Secret Top 10

One of my girlfriends at work made the observation that marriage and parenting is hard-- those things are rarely talked about which leads to a lot of unrealistic ideas on the subjects.

SO, the top 10 BABY THINGS no one ever talks about:

• 10 Toy tornadoes every night after baby's bedtime
  9 The dog bowl-- the funnest "No No" EVER
  
• 8 Getting called out of church to come get your screaming child out of the nursery
• 7 Mommy guilt
• 6 Daddy worries about sending children to college starting at day 1
• 5 Meals are never hot anymore for Mom and Dad and there is always a 1 foot perimeter mess around the high chair after meal time- dogs are helpful here
• 4 Crying at weddings


• 3 Exhaustion by night time after giving all you've got with little time for yourself
• 2 Sick babies at daycare making me worry all day if they are spreading germs to my healthy baby
• 1 Poop on the fireplace (I'll spare you the picture)

The top 10 MARRIAGE THINGS no one ever talks about:

• 10 The way his family did it and the way her family did it are always different
• 9 You don't really know the person on the day you say "I Do"- you haven't been through ups and downs yet... you just hope you picked someone with character and values that line up with your own
• 8 When you both get fat together, you don't realize, until you do... then you really have your work cut out for you!
• 7 Strange bathroom habits (I will not go into detail here)
• 6 Gender roles in marriage don't just "happen"
• 5 You both always think you give more than 50%
• 4 Tracking where the money goes is harder with 2 people than 1
• 3 Your love for your spouse totally changes when you see them enteract with your child
• 2 Everybody knows when the cooking is bad... you don't reach "Grandma" cook status until you are a Grandma
• 1 Why did every one of you jump down to this one and think I would say something I am NOT going to say?!!!

So there is your list, Jennifer... hope you enjoyed it! With all of that said, I wouldn't trade any of it! Not even poop on the fire place! Somehow, these things never hit the same status as the "good stuff" does in my mind when I talk about my child or my husband.