I still can't believe that just one year ago my life was so different than it is now.  Everyone told me, "Everything changes when you have a kid.  Your life will never be the same."  Because everyone said it, I got annoyed and told myself I would be the same person, just with a little version of myself and more luggage when I traveled and less sleep.  The thing about these cliches about parenting is that they are right.  The other day I almost punched myself in the face when I was talking to a friend who doesn't have kids about changing diapers.  She said she would never be able to change a poopy diaper because they're so gross.  I came very very very perilously close to saying, "It's different when it's your kid."  I caught myself and instead I told her that poopy diapers are disgusting and shit is gross whether it is your kid's or somebody else's kid.  But when it's your kid, you do it because they need you to do it and you will do anything for them.  I can't even begin to list the things I have done that I never thought I would do.  But when I look at Henry, I'm 100 percent sure the list hasn't even begun. 

It's so crazy to think that a year ago, I was in a hospital bed waiting for my life to change.  Wanting him out of my body and so excited to meet him.  But I had no idea what I was in for.  I couldn't begin to imagine what my life, our lives, would be like in one year.  Even if I tried, I never would have imagined it would be this good.