No Instruction Manuals

So hubby and I are friends with a couple who just had a baby boy. They named him Smit (Eastern Indian name). I was thinking yesterday about how this couple has NEVER changed a diaper in their life, yet the state/government allows them to have children and bring him/her HOME.

The thought of them being so confused and NEW at this makes me remember what my brother, Ronnie, used to say when their son Ethan was born: "Sheesh Doc, didn't this little baby come with an instruction manual?"

Still to this day I laugh at the thought of him saying that and having this newborn baby and feeling helpless as to why he's crying. Then I sit and think of the couple with the new baby boy and us calling them and hearing baby Smit cry on the phone and the daddy frantically saying "I gotta go! Sorry!" Oh boy do we remember those days. Hubby and I just looked at each other and we both got this huge grin on our faces.

The couple is the first friends of ours; besides the ones we've met WITH children already, that have had a new baby. They (this couple) would never understand WHY we had to be home by 8pm to put the kids to bath and bed. Oh boy, is their world going to change and flip upside down. When you get that child on a schedule and he KNOWS that it's sleepy time, you don't want to mess with it. That is of course if you're traveling and it's BEYOND your control.
Many of times we've had to tell them we can't make dinner at their home because it's late and close to the children's bedtimes. (Indian food usually is served about 9pm or later) We thank them for the invite and tell them we'll have to do it at our house sometime because the children can then go to bed and we could mingle downstairs.

Our world has turned upside down with children, but now it's a sort of organized upside down chaos. It's just NICE to know that for a change, these people who have NEVER understood what a world of children has over parents...finally joins the "parental" role.

~ Brandi ~