Everyone keeps asking me 2 questions. 1. Are we done having kids yet?? and 2. Is it different having a boy. I used to ask people question #1, trying to make conversation, or trying to get to know people better, or probably just being a little bit nosy. I'm going to skip the entire blog post I could easily write to answer question #1, and leave it at, "we will love and cherish however many children God chooses to put into our family." For some reason, I don't like to tell people that answer when they ask. Maybe it's because it sounds like a pat "Sunday School" answer, or maybe it's because that sounds a little crazy and like we may go onto have 10 or 20 kids like the Duggar family, which isn't exactly the plan, either. But here's what complicates my answer so much.
Who could look at this sweet face, in addition to the 3 great daughters we've been blessed with and say, "that's not enough??"
But at the same time, I, personally, can't look at this precious baby, as exhausted and overwhelmed as I am most days, and say, "I don't ever want to do this again!" Some people really know when their family is complete, and I think it is really great that they get a chance to savor all of those "lasts." For me, being a mom is the thing I have looked forward to and waited for since I was old enough to play with baby dolls. Because of that, I think it will always be hard for me to admit when that season is over in our life. So, that's where we're at on Question #1.
Question # 2 - life with a boy is awesome and different!! But everything about Thomas has been different, so I don't know if that's because he's a boy, or because his start into the world was completely different from the girls. As I'm writing this, Thomas is almost 8 weeks old, and I've hardly put him down. That's different from the girls. But is it different because he started off in the NICU, and by the time I got to really hold him, I was so grateful that I literally didn't want to ever put him down?? Is it different because, with the girls, I was pretty confident we were going to try for another baby at some point, and it is somewhat more possible that Thomas may be the last newborn in our family? Or is it different because he's a boy, and the bond is just different between a mother and son? I may never know the answer to that question, so I'll just enjoy the awesome that it is.
Back to our first days at home... I'm not the type who can sit in my house for too long. So, Thomas's first outing was less than 24 hours after we brought him home. Cline and I took him to our favorite local restaurant, Duffy's Deli!
Cline could eat at Duffy's every day.... and does some weeks! I joked that he just wanted an excuse to write "Duffy's" in Thomas's baby book!
After lunch, we got down to the business of some intense phototherapy treatment for some lingering jaundice.
Good Times!
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