Learning: patience, worries and children

Second project: post biweekly (or more often if I get around to it) about what I've learned in the past while.

What have I learned?

I have learned ...

• that water cannot be too hot when you put yeast in it, or it does not proof as well.
• that 1 cup of molasses is a lot of molasses. A lot more than you'd think.
• that whipping cream whips way faster on setting 6 and is still controllable. No butter!
• that it's way too easy to slip into big-sister paranoia.
• related: that I need to learn to hide the nervousness from the little ones.
• that I need to cultivate patience with young children.
• that time not only flies when you're having fun, but when you're worried.
• that iron cures some headaches.
• that I really hope that my children, whenever I get around to having them, will be extremely curious and willing to find/figure things out/step out of their comfort zones.
• related: rediscovered that the unwillingness to figure things out/step out of one's comfort zone is really, really frustrating for me.
• related: that I need to find a way to relax about that and find a way to coax without pushing, to teach without scolding, to share without being angry.
• that my father and I do not work on the same wavelength, nor in the same fashion.
• related: that this is frustrating and that I need to find a way around that.
• that I will need to find a way to spend some time alone when I am a mother, or else I will go insane.

(side note: how do I end this list? hm.)

• that this is going to be both easier and harder than I thought.