Having a baby changes everything!

No kidding! Here's an excerpt from an article I was reading this evening and wanted to share with you.

"Oh, how children change the landscape of marriage. Is it the first night that one of you pretends to be asleep so the other one has to get up with the baby? Does it happen when sleep is chosen over sex more times than you'd care to admitt? How about when the conversations come down to the color of baby's bodily emissions or the quest for identifying various substances on mom's shoulder? Is it - yikes - when husband and wife begin calling each other Mom and Dad?"

"Sleep becomes the most precious commodity in the house when you have one or more small children. Lack of it causes you to morph into a hateful, baggy-eyed version of your former self. Once, during this stage, my husband took a nap without asking and I wouldn't wash his boxers for months! I zealously monitored which of us got more sleep and made threats to the nursery monitor whenever all it's lights lit up like an air traffic control tower."

"Given all this, I was baffled by the fact that my husband actually drew a smiley face on his calendar on the date of my six week check-up. How could he be attracted to someone with leaky breasts, a stomach the consistency of Jell-O and mood swings that rivaled turnovers in a pro basketball game?"

"I felt exhausted, frumpy and pulled apart in a thousand directions. No matter how I tried, I couldn't turn that insidious kind of tired know as "mommy tired" into an aphrodisiac. Given the choice between sex and sleep, I, like many moms, chose (or wanted to choose) sleep every time."

"I could no longer recall normal. Normal is just a setting on the washing machine."

Even though my babies are now 2 and 4, I was so grateful to read this and know that I am not alone. I still prefer sleep and can't recall what my husband and I did when we didn't have kids. How about you? I know there are some moms reading this who are in the thick of the sleep deprivation...how are you handling it? And all of you old pros...care to share a funny story or word of encouragement with the rest of us?