One? Or more?
September 28, 2008 by Christine - From Dates to Diapers
Filed under guest post
Kristin has become a good friend through our blogging adventures. She is one of my co-founders at Mommies United, and blogs at An Ordinary Life about her not-so-ordinary life!
Kristin is the mother to Kai, a two and a half year old spunky girl. She’s a busy full time college student living in Oregon. While Kristin is not married, she takes time to enjoy her time with her fiance, Delfino. Together they spend time learning and growing as a family. Kristin loves fashion, and often talks about her favorite products at An Ordinary Life. Kai is the light of her life and she enjoys telling everyone about the exciting changes happening to her family.
Currently I live a life with one child. I watch John and Kate, and I read Christine’s blog, here, to get a small taste of how life would be with more children, and I often think about how different my life would be.
You know, last year I swore up and down I didn’t want another baby for five years. That was the plan, and now I can’t believe I am trying for baby number two. How does a person go from not wanting another baby to wanting another, so quickly?
I think it’s partly the shows I watch! I’ve always been a fan of A Baby Story and Bringing Home Baby (both on TLC), but more recently I started watching them again. They show you all of these small beautiful babies, and the excitement of bringing your new baby home and it brings me back. I even find myself in tears (what I really needed was chocolate) watching these shows.
Mostly, though, I think my desire to have another baby is due to the fact that I don’t want Kai to grow up alone. Is that bad? Mind you, I don’t know if I could ever afford a big family, but I am one of five children and I loved the big get-togethers and all the love I had growing up. I wouldn’t trade those memories for anything. Christmas was a huge event in our house and, although it was crowded, there was lots of love.
So, yes, I want another baby to love. I swore I would be one of those moms who only wanted one child, and that was it. But life changes, and I want more… For me, for Kai, for Delfino, and for another little person!
For more from Kristin, visit her at An Ordinary Life.
I love Kristine!! That’s great that she’s guesting here. I am one of 3 other siblings in my family. Although they are half siblings and so much older than me. So I grew up as an only child. I didn’t want that for my kids. I want that big family. I would love to have 5 kids! I will be having one more when we are able too!
I love Kristin too!
Kristin, you and I have gone through the exact same thing. I’ve gone from a die hard “one and done” Mommy to wanting *gasp* two more. I’m excited for you and wish you the best on your journey to baby #2.
Good luck w/ baby #2! We were surprised and blessed by our pregnancy of baby #4. At the time I was watching those same shows and thinking of the possiblity of another baby and what do ya know, it happened even w/ birth control!!! So I’ll keep my fingers crossed for your family!
What a great choice for a guest post! I thoroughly enjoy reading ~anything~ by Kristin and so let me be the 1, 2, 3rd to congratulate you on your baby quest Kristin!
I only had the two boys and there is no way I’ll have anymore but I read about and know families of five and seven kids and think how wonderful!
Now would be the time to do it Kristin, while Kai is young! That and the fact that we can live vicariously through you LOL.
Thanks Christine for inviting one fabulous blogger and thanks Kristin for a peek in :^)
I think it’s so important for kids to have other kids to grow up with! They learn that other people are important too. It actually makes me sad that people only have 1.3 kids these days.
Krisin=FABULOUSNESS!!! Awesome to see her here!
We’ve been thinking about having another baby. It just makes me smile thinking about having another bundle of joy to love!!!
~melody~
Kristin is you are so awesome! I have 2 and dh and I decided that next year we are going to try to #3.
I am so excited to follow your journey!
Oh go for the gold girl! Kids are awesome. You are guaranteed to have NEVER a dull moment. Good Luck! We love you here in twitterville.
Thanks to everyone who commented it means the world to me.
I guess we will see where my journey brings me, until then I stalk…. I mean read Christine’s journey.
having one is great…but having 2 is twice the fun!!! i can’t imagine my life any other way now that i have both of my beautiful babies! i think you will feel the same way!
amanda:)
Go for it Kristin! We have three kids, and I just love how they are each others best friends.
I have to agree with Amanda! Having 2 is twice the fun! It’s awesome and to actually watch your children playing with their siblings and how they watch out for each other and protect them is just priceless. I have two and wouldn’t ever trade it for an only child. For us it’s the best. Kristin love you!!
It isn’t bad at all, and Kai is at a perfect age to start trying now. My first 2 were 25 months apart and I had created some habits with my first and only at the time that made the addition to the family a little difficult and guilt ridden, so try to shake things up a bit now if you’e done the same thing. For example, we used to snuggle upon his waking, but when new baby was needing to be fed and he was walking out into the living room for our snuggle, he got real upset. He would hide under the kitchen table telling me to put the baby down, so I would set her down after a few minutes of trying to talk him out, and then I would cry due to momma guilt, then the baby would cry, and there we would be…all 3 of us crying. LMAO! Or course, hubby and I work opposite schedules so everything seemed more difficult functioning as a single parent. The plus side, my first and second were extremely close for eons too. Used to get compliments on every outing due to their hand holding and snuggling. I think another plus you have going for you is that you had a daughter first….you run less risk of having your firstborn son teaching all the cool and funny boy words like fart and poop to your secondborn daughter!
I’ll tell you in about a week what it’s like to have two! I know that my daughter is beyond excited to have a sister. She can’t wait to hold her, feed her, rock her.. She says that everyday.