this im still learning i have a hard time picking my battles! my hubby is trying to teach me but to me all the things are important! another problem i have is that since ive only had the kids for 6 years, to me they are still little kids, its hard to remember that they are getting older because to me they were just "born" 6 years ago, thats when my parenting started, if that makes sense!
Quote: Originally Posted by Ellabaja1983 Part of me feels like instead of having an infant, I just adopted older children, you know? these are both major reasons why we have decided not to have our own baby together, we both love our "us" time on the few days a week we dont have the kids overnight (ours are with us from thurs after school to sunday night, so literally half the week, every week.) its really nice sometimes to have it just be us. but then we get our dedicated kid time too, so we really get the best of both worlds. plus, as our kids are getting older, it makes us that much further from diapers and other things that make having an infant/baby/toddler hard. we can run off and take a vacation any time we want, or whatever. with a baby, you cant just leave them at any time with any one, but with older kids that have 2 homes, we always know we can do what we need, when we need. i think so too! im really glad all you ladies are jumping in with me