Why Three Is So Much More Than Two

Life is busy. I used to think that having kids was like having cats. You already got the food, the toys and the beds, why not have 2 or three? (Insert maniacal laughter here.) Let me list a few reasons why 3 seems so much harder than 2.

1. As a parental unit you are now out numbered.
2. You only have two hands.
3. With two, usually only one kid would have a problem at any given time. Now it seems far more likely that two are demanding your attention simultaneously, and then the third one will join in just because. I call this my "Lemming Theory", or the "Jump on the Bandwagon Theory" also known as "Why the Hell Not?"
4. You can effectively drown out one child crying. Two you can attempt to ignore. Three makes you want to gouge your eyes out.
5. Your car and everything else you own will suddenly be too small (and I don't care how big your house is...I guarantee it will seem too small).
6. People start to question you about the third child as in, "Wow, did you plan to have three?"
7. Now you can't really tell who "did it", because there are more kids to blame each other.
8. Someone is always napping so it is virtually impossible to go anywhere.
9. Someone is always hungry so it is also virtually impossible to get out of the kitchen.
10. That one extra load of laundry when you had your first child, has now turned into three or more extra loads of laundry a week.

I cold go on, but I don't want to scare anyone away from having children...I just want you to think very carefully before you do. I know I should finish this up with something cute like... "and of course there is three times the love..." but I have to tell you right now I'm not feeling the love. Give me a few more months to start sleeping again and then I'll let you all know.