This might come as a surprise, but I don't really like kids. When Andy and I first moved to Tacoma, we would be super bummed out if we met a cool couple with young kids. Andy is actually great with children, but me, I don't know what the heck to do with them. Now that we have our own little nugget on the way, I look at kids differently; I'm constantly in observation mode and mentally taking notes. What I've realized is that I don't mind babies so much, it's the toddler through early elementary school age that I watch with fear and trembling.
This week Andy and I had lunch with two couples...both had 3 kids between the ages of 1 and 5. (Thank God kid's don't pop out at the age of 3...scary). The pre-pregnant me would have been super annoyed at the chaos and constant interruptions; the pregnant me has a lot more grace and respect for parents with young kids. I guess parents eventually get used to eating their food cold because they've fed and/or chased their kids around, while they simultaneously clean up after and/or reprimand their children during meal times. I was eating my dessert when both parents started taking their first bites of their meals.
The amount of energy that children have is just beyond me--I now see the benefits of having children while you're young. I'm going to be 34 when baby girl arrives...Lord help me. Seriously, all you parents out there, I have mucho respect and admiration for what you do. But no, I still won't babysit.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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haha, i believe you. i'm the same way. i love my nieces and nephews when they are behaving. as soon as they start acting up, i'm gone. i can't deal. haha.
ReplyDeletehopefully that will be over soon!
I'm not a kid person either. They are such a handful and I barely have the energy to take care of myself some days! It's like a whole big production setting my nephew up in his high chair and getting him to eat what seems like about 5 bites of food. You are a mighty brave woman going into this not really liking kids and just trusting that when it's your own it will be different. And I'm sure it will be. You'll know exactly what to do!
ReplyDeleteTotally me. Yep.
ReplyDeleteI was the same way - especially with strollers.
ReplyDeleteI used to get so frustrated when people with strollers were in my way or slowing me down. Now I'm the one pushing the stroller wondering why people aren't moving out of my way. :)
I was the same way! I had never even held a baby before our daughter arrived. Ha!
ReplyDeleteI could have written this post.
ReplyDeleteIt's such a journey, isn't it!?
I just have to comment! I saw you're blog via "Hello Hue" and saw you're close to me in the due date department and having a girl too...then I saw your pictures and thought, it's June, why is she in a scarf and sweater... she must be in the PNW...and then I read on, and you're in Tacoma? :) We live near Portland, so not too far...then I read this post and thought, "I like her!" we're a lot alike!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the baby and everything leading up to it!
-Darci