Are You Ready for Another Kid?

Deciding to expand your brood is a personal decision of great magnitude, but if you want a completely trivial way to clarify the issue, look no further. Below, 10 questions help you determine your mothering capabilities beyond what they already are.

1
Your husband is taking the kids on an errand, giving you a 20-minute break. What do you do?
Get to work on your online family scrapbook—and order a dozen mugs featuring little Ryder's photo.
Take a six-minute power nap, a ten-minute jog, and a four-minute shower.
The dishes. Then figure out dinner, tidy the living room, put in a load of laundry—and if time allows, crawl into a fetal position.
2
Your son wants to finger paint. Your reaction:
Jump up, clear off the table, bring out the paints, and set him up.
Mama's not in the mood now. How about a Fruit Roll-Up and Barney instead?
Shoot me.
3
When you pass the diaper section at Ralph's, your first thought is,
Next time around, I'm doing all cloth.
Buy a pack on sale, just in case another comes along.
There but for the grace of God go I....
4
Five years from now you'd like to be:
Florence Henderson.
On the city council.
Living in Paris.
5
You're at the store with your kid(s), and there's a meltdown over your not wanting to buy a bag of jumbo marshmallows. What do you do?
Calmly grab your child by the hand and leave the store to prove a point. You can grocery later.
Get the damn marshmallows and spare yourself the drama.
Beat your kid over the head with the bag of marshmallows until security escorts you from the store.
6
What does your ideal morning include?:
Whipping up Mickey Mouse–shaped pancakes and packing lunches in front of the Today Show.
Pilates, CNN, a smoothie, and catching up on e-mails.
Sleeping until noon.
7
It's dinnertime, the kids are hungry and whining, and you're burning the lasagna. What is your husband doing?
Doing laundry, reading to a kid, or paying the bills online.
Working late.
Showering before poker night.
8
Your biggest anxiety about having another child:
Choosing a theme for the nursery. Is Noah's Ark totally played out?
Putting your kitchen-design business on hold for another six years.
Having another child.
9
The first things you'd do if you got pregnant:
Go on prenatals and throw yourself a shower.
Go on one last vacation and throw yourself a cocktail party.
Go on St. John's Wort and throw yourself a pity party.
10
When you mention the idea of having another kid to your husband, what does he do?
High-fives you and drops trou.
Says he's open to it, if you do all the night duty—and most of the doody duty.
Vomits and doesn't speak to you for a week.
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