The Domino Effect

March 29, 2013

Reason 357,926 why it’s hard having three children: The Domino Effect.

When the Domino Effect happens at 7am resulting in three wide awake children while I am trying to get ready, it’s annoying. When the Domino Effect occurs at 2:30am, it’s downright impossible. Thanks Drew for starting that one out last night.

People keep asking me if it’s harder going from one to two kids or two to three kids. All I can say is that it’s hard, each in their own right.

The truth is that going from having no children to having a child is insanely overwhelming. Adjusting your mindset to care for another being is hard. You’re hungry…hold the phone you have a much louder, much more anxious person to feed first. You’re sick…wait a second, you have a butt to clean. It’s so hard to get accustomed to changing your ways when you’ve tended to yourself first and foremost your whole life.

Then there comes your addition, you have two kids! And now there’s a juggling act that you’ve never had to manage. Before now you and your spouse could admire your single, could tag team a “disaster,” or you could occasionally get a brake when the other was tending to the single. In the beginning I felt intense fear from being left alone with my two rugrats. G-d forbid one should have a need that went unattended for a milisecond.

So now you were crazy enough to complicate your life with a third. You get the fact that one child isn’t going to have your undivided attention – both be the bearer of your overwhelmed feelings or be the glimmer in your eye. You also understand the fact that you need to juggle, take inventory of each child on a semi-regular basis. The problem, however, is that you only have two hands, two feet, two eyes, two ears, etc. So in a good moment, you are already outnumbered. Let alone a bad moment where your harassed by a gang of small people.

Maybe that phenomenon wouldn’t be so very ridiculous if your eldest was older than four. Maybe it wouldn’t be quite so hard if even just one of your children were easy going, go with the flow. And maybe it wouldn’t be so tough if YOU were easy going, go with the flow.

So, to those people who look at me with admiration, curiosity, or quite possibly disgust and ask if it’s easier to go from one to two children or two to three children, I say it was easier when I was twenty-three and single. But I wouldn’t change my three children for anything in the world – unless it’s an all expense paid trip to Bermuda by myself.

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