Second Baby blues???

Hold your horses cowboy. No, we are not having a second baby. But we've been thinking about it a lot lately. We've actually been thinking about not having another baby. For at least now that is. This line of thought seems to really throw some of our friends and family into a tizzy. Many of our friends are having baby number 2 or 3. Many have children the same age as Zachary and are pregnant, due in a few weeks, or trying for their next child. I am delighted for them but at the same time, not ready for another child. This weekend I held a 7 day old baby girl. She was lovely, simply perfect but didn't get any of those baby making hormones to start running. Greg and I have always said that we have the love in our heart for another child but that we just don't need ne right now. I think to better explain the line of thought is that we know that love is infinite and that we can continue to grow our love and that if we were blessed with another child that our love would expand to love the new child. That's great, I don't doubt that at all. But here's the deal. I really like what we have right now. Really really like it. My love for my son, my love husband, my love for what we are creating as a family together is so incredibly strong. I don't want to do anything right now that might tip the scales and throw the balance off. Selfish, I know, but parenting is that way. I am just getting used to everything, just beginning to recognize my life again as my life. Becoming a parent was such a huge change and everything that I knew before was now different and now everything that changed is becoming familiar to me. It is all really really good right now. So I don't want to do anything right now to change it. Having another child would change my incredible love for my son and for my husband. I don't want to change things right now. I am not sure if I want to change things so dramatically again anytime soon. Greg and I had over 10 years of establishing ourselves together before we had the baby. We've been working hard to incorporate being parents and friends and to begin to recognize ourselves in our new job descriptions. So for now, this is what we are going to do. We are going to just relish in the good times and enjoy having our son in our lives. No matter if folks think us to be wierd or whatever.......

Ice Storm 2007

We survived Ice Storm 2007. Greg was home for 2 1/2 days plus the Monday for MLK day, so we had a great time being stuck at home with everyone. We played a lot, we baked bread and cookies and muffins (see a theme here). We did a lot of painting and coloring and playdough and short, cold walks outside. We installed a closet system in Zachary's room and I organized the pantry and we went to Randalls one evening for supplies and we let Zachary run all over the place. Great place to take a housebound toddler during an ice storm! Overall, we had a really good time having to stay inside and be together as a family. But I did enjoy getting out this morning and heading to the Children's Museum for a little fun but now I really miss the beautiful icicles hanging from my house and the frozen grass that crunched under my feet and the frozen toys and having Greg home.