have children someday

“You know, your mum did a bank account for a girl your age, and she had three boys. You are getting on now, I guess it won’t be long now?”

Yeah, dad, try two or more years. I got way too much to be doing right now. Not saying I don’t want kids, if the situation were right, I’d already be wanting kids. But it’s more sensible to wait now. Erik has another year of studying left, and I have to start learning Swedish, which will take a few years I am thinking before I am fluent. Although, that’s not that important when it comes to our eventual kids, as Erik will teach them Swedish, and I’ll teach them English.

They could be as pedantic and reasoning as I am.

“Please, put the knife away, you might hurt yourself”
“I can use it okay”
“Not at the moment, when you’re older you will, when your motor skills are more developed”
“How will I develop them without using things?”
”...Just shush”

It’d be a never-ending reasonable explanation. Just great :P

It’s hard not to notice with your friends having kids, and working with children, seeing just how much time they take up. I’m so not ready for that yet, it’s not that I’m particularly busy at present, it’s just that I don’t think I could conjure up the energy for it right now. It’s not all important to me, and I guess it won’t be for a while yet. And being around kids has never made me broody, not even a little bit. It’s nice to be able to give them back at the end of the day, hehe.

Whilst I enjoy planning things, I wouldn’t want to plan this one too much :) I’m probably not going to get married, so that’ll be no indication of ‘the right time’. You can never truly know when is a good time. I just hope it’s not too far away a couple of years perhaps, when I’m better established.

and for some reason I had it in my head that I would either have 1 or 2 children. But then I realised, I don’t have to restrict myself to the norm, I could have 3, maybe even 4, as long as I could give them a good standard of living. I do plan to adopt at least one child. I think that would be a good thing to do.

Most everyone’s going to want this, aren’t they? It’s a pretty standard one. I don’t have anything structured to it though. I don’t know who I want to have children with, I don’t know when I’ll have them, even if I can have children. I think if it weren’t possible for me to have biological children, I would adopt. It’s giving a child already around the chance of a happy, loving home life. Who wouldn’t want to give that to a kid?