My dd is another mother hen - I think it is a girl thing. I was fortunate to have an older sister which sucked a lot growing up but now we are best friends. My dd is from a previous marriage though and I also question how fair it would be to have another child that gets to be with us all of the time (ie holidays and stuff) adn she would have to go to her retards every other one. I think that would be hard on her. It is catch 22 I guess. She is also adimit about ONLY having a sister. She says she already has a brother and 1 is enough

When we were talking about adopting she had tons of stipuations. 1. It had to be a girl, 2. It couldn't be older than her, 3. I couldn't be named Brittney (She still holds a grudge against me that she was not named after Brittney Spears

) 4. I couldn't give any of her "favorite" clothes to it when she out grew them, 5. I couldn't give her horse to it unless the one we bought for the new kid was nicer, and so on. She is a card and a half I tell ya.
TAZ