Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Parenting Time is All Relative

Approximate "feels like" time for 1 hour of the following activities:


Playing with a toddler (awesome): 10 minutes
Playing with a baby (boring): 2 hours

Hanging around the house with Amelia (healthy): 15 minutes
Hanging around the house with Amelia (sick): 2 days

First hour after Amelia wakes up (snuggling, Sesame Street): 10 minutes
Last hour before Amelia goes to bed (bath, blow drying hair): 6 hours

Listening to Amelia laugh while being tickled: 1 minute
Listening to Amelia scream when we do ear drops: 1 week

Playing with Amelia at the playground(Fall/Spring): 30 minutes
Playing with Amelia at the playground(Summer): 3 hours

Watching Barney: 2 hours
Watching Teletubbies: 6 weeks

Changing a dirty diaper: C'mon, even I don't take an hour to change a diaper!

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