I can’t believe how quickly the last 8 months have gone, my life seems to be going by at a rate of knots! I have a confession to make. I previously posted a blog about my choice to have one child. I still stand by this post in the sense that, how many children you have or wish to have is absolutely nobody bloody else’s business and, all those sticky beaked people who commented on my choice to have one child and how unfair that was (don’t get me started on over population, personal choices etc etc again) can still go to hell. However my Husband and I find ourselves in the final two weeks of our second pregnancy. I finished work yesterday, I already don’t know what to do with myself, I go back to work in December – I work three days a week (well five in reality but three I am actually paid for) and this has also met much disgruntled approval from apparent friends. Staring at me with wide eyed “how can you do that” “you’ll miss your baby” “don’t make decisions now, you don’t know how you’ll feel” these are the same people who also seemed rather dismayed when they found out I was pregnant and said “how amazing, you must be so excited, that’s great news!” And I replied, “we are looking forward to it but, it was rather a shock to find out.”
I would here like to point out that I love being Charlie’s Mum, he is the most amazing thing I have ever done and we have great fun as a family. I know that when this baby arrives in 13days I will feel exactly the same as I do about him, however, I cannot help it if I am not all gooey-eyed, cannot talk about anything else, only ever thinking about the impending arrival, as it would appear most people want me to be.
I am looking forward to the next couple of months, then Birthdays, Christmas, New Years and heading back to work. Yes I could take more time off, however my Husband and I have made choices about what we want to achieve, (we were meant to move house two weeks ago but, pulled out when we started to get mucked about) the schools our children go to and when we want to retire. Yes I am 33yrs old and retirement should seem a long way away but, we know what we want from life and that unfortunately means working hard so we can finish earlier and have even more fun than we’re having at the moment and, it is fun, we are fortunate to have lots of time together as a family, see our friends, go on holiday and at this moment in time save some money in the process.
My point of this Rant as opposed to a Blog is to say that, although my choices and way of working may not suit all the people in my life, that doesn’t actually matter and, although I love and respect you all and, listen to your normally concern laced disapproving opinions, we are going to continue on with our plan. If in the end we are wrong, (as I think I may have said before) you can all scream “we told you so” until then though get back in your box please.
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