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RE: Introducing Our 7th baby, Primrose Elowen Roberts! Come Say Hello!
A big Congratulations to you and your gorgeous family on the arrival of baby Primrose (love her name) I am a mother of a 10 year old boy and twin girls that are 7 and that alone has been a "wild ride" so I have total admiration for you and your wife for having 7! WOW, you are so incredibly blessed. I enjoy following your posts as they are so relatable . :)
Thank you so much! And yeah, I always joke with people saying that your first kid is always a shock because it totally changes your whole world. Then your second is hard because you feel like you’re juggling a newborn with (usually) a toddler. 3 is a total circus, but then honestly, once you get past 3 it’s really no different in my opinion. The oldest is at that point usually old enough to help a little and you’re used to a crazy houseful of kids anyway haha.
And yes! We definitely do feel totally blessed! Thank you for your kind words! I really appreciate it!
I can see that, people ask me all of the time how hard it was to have twins and honestly if they were my first I would have said crazy but because I had already gotten my first time parent stuff over and done with everything was so much more laid back and yep, if you are doing for two might as well be three..or four..or heck why not seven ;) I also love your family pic from the hospital bed as it's full of so much happiness but mostly I enjoy how #6 (sorry I don't know her name) is seemingly not as thrilled to give up her title of youngest just yet. LOL
As much as I am in awe of you for having time to blog, I am looking forward to following you on your Steemit journey! :)
hahaha! It's actually a funny story. We let all the kids take turns holding Primrose that day when they first met her, and #6 (Clementine) was actually crying because she didn't want to let anyone else have a turn holding her! She's a little obsessed with her new baby sister haha.
And BTW, I followed you back and read your introduction post, and was about to comment back to you saying how interesting it was that you are an aesthetician because that is what my wife did for about a year right before we got married! Then I realized that it had an "A" in front of it. Jessica was actually an esthetician, not an aesthetician haha. I had to look up the difference!
She went to school for it and got a job at a spa for about a year and lost her job right before we got married! It was pretty devastating at the time but it was at that point we decided that we wanted her to be a stay at home wife (and mom when the time came) because we didn't want to be dependent on two incomes. So yeah! Jessica has been stay at home for ten years now, but she used to work in a spa, doing a very closely related career name to what you do haha.
Lol, ok gonna be totally honest but I just thought it was proper to use the A in Aesthetician (I heard that somewhere) I thought,until my friend Google just informed me, that they were one in the same as is how we Canadians spell "colour" instead of color. I work in a Day Spa and am not clinical or paramedical in any way. So is that what Jessica did as well? Manicures, pedicures, facials, waxing etc.? I am 18 years as an __sthetician ;) Although have had several other jobs along the way. Sorry to hear Jessica lost that job but it was just a stepping stone to where she was meant to be it sounds. I'm a true believer in everything happening for a reason. Thank you for the follow back, I am new to Steemit but really enjoy it as my new "hobby" and am trying to absorb all I can in the time my days will permit :)
Oh wow! Yeah, that's exactly what she did. So cool! And yes, we both looked at it that way too. It got her where she was meant to be!
Just the other day I had a talk with my son about that exact thing. He said "Mom, do you ever wish you could go back in time and change something that you wish happened a different way?" I replied by telling him that even though we may not understand why things don't go a favourable way at the time, I embrace every bit of my past as a learning experience and I would not change the past no matter what because ultimately it would shift my future and may not have lead me to being their mom which I would not change for anything in the universe. ;)
Yeah, I totally agree with you. I used to teach guitar at a guitar store and when they shut down it was a major income loss for our little family of 3 at the time. It forced me to consider teaching guitar from home. It was a major turning point in my life because I realized that I made just as much money with half the students because I didn’t have to “pay rent” for my lesson space at the store. I’ve never looked back from the idea of doing things for myself and having an entrepreneurial mindset.
There are so many things in life you can think back on and wonder if you did it the right way, but you’re right when you say it’s a learning experience and it takes us on a path to where we are now.