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Why name a blog “Apron Strings for Emily” when the most com­mon ref­er­ence to actual apron strings is either about being tied to one or need­ing to be cut from one?

My hus­band came up with the name of this blog, know­ing that the song “Apron Strings” from Every­thing But The Girl was prob­a­bly my most favorite song in the world. What he didn’t expect was that this blog and that song would be pretty much the run­ning theme for what I “needed” to blog about.

For me, the song “Apron Strings” is all about long­ing. When put in con­text with infer­til­ity, it becomes specif­i­cally a long­ing for a child. If you haven’t had a chance to read the lyrics to the song, feel free to read it here. Then let me know what you think.

With our deci­sion to live Child-​​free after infer­til­ity, this song has taken on a new mean­ing. Now … instead of that long­ing for a child … I am now long­ing for the under­stand­ing from oth­ers that liv­ing child– free after infer­til­ity was not an easy deci­sion to make. And let­ting go of these apron strings con­tin­ues to be quite a dif­fi­cult task.

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Related Posts:

Autumn Soun­track & Apron Strings
Tied to the Apron

Fun, rather amus­ing posts about Emily’s taste in music:

Lit­tle Fif­teen
Emily the Groupie is Dead

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