Last night we had an impromptu family date night. We went to Pizza Chef because Aaron was having a craving and I didn't want to heat the house up cooking. Amelia and Daddy enjoyed playing the arcade games and we all enjoyed some yummy food and talk time.
While at dinner Aaron and were talking about some of the advantages to having a small family. We are so grateful that we have been blessed with Amelia and would love for her to have siblings but since that isn't a possibility we have embraced our small family size. Growing up in a large family we never went out to eat. It was to hard to get us all there, to much to hope we all behaved, and then it was too expensive. If we did go out to eat it was with our grandparents or for pizza. There were lots of perks to being from a big family too. There was always someone to play with. Because Amelia is our only child she misses out on some of the fun things that come from having siblings. The forever friendships, the teasing that helps you develop a thick skin, hand-me-downs, the buddy system, etc. But there are some perks. It is easy for us to decide to go out to dinner or away for a weekend. I have time and the resources to take her to music class and gymnastics or any other thing she may develop an interest in. We can all cuddle in bed at night and watch a movie without being crowded or hearing arguments over who is touching who. We can easily visit Aaron at work for a lunch date. We aren't out numbered which I imagine we will be grateful for later. Growing up my siblings and I were called a tribe, a clan, and other labels as a result of there being so many of us. Instead Amelia is our 3rd Musketeer. It is a very different dynamic that the one in which I grew up and the one I expected to raise my family in but we have embraced it and are loving it thus far.
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| Amelia had to have the blue car |
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| Daddy "Amelia, LOOK OUT!" |
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| Amelia "Daddy I know what I'm doing" |
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| BALL |
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| Loving the Dinosaurs |
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