A Perfect Shithole. Can I Say That Now?
Parenting is hard. It's both physically and mentally challenging, especially with toddlers. I had almost forgotten that if not for my Facebook feed which reminisced about photos from a decade ago while I cringed at the vulgarity of language in the news. Please excuse my French...my house was the epitome of a 'Shithole' back then. I'll be the first to admit it, a steaming cesspool in which we lived. Though not extremely funny at the time, the humorous recollection of a particular scenario was just what I needed this week! It was just over a decade ago that my brother and his wife were visiting our home in Colorado with their new ten-month-old baby in tow. My husband and I had three young children at the time, ages four years, two years and five-months-old. At that time, we affectionately referred to our children as the three W's, 'Whine, Why and Waaah'! The oldest daughter complained, the middle son had a question for everything, and the baby was my first c...