Congratulations on your pregnancy, Sarah Lynne! How exciting! A miracle is still a miracle even if it wasn't expected or planned.
I sure wish I'd had more kids, but I think I'm wrapping things up now; I'll be 46 in February and my donor was kind of rude during the last TTC attempt so it just doesn't seem worth it to keep trying.
My older kids are all grown and gone now, so Terran is essentially an only.
He was PL'd at home as long as he was nekkie-butt for the longest time, but then one day found a pair of undies, decided he wanted to wear them 24/7, and that was pretty much that. He had two accidents, one when I thought he didn't really have to go and was just curious about a particular skanky public bathroom I avoid and the other when his brother was blocking the way to the bathroom. I should qualify that with the fact that he can only poop standing up and privately, but he lets me know in plenty of time and can aim well enough to use a prefold on the floor and has never had a poop accident, so that's good enough for now. He was already dry through the night before the advent of undies.
Work is mostly nonexistent. I'm glad I have savings, experience living on the cheap, my "volunteer" (barter) job, and the occaisional odd jobs and Etsy/craft fair sales and even more glad that I worked through infancy so I can stay home now, when he seems to need me so much more and the economy is worse.
We're mostly unschooling, but I'm not withholding answers to his many, many questions or the resources I have accumulated through the years with his siblings. I pulled out http://www.ballstickbird.com/ , which was the reading program that finally worked for Chris, to show him how all 26 letters can be formed from three basic shapes, and he was able to sound out a few words but is quite content to look for the letters he knows in environmental print and to draw the "letter bits".
Naps are a pleasant memory. I pretty much don't get "alone time" right now, but I'm cool with that because I know how temporary it is. We do okay with parallel activities where I sew or write and he plays imaginative games, so I still make most of Terran's clothes, some of my own, and a few to sell. When I reopen my Etsy store, it will also have some simple Waldorf toys and alternatives to disposable and/or plastic home items, but I have no idea when that will be.
We'll be going over to Christopher's for Christmas, a friend's for Hannukah, and celebrating Solstice at a fairly large public gathering. I have a few gifts for Terran, but he doesn't need much. I could have made everything I bought, but then it wouldn't have been a surprise unless I got someone else to watch him while I made it, which I don't want to do.
We're still nursing and cosleeping and all that "crunchy" stuff.
Still no grandbabies, but I love being a "cyber auntie" to all the newest little ones. ;)
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