Maudlin Musings on Motherhood

( Warning:  Long, Politically Incorrect, Highly Offensive Rant Ahead.  Why Donna Should Never Have Children, Or, Mind Your Own Damn Business )

Sometimes you come across a woman who takes to being a mother like a duck to water.  My niece is one of those women.  She is so good with her young'un; while she gets as cranky as he does sometimes, she knows just the right thing to do to calm her child down, when he's hungry/sleepy/cranky/needs changed/wants daddy/wants mommy (I know most moms know these things).  It's just...different.  She is wholly unfazed by being a mom (at 19 I would never have had a child, much less known what the heck to do with it) and knows what she's doing without being self-conscious about it.  Young moms get so much shit - people assume they're ruining their life and the baby's - and I dunno, I guess it's cool to see her so grown up and calm about having this little family unit.

It also makes me feel very old to see her son and watch him do the very same things his mother did when she was that little.  Nice too - brings back lots of memories.

Thus ends another maudlin post by yours truly.