"Having children is the most beautiful thing there is." "Children are a blessing". "The day my son was born was one of the happiest of my life." "Children give happiness." And so all the phrases you want praising fatherhood and motherhood because it is true, having children changes you and makes you discover the purest love that exists.
However, having children also has side effects, and a very obvious one is the one that I think is the clearest symptom that you are a father or mother: if when you wake up in the morning you have the feeling that you could sleep 8 more hours.
Get up thinking you slept great ...
It has happened many times. Waking up in the morning and having the feeling that I have slept great, that I have finally rested, and realize within a few minutes that I have an incredible dream, which is almost as if I had not slept and that If I got back into bed, I sure could sleep 7 or 8 more hours.
And is that energy seems not enough for everything. Work, home, children here, children there, clothes, irons, washing machines, dryers, breakfasts, meals, snacks, dirty dishes, after school, cars, meetings, dinners, bathrooms, homework, etc., and arrives the night thinking that you will finally rest and wake up, see that it has not been enough ... and that Start a new day!
And you look at twelve noon with a drug addict's face, looking in the mirror to see what it looks like twelve o'clock at night. And you think so, that if you could grab the bed you would get in right now and you would sleep like an angel, leaving all possible drool on the pillow.
And so it is, friends. Before having children, people say "sleep now that you will not be able to do later", which is absurd because sleep or rest is not something that accumulates for later nor is it something that can be forced into a plan: I will sleep 72 hours in a row and so Then I can be 72 hours awake. No, the body does not work like this and that's why we go as we go, with some scary dark circles, waiting for maybe when the little one is 10 years old we can sleep a little more, or get tired for the day a little less.
My life with children
We continue with this vignette and this symptom of father or mother with the series of illustrations and tickets that we titled at the time "My life with children". In the previous installment we told you that the face of many parents when seeing their newborn is not what many expected. In the next few days, more.
