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This is NOW a Bella and Jasper storyt that will be written by the awesome Alexis B. Originally it was a ONE SHOT from me that is now turned into Chapter 1. The rest will be all her job :)
It takes place during Eclipse, it starts some night that Bella had stayed in the Cullen's house, but there was only Jasper there.
PLEASE BE OPENED MINDED, IT IS JUST A STORY! We all love Bella and Edward's love! :)
Alexis other story:
'Unexpected Vision'
Link: http://www.thetwilightsaga.com/group/fanfiction/forum/topics/unexpe...
My story 'Until It Happens':
I have a story, an all human Bella and Edward story. If you want to read it, here is the link:
For now characters belong to the amazing Stephenie Meyer.
A Tempting Realization
Chapter 1 (Written by Emma Cullen!)
I was in the Cullens, sitting in Edward's bedroom and reading, for the bazillion time, Wuthering Heights. My fiancée along with almost my entire family-to-be went hunting. I had to convinced Edward to go, because he didn't want to leave me alone. So his brother, the one with that unique talent, offered to stay with me.
It was already dark outside the big house, and my eyes were starting to get really tired of reading. And maybe a bit bored too. My eyelids felt really heavy as I felt them blink longer than necessary. A light knock on the door suddenly made them wide open.
Jasper's expression was odd. He was somehow worried and… regretful?
"Jasper?" I said a bit confused, standing up from Edward's chair.
"Bella…" Jasper breathed. "I have to talk to you…" His voice was so full of fear and worry that it suddenly made me really anxious.
"Jasper, what's wrong?" I urged as the worst flashed through my brain.
He shook his head. "Everyone is alright."
I sighed in relief and realized that my nails had sunk in the bare skin of my hands. I unclenched my fists fast. "So what is it?"
Jasper breathed deeply in front of me, though he didn't need to it was a human habit that showed nervousness. But why?
"I know I barely talk to you, but… you are important to me, somehow." He was mumbling almost in inhuman speed. But I'd gotten used to this speed by now, I almost could understand them when they talked.
I smiled at him. "Thanks Jasper, you are important to me too."
"Yes." He said as he started to walk away from the room.
"Wait!" I shouted to him. "Was that it? You seem… strange."
Jasper stopped but his face was still to the door and not to me. "I feel strange… I feel something strange for you, Bella."
I froze there and almost chocked. My eyes widened with the surprise. I wanted to speak, to say something, but the words were just buried deep down my body and I couldn't do anything to let them out.
"Say something please." Jasper pleaded still not facing me.
"Strange?" Was the one thing I said. The word came a bit odd for the surprise.
Jasper sighed and turned around. "Different." His feet were still glued to the floor and he was as still as a statue. "At first I thought it was the intrigue of a human so close to me and my family, the challenge of not hurting you… But as the time flew by, the intrigued turned to a necessity. I suddenly felt the need to be around you, to feel your feelings and know them. I thought Edward would hear something, but the thing was and is, that I don't have words to what I feel. I could never put it into words inside me so Edward could never hear any compromising thought towards you."
I knew my mouth was hanging open. But my system was totally shocked. I couldn't say or do anything, his words only entered to my brain and echoed in every inch of it.
"I am sorry, please," He pleaded. "Please just pretend I haven't told you anything. Edward can't listen to your thoughts, so it won't be a problem. I promise I won't interfere in your relationship, I'll go far away if that is what---"
But just one question of my lips cut him off. "Since when?"
"I don't know… maybe I've always felt this for you, this strange, unique thing." He started walking closer to my side. "And now that you are almost getting married, I feel like I can't hide it any longer, I feel like it will explode inside me if I don't take it out. It would be killing me, if it could." He laughed once, in a bitter way.
"I don't know what to say, Jasper, I…" I was out of words. Completely frozen. And not just because of this unexpected confession, but because if I saw it from this perspective now, after knowing this, things seemed completely obvious. Almost impossible not to have seen them at the moment. Those awkward looks and at the same time needed, those shy smiles… The topics, the lack of touches… Jasper wasn't as used as the others to humans, but still, it before seemed weird how he always was cringing away from me. As escaping. Now I understood, now I knew… And maybe, there had always been something inside me that craved for him too. Something it would never come out consciously, but in my dreams, in some dreams – though I would never admit this to Edward, I'd thanked God those times that he couldn't read my thoughts – his face sometimes confused with Edward's. Sometimes it was Edward, and suddenly it changed to him. But the most surprising thing was that it just made me liked it even more.
His eyes seemed impatient as I didn't continue with the sentence. But I didn't know how to, either. He came closer to me, walking slowly, meeting me eyes, and then the floor, and then my eyes again, and the floor. My heart was pouncing more than necessary for some reason – some reason I maybe knew.
"Bella, just please tell me to go back to my room. Please ask me to go back." He was muttering under his breath, and it somehow went out harder. I gulped in response to his words.
"Why?" I asked in a whisper. I knew the answer, but something inside me wanted to hear it from his lips.
He sighed and met my eyes once again in a way he'd never met them before. One that gave me goose bumps, and not for fear, precisely.
"Because I don't know if I can stay away from you, if I can leave you alone in this room when I know there is no one else in miles, miles away." His tone gained a husky edge toward the end. And I gulped again. "Please ask me to leave." He repeated desperately.
My answer delayed some minutes. "What if I don't want to?"
His eyes widened at this response that took him completely off guard apparently. And I just wanted to kick my own butt, what if this was all a test to see how loyal I would be to his brother? What if I had just failed?
But his action took me off guard too. His steps were faster towards me now –not in inhuman speed, but faster than before. And surer, more determined. More desperate.
"Then don't ask me. Don't do it," He breathed just inches from me. He'd grabbed my face with his firm hands, and I couldn't not compare them to Edward's. Jasper's hands were much surer, much experienced. Though I'd never care that Edward had as much as experience as I did, being with someone that had experience felt actually good.
Our faces were just inches away. Inches filled with such a tension that could have easily been cut with a knife at how thick they felt. But his eyes gave me peace, a peace new to myself.
"What are we doing Jasper, what is this?" Those questions were filling every inch of my brain; I needed to take them out somehow. Even though they came a bit distorted for the nervousness.
He sighed heavily, and his scent touched my lips. It was different, something spicy was on it. Some taste of foolish and recklessness that were so suppress in Edward's one. Something that felt too good.
"I don't know Bella, I only know I can't think straight with you like this… so close." With that state he came closer, his nose almost brushing mine. And my heartbeats increase in a glaring way. My breathing too, though I was making the impossible for not showing that.
"But there is something in you Bella, something in your eyes, in the way you talk, in the way you move… Something that only makes me want to be closer to you. Closer in impossible ways, some I don't even want to pronounce for not making you feel uncomfortable." If I thought I was breathing a bit hard before, this just doubled the speed. Where were these irrational feelings for Jasper coming from? How did this happen? When did this happen? My head was filled with questions, but I couldn't think about them anymore. It was as if he had crumbled every inch of sense I still had on me, molding my feelings to him. And I simply had to know.
Now my voice came harsh. "Is it you? Are you causing this, Jasper? Your ability?"
He shook his head slowly, and the sincerity of his eyes shattered my chest. "My ability is as out of this as it is my sense." So it wasn't him, it was all me. I actually felt something – something else than friendship – for Jasper. For the brother of the man of my dreams. Or so I thought.
My head was spinning around for so much confusion. I was starting to get insane of desperation. His eyes turned worried and sad as he saw my torn face. His right hand suddenly came closer to the skin of my cheek, until he brushed it. A subtle spark of electricity flew through the air when this happened. And I suddenly felt my face tilting to his touch, making it more powerful.
"Those lips seem so tempting; I'm dying to try them." His voice came seductively this time as he placed his other hand on my bare neck, giving me a little shiver in response.
But his words were what corrupted me the most. And so I gave in to that inexplicable part of me I didn't know that existed until tonight.
Irrationally my head moved towards him. Not letting even an inch between us. My heart was pounding with such intensity that I feared it would crash from my chest. Jasper's eyes were completely open as he saw my action, and they were burning from my inside. I suddenly ached for his touch and his lips too. They were just too close.
"Then try them." I gasped as I felt his lips meeting mine.
A whole new range of sensations overcame my confused system. But I let them flew through my body, gaining life on their own. The kiss was first so soft and careful, just mere touches between our desperate lips.
But I just wanted to try more – I needed to try more. So without thinking it twice I grabbed his face with both of my hands and crashed his mouth to mine. His tongue traced my lips, waiting for permission. And how could I deny it to them?
The kiss turned much more furious, wilder. It was a whole different feeling, I felt like flying in his strong arms. Just visiting all the places he had been in his previous years… knowing every newborn he fought, every human he killed. I felt his sad essence, his unique way of seeing and sensing this complicated world. I felt so attached to him... as if I was already a part of him.
Our hands seemed to have a life on their own too; they kept knowing every part of our bodies. Too determined to know more, and impossible to stop.
"Oh, Jasper…" Was the only thing that kept going off my system, even without permission. But with those words he seemed to be even more impatient, so much that he lifted me up with one hand so I could intertwine my legs to his hips and took me to his brother's bed. Flashbacks of other things I'd done in this bed came to my mind, but with every minute of being with Jasper, the memories started to fade, and fade… more with each second passing by.
His hand was now behind my shirt, stroking my skin in a sweet, gentle way. His lips had moved from my mouth to my bare neck, giving tickles to every portion of my body.
A part of me was desperate for what could happen next. Not just with him but with his brother, what would this mean now? But the other, the bigger one, the one that was overcoming all rationality, wanted him so badly that I was almost agonizing for the pain.
"I'm going to leave Alice." Jasper announced with a husky voice as he kissed my ear.
I opened my eyes widely. "You what?" I gasped for air, breathing hard.
He nodded some times as he stopped and looked deeply into my eyes. "I'm going to leave her. I can't do this any longer… pretend that I'm unconditional to her. I truly can't take you out of my head; this isn't a joke for me… I'm not playing."
I gulped in response to his words as shock overcame me. Because I suddenly realized that this wasn't a joke for me either. I actually felt something really deep for him. Unknown and… tempting.
"I'm not playing either…" I breathed.
Where was this leading?
He smiled with prank. "I'm glad to hear that." And with that he crashed his lips one more time to mine.
Suddenly Jasper froze and stopped abruptly his action. I opened my eyes immediately and stared with surprise at his torn features.
"Jasper, w-what happened---"
I started to say, but someone else answered. "I've just found out everything."
A velvet voice growled as he took Jasper figured off me with a tough and angry movement. Oh, boy.
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Our football team and our marching band, at that time, were among the best in the state. That was not the case when I reached college. I made the right choice in being a part of the stellar Butler University Marching Band for three seasons and the actual Bulldog for one.
[Raiola before a 2011 home preseason game - Photo: REUTERS/Rebecca Cook]
Maybe that's why I am so bothered by Sunday's story of Detroit center Dominic Raiola harassing the University of Wisconsin band when both appeared at Lambeau Field. According to Michael Leckrone, Wisconsin's director of bands and a man for whom I once played, around a dozen student-musicians approached him with reports of Raiola's bad behavior, including myriad expletives. Some of his alleged comments would make a sailor blush, let alone a female college sophomore.
It is not the first time the 34-year-old has plunged himself into such hot water. During the "Great Drought of 2008" -- when the Lions went winless -- the Hawaii native garnered a $7,500 fine for
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Clearly the team doesn't believe them.
Clearly, if we were to believe Schwartz, we wouldn't be enduring these repeated incidents with Raiola.
I will add just two things based on my own experience. The percentage of people who come to a football game just to see the marching band is only slightly higher than the people who fly cross-country just for the peanuts. However, I never had more fun 00 with some of the best people who are among my closest friends nearly 20 years later -- than I did while in the band.
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Piece of Cake Apron
1 layer cake - featured here is Glace' by 3 Sisters
5/8 yard for pocket lining and lower ruffle
1/4 yard tie ends and upper ruffle
(3) 3/4" buttons
3/4 yard 3/4" rick rack
Note: all seam allowances are 1/4" unless otherwise indicated.
Step 1
Choose your favorite square for the front pocket.
Step 2
Pick a square for the pocket trim and cut (2) strips 1 1/2" wide.
Step 3
Stitch to each side of the pocket and press toward the pocket trim.
Step 4
Turn in 1" on upper edge of pocket and press. Set aside.
Step 5
Choose a minimum of 6 different squares and cut each into (9) 3" x 3" squares.
Step 6
Arrange squares and stitch into 6 rows of 9 squares each. Press seams of odd numbered rows to the left and even numbered rows to the right.
Step 7
Stitch rows together. Press the seams in one direction.
Step 8
Turn under 1/4" and then another 1/4" to make a narrow hem on each side. Stitch close to fold. Turn under 1/4" and then
1 1/4" on the upper edge and press.
Step 9
Stitch "in the ditch" of the top seamline. This will form your casing.
Step 10
To make tie ends, cut (2) strips 2 1/2" x width of fabric. Stitch strips together along one short side. Press seam open. Press tie in half lengthwise forming a crease.
Step 11
Open tie and turn in short ends and press. Press long raw edges to meet center crease.
Step 12
Fold in half again and topstitch close to edge.
Step 13
To make the double ruffle, cut (1) strip 2 1/2" x width of fabric and (1) strip 5" x width of fabric. Turn under 1/4" and another 1/4" to make a narrow hem on both short sides and one long side of each ruffle strip. Place the upper ruffle on top of the lower ruffle with wrong sides together and raw edges even. Stitch 2 rows of machine basting stitches within the seam allowance. Pull up the gathers to fit the width of the apron.
Step 14
With right sides together, pin ruffle to bottom of apron. Stitch ruffle. As you can see from my photo, you can easily do this late at night when the lighting is poor!
Press the ruffle down. Topstitch rick rack over the seam if desired. Insert tie through the casing.
Step 15
To make detachable pocket cut a square of fabric 13" x 13". Pin the right side of the pocket to the wrong side of the lining. Beginning at the top edge of the lining, stitch one side seam, then stitch across the bottom, then back up the other side seam ending at the other top edge of the lining, using 5/8" seam allowance.
Step 16
Turn pocket. Clip the lining where it meets the top of the pocket close to stitching.
Step 17
Fold remaining seam allowance of pocket lining to the back, tucking in the raw edge. Press under the top edge of the pocket lining 1/4" and then another 1 1/2" forming a hem. Topstitch sides of lining, close to fold, from top edge to top of pocket.
Step 18
Mark and stitch 3 buttonholes for the (3) 3/4" buttons. Center one buttonhole and the others should be placed 3/8" from each side. The buttonholes should begin 1/4" from the top.
Pin the pocket in place on the front of the apron matching centers. Mark position of buttons and stitch them in place.
Now you're finished! You can wear your new apron with or without the pocket.
Wasn't that fun? You've got enough squares left over to make some more! I'll bet you can think of someone who would love an apron of their own.
If you'd like to know what else I'm up to besides cutting up squares and stitching late into the night, please come see me at
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1 layer cake will give you enough squares to make 5 aprons.
by Elizabeth Scott
16 comments:
- rachel griffith said...
oh elizabeth...this is TOO cute!!!
- May 14, 2009 at 9:22 AM
- Sherri said...
Really cute apron...love it! And I love that you can make so many with one layer cake...perfect for Christmas gifts!
- May 14, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- Jackie said...
Elizabeth, this is really sweet! Can't believe that one layer cake will make 5!
- May 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Alyssa said...
This is so cute. I love it. I will have to add this to my list of projects in waiting.
- May 14, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- Tanya said...
love love love it!!!
hey i tried to click onto your site with the links you posted, but they are "broken". i would love to see what youare doing!
- May 14, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- dotti white said...
I really love this cutest of patchwork aprons! Thanks for sharing--I will definitely be making some!
- May 14, 2009 at 7:26 PM
- Red Geranium Cottage said...
Very cute Elizabeth.
- May 14, 2009 at 8:54 PM
- Mary Anne Drury said...
Oh Elizabeth!! That is super de duper CUTE !!!
- May 14, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- PunkiePie said...
Cute Cute CUTE! :)
- May 15, 2009 at 8:50 AM
- V and Co. said...
i really love the fabric! it's all very cute!
- May 15, 2009 at 9:36 AM
- happy zombie said...
I'm lazy. Same comment I left on your blog...
That's it. You killed me. This photo of your darling apron with Melvin doin' his thing... as done me in. Cause of Death: Severe Cuteness Ingestion.
- May 15, 2009 at 3:46 PM
- PamKittyMorning said...
I love that apron, seriously. I need to get busy and make one and have a rabbit hang out in mine.
- May 18, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- michellejohnnie said...
Wow! Too cute. I linked:)
- May 19, 2009 at 5:19 PM
- DarlingAlana said...
Okay, I can't figure it out, what's the name of the layer cake fabric that you used for this apron? I love how the colors work so well together!
- May 29, 2009 at 6:22 AM
- ilovemy4kids said...
This was fun! I made one which you can see at my blog...
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- Cindy said...
I just love this apron!! Will be making some soon.
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Happy Birthday to Paul Simon, who celebrates his 71st birthday on Saturday (October 13th)!!! Simon, with partner Art Garfunkel, was a major force during the '60s in bridging the gaps between folk, the British Invasion, and eventually the singer-songwriter movement. Simon & Garfunkel became friends towards the end of elementary school, and by their mid-teens had recorded their debut single "Hey Schoolgirl" under the name Tom & Jerry. After Simon & Garfunkel's mid-'60s heyday and their split in 1970, Simon released the scaled-down acoustic-based Paul Simon album in 1972. Although it was a commercial success, it paled in comparison to the duo's sales.
Simon's solo works differed greatly from his work with Garfunkel, embracing many different types of music: New Orleans jazz and pop-gospel on the hit single "Loves Me Like A Rock," African music on the album Graceland, South American on The Rhythm of the Saints, and salsa music for Broadway with 1997's The Capeman. He's tried his hand acting as well, appearing in Woody Allen's Annie Hall and in the semi-autobiographical film One Trick Pony.
Simon's latest studio album, So Beautiful Or So What, was co-produced by Phil Ramone and debuted on the Billboard 200 at Number Four. Simon explained that the issue of mortality crept into the songs on his new album, almost by surprise. During a recent interview on PBS he was asked if he felt that he was hitting 70 while writing So Beautiful Or So What: "It's more like 70's about to hit me. I suppose there's a connection, but it wasn't intentional. I was surprised myself, after I'd written the first six songs that five of them seemed to have God or some reference to Christmas -- y'know, 'Getting Ready For Christmas Day.' Yeah, I wondered what was going on."
Throughout the decades, Simon has never taken for granted being able to move through his life and work with relative autonomy: "I can do whatever I want artistically in my work. My work is accepted to lesser or greater degrees. Some things, sometimes are very popular. Sometimes its less popular -- but essentially, I mean, people are willing to listen, or watch, or read what it is that I make up."
Simon & Garfunkel have reunited various times over the years, most notably at New York's Central Park in 1981, after which they hit the road for an extended two-year tour. An ill-fated attempt at a studio reunion put their relationship on the skids, until their next series of shows in 1993 and then their eventual 2003/2004 Old Friends reunion tour.
In June 2010 Simon & Garfunkel announced that they would be indefinitely be postponing their joint summer tour due to Art Garfunkel's vocal cord paralysis, which to date have not been resolved, forcing him to once again cancel a series of solo dates.
Art Garfunkel admits that Simon & Garfunkel's combined talents are bigger than the both of them: "It delights us to see, when we try and combine, there's that third thing that's beyond the two of us, and there it is, bouncing against the walls, reverberating in the mic, this buzzy thing that is neither Paul nor Artie. We suddenly disappear as the people we are, and we become this Simon & Garfunkel thing."
In 2007 his son Harper Simon and current wife Edie Brickell teamed up as a duo called the Heavy Circles and released their debut album.
Although Harper Simon sounds nothing like his dad, he admits that they're alike in many ways -- including how they tend to write to a pre-recorded rhythm track: "Well there's a lot of similarities 'cause I've probably learned a lot, somewhat, watching him write growing up. He writes in a very specific way now. I mean, it changed, I think, for him. We both start with a track. I mean, he'll start with a rhythm track -- I mean, he'll just start with drums. Anyway, he builds a track up and then he writes the song over the track. That's how he writes now most of the time. As opposed to just sitting down on a guitar and writing it all out in one shot on guitar -- he doesn't do that."
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Tornadoes touched down in the suburbs of the nation's capital, spawned by the huge storm system that caused flooding and wind damage Wednesday in the Upper Midwest .
One twister hit near Gaithersburg, MD, and a waterspout was reported over the Chesapeake Bay. The storm cell started in Sterling, VA, and crossed the Potomac River.
The National Weather Service confirmed that a small tornado with winds of 50 mph touched down in Montgomery County, MD, just north of the capital. Damage has been reported in Olney and Rockville, MD, which are northwest of Washington, DC.
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The Associated Press reported that several farm buildings in northeast Iowa near Wabash were destroyed by straight-line winds of up to 100 mph, which inspectors said were some of the highest they had ever seen.
Golf-ball sized hail and winds of about 60mph hit in an area from Gary, IN, to Fort Wayne, IN, and a couple of tornadoes touched down in northern Iowa. In Chicago, the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), was hit by lightning.
More than 50,000 residents were without power at one point Wednesday night. Power was restored to most of those homes by Thursday afternoon.
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Description: In this episode of William F. Buckley's Firing Line television show, Jerry Brown and several journalists join Buckley.
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DH and I have decided to make the leap and have our third and final biological child. Right now I have two sons, 2 years apart almost exactly (Ds1 is July 1 and DS2 is July 26). How is going from 2 to 3? Is it harder? Easier? Any tips for me?
DH and I have decided to make the leap and have our third and final biological child. Right now I have two sons, 2 years apart almost exactly (Ds1 is July 1 and DS2 is July 26). How is going from 2 to 3? Is it harder? Easier? Any tips for me?
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I went from 0 to 3, and then 3 to 4. 3 to 4 was harder, but I think when you have older kids that also need your attention...and have schedules to keep up with (school, soccer etc) it just puts more on the plate. The triplets were not quite 2 1/2 when Jericho was born, the first 6-12 months was the hardest. Now they are doing great...just some fighting here and there
It wasn't bad enough to keep us from trying for one more next month though...if that tells you anything
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~*~Katrina~*~ Momma to Xander, Hayden & Lily (6) and Jericho (3 1/2)
For us, going from 2-3 was a piece of cake! Our first two are 18 months apart (almost to the day, actually), and that transition was much, much more difficult. I had a lot of feelings of sadness for DS1, because he no longer would be the only child. DS1 was a high-needs baby/toddler, so it was difficult to juggle those needs with a newborn. After the first three months, it got easier, though.
When DD was born, it was pretty seamless. There are 2 years and 9 months between she and DS2, so a larger gap, so I think that helped. DD is a pretty chill baby, too. If the Doctor didn't advise us against having another child, and if I didn't have such crazy pregnancies, we would be having a 4th, hands-down!
Good luck to you!
We've gone from 1 to 5 with foster care & then 1 to 4 with the triplets. Neither was particularly hard, just more time consuming. Mason adjusted easily although I do feel bad because now he gets either mommy or daddy time but rarely both.
I was so worried about being outnumbered with 3 - it has not been bad so far. I think 1-2 was WAY harder because that is when you need to learn to juggle, divide & conquer, etc...by the time you add #3 you are used to having to divide your time and prioritize and juggle different kids. Granted DD3 is only 4 months old but I still think it was harder when DD2 came along....
ETA: I was coming back to add a bit about how it's NOT easy by any means but I felt going from 1-2 was harder. I see some posters have added a bit about how stressful it can be at times. I totally agree. I didn't mean to make it sound like a breeze. It's not. Sometimes my head is spinning and it's so chaotic in here that I can't focus on a simple task. Last night my dinner was a slice of pizza which I ate sitting on my bed with the TV on and air purifier blasting (for white noise) to drown out the sounds of my older 2 chasing each other around the house and the baby crying because she won't let DH hold her anymore. That was just so I could eat ONE MEAL in peace. I am totally on call and on the go from 7:30am-9:30pm with little breaks in between.
2 things I wanted to add/agree with from other posters - 1) a lot of how you handle it will depend on your baby. ALL of my babies have been "needy" as in "not easy" babies. They all wanted to be held all the time, cried in the car, fussy a lot of the day, etc. DD2 was extremely high needs and the most difficult of all 3 so I think that is a major reason going from 1-2 was so hard for me. If my last 2 had been reversed I may be saying 2-3 is the hardest. I think the age gap also matters. When DD2 was born DD1 was 2.5. When DD3 was born my others were 5 (almost 6) and 3.5 - very different. Harder in some ways because I have take both girls to different schools so sometimes I am in the car 4+ times/day lugging the baby around. The other day I had to take DD2 back and forth to school, then later pick up DD1, sign her up for an after school program, take her to girl scouts, go back home with the other 2, nurse & change the baby, then go back to school to get her,....I was exhausted! I can say with #3 I have experienced higher levels of exhaustion than I imagined was possible. With a smaller age gap I felt like I had 2 babies so that had it's own challenges. Larger age gap = more independent but busier kids.
My 2nd point is: I yell and have a short temper now too. That happened after DD2 though. I work very hard to keep it in check but DD2 just pushes my buttons and DD3 is exhausting and DD1 is getting an attitude. So again I don't know if having a very high needs baby just pushed me over the edge but I never really recovered....
So yeah, going from 2-3 was not as tough as going from 1-2 for me but 3 kids is very, very tiring. I fear whatever groove I am finding will quickly blow up in my face once DD3 becomes mobile and will either find small toys to eat or get mowed down by the other 2 during their crazy rough play that occurs on a daily basis.
Also forgot to add: DD1 adored DD2 until she turned 6 months and then tortured her for the next year...hitting, pushing, knocking down, etc. That was tough. I am hoping that doesn't happen with DD3. So far they both are crazy about her....
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1 to 2 was the hardest. 2 to 3 was the easiest at first. Our first 2 are 2 years 3 months apart. #2 and 3 are 2.5 apart. The first year was nothing. When she turned 1, it got harder. We had stools for dd and DS to reach things but DD2 would climb them. Dd and DS wouldn't keep the bathroom door closed. Dd had toys that were too small for DD2 to get. It still wasn't bad, just a new set of things to watch for.
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Isn't anyone going to talk about how difficult it is? Geez. I felt in some ways completely capable. I handled my newborn and two toddlers and a fresh C-Section by myself right after I got out of the hospital while my dh had to go on a business trip. I felt like I had it all under control. The older ones were more independent, and the baby was just a baby and ate and slept and cried and was changed. On the other hand, I never ever felt stressed with my twins. I was calm and happy and don't remember getting upset about anything. Baby number 3 tipped the scale for me. I have yelled now. I have cried in front of my children. I have set something down on a counter harder than I might have otherwise, just because I was upset. I'm never calm and happy anymore, except on rare occasions.
I can still do things I never realized I could do before I had 3 kids. I can take all 3 out by myself all day, to parks and playgrounds and events. I go grocery shopping with all of them. I take them all to the zoo. Before I had 3, I never even dared to take 2 to the zoo by myself. They ran off too much. I keep being able to do more than I ever thought possible. I can make dinner and check homework and change a diaper and tend to an injury all at the same time (and yes, I wash my hands in between, because otherwise eww, that would be yucky).
I have certain thoughts of regrets about baby #3 at times. I know that's kind of sacrilege on a pregnancy site. And it feels like kind of a betrayal of how capable and easy people portray motherhood as being, and how capable I feel so many times. But I can run a department of 20 staff and 5 doctors and manage all of them and it's way easier than my 3 kids. Only a few people are yelling at me at the same time there. On the other hand, my last baby is probably the most difficult AND the most charming of all of mine. He requires constant attention and surveillance and will not listen and told me "Mommy, I like to see you cry," but is also the sweetest and most wonderful boy ever. And I keep thinking these are the hardest years and it should get easier. Right?
Anyway, there are pros and cons. I found it a piece of cake to go from 0 to 2. I found it very difficult to go from 2 to 3.
I really think it depends on the kind of kids you have and the kind you get.
My first two are 18 months apart. Both were difficult babies for different reasons (dd1 was a crier and needed to be held all day, dd2 did not sleep). DD1 hated DD2 for the first year. I was completely overwhelmed and had a hell of a time with the two of them. Now they are best friends and pretty easy toddlers.
So adding dd3 (2 years 4 mos after dd2) has been really easy. Why? Well she is a great sleeper and has a fabulous temperament. Also the older girls love her and they play together so well I dont feel as torn as I did with the first two. So given all of the above, going from 2-3 for me was way, way easier than going from 1-2. That being said, if dd3 was trouble or the first two did not play well, I think I would be overwhemled and unhappy again. The way it has turned out, I am gunning for number 4 but dh is against it!
If you want three go for it. If you have a good baby and the first two play well, it will be much easier than you fear. If you have a colicky needy baby or your first two fight all day, it wont be fun. Good luck!
When I had my second child, my first was 20 months old. That was the hardest year of my life. Kai was very high needs and Savana was pretty pissed off about his arrival. When I had my third, my older 2 were more independent and they play really well together. So Sawyer's infanthood was actually kind of breeze.
But now every day I do feel like I'm being pulled in 50 directions at once. They run me ragged. And the needs are all so different that I'm going from answering questions about evolution, to fishing my lovely expensive bar of soap out of the toilet while my toddler claps, to searching for the source of the noise I'm hearing to find my son punching holes in the plastic we put over the windows. Never a dull moment.
Oh, and like Lydia, I yell now. It's not usually out of anger but just to be heard. I've asked my children to let me know when I'm yelling because I don't even know i'm doing it sometimes and I don't want to be a yeller.
For us going from 2 to 3 was tough, but there were a lot of things going on in our lives outside of having a baby that made it tough. We lived in a TEENSY house-950 sq ft for the 5 of us, without a yard for the kids to play in to blow off steam. She was born in November & we live in a colder climate, so I couldn't get out and get fresh air very easily with a newborn.
The biggest lesson for me with my third baby was learning to ask for help and to accept it. With my first, I was always trying to project that I had it all under control. She of course was a very high needs baby who never wanted to sleep or be put down, which cured me of that whole idea! My second child was born 22 months later, and he is very chill, very relaxed. Good sleeper. When my third baby came, she was a good sleeper, pretty laid back, but it was a very very busy time for us. Keep in mind my kids are very close in age, we were in a tiny house, money was tight, and my first child continued to be very sensitive, very bright, very demanding of my attention & prone to arguments with her brother. They also were all in our bed at night, so even though the new baby slept well, we were not getting good restorative sleep on a regular basis, and hadn't for a few years! We lived a decent driving distance from family and friends-not hours, but long enough to make me unable to pop over to visit someone when I felt overwhelmed. My trips were sort of "rationed" which added to the stress. When I could get help, I HAD to accept it. I felt like with 2 kids I was supermom-staying organized seemed easier, making plans and sticking to them seemed easier, being on time was easier, and staying more even-keeled in my emotions was easier. Having 3 kids was a paradigm shift for us-I had to just accept that I couldn't be perfect. So more difficult? For us, with all of those things going on, yes, but it was a good thing.
Something that I have found to be worth preparing for with having the third/fourth children is that your pregnancy complaints/symptoms may intensify. Both of my first 2 pregnancies were pretty easy. One flu-like virus in my 2nd trimester with my son, practically NOTHING except back pain with my dd. Both labors were easy and I recovered well. My third pregnancy was very different. I had morning sickness until well into my third trimester. It was the first time I actually vomited ever, and I would get dizzy and nauseous even if I ate well and rested and drank fluids (but honestly that was really really hard to do). I had insane hemorrhoids and had to get surgery on them while pregnant without adequate anesthesia, and cutting them open made the pain while they healed a million times worse than a "normal" thrombosed external hemorrhoid (I've had those). I had WAY more Braxton Hicks, and I was running to maternity to be checked every weekend after 36 weeks. (I had such an easy labor with my 2nd that I was told not to ignore even minor cramping.) Sooo....pregnancy taxed me more than it ever had before. I didn't have the chance to baby myself like I had with my first and even my second. Even though my older 2 kids had each other to play with, they also fought with each other, got into stuff...so I was a very very busy 3rd time pregnant mom. Again, they were 3yr 4 mo and 18 months when my third was born, so that plays into it.
For anyone considering a fourth, I will say that now that we have gotten our approach down, I could honestly have 10 if you are just talking about just the day to day difficulty of taking care of that many people. We don't want to because of the amount of one on one time we could give each of them, not to mention the financial and physical constraints, but I feel like the "system" of taking care of everyone is basically the same approach after 3 kids. You go from man to man defense to zone defense- you focus your attention on the one who needs you, and find something for the others to do while you are occupied with that one. Then somebody else needs you, so you make sure the others are OK and bring your attention to that one. We also moved to a bigger house, closer to family, with a yard, and financially we have had ups and downs but are on the upswing-those things have all helped the fourth baby be an easier transition too.
I think one of the coolest things to see when you go from 2 to 3+ is when your kids get old enough to pinch off into different groups-my girls might play together, or my older 2, or my middle 2, or the oldest 3 occasionally play all together nicely...and soon our 4th will get to make little hangout combos with his siblings too!
I have no idea if my rambling is legible/helpful, but I hope it is! Congrats on making the decision & best wishes!
Meg (30), DH (40) & the 4 J's (Almost 7, 5, 3.5, 21 months)
I think there are a lot of factors that play into it. I never found transitions from 1 kid to 2 and then to 3 and so on. My babies were all very easy. I think my first was the hardest. She cried more and slept less for the first 2 months, but I blame it on a learning curve. I didn't breastfeed or cosleep with my first. I accidentally coslept one night when she was about 6-8 weeks old and it was the first night I got any sleep and I became a firm believer in cosleeping that day and everything was easier after that. She was 3 when I had my second so she was really cool with the baby. Brynna and Tea were 16 months apart and then Tea and Moira were 11.5 months apart and I thought it would be really hard, but it wasn't at all. Brynna really liked helping out and I involved her as much as possible. Tea is special needs so dealing with her was a challenge starting around age 2, but that had nothing to do with how many kids I had. Adding to our family has always been pretty seamless until the twins. After figuring out cosleeping I never had to get up at night with my babies so I was really used to getting plenty of sleep. Then when the twins came along they would wake up at the same time sometimes and I couldn't lie down and nurse two babies so I'd have to get up. And I realized that I felt a lot more frazzled with less sleep. So I guess it depends on how well you do during the baby stage and how accepting your older kids are. Some people struggle with the baby thing and some people love it. The main thing is you will eventually fall into a routine that suits you and it will be easy. My last 3 pregnancies concluded about 2 years apart, and I think that has a lot of benefits. You have 2 that are close enough in age to entertain one another and none so young that they feel like they are still the baby.
Mary Jane, doula and mom of Vada, Brynna, Tea, Moira, Kyan, Ambria, Aslan, and Anakin.
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Thank you guys for all the detailed responses. @Macksmom, your kids sound just like mine. They were both high needs babies, Daniel (DS2) was easy peasy until he outgrew the Moby, after that it got harder because he still wanted to be up All. The. Time. Daniel is still a very high needs little boy but I can see him slowly growing out of the constant need to be picked up and carried about. Still it's hard for me to ignore when he asks in his sweet little baby voice "Mommy please hold me a little while". Jonathan (DS1) didn't care about Daniel until he started to crawl and then he really didn't like this baby that was after all his toys. They still fight like water and oil some days but that, too is stabilizing.
They will be closer in age than Daniel will be with the new baby. Even if we got pregnant in December, that will make Daniel 3 and a half when the new baby comes so I won't have to deal with 2 in diapers at least Daniel is really the one I'm worried about. Jonathan is old hat at this baby thing and I've already spoken to him about the fact that mommy and daddy are going to try to have another child. He's excited but insists that it has to be a boy hehe.
We also live in a small house: 2 Bedrooms and 1200 sq feet. Not next year but the year after we intend on putting a second floor addition on it though which will add 4 bedrooms and at least 1 bathroom. Currently the boys share a room, I told DH that we don't need a room for the baby because really when have we EVER used our nurseries. Before we moved here we had a 3 bedroom house and a room that was set out like a nursery, crib and all and we never used it because I coslept. MaryJane, you mentioned dealing with the baby stage and yeah I found the baby stage (0-7 months) with Daniel just sooooo easy compared to with Jonathan. I breastfed and coslept with both children because I'm a haze-monster if I don't get enough sleep so that was the best way. Still, with Daniel nursing came so much easier than it did with Jonathan and I felt confident because I knew what I was doing.
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Mary Jane, doula and mom of Vada, Brynna, Tea, Moira, Kyan, Ambria, Aslan, and Anakin.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
Two to three was the hardest for me. When Laura was born, David was 3 and Erin was not quite 1. With Erin having been so premature, though, and still on oxygen and having health problems, and then Laura was colicky from 6 weeks to 4 months, so I think that's probably why it was more difficult for me.
~*~Katrina~*~ Momma to Xander, Hayden & Lily (6) and Jericho (3 1/2)
Yeah the boys love sharing a room, I regret that I didn't put them together sooner (Daniel's toddler bed was in the master bedroom for a while). It's helped Jonathan get over his fear of the dark oddly enough. I guess having his brother there is reassuring. Most nights everyone ends up in bed with me at around 2, 3 in the morning anyway.
I feel so much more confident about the lack of space now after hearing from you guys
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