On Parenting
Parenting is hard. I mean really hard. I know people say its the hardest thing you'll ever do and trust me, until you are actually parenting, you don't believe it. And then, when you are actually parenting, you wonder why those people didn't really explain just how hard it actually is. Let me start out by saying that I LOVE being a parent. I particularly LOVE being the parent of my two children. I could never have imagined that my children would be so different from one another. I could never have imagined how much I would love them. It took us a while to have a 2nd child after having Simon. Part of the reason is because Simon is very high energy and very high-needs (not in the high-needs way of having a disability or a disease, but in the high-needs way of being a demanding only child for 3 1/2 years before his sister showed up and tried to share the show). The other part is that I was really worried that I wouldn't be able to love another child the way I love Simon