[Mrs. Don-o]

I've said to my boys, with hands raised in comic exasperation, "Why, oh why did I have boys?--- when I could'a had dogs!" (Or chimps, or lizards, or whatever comes to mind.)

Now I'm almost ashamed I ever said that, even in jest. I want my boys to always, always know, without a shadow of a doubt, that their mother and father love them, choose them, enjoy them, and thank God for them.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

LOL! I've only said that to my husband. My kids also know that we love them dearly and will protect them to our last breath. I know that they are not perfect but, neither are we.:)

[don-o]

Well, believe me, that goes hand in glove with, what I believe to be a common thought of all children, at least once. (I had it.)

I is, "No. These cannot be my real parents. I must have been switched at the hospital"