Those of you with small children, take heart: one day, you too will be able to go on bike rides with your family. One day, you too, will be able to take your children to a restaurant sometime after 5:30pm. One day, you won’t have to supervise playdates, or clean those little sippy cup straws, or wipe anyone’s anything.
Yes, it’s true. The baby days will be over and you will enter a new phase with your family. A phase in which you can reason with your kids, hang with them, even. Family outings will not be of the barely tolerable Chuck E. Cheese variety, but will be to do things you all enjoy – like skiing, or seeing PG movies, or really, anything that doesn’t include insipid music, costumed characters, and a “theme.”
When you reach that blessed day, when your kids stop having to go potty at the exact moment you’ve passed the last rest stop for 50 miles, DO NOT DO WHAT I DID.
What did I do?
I went and got a brand new baby. One with whom I’ll never be able to reason, or have a coherent conversation. One I’ll never be able to take him to any restaurant, any time. And I will forever be cleaning up his poop. Because I got a dog.
Read the rest of this post, and find out why I can’t believe I got myself into this at NYC Moms Blog.
We got a puppy when my son was 10 months old. A month later I found out I was 5 weeks pregnant. Oh Joy! Of course about the time we got the puppy house trained… I found out I was pregnant again. A 35 month old, a 17 month old , a new born and a 2.5 year old Chesapeake Bay Retreiver who weighed 95 pounds… Boy, those were the good old days!
WTF was I thinking?????
Learn from my mistake people… get the dog before you have kids so you will never know the joy of being baby-free… that way you won’t be able to miss it!
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