about parenting

"You don’t need time to learn the lesson, you need time to forget it. The vomiting (wife’s and newborn’s), the terror (mine), the sleeplessness (everyone’s). We had two babies, one with acid reflux and the other strapped to an apnea monitor the size of a VCR, a looming cross-country move, and a breast pump that never stopped chugging, yet somehow, a year and a half later, all we can remember from those first months is that our babies were small and cute. Evolution clearly figured out how to erase memories; otherwise no one would go for two."

~From The Morning News