"Didn't Cry at All" "Easy as Pie"

I am happy to report that our crash-course in parenting was more coursing than crashing. We played with the two children for a while - sophia was particularly enthused by my innovation of pretending to eat the play-food after she had pretended to cook it. And best of all - everyone was down and in bed by nine. No tears. No coming back out. It really was fantastic.

The question is whether this is good or bad. Its good in the sense that it relieves some of the nervousness of parenting. It may be bad as it gives us a distorted view of what parenting can be like at times. Here are a few pieces of the conversation:

My dad: Is this a testament to your budding parenthood or for the hard work, day to day, toil of the children's parents. HMMMMMM!:)

Alison: There's really no way to objectively find an answer you question... so i'll just assume we're budding into magical parents.

You will notice that there is a new tag on the blog below: Parenting. I'm sure this will be the first of many.