Siblings

Before we had Scarlett, we've always said to ourselves that we either have no kids or two kids. We didn't want to have a singleton because that child wouldn't have any playmates. Also, we've known several (not all) singletons who are just not quite normalized. I think it's a good thing to have at least one sibling. I have two and can't imagine growing up without them (so does my husband). So that was our theory until we had Scarlett. She has kept us busy and constantly challenged/stressed over the last two years that we couldn't imagine how people have more than one child. It took us a long time to even consider the idea of having the second one. By then, Scarlett was already almost one and a half and the chances of her having a sibling close in age wasn't looking so good. I had hoped that she would be close to her sibling in age so that they will play together and be best friends. Unfortunately, I don't have much control over that and thus, I rationalized by realizing that my older brother and I are closer in age but I'm much closer to my younger brother, who is almost three years younger than me. So maybe it's not so bad that Scarlett's sibling will be almost 3 years younger than her. At least she will have someone to play with.