Day 66: Anti-Advice

Sid Holt is one of my colleagues at 80108. He's got two kids, oldest is something like 13. Today, unsolicited and fully unaware of my "Advice" posting of yesterday, he volunteered that he had no advice for me. But he did say one thing I know Mary will like to hear. He said not to listen to everyone who says the first baby changes your life. He said you can continue to have a very normal life. Says he and his wife took their first baby with them everywhere and (paraphrasing) were able to conduct themselves as actual, civilized individuals. Only when you get that second child do you become the home-bound baby-raising machines so many potential parents so dread becoming.