Where's the Beaten Path?
Everyone knows that parenting is a hard gig. Hard enough that earnest, uber-intentional and emotionally stable adults who wanted to have kids can be at risk of flip flopping into despairing of life and trying to run away. However, we all know that planning and executing an escape route from this parenting challenge is not the answer. It's not the answer! When you have a baby, there are so many things to prepare you for the changes that will happen. There are paved paths with things like baby showers and books galore and blog posts dangling enticingly from the trees lining the walkway. You also run into plenty of other sojourners' opinions and even people who don't have kids are eager to give you help along the way. Too kind. (sarcasm alert!) They know you need it. However, as you go along the parenting path, the paving seems to start to fall away after those first few survival-of-the-fittest years and you have to get out that machete and start to chart your own
