The child issue

Rereading my old posts, I see a commitment never to have 4 children. How time can change your outlook (time and your level of exhaustion). Actually, I still can't claim to want 4 children, but my husband and I are working on conceiving our third. (No, not right this second. And, yes, I've heard that joke before.)

Sometimes I think I'm a little deranged for making this choice, because I can catch a glimpse of freedom in the near future. We've signed a contract for Diana to attend a Montessori preschool starting next fall, and Rebecca will be in the 1st grade. I will actually have my mornings child-free! Well, I will for a few months before #3 is born, should we succeed in our efforts.

I'm definitely off my rocker for watching "A Baby Story" on TLC each morning that I go to the YMCA and climb on an elliptical machine. No one contemplating pregnancy should enjoy watching others go through the agony of labor, right? But somehow I watch it and always seem to come up with reasons why my experience will be different from the one I'm watching. I won't be screaming in a van racing to reach the hospital in time. I won't be the one begging for an epidural (I've delivered both girls without pain meds.) . I won't be the one who can't seem to get the baby past her hips (no questions there!).

But this time... no induction! No hernias (I hope)! No huge weight gain (I don't need it). Absolutely no pitocin. More naps! No more morning sickness!

Yeah, I'm insane.

More than Momentary relapse

Well, it's been a while. Hmmm. Seems to me that it was about May 2005 that I started playing WoW. Oh, that's World of Warcraft to the uninitiated. If there are any of those left. Guess that's when this blog petered out.

The girls are 2.09 and 5.06. (Version numbers, by the way, are years.months) We just got back from their first trip to Disney World.

And since that has left me tired, I will try to pick this up again tomorrow.