Ten Thoughts About: Parent Weekends
From Waking Up Daddy, Jason Roth's account of nine months of pregnancy and the insane first year of parenthood.
- Every movie I watch now features award-winning sound design by a three-month-old.
- Our baby enjoyed watching the Super Bowl almost as much as she likes watching the TV channel guide upside down.
- Yelp, Fandango, Google Calendar, to-do lists . . . just a few mobile apps a new parent no longer needs.
- Beers are cold. Burgers are sizzling. Wife and baby asleep on the couch. It must be Saturday night.
- Nothing gets my wife and me in the mood more than a nice bottle, a good book, and the smooth sounds of a silent baby monitor.
- What I used to call a loud, annoying, generally horrible place to waste an hour and a half of my life, now I call it “child-friendly.”
- Today’s my Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Except that it’s the weekend. And I’m at home. And I’m working. And my wife is out with the baby.
- If you find yourself drinking a cold glass of red wine and turning up 60 Minutes because a baby is crying, it’s time to concede adulthood.
- “Baby hangover”: the state of being awakened by a baby after having consumed any quantity of alcohol.
- God created the “no kids sitting at the bar” rule. Satan created the beer garden. Thank you, Satan.
