It's a Tough Job but Somebody has to do it!

As a teenager, I was the favorite big sister, the favorite aunt and chosen babysitter. I had lots of calls to babysit on the weekends and sometimes would go from one neighbor’s house to the other and people would schedule weekend plans around my availability. I loved kids! I had all the patience of a saint, would teach them things like tying their shoes, riding a bike and even taught some how to read! No wonder everyone wanted me to babysit for them!

Never once did I realize or even think of how hard it must be to be a parent. I couldn’t wait to be a Mom! After my oldest came along and I started having to wake up in the middle of the night, being thrown up on, cleaning bottles, changing diapers and everything that came along with being a mom, I didn’t have the unlimited time, patience and fun that I had before. This was an exhausting job sometimes and I needed a nap a lot of times before it was nap time for the baby!

 This job was harder than I could have ever imagined! It’s a tough job but someone has to do it! It’s more rewarding than anything else but not as easy as I originally thought it would be and once you have it, it’s permanent! No taking these kids back to their parents at the ends of the day!