A direct share [thankx Steve!] of the blog post: To parents of small children: Let me be the one who says it out loud [March 12, 2013] I am in a season of my life right now where I feel bone tired almost all of the time. Ragged, how-am-I-going-to-make-it-to-the-end-of-the-day, eyes burning exhausted. I have three boys ages 5 and under. I’m not complaining about that. Well, maybe I am a little bit. But I know [...]
This is not a topic i have a lot of personal experience of. Or any. The beautiful Val [tbV] and my philosophy about children is that we enjoy other peoples and the opportunity to give them back to them at the end of the day. We enjoy kids but we don't particularly want our own. But we also understand that for a lot of people [perhaps the majority of people who are married?] having children [...]
I stumbled upon a blog by Steve Wiens a while ago, about parents and little children, and it was really great so i emailed him and asked for permission to use it as part of the Taboo Topics series and he graciously said, 'Yes!' and also sent me a link to the Infertility blog which he wrote which looks like it will be really helpful for people who have been struggling with that: Ten words [...]