Reply #99: Although I helped my best friend raise her 2 kids-my godchildren

[LibertyLover]

because her now ex-husband, their father, didn't particularly want to be bothered with them (example: She was at work one evening and called home. Husband answered and mentioned that he was eating dinner. She asked if he had fed the children too. He replied that he had not and didn't even know if they were in the house - the kids were 10 and 8 at the time and it was after 7 pm. She reamed him a new one.). But still it's nothing like having my very own kidlet, which I do now. For one thing, the worry factor is different. Sure I could be worried and concerned about my godkids, but I wasn't living with them 24-7-365, so if one of them got sick, I didn't have to deal with it except on the weekends. I didn't have to deal with a lot of the mundania either - trips to the doctor, parent-teacher meetings, that sort of thing. With having my own kidlet, I worry about her speech and development and all sorts of things - it's much more personal now. She is the child of my heart and I know I didn't understand what being a parent meant when I didn't have kids, even though I was very involved with children.