You
know, when you decide to make the plunge into parenthood, there's
likely some hidden expectation about what having kids was going to do
for you. I think I had some weird romantic notion about becoming a
gentle earth mother serenely rocking my sleeping infant as I finally
understood all the mysteries of the universe. Of course, I now look
back on my child's infancy and can count the serene moments on zero
fingers. I mean, really. Colic. Sigh. The only mystery I wrestled with
was how any one child could make such a horrific noise for so damn
long.
Anyhow, I thought of this when I read...
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