UGH!! It's only 11/7! Already?!?
Warning: Change your channel immediately for this one!
There's one of those K.ay Jewe.lers commercials for the holidays. It has a Christmas tree and a husband and a new mom rocking a baby. Husband gets out watch, I think, to give to his wife for their first Christmas together as a family. I'm not sure of all the details. I blocked it out.
I get pissed off though...I consider DH my family. DH and me. I don't need a baby to make us a family. So, people who are married and choose not to have children aren't a family? That just irritates me.
When I told DH that he needed to change the channel immediately from now on, he said oh, I know. I asked, "you know?" He replied, "yes". I asked what that meant. He said well, I knew that it would upset you and it upset me too.
I didn't have a good day yesterday and seeing this commercial didn't help, especially since I'm two weeks away from my first EDD and I really thought that that commercial would be DH, me and our LO this Christmas.
Oh Kelly. I totally get it. I think there is a special pod of hell designed for family focussed advertisers who dont recognise there are families that are not just dad mum and kid. When I see my first lesbian couple in an ad for families I may eat my hat.
ReplyDeleteUn.freakin'.real. These damn commercials. They're horrible this time of year! It's like marketing firms are saying the definition of a "happy" family is mom,dad and baby.
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I saw that commercial and it annoyed me too! There was also another one with a husband and wife and new baby. The grandma bought the child her first christmas ornament to start her on her years of collecting. I'm not looking forward to more commercials like these.
ReplyDeleteUgh! I hate "normal" people! And, I know the feeling of thinking this holiday would involve somebody much smaller, or at least a big belly. We will get there somehow, someday!
ReplyDeleteI was in New York City - watching DH run the marathon, seeing friends, and then doing some business(I'm in finance).
I hate those commercials!!! This is the worst time of year for ads like that, too. I'm so sorry, Kelly. Trust me: none of us blame you for changing the channel!
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