Funny story to share: On Tuesday night I had Joe pick up take-out for dinner because I had no energy to cook dinner round 2 once he got home from work. As I was complaining about cooking, cleaning, and the kids (ya know, the usual) Joe said, "I wonder how my mom did it. She never had any help and always had this delicious dinner every night. I guess times have changed." (In defense of Joe's obnoxious and poorly timed comment, he did add on that he remembered his house was always messy and the standard of what moms were expected to do were not as demanding when he was growing up as they are now.)
My retort: "Your mother's idea of a rough day is a bit different from mine. Your mother didn't have indoor plumbing until she was 16 years old. And she had three natural births and says contractions don't hurt - they're just uncomfortable. Oh, and your mother mother knows how to skin a chicken! Like a real one!"
My mother-in-law is a remarkable woman and I do love her like a mother. I know not all women love their mother-in-laws this way so I do consider myself lucky. But if Joe ever expected me to live without indoor plumbing, he'd be single and for those of you who have never experienced a birth contraction - they f-ing hurt, okay?!
Not to scare anyone from birth or mothering - it's all totally amazing and awful and fabulous and torturous wrapped up into one experience! Do it!
And because Marlo got the video highlight in my last post, check out this little stud.
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