baby sale?
My kid is almost 2.5 now, so I’ve got quite the collection of no-longer-useful baby junk. I can’t decide what to do with it. Sell it? Keep it, in case of another baby? Give it away to friends, newly minted moms? Keep it for nostalgic reasons? Donate it?
You know, the real question isn’t what I should do with all this crap; it’s whether or not I should have another baby. Dilemma 2007.
So many cons, a few pros. What to do, what to do. There’s an ocean of ambivalence crashing against the shores of my biological clock. Somewhere out there is my answer, hiding away on a tiny little boat, searching for someplace safe to land, being tossed around and bullied by those tempestuous waters. Damn you, tempestuous waters!Â
I need some help here. A lighthouse! Yes! Come Answer, come, to this flashing beacon of light.
No? Okay, how about one of those really big horns? “Over here Answer! Over here! It’s safe now.”
No, no. That isn’t enough. I need the coast guard. They’ll brave the storm. Go coast guard, go and rescue my answer and bring it back to me.
They don’t have anything better to do anyway. They can help me with my babymaking choices.
Well, didn’t you want to have a girl way back when? I’m not going to lie. Having 2 that close in age is no day in the park, but it has its moments. Like before when Gabby actally gave Owen one of her toys (sharing, imagine that!) and he stopped crying and started laughing.
Well, all I can say is that you should definitely get rid of anything that you found totally indispensable with Ryland, because it will undoubtedly be totally useless with a new baby. The new baby will require all sorts of things you never heard of before and certainly don’t own, so don’t bother worrying about getting rid of all the “stuff”. Go ahead and get rid of it any way you choose, and then have the second baby anyway (or not).
i was reading an article on msn.com the other day about the relationship between happiness and parenthood. a study showed that men and women are 20% happier with children than without. However, parents are the happiest with just one child. I was quite intrigued…
I think you should wait. Go ahead and get rid of the stuff, but wait a little bit before getting pregnant again. Concentrate on yourself for a while. Ryland is finally getting a little older and you don’t have to be with him all the time, so concentrate on yourself… finish school, get a good job, and be happy with everything first. Then have another baby. But that is just me always being a mom with no kids. What the HELL!
You still have a couple years. Ask me again when you’re 35.