Large birthday gifts but no space!!!
My baby has just tuned 1 and has been gifted so many large birthday gifts that we just don’t have space for in our small end of terrace house.
I am very grateful for everyone who has spent money on my baby but I just cannot store all of these huge presents (ride on electric car, ball pit, water and sand table, indoor trampoline, 4ft stuffed teddy, summer house and indoor climbing set.
We have a small garden, no garage and a spare box room that is currently used for storage. Our son’s bedroom is small to say the least and barely has room for a cot, wardrobe, bookshelf and dresser.
Unfortunately, we cannot afford to move to a bigger house due to our preferred living area (family and work) being expensive and me retuning on a part time basis means we have less money.
Previously, we had politely asked family to buy smaller gifts or give money for my son’s bank account. We could then buy 1-2 large gifts that we can store or save the money towards his future.
What do I do? I literally have nowhere to store these, let alone have the space for my little boy to actually play with them. I try to only store what we need but I genuinely cannot throw away anything to make space for all of these new gifts.
One and done.
There will be no small footsteps
following after yours,
no second laugh in the backseat,
no tiny hand reaching for mine
while yours grows steady and sure.
And one day,
when the house is quieter than you hoped,
you may wonder why
you never had a built-in friend
to share the weight of losing us.
I wonder that too.
But love is not counted in children.
It is measured in what we can hold
without breaking.
So I chose this—
not because you were not enough,
but because you were everything
I could give myself fully to.
And though the ache of “what if”
may visit us both,
I hope you will always know:
this ending was never a lack of love.
It was love making the hardest decision it could.
