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I am here to admit that I have caught baby fever. A decent number of my friends from high school have had children. And it seems like a quarter of my co-workers are pregnant. And those who aren't pregnant are parents to cute little babies. Ahhhh! BABIES!!!

"Well," you might ask, "You have a good job and a nice husband. Why don't you just make one?" I definitely could. But there are extenuating circumstances. My husband is from Tanzania and didn't receive the best education there. He is working on getting his GED, and then he has at least 4 years of college ahead of him. So that, in addition to all the usual excuses such as money and freedom, are preventing us from having babies now.

I have come up with something else to keep my mind off babies in the meantime. A goal. Before I have children, I will qualify for the Boston Marathon. This is a fantastic goal because I figure it will take at least another two years to do it. Plus, ideally, I'd get to run the marathon for which I qualified before getting knocked up. So that's like 2.5-3.5 years! HOoooray!

This may seem like a trivial, lofty goal to some. But it's working for me! I could hear the biological clock ticking in my brain as I got ready for work this morning. The "Babies! Babies! Babies!" chant did start, but only repeated a few times before the goal popped into my head. Babies later! Running now!

I think the reason that qualifying for Boston works to distract me from my child-rearing desires is because of the nature of child-rearing and the nature of training for a fast marathon. Both are extremely time intensive. Although I hope I continue running once I have children, I'm not sure I'll be able to devote hours to it. So Boston nowish, babies later.