20 October 2023

Feeling sore today, but it’s Friday so that’s okay. I’ve always said the body is sorest two days after a workout. Yesterday, my wife had a long day with some mandatory class after work, so she wasn’t home for bedtime. The baby went down well with a lot of squirming during her diaper changes. I think it may have been the first time I had to completely hold the baby in the air while putting the diaper on. I advocate for people to have kids now even though I never thought I’d have any before. Kids bring newness into life, like that diaper scenario, I would never do something like that unless the kid forced me to. Similar to that is the muscles and energy gain by the work a kid makes the parents do. First there’s the sleep deprivation, I suspect there will never be enough rest until they’re 18 and even then I’ll be worrying about what trouble a teenager is getting into. There have also been several instances where a muscle in my body, usually back or neck, will cramp up because I’ve been holding the baby one way for too long. Because the body is tired it wants to stay in a comfortable position, but we must keep moving. Eventually I think the human body acclimates to most anything, it gets used to nights of little sleep and days spent caring a 20 pound bundle of joy. She’s got to be getting closer to 30 now. That’s ok, there’s a strong man belief to raise a bull from birth and to pick it over your head everyday in the hopes that one day the bull with be full grown and the lifter won’t have noticed the extra weight. The one man I’ve heard about attempting this was kicked by a teenage bull and the bull ran off.