One of the things I like most about being a mom to a three year old is reading to her the books I read to my 15 year old, when he was a baby.<\/p>\n
There is something about the passing of time-of things changing yet some things remaining the same.<\/p>\n
I strive to be the same mom for her that I was for him. It’s not always easy, there are two kids in between that need my attention too….<\/p>\n
But then I think about both my grandmas- that had big families, way bigger than mine. Both of them had their last baby in their 40’s. That’s a big stretch of babies and kids- starting in their 20’s. I wonder if they thought about how their parenting changed over the years… I know for me- who had my first two kids in my 20’s- well things are different now- on so many levels.<\/p>\n
Frequently I think about where were when the first two were little (grad school) and how things are so different now. Not better, not worse- just different. More financial security, less time together.<\/p>\n
But this big family love? It’s in my genes- no doubt about it. And I love that.<\/p>\n
Some of the best dads I know came from big families or produced big families of their own. Andy and I were talking about it the other day- you have to be a good people person (which makes you good at business person) if you have a big family. You have to be laid back, a problem solver, you need good PEOPLE skills.<\/p>\n
Right before we left Ohio one of my fave dads up there said “I love kids- I would take a ton. And dogs. Kids and dogs- its what it’s all about”.<\/p>\n
I couldn’t agree more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the things I like most about being a mom to a three year old is reading to her the books I read to my 15 year old, when he was a baby. There is something about the passing of time-of things changing yet some things remaining the same. I strive to be the same mom for her that I was for him. It’s not always easy, there are two kids in between that need my attention too…. But then I think about both my grandmas- that had big families, way bigger than mine. Both of them had their last baby in their 40’s. That’s a big stretch of babies and kids- starting in their 20’s. I wonder if they thought about how their parenting changed over the years… I know for me- who had my first two kids in my 20’s- well things are different now- on so many levels. Frequently I think about where were when the first two were little (grad school) and how things are so different now. Not better, not worse- just different. More financial security, less time together. But this big family love? It’s in my genes- no doubt about it. And I love that. Some of the best dads I know came from big families or produced big families of their own. Andy and I were talking about it the other day- you have to be a good people person (which makes you good at business person) if you have a big family. You have to be laid back, a problem solver, you need good PEOPLE skills. Right before we left Ohio one of my fave dads up there said “I love kids- I would take a ton. And dogs. Kids and dogs- its what it’s all about”. I couldn’t agree more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_9566-1copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17775,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions\/17775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}