Questions and Answers:
I've had some questions sent to me, prior to my closing of the comments, that I thought I'd answer publically since several people have asked.
1. Why Did We Sell Our Previous Home and Move? Well, this is a many part answer.
#1: The most important reason that we moved when we did was because the huge tract of land across the street was sold and being developed into an apartment complex. This was going to mean lots of noise and construction for a year or more and then a LOT of increased driving traffic and foot traffic. We had loved how quiet our little deadend street was and that was quickly going to end.
#2: As much as we loved our street and neighbors, Mary was the first baby born in 20 years or so on the street. Because we plan to homeschool, we really wanted to be in a neighborhood where there would be other kids around to play with- at least in the afternoons.
#3: Our house was plenty big enough for us and the two babies- BUT- we knew we wanted at least four children and we knew we planned on homeschooling so we felt that in the long run, the house wasn't going to work for us. We bought our current house with those criteria in mind- we plan to stay here for the rest of our lives. There's four bedrooms- ours, and we plan to have a girls room, a boys room and a guest bedroom. We have large bonus room over the garage that we will eventually turn into a homeschool room.
#4. In hindsight, we can see how God really was working in our move. Thank the LORD that we moved when we did. About two months after we moved, we went back to our old house to get my great grandmother's rose bush. The new owners had allowed us to leave it until we were settled in and it was a better time to transplant it. SO- anyway, we went back to get the rose bush and the wife asked us if we moved because of the neighbor??? We had no clue what she was talking about. It seems that right after we moved out our elderly neighbors had gone to Las Vegas and allowed their son to move into their home. Their son who is a convicted pedophile and just got out of a 20 year prison sentence.
I am so thankful that we moved when we did- I would have felt like a prisoner in our home with him across the street- I would have felt like the kids couldn't be outside, etc. ugh, ugh, ugh. SO GLAD we moved!
2. Why Don't I Nurse The Baby Anymore? Unfortunately my milk dried up. I was able to nurse for nine months but was getting nothing by the end. I was very disappointed. Savvy was also increasingly not interested. I've heard of babies self-weaning and that seems to be a part of it. She also seems less and less interested in the bottle lately so she may be weaning herself from that as well.
3. Do I cloth diaper? Ummm, no. Honestly, it's just something that never appealed to me. I never even considered it. But then, lately I've been reading about it on Emily and Sarah's blogs and I've been reconsidering it. I may do it the next time around. I could even try switching now as I've still got another year of Savvy in diapers. We'll see. I'm thinking about it.
4. Do I have a favorite child? huh. weird question. Anyway. It's funny because over the past few months I've been accused of favoring Mary over the others, Nathan over the others and most recently Savvy over the others. I'm taking it as a good sign that someone thinks each one of the kids is favored. people are strange.
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