how (at least i am hoping…) having a baby is just like getting a tattoo.
last summer, there was this two week period during which i was completely occupied by the question of whether or not have have another child. mostly because we were coming down the wire of “now or never”. it was something we’d been meaning to get around to, but had had good reasons to put off for over a year by that point. we had been having a very good time with our one child, with a life arranged very much the way we liked it. it was easy, most of the time. we were comfortable. i 