Prelude to Match 4
Preparation status: Unknown
Game plan: Unknown
Aim: Enjoy the Experience
Post Game: Debrief and Absorb the Accounts from the Participants
Yet again I’ve left the reader utterly baffled as to the above reference. What match? Who’s the participants? Even more importantly, what game are we even playing? In this instance, I’ll take the stance of this metaphor and it’s symbolic reference to allow the reader to be privy to my sentiments in embracing and welcoming the FOURTH little man to our already bountiful home!
Preparation: Unknown
How? One must gather that by now I’ve established a status of expert in the field of mothering and nurturing boys! This opinion, although offering quite a positive connotation, is merely the thoughts of a spectator that views a glimpse of a day in the life of me and my offspring. As far as preparation goes, I’ve drafted or sketched how we are to accommodate for the FOURTH, but are we mentally, emotionally, physically, psychologically and even financially prepared for the new addition? Although yet to be determined, we can confirm he will be welcomed and embraced into a warm, loving home! He will have numerous hands to hold him, comfort him, nurture him, and provide him with an abundance of security. He will be sung to, talked to, danced with, fed by, changed by, and kissed by little hands and lips ready to meet him. He will be encompassed in an overwhelming amount of affection. He will be content and undeniably cared for! As far as all the essential necessities may be concerned, well I am leaving the powers of that process to be!
Game Plan: Unknown
What’s the plan regarding birth? What if you are unable to reach the hospital? Are you prepared to have your baby at home? These are the initial questions one becomes bombarded with when they reach the end of Third Quarter! Am I wrong to simply state…”what will be will be?” Am I disregarding what society has deemed to be in the unborn child’s best interest by taking such a nonchalant stance? Or, am I trusting my body to do what it innately has performed before and allowing the untimely matter to occur as intended, yet provide the best solution on the day? The answer to my game plan is unknown. I would prefer to be in the hospital where medical intervention can be provided if required, but if my unborn child decides otherwise and his arrival is imminent, I must also consider the possibility of a home birth, as much as this is deemed taboo still in 2018!
Aim: Enjoy the experience
Why not? YOLO…am I correct? Well, frankly, I’ve come this far and had my fair share of experiences, so why not continue on the journey I initially commenced? Sure, I’m now fending for, soon to be, four little humans, but this life we were so blessed to inherit must be lived! Reality is, we have no awareness in how long we will graciously roam the earth, so in knowing our fate is unknown, we must relish in every present, fleeting moment! The murmurs, the whispers, the glances, and views expelled by other “concerned” adults questioning my ability to carry out current functions and tasks must be expelled! The logistics can be viewed as impossible, but God never offers us anything we can not handle! I don’t aim to be the monumental symbol for heroism in today’s modern world, I just aim to try and be the best mother to a household full of boys I’ve been blessed with. Who knew the little girl who hoped one day she would be the mother to one daughter herself, would mature into a mother to four boys? I’m still geared with an abundance of faith and trusting in HIS plan!
Post Game: Debrief and Absorb the Accounts from the Participants
Honestly, I yearn for this moment. I yearn to be filled in on the boys open and honest account on the experiences they acquired whilst living in a household full of brothers. I also can not wait to be privy to their intimate thoughts and sentiments on my tuition as a parent with them. Whether they feel my parenting style adapted to their varying personalities or whether they felt I was unable to connect in certain circumstances. Either way I truly hope the lines and portals of communication with my boys remain stretched forth to establish and engage in such conversations when they are able to recognise, relate and reflect on past experiences.
The play-by-play commentary continues as we brace for the commencement of Match 4. In the meantime, the stance remains….what will be, will be!!
