Parenting is like baking
~ropocl
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At least, it's how I feel lately. It's like baking a cake, in the
dark, and you don't even know a recipe. And you're also not clear
what is or isn't already in the bowl. And your sense of taste and
smell are not trained to know what an unbaked cake is supposed to
taste like. And the cake takes... 15 years to bake. Every once in a
while, the cake comes out of the oven and you get to check a little
part of it, but you don't know if the part you're tasting is from
the edge, or the middle or what. And it may have fallen into a pile
of sand or sugar or hair on the floor before you tasted it. Also,
other people are adding ingredients. Sometimes you have a sense of
what they are, but most of the time you have no clue. Also the cake
wants to choose its own icing and decorations. And the oven
temperature is constantly changing. And you're in the back of a
pickup truck driving down the interstate.

Anyone else feel that way or just me?