Considering a third? Have three already?

First, a note to friends and fam­ily: read noth­ing into this. Our life is full with two at the moment. We are still catch­ing up on years of sleep depri­va­tion. We are not pregnant!

Now that that’s over with… I have met a lot of beau­ti­ful three kid fam­i­lies lately. Awesome kids, stel­lar moms, great dynam­ics, etc. I just can­not imag­ine any of these fam­i­lies with­out the third kid in the same way that I can­not imag­ine my kids with­out each other or my life with­out either of them.  Every time I see a mom of three or more I am struck by how com­fort­able they are with the lit­tlest. A part of me would love to take all I have learned since my blind jump into par­ent­ing and do it again with the con­fi­dence, expe­ri­ence, and matu­rity I have gained. The rest of me knows that every time I get a lit­tle cocky the next par­ent­ing chal­lenge comes up to bite me in the behind and leave me hum­ble for a while.

I have also watched the gen­er­a­tion before me scram­ble to care for their aging par­ents over the past few years, and am start­ing to think that my Peter and I may be too much of a hand­ful for our two kids when we hit old age. This is a dan­ger­ous argu­ment though… as the con­clu­sion is that  we need a dozen or so kids.

Anyway, dur­ing one of those moments I stum­bled upon Havingthreekids.com (with a tagline of “A site for those who have three, want three, or fear three”) and actu­ally laughed out loud while read­ing the first col­umn posted by Jennifer Eyre White. In addi­tion to the columns, her site offers a com­mu­nity forum and links to blogs and other resources.

Tagged as: adding a third, having three kids, jennifer eyre white, more than two kids, whether to have another baby