Freedom!?!

Are three of my four children really at school for 6 hours of the day five days a week?

It feels like I've been handed a huge gift! In my excitement, I forgot reality for a second, and exclaimed to Eden, "Eden, it's just you and me for the next few years!" And then reality set in and the bubble burst and I had to change my comment to "oops, it's just you and me for the next few MONTHS!" :-] (dangit)....oh, well, I will smile at the fact that I at least have a few months!

I volunteered today with Luke's class and when I was standing in front of the children lining them up in two lines to go to recess, I heard a girl whisper to another girl, "Ask her if she has a baby in there, or if it's just a lot of food." So then I got to hear the question from the friend, "Do you have a baby in there or is it just a lot of food?" I chuckled at their obvious attempts to be so polite about it.

Now truthfully, the answer is both! But I wasn't going to go there with them, so I said, "there is a baby in there." Then there were giggles and little squeals of excitement with whispers, "There's REALLY a baby in there!" It was cute to watch. The little girls started following with questions about names for the baby, etc. (I swear, only from girls would you get that kind of reaction! The boys were busy clobbering eachother with their lunch boxes, they couldn't have cared less!) Sadly, there was a little dampening of glee with a sort of disappointed "oh" when I told them that it was a boy.

Personally, I like my little boy that's coming! But, poor Eden will ask with yearning, "but, is it a girl now?" and later, "but, is it a girl NOW?" Sorry to say girl, but this boy will always be a boy.