What I know so far…

I like pink. Today I am writing in pink because I think books should be written in a fun color. I was thinking the other day and wondered, when is it that adults because boring and uptight? Is it when we have kids. They don’t give you a manual at the hospital on your child, but a firm talking to about being responsible and don’t ever right in pink in a book again. Or some nonsense right? I didn’t get that talk, did you? Yet, we often act as if we did. We struggle and stress over little things. What will happen if little Eden misses her nap, oh dear the universe will fly apart! I happen to be an uptight parent by nature. By God’s grace, I have mellowed…. A bit. My poor oldest child, he’s the shining example of what can come of a parent who freaks about the littlest thing. He’s a little more cautious, well, maybe a lot more. He will often tell his little sister not to do something because it isn’t safe. Now mind you, this from a woman who rock climbed and scuba dove with sharks. I guess my ultimate reasoning for freaking was they scare you half to death in the hospital. SIDS, choking, drowning were all things those well meaning nurses told us to be careful of. Oh this is the best one. We wanting to sleep with Zion is our hospital room, and the nurse said only if we left the light on. As I think back that is the dumbest thing I ever heard! When we went home, we slept with that precious treasure in our room for a month with the light on! No one said we could turn it off! We finally went with a bathroom light, then graduated to a night light, but to be sure we flipped every light on in the room when we changed the child’s diaper. No wonder he didn’t sleep until he was 6 months old. See, these are the things they should tell you. It’s ok to sleep in the same room with your baby and not have lights on. You CAN actually change a diaper in the dark, and by the way, you don’t have to change it every time they cry in the middle of the night. As a former tree hugger, I cringe at the number of CLEAN diapers we threw away! Not every new parent has common sense. I sure as heck didn’t. Don’t even get me started on the myriad of ways we tried to get Zion to fall asleep. Let’s save that for another day!