Bella gave Chris the best early birthday present by sleeping in, that let us stay in bed way longer than we usually do on a Sunday morning and we weren't exactly sleeping either (wink wink!) Afterward I left Chris in charge of breakfast, or rather, brunch and ran to the grocery store to get detergent and a few other necessities. We do so many loads of laundry in this house, I think we need shares in Tide.

On the way back home I kept thinking about how weird is still is after all this time to spend some weekends with only one kid around. You'd think I'd be used to it by now, Bella is almost two and Lily and Connor have been going back and forth between Joe and me longer than that. But there are times when I wonder what they think about it all.

Are they used to it, is it just the way life is? Does Bella wonder why her brother and sister go off without her for days on end? I can tell myself there's nothing to worry about a hundred times a day, but I still wonder. A friend remarried and him and his wife decided not to have any children themselves, he has a couple already and they go back and forth between his house and the ex's. They said it would just be weird for one kid to be home all the time while the others go off.........which is exactly what Chris and I are doing.

But then again, they aren't us. And we aren't them. We're making this multiple kid/multiple household thing work pretty well. And I should concentrate on that instead of worrying about things that just aren't problems.