Having four daughters, I can't help but worry sometimes about how things will be for them as they grow up. I think about situations/phases that I went through when I was growing up and it got me wondering just what I'd say to my younger self, how different things could have been if the future me could have had a few words in my ear.
The more my brain mulled these thoughts over, I realised that really it would be the same advice that I'd like to offer my own children now. So I'm writing an open letter to my girls in the hopes that one day they will read it and maybe appreciate the words that I've wrote.
Dear Daughters
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Friday, 24 April 2015
Friday, 9 August 2013
Yes I have four girls!!
The question that I hear from a lot of people when they notice how many children I've got and the fact that they are all of one gender, "you have four girls?".
People think I'm mad in the first place for having four children, why I really don't know because I find having four children no more difficult than having two children. And these same people seem to think it is a bad thing to have all daughters.
Do I think what it would be like to have a boy sometimes, of course I do, I had the same boys name picked out each time I was pregnant. I know Daddy Hazelden feels rather outnumbered sometimes but we honestly wouldn't have it any other way. The girls have already been fishing with their dad a couple of times and he sits them down with him to watch his history programmes in the TV (boring), I don't see that it would have been any different if we had a boy in the mix.
If I am honest when I was pregnant with Layla I was terrified of the thought that I might have a boy because having had all girls, I was worried that I wouldn't know what to do with a boy. Until my 20 week scan I really did think that I was having a boy because my pregnancy was so different to the others, we soon discovered it was another little lady in there!!
The best thing about having all girls is how well they get along, well for now anyway, I am quite sure that will all change when they reach the magic teenage years, especially if they are anything like their mummy was. For now they seem to have separated themselves into pairs, Elise and Gracie and Freya and Layla, it is really lovely to see how they interact, not only sisters but best friends too.
The only difficulty comes when trying to buy birthday and Christmas presents for them all because as I am sure you can imagine, we have doubles and triples of a lot toys in this house, they have all taken on mummy's obssession of pushchairs, so along with mummy's growing collection we are quickly running out of space!!
People think I'm mad in the first place for having four children, why I really don't know because I find having four children no more difficult than having two children. And these same people seem to think it is a bad thing to have all daughters.
Do I think what it would be like to have a boy sometimes, of course I do, I had the same boys name picked out each time I was pregnant. I know Daddy Hazelden feels rather outnumbered sometimes but we honestly wouldn't have it any other way. The girls have already been fishing with their dad a couple of times and he sits them down with him to watch his history programmes in the TV (boring), I don't see that it would have been any different if we had a boy in the mix.
If I am honest when I was pregnant with Layla I was terrified of the thought that I might have a boy because having had all girls, I was worried that I wouldn't know what to do with a boy. Until my 20 week scan I really did think that I was having a boy because my pregnancy was so different to the others, we soon discovered it was another little lady in there!!
The best thing about having all girls is how well they get along, well for now anyway, I am quite sure that will all change when they reach the magic teenage years, especially if they are anything like their mummy was. For now they seem to have separated themselves into pairs, Elise and Gracie and Freya and Layla, it is really lovely to see how they interact, not only sisters but best friends too.
The only difficulty comes when trying to buy birthday and Christmas presents for them all because as I am sure you can imagine, we have doubles and triples of a lot toys in this house, they have all taken on mummy's obssession of pushchairs, so along with mummy's growing collection we are quickly running out of space!!
I love my girls to the moon and back and I would never want my family any other way although I think Daddy Hazelden is seriously considering buying himself a dog to keep him company sometimes :)
Do you think there is a perfect size family to have? If you only had one gender of child, would you keep going until you got the boy or girl?
xxxx
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