1) What "a lot of laundry" is
2) Sleeping for more than 2 hours at a time is a "treat"
3) Sleep deprivation makes you do and think STRANGE things
4) That not sleeping can make you break down and weep
5) That seeing your baby's smiling face at 1, 4, and 7 am makes all the sadness about being tired go away
This is the face...I just woke up and I LOVE you!
6) That sleep is NOT overrated
7) That no matter what you will always have too many blankets and not enough burp cloths. People love to buy you blankets, but burp cloths are just not that cool to give as a gift and even though you went out and bought what felt like a ridiculously large number of burp cloths, they will at some point all be dirty and you'll be using towels.
8) That time really does go too fast when you have kids.
9) That Spray N Wash can be your best friend.
10) What it means to take a lot of pictures
11) That poop, spit up, and urine will give you daily cause for contemplation and/or worry
12) That feeding your baby is truly a thankless job; you manage to get it in, it comes back out (usually in more ways than one) and by the time you get it cleaned up, you start all over again
13) Singing silly songs comes naturally...the lack of sleep plays a huge part in this
14) That you and your baby can spend 20 minutes looking in a mirror and smiling
15) That most of the advice you got (however well intentioned was the giver) is useless and you just have to wing it
16) You'll do anything you can think of to make your baby happy--that wasn't surprising, just the things you come up with to do were a little entertaining.
17) That when you tell people you don't plan on having any more children (because they asked this, in our opinion ridiculous, question of new parents) they will suspect postpartum depression and gaze at you concernedly. News flash folks, we LOVE our baby and that's why we don't want more kids. We want to enjoy her. You're all welcome to get pregnant again as soon as is humanly possible, but we're just fine, thanks.
18) That leaving your baby seems like the worst thing in the world, no matter how much you were looking forward to something.
19) That getting and keeping the house clean, the baby happy, the dinner cooked, and the shopping done would be a near impossible task some days even when you don't have a job.
20) How thankful you'll feel toward your spouse when he/she takes the baby and gives you time to yourself (usually in the form of a shower during which time you don't have to gaze at the baby monitor every twelve seconds, ready to run out with shampoo in your hair and no plan on how to get in the shower to get it out again), and then how happy you'll be when you go back to your family.
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