I will start with parenting and postpartum is not easy and different for everyone. But this list were things that genuinely surprised me, mostly for the better. Two lemon-lime sunflowers from my garden in the sunlight Your child is a joy and light to not just you and your partner but to those around you and even to strangers - seriously I get strangers congratulating me at the grocery store and when people ask me how old my kid is, they remember fondly their own child at that