Kids are a Blessing

Do you believe that children are more of a blessing or a burden?  There are new articles everywhere now with new increased costs of raising them until 18 (which I’m not linking-they’re Googleable). They make it seems like they’re trying to talk people out of it. But if you’ve ever taken economics, you know about Utils

Now I had undiagnosed ADHD until I was 43, so maybe Utils has nothing to do with childrearing. Money or not, I do have regret that I can’t, or probably “shouldn’t” have more kids. I’m 46, daycare costs have skyrocketed since my daughter was a a baby, and my husband is almost 60. Imagine being a college kid and your dad is 80. Nonetheless, this is what AI said my kid would look like with Kevin:

It looks more like me than Kevin, and actually looks more like if I’d had a kid with my ex boyfriend in Arizona. His kids were also a blessing. His daughter is 15 now and almost an Eagle Scout!

His son is 13 and also down the path to eventually become one.  I’ve never met this dog, as she was adopted after I dumped him for Kevin. 

I think not having more kids is my only regret in my whole life. But everything happens for a reason. Ecclesiastes says this about it. 

Fur babies can be a blessing but don’t t bring you the same joy that human kids bring. Here are my fur babies enjoying fresh catnip from the seed ball matrix:

And here are some of my favorite old pictures of my one and only biological daughter who turns 18 in 8 weeks. 

This was the first time I brought her on a Houston city bus. She started pole dancing on that pole. I told her that those are for when all seats are taken and people have to stand and to “please don’t dance like that.”  Of course, not knowing what pole dancing was, she said “Why mommy?”  I had to think fast. “Because it’s just not nice dancing.”  Can you see the lady in the back with the green coat?  She was cracking up. 

And at one day old, we said she looked like the old “glow worms” from the 1980’s.