I should have partied more

Often we've been told, by parents and college administrators, that the hard-core drunken partying ways unique to college students would ruin their chances in life because the studies of college were the true preparation.

Today, though, I think I understand that had I been the type to throw those Animal House parties, the ones that involve scrubbing what-the-heck-is-that off the floor the next day with a vicious hangover, I would be better prepared for the challenge that faces me the first thing tomorrow morning.

Cleaning up my house after our newly-minted five-year-old's birthday party, especially this pregnant and unable to bend at the waist.