What I Didn't Know by Rhonda Shrock

I always knew I wanted to be a mother.  As a girl,
I played house with my dollies, shushing them when they cried and kissing their
plastic heads.



Looking back at that girl, I realize now that there was a
lot she didn't know.  This morning over my fresh-ground coffee, this
mother of 22-1/2 years scratched out a list of 10 things she didn't know then
that she knows now.



1.  I didn't know -