The Ruining.

     Isn't this one of those things that should go without saying? The fact humanity has to let other people know they're not supposed to leave their children on the curb says that something has gone horribly and tragically wrong. Kinda sets the bar pretty low for me, though...
     Imagine Catie walking home, setting down her bag, looking at me on the couch and saying, "Hey Honey, how'd it go with the baby today?"
"Good...good."
"Did you empty the diaper pale?"
"Nope..."
"What?!? The thing was overflowing this morning! Considering the fact that our daughter has some super human ability to turn two ounces of food into fourteen pounds of fertilizer the diaper pale should be well past critical mass. The only way you could have fit another diaper in there is if you figured out how to make a black hole and put it at the bottom of the can. As we are still clearly here and not pulled into some infinitely small point of singularity, I can assume this has not happened...would you care to explain?"
"Didn't change any diapers...."
     The T.V. was probably still on up until this point. This is when Catie would lean over, turn off ESPN, and look deeply into my eyes and ask, "What do you mean you didn't change any diapers?"
"I mean I didn't change any diapers."
"You mean to tell me she's still in the same diaper I put her in this morning??"
"Yup."
"What is wrong with you?!?"
     Now I calmly look up at Catie and lay down the ultimate, one time use, gold plated, massive excuse:"Maybe I didn't change her, and I may have wrapped the tops and bottom of her diaper with duct tape to keep the poo in, but you know what I else I didn't do? I didn't leave our baby on some random doorstep..."

     Alright, so that probably wouldn't work, but it should help with the big picture parenting thing. I mean, taking your kid home from the hospital seems like a big step. Everything after that is gravy. I mean, parents can (real "will") make mistakes. There's nothing else to do but stick it out. That's what parenting is all about.