Parenting 101

It's Monday and this week is already crazy. I am running around doing laundry and packing for our trip this week while trying to keep the kids entertained enough that they stay out of my hair. They are tired of going on errands to buy odds and ends for the trip and it's over 100 degrees outside today, so I doubt we'll even go in the pool until later when it's cooler.
So, then I was reading one of my favorite blogs by a woman named Heather Armstrong who is the mother of a particularly ill-tempered 3 year old. She wrote something about parenthood that made me laugh out loud. Her daughter has a weird habit of sleeping with random things in her bed like books and bottles of shampoo, a frisbee, etc. Those of us with children know that ALL kids have eccentricities and this just happens to be hers. Well, Heather and her husband put her to bed and her daughter says to them, “You guys are my friends.”

Heather writes:
"You think you’re going to be prepared for the sheer incredibleness of such a moment, but it’s like, someone keeps setting off pipe bombs on your front porch and throwing rocks through your windows, and then one day out of nowhere they show up and mow your lawn. And you’re suddenly glad you didn’t shoot them last week."

That is an awesome quote about parenthood. I know that all the stress of this week will be worth it when we are all 4 sitting on a beach in the Bahamas.

Here is the link to Dooce, Heather's blog.
http://www.dooce.com/