10 reasons why I think we should have more children:
1. I'd love a house full of family for the holidays, or really any Sunday dinner. I imagine my children, their spouses and my grandbabies coming home, gathering around the table, sharing stories of their childhood antics and fighting over who was the favorite!
2. We already have a vehicle that can accommodate eight people so we wouldn't have to buy a new car, even if we were blessed with multiples.
3. We make beautiful babies. Seriously. We should get some sort of award for the adorableness of our children.
4. Our house has plenty of room for another nursery.
5. I always wanted another baby boy, and I never got to use the name I've already chosen for him.
6. Being pregnant would make it so much easier to quit smoking!
7. A 50% increase in Trick-or-Treat candy!
8. Turning the guest bedroom into a nursery would make it impossible for my MIL to ever move in.
9. Another child would give us better odds at having someone to support us when we're old and decrepit.
10. It's the easiest way to lose eight pounds in one day!
10 reasons why I think we should NOT have more children:
1. I don't think my my body nor my self-esteem could handle losing the 60+ pounds that always seem to accompany my pregnancies.
2. I'm really enjoying sleeping at least six hours every night and can't imagine going back to two hour sleeping intervals.
3. We're almost out of diaper land!
4. I'm quickly headed into the "high risk pregnancy" area.
5. Travel is one of our favorite hobbies, and five plane tickets is substantially more than four.
6. Having been the middle child, it makes me sad to think I'd be moving Amelia from baby girl to middle child.
7. We're currently dealing with a two-year old...'nuff said.
8. Elijah's motto is "never let your pets, or your kids, outnumber you."
9. Although having a third baby wouldn't tax our budget much more, the cost of alcohol we'd need to raise three kids would be enormous.
10. Therapy for our two children is already going to be more than we can afford. I don't know how we'd pay to undo the damage to the third one.
So there you have it! Two lists, both with valid reasons, or at least OUR reasons for having or not having any more children.
