You forgot one: Dignity. Before I spawned, I'd go to the grocery store, buy stuff, then leave quietly. After kids, I would find myself standing in the nachos aisle singing "I love you, you love me" and wiping my kid's nose on the end of my dirty tee shirt. My conversations had gone from spirited discussions over the abuses of semiotic gender markers in dramatic cinema, to manic ha ha jags with the check out girl about how much my little wonder loves frosted cheerios and why that's really, really, really, really I'm not crazy.
My kids are 12 and 16 now and frankly, I'm not convinced I've recovered yet.
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You forgot one: Dignity. Before I spawned, I'd go to the grocery store, buy stuff, then leave quietly. After kids, I would find myself standing in the nachos aisle singing "I love you, you love me" and wiping my kid's nose on the end of my dirty tee shirt. My conversations had gone from spirited discussions over the abuses of semiotic gender markers in dramatic cinema, to manic ha ha jags with the check out girl about how much my little wonder loves frosted cheerios and why that's really, really, really, really I'm not crazy.
My kids are 12 and 16 now and frankly, I'm not convinced I've recovered yet.
October 12, 2009 - 9:03amThis Comment
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