Well, just got back from a week with a friend of mine and her family at the ocean. We rented a house together. She has a daughter younger than my son and an infant son. She was doing FETs while I was trying desperately for a second child; hers worked eventually, mine didn't.
I am fine being around her and her baby, for the most part, but I got really tired of hearing a litany from her about how hard it is to have two children, how I just wouldn't believe how exhausting it is, how going from one to two was just such a leap, etc. I'm sure she felt she was saying things I wanted to hear in some way (i.e., you're lucky you only have one), but she has what I wanted and I didn't really want to hear so much about how irritated she is by her own situation. I also got tired of her constant stories of how total strangers tell her her baby is so adorable, and how many other moms she met at the beach who have kids the same ages, etc. (And I was PMSing most of the week, which didn't help my irritability.)
It kind of made me wish there was some kind of vacation resort for parents with one child, where being one child would not stand out. Maybe we ought to start vacationing in other countries where that's more common...
Anyway, I'm worn out from the whole experience. Don't think I'll do that again soon...
Laura, mom to Ryan, 8/25/01
and Michaela...Heaven Born at 8 weeks pregnancy 4/25/94 
