"It takes a village to raise a child"

This should be engraved in a golden placard and placed upon our wall. I don't know what I would do without the help from our families over the past year or so. I really wish Americans lived more socially. We are too independent. Life would be infinitely easier if you had an immediate network of people to help you out with just day to day stuff. Regular stuff.

Simple things like cleaning the bathroom and blow drying your hair in the morning. Cooking dinner and doing anything not related to getting stuff ready for the following day before 9pm. Stuff that's normally routine are all epic feats as of late.

But I absolutely adore my daughter. She is the cutest, most amazing little human being. It's amazing how much love you can have for someone else. The quote "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body" is an understatement. There is nothing in the world that can ever compare to having her. And yes there will be an infinitely large numbers of posts and more pictures of her. I just need to hire a photographer and journalist to get that done =/

It's kind of weird though, I feel like we've distanced ourselves from a lot of people lately, other than people we see on a daily basis. And this is totally not on purpose. It just happened. My life has changed so much over the last year and a half or so, I barely have anything in common with who I was before that. And that is another topic of discussion, entirely.

The thing is, people tell you, "oh, your life is going to change so much when you have kids", and you think you know that and understand that statement beforehand. But really, you don't know until it happens to you. It never ceases to amaze me that everyone on earth that has raised a child has gone through the "craziness" that we have. It's like you join a new "club", and can only relate to others that have gone through it too. What I mean by this is, people don't understand why you seemingly "disappeared", or became hard to contact, or don't go out and party, etc.

It's a full time job on top of having a full time job.