New Year's Resolution % 1

I am sure you are thinking that I am crazy talking about New Years when we haven't technically entered the holiday season yet. (Which will someone please tell my job that because we are already playing Christmas music. And somehow I find myself humming it throughout my day already. I just want to be thankful first before I am stingy!!! Joking, I enjoy giving!!!)

At the turn of every year we all have an idea of what we would like to do, change, become, see, explore, vacation during the upcoming year. We teeter over several things and then we come to a resolve about what we really want. As we are nearing the New Year my family has a choice to make.

After you have your first child, the questions come about 4 weeks later; which for me is when I feel safe enough to let them out of the house. You know, scary germs and all that. I am sure you already know the question that I am talking about "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER ONE?" I caps that because when I have had no sleep, a baby stuck to me and can barely find time to take a shower, these nice innocent questions seem like the world's push to populate it.

And here my family is 2 years later and the question is now being whispered behind the closed doors of our home. "When are we going to try for another one?" "Are we ready to have another baby?" "How can I love another child as much as I love her?" "Can I even do it? Will I be able to stay sane enough to make it through the first year with 2 children?" "Are we okay with just one?"

There are a lot of mixed emotions which makes me think that we aren't ready but then are you ever really? So to all the moms and dads out in this world..... how did you sort this question out? What made you decide that you were ready or that you weren't ready?