Before & After Children
After Children: I am thankful for Velcro tennis shoes. As well as saving valuable time, now I can hear the sound of my son taking off his shoes --which gives me three extra seconds to activate the safety locks on the back seat windows right before he hurls them out of the car and onto the freeway.
After children: I am thankful for swim diapers because every time my son wanders into water in plain disposables, he ends up wearing a blimp the size of, say, New Jersey, on his bottom.
After children: I am thankful for microwaveable macaroni and cheese -- without which my children would be surviving on about three bites of cereal and their own spit.
After children: I am thankful to finish a complete thought without being interrupted.
After children: I am thankful for pediatric cough syrup guaranteed to "cause drowsiness" in young children.
After children: I am thankful for all of the people at Weight Watcher who let me strip down to pantyhouse and a strategically placed scarf before getting on the scale each week.
After children: I am thankful to have time to make it all the way down the driveway to get the mail.
After children: I am thankful for the butterball turkey hotline.
After children: I am thankful for the lock on the bathroom door.
After children: I am thankful when the baby spits up and misses my good shoes.
After children: I am thankful for my wonderful family.
Before children: I was thankful for the recycling program which will preserve our natural resources and prevent the overloading of landfills.
Before children: I was thankful for fresh, organic vegetables.
Before children: I was thankful for the opportunity to obtain a college education and have a higher quality of life than my ancestors.
Before children: I was thankful for holistic medicince and natural herbs.
Before children: I was thankful for all of the teachers who had taught, encouraged and nurtured me throughout my formative years.
Before children: I was thankful for the opportunity to vacation in exotic foreign countries so I could experience a different way of life in a new culture.
Before children: I was thankful for the Moosewood Vegetarian
cookbook.
Before children: I was thankful for a warm, cozy home to share with my loved ones.
Before children: I was thankful for material objects like custom furniture, a nice car and trendy clothes.
Before children: I was thankful for my wonderful family
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