Awesome Sauce

And with that, the five-year-old ditches her training wheels. And another of parenting's watershed moments has come and gone.

There was a time when I defined my parenting in terms of "Easier When"--as in, things will be easier when they've passed the super fussy newborn phase, are sleeping through the night, are crawling, aren't taking bottles anymore, aren't requiring formula anymore (Ella), are walking, aren't wearing diapers anymore, don't need strollers anymore. Now that we've hit five and seven, I find myself wondering why I wished their baby days away.

Probably because they were really hard, but I only remember the good parts now. :)