Getting out Frustrations

Ok, So Cat wanted me to add stuff to the page so here goes, My first topic is Frustration

#1 Frustration (Assembly Required)

Having a baby, while being a great and wondrous thing, is very stressful. Correct? At least in general. So with this said why the H.E. double hockey sticks does every thing a new baby needs come in the box UN-ASSEMBLED!!!??? Is it not enough that future new parents are dealing with enough change and stress already that I have to spend 7 hours putting a Pack and Play together? And when I finally get to the end of assembling it I realize that you need two "D" batteries in the thing for the crappy lullaby music (That I predict will never be turned on) to play. What uses "D" batteries anymore anyway? Am I the only one that thought there was no such thing as "D" batteries anymore? There those huge 5 pound batteries FYI. Crazy!

Just some advice for Dad's that are going to have a baby soon, ask the store manager if you can buy the assembled version off the shelf, don't worry if it has a few finger prints or scratches on it (your going to put way worse on it putting it together your self I promise)


#2 Frustration (People that all ready Have Children)

To be honest this is probably my #1 but I chose to not lead with it because I don't want to come across too pissy as first.
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God knows I appreciate all the (Unsolicited) advice I receive from family, friends, co-worker and random people. Some of it is really helpful and I am glad they felt the need to share the info. with me, I really do. But to be perfectly honest what I get from family, friends, co-workers, and random strangers is generally not advice, but their forum to complain about how horrible, hard, difficult, confusing, upsetting, awful, un-nerving, hectic, stressful, un-resting, etc, etc, etc having a baby is. If I had a quarter for every person that has told me how horrible, hard, etc, etc their experience with children and baby's has been and how horrible, hard, difficult, etc, etc it will be for me, not only could I put Makayla through college but I could hire someone to take care of her for me until then so I wouldn't have to live through the apparent horribleness, hardness, difficultness, etc, etc that having children entails.
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What I really want to ask the people, (especially those with more than one kid,) is if it is so bad why did you have two of them? Have you heard of a little something called birth control? There's only about 5 billion Walgreen's in the United States that have all sorts of stuff that prevent that, Google directions will ya! And stop whining to me about how horrible it was for you.
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Now I do realize people are just trying to prepare us for the challenges that having a baby will bring, but can you please just be supportive and POSITIVE. I know it's not going to be all roses and Ice Cream. I'm not stupid people, but I certainly don't want to cancel the baby, it's not like ordering from Pizza Hut and deciding that I would rather eat at Panda Express 5 minutes later. She's coming no matter how much you try to scare me.
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Right now I make a pledge that in the future should I meet a couple having their first baby, the only things out of my mouth will be positive uplifting messages. (Or I'll just give them a gift card to Baby'sRus)
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I have a few more frustrations to post, I'll save those for after Cat's next post, I don't want to be all negative and I know Cat will counter act my negativity with her cheerfulness. In truth I am very excited and can not wait to see my Daughter.

More Later
Daddy to be,
Jacob G.