Over at Alpha Mummy, columnist Caitlin Moran has posted a thoughtful, wry essay about how raising children has improved her life:

“Have children? Yeah, but what am I going to get out of it?” … I reckon I have got a lot out of my becoming a mother … Indeed, I reckon I’ve got so much out of it, I could make a list … ”

3) Really getting a handle on the fact I’m going to die. I was never really that ambitious before I had children, because I thought I had approximately six million years left to sit around smoking marijuana, watching daytime TV and keeping a scrapbook of Richard Madeley’s best sayings. But now I’ve made a child who’s nearly four feet tall, I am very aware of the passing of time. I am going to die relatively soon. I need to get on with things. I’ve got my hustle on.

- Caitlin Moran @ Times Online: Link.