Thanks for the comment. The hard part is deciding whether or not you really want to buy something again and how much the stress of clutter outweighs the stress of spending money for the second time. I seem to be terribly torn on the topic, but as time passes I think my husband is swaying me to the ‘get rid of it’ side. I think I want the freedom of open space more than the savings, but each time I plan to get rid of something it seems to be more trouble than I ever could have expected. Of course, so far I haven’t actually ‘replaced’ anything we’ve gotten rid of.

That’s my struggle too. I don’t want to get rid of something we’ll need to buy again. We wouldn’t need to buy these exact toys again, but we’d probably need to buy some type of replacement toy so kid #2 has age appropriate stuff to play with. Of course, I’m all for giving the kids an empty egg carton and a few bouncy balls and leaving the rest to their imaginations 🙂

The newborn thing is tricky. Some people are very superstitious about receiving gifts before giving birth let alone conceiving. In the Jewish tradition women used to wait until after the baby was born to receive gifts. I wouldn’t accept anything until I reached the half way mark. It’s silly, but it took us so long to conceive that I didn’t want to jinx it.

Do you think you’ll have another or are you pretty set with just one? I would have been fine with one, but my husband really wanted my son to have a sibling. I’ve read bits and pieces about your brother so I thought you might feel differently about the whole sibling connection 😉

Now, though, I have all this Newborn stuff that I want to gift to friends who are trying to conceive but obviously I don’t know when that’ll be. And I don’t want to give it to them early for fear it’ll be insensitive to their struggle.