Babysitting an infant refreshes your soul. To them everything is new, exciting, wondrous. Now, not everyone feels like this. Some people want to barf if they have to change a full diaper.
I don’t like changing full diapers either, but one of the most wondrous things about babies is that they can poop and barf all over you and still manage to look cute when they’re done and have that look on their face that says, “Wow! Look what I can do!” In fact, the other day my grandson (the infant who inspired the first two sentences in this post) threw up all over my shirt, and since I didn’t have another one with me, I spent the entire day smelling like regurgitated rice cereal.
Maybe you have to be a grandma in order to see vomity-poopers as wondrous. There are many benefits to grandparenthood, and one of them is a rosy-tinted alteration in your perception.
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