I was watching Thursday's episode of Oprah that I recorded on our cable box and enjoyed an interview given by Daniel Day-Lewis. I'm not familiar at all with this actor because he rarely gives interviews and is very shielded from the public's eye (lucky for him). But he said something that really caught my attention. Maybe because I am in the "thick" of it with these kiddos. Oprah asked him about his role as a father and what has surprised him the most about fatherhood. Here was his response:

"I suppose the delight in bondage, because I daresay for a good part of my life I'd enjoyed traveling light," he says. "And there's nothing more wonderful to me [than] to realize that I was now shackled for the rest of my life…and what a wonderful shackle to have."

I couldn't agree more. There are times that I think of my carefree pre-kid life and how easy life seemed then. But really -- these two kids are the most wonderful things to be "shackled" with. :)

Pictures coming later... for some reason Blogger isn't uploading them right now.