At BlogHer, Hallmark had a booth in the Expo Hall with these shirts to customize and then they took your picture for a virtual mosaic. I stood there for a minute, thinking about what exactly in my life is a special occasion, and the answer came pretty quickly.
Chris and I were sure we didn’t want kids, maybe because we were still kids ourselves when we first started dating. Neither of us had any experience at all with babies, and when we tried to imagine ourselves as parents, we just couldn’t, so we agreed that kids were not in our future.
And then I had an unplanned pregnancy that ended in a blighted ovum, and I realized with much shock that I had actually been excited about having a baby, and it turned out Chris knew just how I felt, and a year later, Ryan was born.
From not wanting kids at all to having THREE of them, and doing a pretty okay job of raising them, makes the fact that I’m a Mom of 3 a special occasion every day! And so, the caption on the shirt 
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Congratulations for being a mom of 3. My mother is a mom of 3 too, I have 2 brothers elder than me. My mom did a great job with us, it’s great to have a large family.
Twitter: Table4Five
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What’s interesting is that I have a brother and a sister, but I never thought I would be a mom of 3 like my mom was!
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i LOVE THIS!! What a great idea.
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Thanks, Vera!!
Congrats for being a mom of 3 !!! Great post… i loved reading your post …Thanks for sharing with us….Best of Luck !!!
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Thank you, Grady!
Congrats! Yeah, being a mom is really different. It’s something that you never get tired of doing and always puts a smile on your face despite the odds. Good luck and thanks for sharing!
Hi Elizabeth,
Being a mom is a great reason to celebrate.
I don’t have kids yet and I also feel like I’m not ready for it. But I do hope to have kids maybe 3-4 years from now. 
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What’s really funny is I also thought the same exact thing. I never wanted kids and I remember before I even despised them! I never pictured myself having kids or taking care of any for that matter. I never had any experience with them either. But now I have three fully grown kids, and now that I think back on it, it wasn’t so bad after all. I never knew how fun it could be to raise kids.
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Ha…I felt the same way…and never thought of myself as a ‘mom’…however, after getting married, my husband and I decided to take the plunge into parenthood, and now, we cannot imagine life without our 2 year old boy (though there are times we wish we could get away!). Nonetheless, thanks for the encouraging message…whether or not to have kids is a huge subject that every single person should consider when they start dating seriously!