When do the questions end? (long vent)

Ok, I'm sure some of you have gone through this (please tell me I'm not alone), but I've really had it with the stupid questions that people feel they have the right to ask that are none of their darn beeswax!!!!! Before I met my husband the question was 'when are you going to find a boyfriend?' (I loved that one and I was tempted many times to say something mean, but it was usually family and I was trying to be a good girl :)!!. Then when we were dating it was 'when are you going to get married?'. Then we get engaged and it's 'why are you waiting so long, you're not getting any younger' and now that we're married, the question now is, you guessed it, 'ARE YOU PREGNANT YET?', 'ANY NEWS YET', 'ANY BUNS IN THE OVEN', 'WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, YOUR CLOCK IS TICKING?' (I know darn well about my ticking clock and I don't need anybody else keeping track of it -- it's mine and I'll let it tick if I want to! So pffft to you!!!) AND SEVERAL OTHER WONDERFULLY PHRASED QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO IT AS WELL!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE??? Not for nothing, but they have no clue if there's a problem or not and it's none of their business. And by these people, my mother and MIL in particular on Mother's Day!!! OH MY GOD!!!! The stress I went through on Sunday was unbelievable. It all started back on Thanksgiving (or was it Christmas, who remembers it's always the same question) when the question was asked yet again and my wonderful, darling, chicken of a husband, turns around and says 'Mother's Day' -- YOU DO NOT TELL THESE TWO THAT!!!!!!!! So, now the two mothers are counting the days from then until now and are all full of smiles all over the place when they walked into our house and kept saying 'anything new?', etc. My husband HAS NO CLUE what they are talking about and doesn't remember that he said that to them just to shut them up!! I told him at the time that it wouldn't work, but what do I know :)!!!! Anyway, this went on ALL day and I was a nervous wreck because add to this the fact that I WAS 2 DAYS LATE (always on time) and I could very well have been!!!!! So now between them and me being nervous, my hubby is a wreck and kept coming in to the kitchen to ask me if 'there's a bun in the oven' and if I'm pregnant. HELLO, did I take a test somewhere between the antipasti and the pasta? I just gave him that look and he went inside. Ok, so now we're up all night talking about it and are now convinced that I am (add to the fact that I had severe agita and heartburn up the wazoo all night). I come in to work still convinced (was planning on buying a test on the way home) and was up until lunch when the dreaded thing made its appearance (total mixed emotions -- very sad :( and depressing ) and then one of the girls who just got married last month comes in and tells us she's pregnant and due in September!!! I'm TOTALLY happy for her, but it hit me because I had just gotten my period a half-hour before she got here and I knew for sure that I wasn't. :(

Don't get me wrong, I totally understand how excited it is for his mom (he's her only child and this would be the first grandchild) and for my mom (I have a 3 yr. old nephew, but she's itching for another grandchild). I also get nervous because his mom is making all these things and buying stuff and I feel like it might jinx it and she's putting the malocchio (in Italian, the evil eye) on it. I know she NEVER would do that, but that's just me being paranoid. I don't want to feel pressured -- I already put that pressure on myself because I know that my clock is ticking and I hate that and I especially hate the fact that I have to be reminded all the time. Let us enjoy our time together for a bit, we've only been married 7 months and I know I'm ready for children, but I think he needs a bit more time, plus we need some time for ourselves to enjoy each other and our marriage. It's a big step and commitment and your lives change forever (all in a good way), but you really have to be ready for it. I say it'll happen when it happens and that God has a plan for everyone and it wasn't in our plan for this month -- maybe next!!!! :)

Thanks for letting me babble on and on with my vent !!