Guest Author - Marie Storughter

A week from tomorrow, I will be a mother again! How can I know with certainty when the “actual day” is? I am adopting siblings, and our court date for finalization is a week from tomorrow.

Whereas, right now, I am the mother of a son (singular), next week, I will be the mother of two sons and one daughter!

As you can imagine with such an event looming over us, we feel completely unprepared! Just as with a traditional birth, you feel the baby will come any minute, and you still have a million things to do!

Last night, I was up until midnight putting the finishing touches on my youngest son’s room. He loves Diego and Spiderman, so his room is a mish-mosh of both characters. My oldest son, whom you read about
here, professes to want a “cool room”, yet when seeing the stuff in his brother’s room, is rethinking that strategy now, and deciding that maybe he’s got a few more “kid years” left in him!

My daughter’s room, in contrast, looks like Barney took some Pepto-Bismol, and threw up! It’s an explosion of pink and purple, with everything “just so.” With my sons rooms, wherever I stuck a cartoon character, it was just fine. Not so with girls.

With boys, you cut their hair with clippers, and they’re good to go! With girls, there are braids, and clippies, and scrunchies, and things Take Time.

My sons have a wonderful relationship with each other, but it is just budding, considering that they have only met once (though it was for almost a week under the same roof!). Today on the phone, my youngest son was just bursting to talk to his big brother because he has a present for him (or, at least, that’s what I think he was saying in his excitement!).

This is not to imply the boys don’t have a great relationship with their sister – they do. But since the focus of the site is on Sons, I just wanted to let you all know that as my personal landscape changes, I will have far more insight to offer you into the World of Sons! Stay tuned!