What to Look Foward to on Valentine's... After Having Children

You might call my husband and I a romantic couple. We are not shy about our affection. We enjoy spending time together and hate being apart. We like candle lit dinners, and being able to spend time just holding each other. We also make sure to keep a healthy and thriving sex life. We started out early in our relationship being as romantic towards each other as possible. We were like two teenagers in love. Oh wait... we WERE two teenagers in love. Then we became adults and got married. The honeymoon lasted forever! Or at least it seemed to last until those three little words came out of my mouth one morning not very long after a very romantic Valentine's day... "Honey, I'm pregnant." Everyone always tells you kids change everything, and you say, "Yeah, I know." But it hits you some time post partum... you didn't have a clue. What you THOUGHT you knew, didn't even scratch the surface. The realization hits you about the time that you think, "Oh... I'll just run out to the grocery store real quick to get something..." and suddenly you have an epiphany, and in that epiphany you realize going to the grocery store entails hooking in the car seat and packing the diaper bag. And oh... the baby just spit up all over themselves so they have to have a change of clothes before leaving... in fact you better pack a couple of extra changes just in case. And right about the time you get to the store, your little bundle of joy is making less than a joyful noise and you have to stop and feed them before you can continue. And while you're at the store you realize that you are low on diapers and toilet paper... but you can only afford one or the other. Then you realize a couple more things you might need to pick up and by the time you get home you realize you forgot to get what you originally wen there for.