Do It Like Fonzarelli

If there is one thing I have learned in the short time we've been doing the getting pregnant/being pregnant thing, it's that people can't wait to tell you how great having kids are, but then in the same breath, how shitty they are. It's only with having kids that people do this for some reason. You never hear someone say:

"Yeah, winning the lottery is great, you'll love it, but remember you have to pay a shitload of taxes too."

Or

"Good luck buying a new car, we love ours, but remember it's going to break down in the middle of winter on the side of some country road, and your cell phone battery will be dead, and at every house you knock on the people will pretend they aren't home."

Nope. Just with having babies do people congratulate you just before they punch you in the gut. Why even butter me up buttercup? Why not just cut the bullshit and tell me how much my life is going to suck?

Or, better yet, why not just congratulate me, and leave out the part about how shitty having kids is. Afterall, ignorance is bliss, and bliss is so much better than misery...

Nick