嫁の妊娠62 ～明日は嫁の実家に遊びに行く～

嫁はいよいよ２７週目も終えようとしている。

何がいよいよなのかは置いといて、お腹の中の赤ちゃんは毎日ポコポコお腹を叩くし、嫁はちゃんとご飯も食べるし、とにかく順調に進んでいる。

そんな中、明日の日曜日は嫁の実家に埼玉に遊びに行く。

といっても、実家の周辺にあるお肉が美味しい施設や川のある公園に行く予定。

嫁の妹にあたる次女の娘、４歳の姪っ子も一緒に４人で遊びに行く。

天気も暑すぎるほどに良好のようで楽しみ。

女の子の４歳ともなってくると、本当によく喋るし、好き嫌いもあるし、すでに自分の意見もあったりする。

１ヶ月ほど前にも遊んだが、幼児ではなく女の子になっているし、ボクの知らないことも知っていたりする。

生まれたときにボクも病院にお祝いに行ったのだが、まだ目も開いていなかった。

あの小さい、ボクなら片手でも充分に持てるほど小さかったのに、と思うと、なんともむず痒い気持ちになる。

人間とは、こうやって大きくなっていくのだなと目の前で実感している。

ボクらの生まれてくる我が子も女の子の予定で、嫁にとっては予行演習にちょうどいいだろう。

今こうして思うのは、月並みだが、親の凄さを痛感する。

ボクは小学３年生のときに父親が出て行き、シングルマザーで育った。

そのとき、ボク以外にも、中３の姉、高１の兄がいた。

多感な時期の子供３人を、地元ではない大阪の地で１人で育てた。

金銭面のことは知らないが、物理的にはおばあちゃんにも親戚にも頼らず、働きながら家事の全般もこなしていた。

今では大阪の実家近くに住む兄家族の孫たちの面倒を見ながらのんびりつつましく暮らしている。

以前、結婚したころに、母に少し言ったことがある。

「てか、１人で３人育てるってスゲーな」

するとオカンはあっけらかんと答えた。

「ま、あのときは毎日忙しかったから、あっちゅう間やったけどな」

そう言いながら、兄貴の息子、２歳の甥っ子をあやしていた。

確かに、ボク自分の経験でも人からスゴイと言われることは幾つかあるが、自分で『スゴイことをしているな』『辛いな』と思いながらやった記憶はない。

ボクの場合は仕事に当てはまるが、そのときはそのことに一所懸命で、なんとか少しでも面白いものを考えて書こうと思っているだけ。

子育ても、大変は大変だろうが、恐らくそんな感じだろう。

そしてボクの性格というか、負けん気根性の強さは、オカン譲りなんだろうと思う。

特別に何かを言われたわけでもないが、無意識の中で、そんなオカンの姿がボクの性格に刷り込まれていったのだろう。

ほとんどの子供が思うことだろうが、改めて思う。

オカンの息子に生まれて良かった。


★★★ENGLISH VERSION★★★("excite translation" it's just as it is, so when not knowing the meaning, please accept it.)


◆Wife's pregnancy62　～I'll go out to play in wife's parents' home tomorrow.～

My wife is also going to finish it for the 27th week increasingly.
A baby in the stomach puts what is increasingly, and hits a POKOPOKO stomach every day and my wife is also having a meal neatly and anyway is advancing smoothly.
During such, I go out to play in Saitama in wife's parents' home on Sunday, tomorrow.
Even if I say so, the meat which is around its parents' home is planning to go to good facilities and a park with a river.
The second daughter's daughter and the 4-year-old niece kid who hit wife's younger sister go out to play with 4 people together, too.
It seems good and is pleasant so that it's also too hot for the weather.
A girl's, I talk that it's being involved 4 years old really often, also have likes and dislikes and also have the opinion already.
I also played in front of about 1 month old, but it's a girl, not an infant and I also know me not to know.
When being born, I went to a celebration in a hospital, too, it's rather unready, it wasn't open.
Uh, in being so small that small I could have one hand sufficiently, the moment, surprisingly, it'll be also itchy feeling.
I miss with man, it's actually felt to be becoming big immediately.
Girl's schedule would also be fine for a rehearsal exactly for my wife my young by which we're having.
It's ordinary to think in this way now, but wonderfulness of the parent is fully realized.
A father went out at a 3rd grader of elementary school, and I grew up by a single mother.
I had an elder sister of 3 and my high 1 elder brother during all except for me at that time.
3 susceptible children in time were brought up by themselves at a place by Osaka which isn't localness.
He didn't know a money face, but he depended on neither a grandmother nor a relative physically, and in general of domesticities was making up, too, while working.
I live modestly freely in now while taking grandchilds' charge for the elder brother family who lives near the parents' home in Osaka.
When I got married before, I have said to my mother a little.
"And, 3 people bring up by themselves, it's wonderful."
Then OKAN answered indifferently.
"Because oh was busy every day at that time, a moment was done."
Elder brother's son and a 2-year-old nephew were being cradled while saying so.
Certainly, there are several cases that I say that even the experience is wonderful from a person, "don't do a wonderful thing" by yourself, though I think "It's spicy.", I have done no memory.
My occasion applies to work, as they're strenuous in the thing at that time, and I think I'll think and write something even a little fascinating somehow.
The child rearing will be also very serious, but it'll be such feeling.
I think the strength by which they're competitive spirit guts and whether you say my character will be a OKAN heritage.
It isn't also the reason to which you said something especially, but the form of such OKAN would be printed in my character in the unconsciousness.
It'll be that most children think, but I think once more.
You might be born for a son of OKAN.

thank you