Monday, March 16, 2009

Number 5, Almost here

Although it is a Brady bunch family of the 21st century it is going to still be 5 children. 2 mine, 2 hers and one ours. The 5th one will be here in 3 short months which is already making people look at me funny. A year ago when I was asked how many children I had and I would reply with the safe number 2, people would respond with, "wow, you are so lucky." After a wedding increasing that number to four and finding out that MommyDru is Pregnant again I now reply to the question, "Fifth one is on its way." You would not believe the responses I get to that. Everyone looks at me like I am crazy.
I do not understand this reaction at all, is more that 2 kids really that bad? Why do you look at me like I am crazy to be excited about having my fifth child living in the house?
My Mother was one of 6 and my grandmother was one of 11, is there a chance that I just like being a parent and I believe that I am good at it so bringing in another is exciting?
Yes this will be one more sitting at the table after school to get help with homework, another trip to some sort of activity on Saturday or Sunday. Another college tuition.
I get special time with each of these children, dinner for me and one of them might be more of a dinner with one of them and the baby and may be dinner with two of them. However, I believe that none of these kids lack special time or any needs and they do have a lot of their wants.
Yes this is just a rant because there are actually people out there that believe we shouldn't have another one. I actually had to explain to a ten year old why we chose not to have an abortion because she overheard a couple adults saying that we had to many. I am not on any state funding and all my kids have health benefits and see the Doctor on a regular basis. So we get cereal in a Bag instead of a box, but that is just an easy way to save a few bucks!!!

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