The Curse/Blessing of Adding To Your Family

I have experienced an amazing phenomenon 

almost every time we even think about adding 

another child to our family. 

Care to hear?

I call it the "what are you thinking" phenomenon.  

1.The thought to have another child enters your mind.

2. As you are still contemplating this thought and probably leaning toward the affirmative,
   the children you are currently parenting suddenly go into "horrible child mode".

3. You think, "what are we thinking?", along with "Heavenly Father knows what He's doing,
   this is just a bad day. Every day will not always be this bad. Have faith."

4. You get pregnant. Things seem to be okay, children AREN'T acting in every horrible way
   possible, so you decide it was just a fluke.

5. There will be several days throughout  your pregnancy that at least one of your children acts
   in a way that seems very unlike them. Or one of your children suddenly hits a VERY difficult
   patch in their development. Don't worry, this is just your proving ground. Proving to yourself
   that you can handle difficult situations even while juggling being pregnant and parenting
   other children.

6. You give birth! You learn that all that horribleness while pregnant was just to prepare you for
   the challenges of adding a whole new person for you to care for while caring for the other littles
    in your charge.  Welcome to juggling life while having little time for yourself.

Repeat every single time you think to add to your family. I'd say that's about right.  ;)

Today was one of those days. 

Sigh. 

Mirren and Bronwyn were tag-teaming it today. 

What were we thinking?