Lindsay's Tree

Parenting is a series of firsts. The first time the child calls you mommy or Dada, or asks for its baba, you think that life is perfect. You ask yourself: "how could life get any better than this?" Well, in many ways it does get better. In many ways it gets worse. Much worse. Keep reading. Take for instance the times when the beautiful, sweet child decides to use its words against you such as the first time he tells you, “no.” Or, the first time she says the words, “I hate you.” Or better yet when you ask him to go back to class and get his jacket because it is the middle of winter and you want him to be warm, he says to you, “You can sit there all day because I am not coming back with anything.” This after you have carried the child for nine months, breastfed her until your nipples felt like they had been run through a meat grinder, after cleaning countless baby spit ups, enduring the smell of wretched poopy diapers, and washing so many loads of laundry you could have opened your own neighborhood Laundromat and charged a fee. What's next for Lindsay? Tune in tomorrow ... ~Lindsay