EDIT: Found this in my drafts folder from way back when. Not really sure why I didn't post it, but it looks like I was a little frustrated and thought the language could be cleaned up... oh well....
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Yesterday my wife and I split the girls up for the first time. She took one of the girls and Ryley out shopping and I stayed home with the other. It was only about an hour, but for me, it was angelic. There was a level of peace in my home that I haven't experienced in years... I'd say even before Ryley was born. It was just me and her, mono e bambino. We played, we smiled, we giggled, we did some rolling over for tummy time. Never once did another scream come wailing a few feet away, not once did I have to get up and change the speed of the swing. Not once did I have to find a pacifier. Not once did I have to run across the room to find a burp cloth to clean vomit off the couch. I actually got to have uninhibited time with one of my daughters. This has never happened before. We've had plenty of one on one time... but it has always been filled with the subliminal (and justified time and time again) fear that at any given second my services will be called away for something more pressing like... well.... I don't know... babies cry and I assume that is more pressing than a baby that isn't crying.
So lead into my wife coming home from her shopping excursion. I was pretty excited to tell her how much fun I had, but I still wasn't sure if that was safe to do considering I still stuck her with two kids to my one. As she walked in, I couldn't help myself. "Singleton life is PHENOMENAL!!!" She smiled back, "Oh my God.... I know!" We got a taste of the good life!
You parents of singletons just have no idea how easy you have it. And yes.... I know, I've only got two. Its not like we are some rare freak show that has never walked the Earth before. There are plenty of triplets, quads... even an Octomom that is currently getting by by swinging her milk jugs around a brass pole and filming masturbatory videos to sell to smucks that haven't figured out that you can download that shit for free.
Okay, rant over. Getting on with my life now.
