How Many Children do you Have?

It was an innocent enough question, asked casually to me by the guy working out on the leg lift machine next to me---- about six months after Chris died and I had garnered the strength to face the world, that was somehow still revolving and carrying on with one less red head---
It took me so by surprise---
I burst into tears, covered my face, and couldn't figure out how to answer that simple question-- the question that had always been rather complicated anyway---
I had worked it out to say-"Three sets of two"-- Math being my favourite subject-- 3 x 2 =6
I had two boys, my husband had two boys, then we had a girl and a boy--- so it was a complicated six----
But now I had to rethink so many things---
How many children do I have?--
While I"m a blubbering idiot, the poor guy beside me, Gerald, the nicest man in the universe, is berating himself, apologizing and just wishing he could somehow erase the question---
poor guy-- he smiles and walks on by whenever he sees me in public--
Don't blame him--- I've reworked it all out though, so I'm prepared --
"Three sets of two--- scattered all over the place!"

In fact , if you take a trip to Mike's blog, you'll see pictures of now "four" Amons populating the continent of Australia!!