Bundles of Joy

From tudorlady:

( Bundles Of ... Misery )

I dunno, I have to say a lot of it seems pretty simple - and simplistic - to me. It just really underscores my perpetual bafflement at people who believe everybody should have kids because, well, everybody just should. Why, for the love of god, if you don't really, really want to?

Had to shake my head at some of the comments, though - primarily the "get a life" part. Yeah, it's true that many people just put their heads down and refuse to look up long enough to realize that their double-income, 50-hour workweek, plus soccer and baseball and piano and ballet and Cubs and Guides and PTA and hockey and swimming, isn't making anybody happy. But you know what? Some people who don't "get a life"? Actually can't. Making sure you make time for yourself and your own interests and marriage and adult actualization is a hell of a lot easier when you're married and have the means to do so than when you're a single parent on social assistance.

And some of the people who do make sure they keep their own interests and don't allow their child to take over their lives? Probably shouldn't have had children in the first place. 'Cause if your beauty sleep and perfect home and child-free holidays and hip lifestyle are really the most important things in your life... why screw with that?


Well. With that, I'm off to choir!