Ah Kids

So in the whole baby creating world, we found out that we're a whole month ahead of where we thought we were. No big deal really. I mean unless you think October is June, then we're way, way off. But who's counting?

But this bringing a new life into the world does have me reflecting on my other two kids, how they will be affected, how our home situations will change, and what (if anything) I can do. I think the 13-year-old will be least affected, she is in her own world most of the time, and when she comes out of it, well she will be that much more grown up. The workload on her does at least temporarily increase (clean out the cat box) but otherwise, nothing. The 3-year-old, now that is a game changer. She absolutely loves her mother, and it will be interesting to see how she reacts to her every whim suddenly not beholden to mommy anymore. Maybe she will step up, maybe I will step up, maybe it will be a catastrophe, you just can't tell can you?

So I reckon the kids will be ok after all, or not, I guess the time to be reflective on this kind of thing would have been before she ever got pregnant, but that sort of takes all the fun out of it doesn't it? I don't think my dad had ever considered all the possibilities concerning his kids. Heck out of his five kids, he only planned for one of them. My mother who had 5 kids too, (only 1 with my dad... me) said much the same, none of `em were planned. So why am I trying to plan? I'm not really, but my wife might be, and thus I will too by default.

I will, like my parents, love and show my kids what I think is right. There are some differences, but generally speaking, I think I was brought up right. Even though I couldn't understand why my mother would care about my wife 25 years before I met her and why should she care if I know how to separate colors from whites? I can do it, as I could when I was 7. I'll always hug my kids, as my father did to us. It is just something we do. And hopefully, god willing, when they have kids they will show them the same sorts of things.

If you look closely it looks like the baby is diving. I don't hold much faith in these things, but anyway, it is a pic.