I\'m Summer, a mouthy, sarcastic bitch. I\'m passionate about natural birth, long term breastfeeding, and living naturally. I curse too much, love tattoos, and will some day be crushed to death by my book collection. I homeschool, dream of gardening, and swing to the left. 
Sorry Kid, We just Can’t Keep You
One of my trolls favorite attacks is the claim that I can’t afford my kids. Though, they’ve yet to explain how exactly I can’t afford them since we are more than able to provide a home, food, clothing, utilities, cartoons, and plenty of hugs. Of course they also repeat that Dearest doesn’t have a job yet have not responded to where exactly does he go each day and why is the company paying him for nothing. But I digress…
When I saw this article I had to laugh. Suddenly all the “OMG how can you have three kids!?” comments make sense. They didn’t really want me to time travel back to when I got pregnant and tell myself that months later Dearest would be out of work for an entire month before getting a better job. No, I was supposed to take the lead of big business and start downsizing the family. True parenting in a time of downsizing
Recently, my wife and I made the very difficult decision to lay off one of our children. Of course we did not want to do this to a “member of the family,” but the fact is that when we decided to have two kids, we were living in a different economy.
AdvertisementBefore making this decision, we looked at different business models to keep both kids. What if we reduced them both to part-time? It was a great idea, in theory. We had a plan to keep our daughter on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, our son on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and — I thought this was really generous — both of them on Sundays.
Damn, I didn’t know I could just lay off a child. Now the only question is which one will it be. I mean, I’m kinda attached to all three of them. Oh shoot, guess I’m just going to have to keep them all. Unless I can work out a trade like they have in baseball. Trade a kid over for a goldfish or something. I’ll have to find out how this player trading thing works, it’s gotta be better than a layoff.
I did find it interesting how the comments which I thought were about people not Reading what you’ve said – misinterpretting things which, if read carefully, are very clear; have suddenly become all about money.
It’s a shame when poeple are calling you names and making comments which only show that they haven’t actually read your posts.
Keep up the good work, and I’d love to hear what you’ll do with the second boy =P Just mornings or afternoons?
~Rose.
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hehehehe. Well…the one at the boob probably “costs” least…so I suppose she could stay…though you probably do have the best chance of finding someone that wants a baby….hmmmm hard choices indeed.
Now you have me thinking about downsizing my family lol! It seems a shame to get rid of the baby, they are soo cute and sleep a lot more than the older kids. Plus he can’t move yet so I always know where he is at any given point in time. The older kids are a lot more helpful (when they want to be) and can help some with chores. It really is a tough choice lol