Back to Counting?

It's been months. Let me correct myself. It's been more than a year since I last posted here. And not, actually, because I've been too busy. Yes, yes, of course I'm doing a lot. We're all doing a lot. I have two kids and a husband, I work, I cook, I plan for vacations we'll go on in five years, I sleep, I socialize, I spend way too much time on the Internet.

There are plenty of moments when I've wanted to write in the last year, not necessarily on this blog, but in general: for myself, for my kids, for other unidentified human people. And, in reality, I've done more writing during that time than I did during the two years when I only had one kid. So, were I keeping an organized chart -- more kids versus no more kids -- that would mean one check in the column for more.

More kids equals more writing? I didn't see that one coming (and sort of doubt my productiveness would accelerate with more progeny). However, if that chart was really tacked on the side of my refrigerator, the no more kids column would have a lot more checks.

And that, you see, is why I haven't been blogging much.

If I saw this phantom check list, stuck between the soccer team list and the recycling schedule, while pouring my coffee every morning, it would startle me every time. No more kids? Happy with two? But the answer, for now, is decidedly yes.

And so I've taken a hiatus, probably because I wasn't quite ready to say it out loud yet, but certainly not because I'm not still intrigued by kid count. It's just that the premise of the blog was sort of me researching the perfect family size for us.

But even if we've already found that happy number, and perhaps also because of that, my cultural fascination with kid counting continues. And I intend to reinstate my research for all eager readers in the weeks to come.