GUESS WHAAAAAT! *grin*

"Sophie" wrote in message
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C and P were
on one side of the dining room table and L was by himself on the other
side.
It looked so sad like that. I'm glad (soon) everyone will have someone on
their side of the table

Awwww!

JennP.

"newfy.1" wrote in message
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"Sophie" wrote in message
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C and P were
on one side of the dining room table and L was by himself on the other
side.
It looked so sad like that. I'm glad (soon) everyone will have someone
on
their side of the table

Awwww!

JennP.



I know! Sappy or what!? And I did tear up - those darn pregnancy
hormones - lol.

Elfanie wrote:
anyways...found out on Friday...

Congratulations!

Cathy

Congratulations!!!!! :-)

lisa
micksmom
26 months old
Baby 2: edd 2-7-05

BIG Congrats

"Elfanie" wrote in message
...
I had to wait to make the announcement because our internet has been
down since last wednesday night (and the stupid cable guy couldn't
make it out here until tonight...*grumble*)

anyways...found out on Friday...

our family will be welcoming a new baby sometime at the end of May.
=) We are blissfully estatically thrilled....to say the least. The
kids are SO excited, it's really kind of funny.

Phew...glad I could finally let all of ya'll know!

=)


Stephanie Soderblom CLD CCCE CD(DONA) ICD
Mesa, AZ
Mommy to Mikael 5/9/95 - Kerstyn 8/6/99 - and Kevin 8/30/02
New baby due end of May 2004
Student Midwife
Birth Doula / Childbirth Educator / Pregnancy and Birth Photography

http://www.birthdiaries.com - Birth Story Diaries=REAL BIRTHS = REAL
PHOTOS

"Ericka Kammerer" wrote in message
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Elfanie wrote:


I've been on here since we were expecting our first baby...and he will
be 10 in May. *laugh*
time does fly by quickly, doesn't it? =)

Me too. My first will be 10 in February, and I
just can't believe it. I've only got seven inches on him,
and he seems to sprout another inch or two on a regular
basis! Yikes! I still can't come to grips with the
notion of him being in double digits.


sigh
K is 11, started middle school last week, and I had to buy her BRAS. Plus
she won't let me see her naked anymore because she is shy about hair.
/sigh

Kid is 5 feet tall, but has size 9 *men's* shoes. Great Dane puppy....

I've got 8 inches on her...but I was her height at her age, and grew 7 of
those inches in about a year...

Eeek?

I buy all her pants way, way too long.

Jenrose

Yay, Stephanie! Congratulations!


Leslie

Emily (2/4/91)
Jake (1/27/94)
Teddy (2/15/95)
William (3/5/01 -- VBA3C, 13 lbs. 5 oz.)
and Lorelei, expected 11/2/04

"Children come trailing clouds of glory from God, which is their home."
~ William Wordsworth

Sophie said:

I'm glad (soon) everyone will have someone on
their side of the table

And as for us, we just went out and bought a bigger table, and there is an
empty chair on each side just waiting to be filled. :-)




Leslie

Emily (2/4/91)
Jake (1/27/94)
Teddy (2/15/95)
William (3/5/01 -- VBA3C, 13 lbs. 5 oz.)
and Lorelei, expected 11/2/04

"Children come trailing clouds of glory from God, which is their home."
~ William Wordsworth

Barbara said:

Seriously, I'd love to have a fourth. I just don't see how it's practical.
But then, having kids isn't practical to begin with, is it?

If we were waiting for it to be practical, we might have had ONE by now!
Having a fifth one ATM is the opposite of practical.

But mainly, I'm
starting to see a sort of light at the end of the tunnel here (being done
with diapers and expensive daycare and all of that) and I'm thinking I don't
really want to put myself in for another 3-4 years of these things.

All mine were out of diapers etc. by the time William came along but you know
all those things are nothing compared to the joy a new baby brings. :-)


Plus, my husband has said that if we have another, I have to quit my job
because he doesn't want to deal with infant daycare issues again. I can
totally understand and even agree with that POV, but it makes me *very*
nervous from all kinds of angles. It's not that we wouldn't have enough to
live on, but my job provides our health insurance (with $0.00 premiums and
low co-pays/deductibles--I am very, very lucky given the current state of
healthcare in this country) and I have the only employer-sponsored
retirement program. The idea of giving those two things up when we're both
40+ just does NOT appeal to me!

I hear what you are saying. But I was talking to a woman after church the
other day who has two kids, and she was saying how she thought it was wonderful
we were having our fifth, and she wished she'd had several more, and we both
agreed that it would be extremely rare to regret HAVING another baby, while
it's very common to regret the ones you didn't have.


Leslie

Emily (2/4/91)
Jake (1/27/94)
Teddy (2/15/95)
William (3/5/01 -- VBA3C, 13 lbs. 5 oz.)
and Lorelei, expected 11/2/04

"Children come trailing clouds of glory from God, which is their home."
~ William Wordsworth

Leslie wrote:


I hear what you are saying. But I was talking to a woman after church the
other day who has two kids, and she was saying how she thought it was wonderful
we were having our fifth, and she wished she'd had several more, and we both
agreed that it would be extremely rare to regret HAVING another baby, while
it's very common to regret the ones you didn't have.

True, but having additional children *does* have
consequences. If I had another, which would certainly
be a possibility in a different life, it would have
major consequences for us in terms of housing (we're
fine for three, but four would likely be tight), in
terms of my job (a job that works *exceedingly* well
for my family as it stands would be hard to continue
through another pregnancy and babyhood), in terms of
additional activities and whatnot. If I had another
child, I'm sure I'd say that I didn't regret having
another child, but it would also involve life changes
that I don't think are best for me and my family as
they stand now. They're all *choices*. We could
manage with another child. I just don't see it as
optimal for us (others, obviously, have different
equations for their families and circumstances).
I'm sure there could be a time I'd regret not
having another child. I regret the thought that I'm
done *now*! There are many roads not taken in my
life that I "regret" in that I'm wistful about not
having done them. However, when considered in
*context*, given the options available at the time
and the consequences of those options, I don't
regret the choices relative to the other options.
I suspect it will be the same with having more children--
wistful that we didn't choose more, but overall
pleased with the big picture enabled by the choice to
hold at three. If we had another, it would hardly
be a tragedy and I'm sure we'd work things out.
The thing is, you're always in the position
of balancing *people* (new children) against *things*
(living space, money, activities, lifestyle). It
never feels good to seem to say that things (maintaining
a lifestyle) are more important than people (having
another child). It always sounds shallow at some
level to me. But on the other hand, everyone has
circumstances, some chosen and some imposed, that
are more or less conducive to adding more children
and it certainly seems reasonable to respect those
boundaries ;-) The only thing that seems a given to
me is that ideally you don't have more children than
you can provide a decent life for.

Best wishes,
Ericka