Things That Are Unfair In The World Of Parenting

1.  Four days of holiday festivities will throw off a child's sleeping and eating schedule for nearly a month, at which point there will likely be another holiday to throw it all off again. 
2.  Allowing your children to stay up until 11:00pm, because they are playing nicely with friends and seem to be having fun, will not guarantee that you can sleep in.  In fact, often you will be awoken earlier than usual, and your children will not be as nice as they were the previous evening. 
3.  If you begin a bad habit with your child, such as sitting in his room until he falls asleep, he will expect you to do it that very same way every night to infinity and beyond.  And this will undoubtedly cut into your evening alone time, and render you grumpy. 
4.  Children are very cute, even when they are being naughty, and it is very difficult not to laugh and thus encourage said naughty behavior. 
5.  You have to be an adult.  Or at least someone does, and it should be you rather than the shorties.  Sometimes this is the pits.
6. Cold and flu season.  Need I say more?
7.  You could find the right house at the wrong time, the house that would be an adventure and an accomplishment to restore, and it would still be the wrong time.  That very fact could make you quite sad.
8.  The people with the least resources sometimes are given the job to parent the children with the most need for resources, and just knowing that this happens will break your heart.  It can also make you want to take action, and taking that action can make you feel very good, and also make you wonder why you don't give more of yourself more often. 
9 .  Proper sentence structure and grammar go out the window, and I hear they do not return until after the children have graduated from college.
10.  There is never, ever, enough time to catch up on your sleep, and if you do catch a rare night when going to bed early is possible you'll lie there and think, so much so that sleep is entirely out of the question. 
11.  You will wonder if that right house at the wrong time could possibly have been the right house at the right time, and those thoughts will undoubtedly plague you forever if you choose not to take the chance.

Life has been busy, full of temptation, and talk of a five year plan involving career changes.  Emma is walking all over the place now, climbing on counters and chairs, and generally making us smile with her good nature and happy-go-lucky spirit.  Harry talks of nothing but BIG Trucks, tractors, and trains.  He makes us laugh with the sentences that come tumbling from his mouth, a play by play of life in his world that is funny and oddly adult all at once.  He is definitely a character, with a mind and heart all of his own. 
I know I owe you more specific updates than this; I am working on a few posts and will hopefully have them up by the end of the week.