never again

there are few things in life that i hate.  but i'll readily, without hesitation, tell you that i absolutely HATE potty training.  in all of parenthood it is the thing i fear and dread more than anything else.  i'm not being dramatic.  i'm being serious.  that's how i feel about it!

i think when i was trying to potty train alaythia i commented on here that i didn't care if she walked down the aisle in diapers.  and i was serious then too.  so i have not pushed it with sophia.  grandma always makes comments to sophia on facetime about being a big girl and being ready to go on the potty.  and she probably was.  but it was mommy who wasn't ready.  i wanted sophia to wake up one day and tell me she was ready to not have diapers anymore.  when that day came, THEN and only then would i begin the process.

so why in the world did i decide on sunday afternoon that sophia was going to start potty training the next morning?

maybe it's because i felt i needed to do something really hard, since matt too was doing something really hard that day.  he had a chapter of his dissertation due that day, and i can do nothing to help him, i'm helpless.  he has a huge mountain to climb, something he often times feels he can't do.  so what in my life is like that?  potty training.  maybe deep down i felt the need to conquer a mountain too.

that said, i really can't take credit for it.  it's thursday morning, just the beginning of day 4 and i'm typing the words - sophia is potty trained.  that proves that indeed she was ready and we all know, there really is nothing we can do in the process.  they have to decide they're going to do it.  but with no accidents, and waking up with a dry diaper this morning, i'm feel confident to say it.

and as the reality continues to set in, i realize that i NEVER AGAIN will have to potty train a child.  the mountain is forever conquered.  and more astonishing yet, seven and half years straight of changing diapers is coming to an end.