Kids just Don't Understand

This Youtube video got me a good laugh as I kept nodding to just about everything.

There is such a difference between married couples who don't have kids yet. From the topics of conversation and playing 'What's that Smell'...we have crossed into a whole new world. Or the fact that my 17 month old son has taken to giving me random hickies as of late. (No Pastor, we were NOT necking in church.)

We never knew just what we'd get excited about before kids came into the picture.

Examples:

>Marveling at the ginormous blow out....

>Impressed at the snot bubble they just blew....

>Wondering how on earth they managed to get food flung so far from the table....

>Calling our spouse over to the changing table to show how proud you are that you can tell what they had        for dinner the night before....

>Looking at buying a car and getting excited at how many car seats you could fit in the back and still have       room for a passenger...

>Being able to use the bathroom ALONE!
>Sitting down to eat and not having to think and request X number of high chairs/boosters.
>Transitioning your kids rear facing car seat to forward so you can finally recline your blasted seat back on     long road trips....

The list could go on and on and...well...forever.

Compare this to life without kids:

Going to a 10:45 pm movie, knowing you can sleep in well after 7 am the next morning...
Finally getting past a Candy Crush level you've been stuck on for weeks...
Sitting in church and enjoying the sermon while taking notes and highlighting scripture in your Bible...
Being able to watch trash TV at any time of the day and not fear about the language or content...
Enjoying an artisan pizza with exotic toppings...

I am not complaining about having kids. Quite the contrary. I do love my children very much, and they've made life a bit more exciting, patience building, humble, compassionate etc... It's just that my prayer life has gone a little further from praying for world salvation to asking Jesus to just help your baby poop/sleep through the night/stop biting you and everything else.

But...sometimes you just can't understand until you have a kid of your very own ;)