10 short months, a retrospective
Apr. 1st, 2008 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beth_leonard1 year ago today I attended ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
malacissation and motleypolitico's wedding in Vegas. We had a great time, and my parents took Peter for our first two nights away without him since his birth 2 1/4 years prior.
10 months ago today Amber was born.
With Peter, every day of those first two years was a struggle. Sometimes late at night I get an unwritten country song stuck in my head "one more day; one more minute; one more hour" waiting for him to grow up.
With Amber, I've experienced more conventional feelings of the time flying by way too fast. We've seen some newborns recently, and I know Amber was that small once, but I can hardly remember it. She was such a happy newborn and a happy baby.
Now she's getting a little older and protesting a little more if things don't go her way, but she's still so easy to appease and comfort that she spoils me. I hope I don't end up spoiling her. Each child is different.
I'm looking through my photos of this past year, and I don't have nearly enough baby pictures of Amber. I've been enjoying more time with her but each older experience crowds out the memories of the little baby she used to be.
It's been a good 10 months. I am still glad not to be pregnant. Every once in a while when we ponder finances I consider being a surrogate-mom-for-money (pregnancy as a form of birth control?) In the grand scheme of things my pregnancies haven't been so bad, but I don't think we're that desperate. The going rate seems to be about $20K, and while there is a rate I think I'd accept, I think it's much much higher.
I took some pictures this evening with the intent of posting them to this blog entry. Then I set down the camera. Somewhere. I'll find it later.
--Beth
malacissation and motleypolitico's wedding in Vegas. We had a great time, and my parents took Peter for our first two nights away without him since his birth 2 1/4 years prior.10 months ago today Amber was born.
With Peter, every day of those first two years was a struggle. Sometimes late at night I get an unwritten country song stuck in my head "one more day; one more minute; one more hour" waiting for him to grow up.
With Amber, I've experienced more conventional feelings of the time flying by way too fast. We've seen some newborns recently, and I know Amber was that small once, but I can hardly remember it. She was such a happy newborn and a happy baby.
Now she's getting a little older and protesting a little more if things don't go her way, but she's still so easy to appease and comfort that she spoils me. I hope I don't end up spoiling her. Each child is different.
I'm looking through my photos of this past year, and I don't have nearly enough baby pictures of Amber. I've been enjoying more time with her but each older experience crowds out the memories of the little baby she used to be.
It's been a good 10 months. I am still glad not to be pregnant. Every once in a while when we ponder finances I consider being a surrogate-mom-for-money (pregnancy as a form of birth control?) In the grand scheme of things my pregnancies haven't been so bad, but I don't think we're that desperate. The going rate seems to be about $20K, and while there is a rate I think I'd accept, I think it's much much higher.
I took some pictures this evening with the intent of posting them to this blog entry. Then I set down the camera. Somewhere. I'll find it later.
--Beth
