My favorite thing, yet: I received a question from a blog reader who's looking for a little advice. Love this! Please, send more! I'll be happy to post questions I think readers would like to discuss. I'll add my answer for the sake of starting the discussion. I hope you all will add your own comments. We could all use a little help!

Keep those questions coming!

Hi Meredith,

Just wondering: how long did it take you to get the hang of having two children instead of one? I'm due in a few months with our second and I honestly have no idea how we'll adjust!

HA! Any day, now... if there's one thing I've learned in the past four years it's that nothing is constant: you get the hang of your baby's sleep patterns and they change. You figure out a rhythm for getting your 2 year old to school and to work on time and she starts waking up a half an hour later than she used to. Pancakes a perfect way to get her to the table in the morning? Next week she hates them.

I'm convinced there's only one real way to adjust to any number of kids in your house, and that's adaptability. You're going to fail at getting dinner on the table for a while and your first is going to get to bed later than usual. But just as you eventually found a new "normal" with the first one, you will with the second, too. Just go with it, because the train isn't stopping!

My one little tip: when you find yourself alone and the baby and your older child are both crying, tend to the older one, first. She'll remember it. The baby won't.

Now: I know there are mothers reading this blog who MUST have some more intelligent advice than I do on this subject! Let's hear your comments!