Perhaps the most noticeable change that affects you when you have a baby is that your social life goes from a packed schedule of drinks, dinner parties and work do’s, to polite refusals, which eventually trickle down to zero invites. When an event or social occasion arises, the mental calculator clicks into action just trying to figure out whether you have the time to pick up the baby, feed, change, bathe and put to bed, catch the train or bus and arrive in time to realise that you are so tired you need to leave early. In most cases, you end up making an excuse.
There is the over-riding impression, paranoia maybe, that singletons and non-parents think that you lead boring lives of unending drudgery cos it’s all baby this and baby that. But to us, we’re in the most exciting and wonderfully exclusive party of them all. Every day, the little person that is the centre of our entire universe, entertains us without fail, with the funniest jokes, the best acting, the most daring feats of danger, joyous singing and the most heart tugging tears of emotions. What more of a thrill in life could a person want? Forget the Oscars, we have our own pint-sized studio of fun.
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