People who have kids are lucky. Not because they have children, but because they can use the kids as an excuse for anything. For example:

“Sorry I’m running late, my kids were sick and I had to drop them off at my parents place etc etc....”

When people use their kids as an excuse for being late or slack everyone automatically forgives them and moves on. Me, I don’t have kids so I can’t use them as an excuse. I’m still stuck with  “my dog ate it.”

At least I’ve got a husband I can blame for some things:
“Sorry I’m late, but my husband left the car on empty...”

But I can’t blame the hubby for as many things as if I had kids. For example “Sorry, I’m just so tired, my husband kept me up all night and he wouldn’t sleep until I breastfed him.”

That wouldn't go down quite so well...
 
But, replace the word ‘husband’ with ‘baby’ and you’ve got yourself a permanent excuse to sleep in!