Confessions of an Amateur Parent

Here are chapter titles for the book, Confessions of an Amateur Parent, which I intend to write in a future life, when I’ll have lots of extra time for such things:

Confession 1 . . . I Thought My Parents had it Easy

Confession 2 . . . I Thought I Had Life Figured Out

Confession 3 . . . I Had No Idea What I Was Getting In To

Confession 4 . . . I Didn’t Know Parents Throw Tantrums, Too

Confession 5 . . . I Thought My Kids Would Be Like Me

Confession 6 . . . I Thought I Could Get the Laundry Caught Up

Confession 7 . . . I Thought Being a Mom Was Probably Going to Get Boring

Confession 8 . . . I Thought Everybody Needed to Take Piano Lessons

Confession 9 . . . I Thought Being a Parent Meant You Got To Do What You Want

Confession 10 . . . I Thought I Could Get My Whole House Clean at Once

Confession 11 . . . I Didn’t Know How Much Everything Was Going to Cost

Confession 12 . . . I Thought My Teenagers Were All Home In Bed

Confession 13 . . . I Thought My Kids Would Never Grow Up

Confession 14 . . . I Thought I’d be a Perfect Parent by Now

Confession 15 . . . I Thought I Would Be Done As a Mom When My Kids Turned 18

Confession 16 . . . I Didn’t Know Very Much About Life or Love before I had Kids

Confession 17 . . . I’m Glad We Had One More . . . And One More

Confession 18 . . . The Only Thing More Fun than being a Mom is being a Grandma