Congrats to you, Bosda. Being an uncle is way cool. No need to go all out financially, just be there for them. I am an uncle 9 times–6 nieces and three nephews. I also have a great-niece and a great-niece and a great-nephew in the oven. Both pregnant nieces are due in early February–right around my 53rd birthday.
Please keep us posted. I’d like to know when Margaret finally arrives. Incidently, Margaret is such a beautiful name. I’m glad your dear grandmother is being honored by continuing the use of her name.
My sis had her baby this past Saturday! 
Congrats, Uncle Bosda.
I’m so excited, I haven’t slept well in a week.
Congrats, Bosda - I became an aunt last December to Hannah, who rules my world, and will become another one (to another sibling’s child) next Mayish. It’s exciting. It’s fantastic. It’s the best. Spoil that child rotten - she deserves it.
Here’s hoping you live close enough to do so - my niece lives in my city of Minneapolis, but my ? lives in New Jersey. Sadness. It could get expensive!
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Bosda, since your sister is having a girl that will make you an Aunt. Mwuhahahaahah. Ok stop throwing things now.
Still…no…baby…
Noooo…slleeeeeep…
Too…tense…
City…adding…sewers…around…my…home…
Giant Pumps…run alll <yawn> night. Sounds like a Mac Truck…in my…closet…
shoot me now…
Stilll no baby! :eek: :smack:
If no baby by OCT 30, the Doc is gonna start talking about inducing the birth.
Much unease around Casa Bosda. 
Well, Bosda, you know the baby game mostly consists of “hurry up and wait”. Inducing a baby is not a bad thing. (Sometimes it can be a huge relief.) So, although it sounds bad, I’m sure your sister and neice will be perfectly safe.
And just to neener neener you, I was an aunt before I was even born! 
I became a great-aunt at the age of 20. (This is the benefit of having a much older sister who has a daughter two years older than me.)
Good luck, and best wishes! Keep us posted!
I’m going to be an aunt, by marriage, next May. And my niece-to-be is a whole THREE years younger than me. Ack!
I know about the waiting – my closest female friend had a baby a month ago Monday, and the last two or three weeks were torture for us all. She DID end up being induced, and everything went beautifully. I AM an honorary aunt, just not a real one. And I’d better NOT be, or my brother has some explaining to do!
Ehhh, your niece-to-be is just trying to be fashionably late, Bosda. 
Either that, or she wants a Halloween birthday to make sure no one can forget when it is.
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Yeah, but I’m still gonna be a jabbering wreck until the kid is here.
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Imagine how your sister feels, if you think the waiting is tough!
Just remember, Bosda, to be the “cool” uncle, you must emulate all of the great uncles of old…
Make food! (Uncle Ben)
Endear love of country! (Uncle Sam)
Sing to the young’un! (Uncle Kracker)
Tell Stories! (Uncle Remus)
Love your niece, even if she doesn’t seem to love you back. (Uncle Buck)
Aye. You’ve got a lot of experience to draw from.
Again, congrats, Bosda!
Yay for you!
Congratulations, Bosda! I’m not a real aunt to anyone… my brother and sister would have a LOT of explaining to do to the family and friends if this was so. However, sometimes I get called “Auntie” by the kids at church (sometimes their parents get them to call me that) … so I don’t know if that counts.
Hope little Margaret arrives soon! I love that name; it means “pearl” in Greek. I know a few Margarets, and I’m sure your niece-to-be will be a very good, caring woman like they are.
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Fear & anxiety in Bosda’s place.
No baby yet.
Last night, Mom went to hysterics.
She’s afraid the baby, my sister, or both, will die.
No reason for this–just the stress of waiting. Also, the emotional toll from her cancer treatments.
Of course, the doctors all say that Mom, my sister, and the baby are all fine, & doing great.
But the stress is ripping all of us up.
And Sis doesn’t want Mom down there raising her stress levels, so Mom is up here, raising ours.
Much crying, unhappiness, & loss of sleep in Maison Di’Chi last night.
So, tomorrow’s the day, then? If no baby, they induce?
Not sure.
Mom talked to Sis last night, but she went ‘over the top’ right afterwards, so no clear reports available.
THAR SHE BLOWS!!! Continued in the thread of the same name, same Bat time, same Bat Channel!!!