Sunday, April 5, 2009

mothering


lately i'm wondering if i should've been a mother of four. perhaps we made a hasty decision to be done having kids and perhaps not. sometimes i'm just so content with my three and they are just enough (sometimes more) for me to handle. then there are times that i feel like something is missing...a little craziness. i like a little chaos here and there and i think that's why i've taken on new pets so quickly. a rabbit last summer and now our newest addition...ducklings!

we have had so much fun in the last week with these little ducks. i love hearing my kids laugh at seeing them dive through the bath water and explore things in the yard. today i was brave enough to let them out of their fence just to see what would happen. we played for hours outside and they stayed with us. they would move where we moved and eventually fell asleep in the grass near the sandbox where the kids were playing. how cute!!
we will give the ducks a better home in the near future but for now i am enjoying mothering some babies again!

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  2. The mothering instinct never leaves us! It wouldn't matter if you had ten kids - you'll always want to have them around. That's why we love grandchildren so much - we get to be surrounded by the craziness - and the glory - of it all over again...

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