"Oh, you're never really prepared for it until you're actually pregnant, and then when you have the kid," I tell her with a firm nod. "You think that you are totally prepared and logical and will think of every possibility... but you won't. That is the wonder of kids. They will do things that you never could have imagined. In both good ways and bad." I shake my head. In some ways, it's good that Eddie is my oldest, that he's the one who is most outside what any of us expected. It made the other two boys easier to manage. Evan is practically a breath of relief.
"I don't mean to make it sound so scary, though. Because even though kids are always surprises, you know, as a parent you start to surprise yourself. Things that maybe you never thought you could do, you find a way. So I'm sure you will be fine even if you don't have other people to help you," I say, moving my hand in a smooth, flattening motion, like I'm trying to iron her nerves. Not that she seems to have too many of them. She's probably like most people who work for the government; they know how to keep up face. "But that doesn't mean you should turn away help when you can get it, you know?"
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Date: 2016-10-19 09:28 pm (UTC)"I don't mean to make it sound so scary, though. Because even though kids are always surprises, you know, as a parent you start to surprise yourself. Things that maybe you never thought you could do, you find a way. So I'm sure you will be fine even if you don't have other people to help you," I say, moving my hand in a smooth, flattening motion, like I'm trying to iron her nerves. Not that she seems to have too many of them. She's probably like most people who work for the government; they know how to keep up face. "But that doesn't mean you should turn away help when you can get it, you know?"