[Julaine]

My girls are teens now but they are just three years apart. I was a single parent when they were born because their father and I did not marry until they were older ! I included my older daughter in on everything so she was prepared for her little sister when she was born. Her biggest frustration was "when is the baby going to wake up and play with me ?" My girls have their days that they fight but they are each others best friend. The biggest problems I faced was little things like grocery shopping - infant in the seat part and toddler in the cart and then where do you put the groceries ? ha!ha! Up all night with newborn breasfeeding every three hours and then toddler awake and ready to go at 7:00 AM, trying to go places with both of them. I did not drive then so I had the toddler by the hand and carried the infant and diaper bag and everything ! Thank goodness for a good stroller ! But the blessings far out weighed the other things ! My favorite picture is one of little sis "holding" baby sis on Saturday morning while the two of them "watched " cartoons ! Baby sis always lite up when she saw big sister ! I would not change a thing ! My worry now is that we will only be able to adopt one Guatemalen child before Hague because of finances ! If we come up with the money we are going to adopt two as fast as possible so that our son will have a sibling his age !