As a new parent, I’m finding that the way I view a lot of things is quickly changing. Someone asked me to write down my first thoughts when I brought my son home from the hospital. I had three main thoughts:

1. Driving him home felt like I had fine china that couldn’t be replaced in the car (if I were a cop, I would have pulled over about 20 people for bad driving on that short trip home)
2. The world seemed totally different - almost like I was  seeing it in full color for the first time
3. I have so much to teach him, and so little time

What’s funny is that now that he’s (officially) three weeks old, I find so many reminders every day that I’m now a parent and that the world has changed. Today, I had another one: I added him to the Notes user dictionary for spell check.

Sure, I’ve sent emails with his name many times in the last few weeks, but for some reason, I just kept hitting skip or skip all. Today it finally hit me that I’m going to need to have that word added to save me time from now until … ever.