BENEFITS

Although there is absolutely nothing wrong with having mulitple kids in the family, there however are benefits to having just one child. At least that is what mom found out this morning while talking on the phone with Keri. Next week Mimi's school is planning an outing to the Seattle Children's Museum providing that the weather co-operates. Keri and Shelley have other children that need to be taken care of so they will not be able to chaparone the kindergarten class like mom is able to do at this time. Shelley has to take Braden to his pre-school Christmas program and Keri needs to figure out something for Bailey. Wade (Bailey and Blake's dad) will be home that day but the problem is Bailey is at the age (2yo) where she wants to be with her mom all the time and not dad. Greg says "Poor dads, we always get the shaft". I remember when Mimi was at that age and she was exactly the same as Bailey. Now it's mom who gets the shaft at times cuz Mimi really enjoys doing things with her dad. In fact they are outside now building a snowman together in the front lawn. I guess it goes in stages. Don't know what all of my other mom friends are going to do as they too have other smaller kids. We are part of a very small minority in our neighborhood with the one child.