I have to have that alone time, or else I get extremely crabby. It's in everyone's best interest that I have some time to decompress. ;)

It seems hard enough to carve out that time when you're at the beck and call of just one imperious tyrant. Having a second child just seems like you're kissing goodbye whatever shreds of solitude you might have left. That is one of the main reasons why Evan will probably be an only child. (That, and I can't believe we lucked out in the genetic crapshoot. I was pretty worried that he would be deaf. Not that we couldn't have handled deafness, but all other things being equal, I would prefer to have a hearing child.)