For a while after Lila was born I flirted with the idea of just one more baby, mostly to give Lila a sibling closer to her own age. More recently I’ve pretended out loud that I don’t want anymore kids, all the while thinking I might just want one more. Very recently I realized a whole bunch of helpful information about myself, and that knowledge has helped me reach the conclusion, that no, I don’t want any more kids. I wrote about it for my latest DotMoms post.
"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?"
~Hal Borland
Stories We Need to Know: Reading Your Life Path in Literature by my dear friend Allan Hunter who happens to also be married to my dear, dear, dear friend Cathy Bennett. This one is next on my list!
February 28th, 2006 at 9:24 am
What a great post Kelly. Not that I wish any of my kids away, of course, but I’ve often wished that I had planned my family with a little more self-awareness and a lot more maturity.
I lost your link for awhile when my blogroll got deleted, glad to have found you again!