out of the freezer to let it defrost, thinking it was meat….. we quickly told her to put it back in. I’ll get around to burying it one day. (Most people bury it under a pretty bush or tree)
My sister, Julia, likes to harass me about the placentas in my yard. Over the years she’s slowly accepted our wacky way of life and now she just pokes fun at it. She called tonight to congratulate me on the offer, not knowing that it had fallen through. She must have sensed the defeat in my voice beause she was quick to go into the old Kralka family comedy routine. I was blessed enough to be born into a family of hilarious comedians, or so they think.
The thing that really truly cracked me up is one of her suggestions… You know how people have the For Sale signs in their yard with the big red “POOL” banner across the top? She suggested we get one of those but replace it with “PLACENTA”. According to her, placentas are a big draw and people will be flocking to buy a house with a few placentas in the yard.
Now.. I don’t know if I’m really onto something here or not… Some people choose to bury catholic saints upside down in their yards but as for us… we’re stickin’ with the placentas.
If our house sells tomorrow, you know why….
If our house sells tomorrow, you know why….
LOL, I’m sure that sign would attract quite a few glances!!!
I Should try it.
If nothing else, people will definitely stop to do a double take ;).
I did the normal thing with my placentas the first three births (meaning, I had my midwives wrap it thoroughly in trash bags and dispose of it for me), but, when my sister told a friend at church that her sister would soon be giving birth in her very house, the friend got suddenly excited and blurted out, “Ooh-ooh! Can I have the placenta?!” My sister was slightly taken aback.
Turns out, this friend is a volunteer canine trainer for a search and rescue team. They use human placentas in their training. So, accordingly, Emeth’s placenta was wrapped and frozen until it could be retrieved (retrieved, heh-heh) by the canine trainer. We just won’t wonder too much about what happened to it after that.
Definitely the weirdest fact accompanying any of my four births.
I love that!!! I don’t want to know what happened to it either, I’m sure the just threw it away but I still love it!
A co-worker cooked his kids placenta and ate it. I guess they were hipsters.
Bobby. I adore your humor and cant wait to sit up for hours eating things like icecream and cookies WITHOUT sharing with children and discuss things JUST LIKE THIS! xoxoxo
Oh my gosh! That is hilarious!! I’m so glad you commented on my blog so I could come read your blog. I’m all for a great sense of humor.
Sort of reminds me of my neighbor. Only she had dead animals in her freezer. Ha! Ha!
Oh My! You’re a hoot! Sorry to hear about the offer falling through. There’s not much worse than hearing your Realtor say, “You got an offer (Yahoo!!!) but it’s a little less than we were hoping.” And the “little less” is more like,”Hey there, may we have your house for free!?!?” Woh-woh-woh. Hopefully the next one will be a keeper! Good luck to you.
out. of. CONTROL! good luck selling. that’s gotta be a stressful time, but with that sense of humor i’m sure you’ll handle it well:)
Sold! To the lady typing at her computer!
Placentas? Now that is a buyers incentive to contend with. Its not like you can just walk into the store and request one. No, you have to have a baby, that’s atleast a 9 month waiting list. And, it’s organic right? Organic is all the rage. You didn’t use pesticides on your babies placentas did you? Cause then that would be a deal breaker for me. Its a hard limit.
Bwahhahaha!!! Hilarious! You might need to label that placenta to keep the m.i.l from trying to defrost it.