Why being a Mother is like being a writer

In honour of the day, I decided that I would write a little post about the two things I do that take up most of my time. I realized as I started that, in fact, they're similar in many ways. So:

Being a mother is like being a writer. Most of mothering resembles the middle-of-the-book that you are currently writing.

1. You start out with an idea, and a fully formed sense of character and (admittedly) a sense of plot and how things are going to go. It is both exciting and slightly intimidating, but the weight is on the excitement. You know all the ways in which you will improve on all the previous output you've perused. You are going to do better than those other people because you are going to work bloody hard.
( But then your character immediately rejects your fabulous and sensible ideas, and more, behind the cut )