Maybe it's Virginia this time of year, with its long daylight hours, balmy heat and humid nights, heavy rains and intense thunderstorms, and a beckoning call to open air living. Or maybe it is the slower pace that we keep in the summer months of of June, July, and August. It all seems so suddenly easy. The mornings escape us with Merritt taking a nap at 10:30, and the afternoons are so carefree, they demand less structure and more adventure. I can create in the kitchen with the back door wide open as the kids play naked in the backyard. The sun is still up when Andy gets home for dinner. Bedtime follows closely behind and Roscoe and Merritt are so beat from our explorations of the day that they fall asleep without a fuss as their curls hit their bed sheets, which leaves entire evenings for Andy and me. Perhaps it is human nature that we mate in the Summer so that we can have babies in the Spring like all other smart mammals.
It is true that whenever we find some peace and simplicity in our life we start to believe that we have it all it figured out. We can push away the fear that we sometimes carry, which whispers that we've taken on too much, that we weren't cut out for parenting in the plural sense, that we'll never have a full night's rest again in our lives; and then shortly after we settle in and decide it's a good time to get pregnant.
I'm definitely there, but also thinking that we'll hold off for a little while longer, although it is taking some effort not to just go for it. The boys start preschool in the Fall, and I'd like to try on that routine for a bit and also wrap up the lactation course that I'm midway through before willingly beginning what I anticipate to be a challenging pregnancy.
Roscoe has recently taken up an imaginary friend who he claims is his sister. She lives in North Carolina and has quite a history. I'm taking this as a sign that our family will be rounded out with a little girl on this next go 'round.
I'm definitely there, but also thinking that we'll hold off for a little while longer, although it is taking some effort not to just go for it. The boys start preschool in the Fall, and I'd like to try on that routine for a bit and also wrap up the lactation course that I'm midway through before willingly beginning what I anticipate to be a challenging pregnancy.
Roscoe has recently taken up an imaginary friend who he claims is his sister. She lives in North Carolina and has quite a history. I'm taking this as a sign that our family will be rounded out with a little girl on this next go 'round.
2 out of 3 of my babies are spring babies...I never really thought about it that way before, lol! Although, I would prefer a fall baby so you can cozy up all winter with them, but summers aren't conducive to compression hose, so all my babies have to be spring babies now :/ I can definitely see you having a baby girl next!
ReplyDeleteI hope! I hope! (or else we'll be looking at four...wink wink.)
DeleteHe has an imaginary sister?! So that's what he was talking about when I was watching them the other day!! I kept saying no, that's your brother, you don't have a sister. lol kids... I should have asked who this sister was. I'm interested in her story now. :-D GIRL NEXT!! We all predicted the birth order in our house!
ReplyDeleteHa last July Philip and I talked about a time frame for a second and decided it was best to wait 6 months to a year before trying, Jasper had other plans. Spring babies are nice the fog has lifted enough to really enjoy summer.
ReplyDeleteI'm just playing catch up on all my "posts I want to comment on" now, but YES to this post. I have such similar feelings about it all :)
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