Guess How Much I Love You

Folks are always talking about how they love their children so much they'd get run over by a train for them....or something similarly quixotic and unlikely. Since the chances of anyone ever holding Mini Q over the tracks are pretty slim, I've been thinking of ways to express how much I love my little peanut....

So Mini Queenie.... I LOVE YOU ENOUGH....

...to interrupt my beauty sleep at 2 am...and 4am...and 6am

...to stop after only ONE glass of wine

...to give up on bikini season (forever)

...to pause General Hospital if you wake up from your nap

...to retire all my designer shirts until further notice

...to spend my shoe money on diapers

...to eat every meal one-handed, rocking back and forth, standing at the kitchen counter

...to finally get breasts... and then keep them covered up

...to never again in my life make a plan that isn't subject to the state of your mood (or diaper, or stomach, or sleep schedule)

...to wear only stud earrings and leave all necklaces in my jewelry box

...to replace at least half the pictures of me with pictures of you and me


Oh the sacrifices of motherhood....why did no one warn me!

And even after all this, at age 12 she's still gonna think I've ruined her life!!