Nicely put

ReeceFamily

This is from an essay I read on Huffington Post (written by an older mom who has experienced loss along the way).  I like what she says about the role of chance and fate in whether or not you are blessed with children (and how many you are blessed with) - something I struggle with every day.

"I smile gently at the young women who emphatically tell me when they want to marry and how many kids they will have. I long ago learned that we don't write that script. The friend with the repeated miscarriages knows that, the couple that can't conceive, the mother who loses her son to a brain tumor, the wife whose husband up and leaves... When our children didn't come in the intervals we planned, when there was a loss and then a dry patch and then some sorrow, we were blindsided when the bad thing happened to us. And why shouldn't it have? What made us any different from the family down the street? It's not human nature to always feel so generous, though. The fickle finger of fate and the Ouija board are supposed to land somewhere else for the hard stuff.

Here is the link if you want to read it (but be forewarned it is about a woman who is now a mother).  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-woodruff/too-old-to-be-a-mom_b_1500549.html

Country Girl in the City

That was nice.  Thanks for sharing.  I wonder how many other people pulled out the calculator to figure out how old they would be where there phantom babies go to college.

BeckyP005

Nice

MarylandWed

If I had a $$$ for every twenty something who has said to me, "I want my babies when I am young. I want to be done by the time I am 30." well good for you. 

neesie3173

Very nice! My DH and I weren't sure we wanted to have kids, I have 3 from first marriage. Once we decided to, I was hoping to give birth before 40, and it would have worked too, if only our baby had stuck around. With March 1st only 9 1/2 months away, looks like if I am lucky enough to get a sticky baby, I will be over 40 when I deliver. Oh well, I only feel 40 for the first 10 minutes every morning.