My kid is helping me give up the following for Lent:

In addition to writing this blog everyday, Aaron is helping me fast from a bunch of things for Lent and possibly for several years after Lent is over. Here's what I can think of so far:

• Sleeping for more than a few hours at a time
• Sleeping soundly
• Sleeping without periodically waking up and making sure he's still breathing
• Eating a nice leisurely meal
• Eating all of my meals with access to both of my arms
• Eating in silence
• Remembering things (today I forgot my phone number)
• Remembering all of the words that I want to say in a sentence. Most of them go like this: Today I went to the uh, the, uh, you know the place with the food, the grocery store, and they were out of that one candy, no I mean bar, those one things, the granola, granola bars that I like. 
• Staying awake when sitting down
• Wanting to go to bed after 9
• Leaving the house whenever I want

There are more but remember, I can't remember things.

I'm not sure how this sounds to you as you're reading this. I hope it doesn't make me sound ungrateful. To be very clear, I will gladly give up all of these things forever if it means getting to have this kiddo in my life. :-)