Why Three Boys?

Never fail, every single person from my mom to the blind date babysitter we hired yesterday have asked me the exact same question since we announced our Little Moon.

"Why three boys?"

I get why many of our family members asked; we've been crowing about a girl for years now.  But even strangers and acquaintances head straight for the burning question.

"Why three boys?"

Unfortunately, I don't have a great answer for them.  I don't actually have three boys right now, so any poetic waxing I can do on the stereotypical answers is just conjecture. It hasn't been a life dream of ours, and neither Appa nor I even know many 3+ families with all one gender.  It "seems like it would be kind of fun" is sort of a lame answer. And when I am following that up with the fact that my boys will be 5, 4, and 3 when our last one comes home makes the "kinda fun" answer sound like I am delusional.

I've been told by others that boys are easier to raise, boys love their mothers, and boys are more fun.  As a card-carrying member of Team Female, I'm not putting too much stock into those answers.  I think I was probably a dream child to raise.

Wait, what?

But universally, what I have been told by all boy families is that they love it.  That they wouldn't trade it for all the girls in the world.  Granted, they're clearly biased and would likely sing a different tune should their families have included a shot of pink.

But that is the real answer.  The one I can't articulate to the babysitter or therapist or anyone who doesn't have 10 minutes to listen to me ramble about MY three boys. It's not a matter of wanting three boys, it's a matter of wanting the family that you were meant to have.  For many people, that means loving and wanting the children you bear, regardless of their gender.  For me, means Little Bug, Little Bro, and Little Moon.  Sure, we could have waited it out and hoped for a girl, but once I felt it for Little Moon, nothing else mattered.  The fact that he isn't a girl is nothing compared to the fact that he is this amazing little soul that I am so very lucky to be able to one day raise.

"Why three boys?"

Because the three children I love above all other children in the world just happen to be boys.