Organized Chaos

I wrote this totally awesome post about parenting styles...

But that was like months ago! Check it out here...

Rather than rehashing everything I went through then, I thought I'd share some lovely humor about people WITHOUT children.
Hubby Dearest and I have a few close friends with NO children. I love them...I really do...but....

{insert tragic sigh}
They just don't get it.

I have enough to deal with my own children...this is what will happen if you leave yours at my house!

To all the people WITHOUT children,

I know you have all the answers. Sometimes looking at a situation from the outside provides so much perspective. I am aware of this.

However, you aren't exactly looking into my home from a helicopter view with the roof off my house if you get what I'm saying. You aren't seeing everything that is going on at once.

Your little peek into my daily world is more like peeking through my kitchen windows. You get a great...GREAT view (and even some pretty awesome smells) of exactly what is going on...RIGHT SMACK DAB IN FRONT OF YOU!

And...if you stretch your neck out...nope a little more...no just stretch it..like stick your chin out...okay there you go. If you stretch your neck out and twist it a little to the right (no try sticking your bum out back for balance...yea yea!), you might get a peek into what is happening in the far side of my dining room.

Yet, that lounge over there. Yea, you ain't got a CLUE what is happening. My two year old is currently busy ripping out continuous pages from a book....oh..it's my wedding album. Why, you ask? Well, because I currently have failed to grow that third arm I was promised and I'm trying to keep dinner from boiling over while hushing my crying infant.

No, he isn't hungry. He has a wind. Despite what your expertise in getting winds out might tell me, I deal with this every SINGLE day. It's NOT called colic. It's just how babies can be.
Oh....but my two year old. He slept great and eats great too. He even has manners when around other people. But you see, he is just getting used to having a new brother in the house. For two years, he had all the attention and now he must share it.

I know...I know. You would be giving him exactly how much attention he needed. But you see, I work all morning and get home in time to feed him lunch and feed the baby. We play then...if baby sleeps. Despite what you think..you WILL NOT force them into a sleeping pattern. Some days however my two year old doesn't want my attention and is perfectly content to be on his own. But that day he does want it...well it will be the day my infant is sick from injections and the toilet pipe has happened to burst out of my wall and Hubby Dearest will be working late because of a promotion.

So....THANK YOU for your wonderful advice. I know that your second hand experience of parenting has taught you wonders and I'm positive that you will be ~~perfect~~ drown in your own words when you become parents. Until then have a look at a few of these....