Guess what? I am not perfect. Nope. And neither are my kids. For the most part I share the good, quirky, or humorous parts of my parenting experience, but today I’m coming out of the closet. Today, I am going to share a part of my life as a parent that I absolutely hate. That’s right, I said HATE!
I hate putting Put Pie to bed. I hate it! I always have. It is the least pleasant part of my day to say the least, sometimes it’s downright awful. She has never liked sleeping. Argh!!!
This is not an invitation to give me advice, I’m just venting. I’ve read all the books; I’ve made her bedtime earlier; I’ve made her bedtime later; I’ve co-slept, I’ve had her sleep alone; I’ve tried the no cry method; I’ve tried the cry it out method where I sit there and just cry until she finally goes to sleep.
There are a few nights when she will go to sleep easily. There are enough of those nights to give me hope that some day this horror will end, but most nights I spend far too much time getting her to go to sleep. Time I would rather be spending with my husband or enjoying a little time to myself.
Almost 2 months into it and it appears that my youngest and I are finally getting the hang of breastfeeding. She is still not the best mother sucker, but she is doing so much better. I’m thrilled and it means I won’t have to spend as much time pumping. Pumping sucks! Haha, get it?
When you have a newborn people like to stop and take a peak. This week while we were at the grocery store, I was stopped by an elderly woman. Luna Pie was taking a bottle at the time. It’s a weird looking bottle that helps her with suck training. Anyway, the woman was asking me all kinds of questions about the bottle, if I was giving her expressed milk, if and when I pumped. She asked me how my milk supply was doing and when I told her my supply was good she answered, “Well good because those breasts of yours are monsters!” Seriously?! Who walks up to a stranger and tells them their breasts are monsters? A monster, that’s who! Takes one to know one.
And now your Friday Fortune Cookie (don’t forget to add “in bed” at the end, if you are so inclined):
Your many hidden talents will become obvious to those around you.
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I Comment Therefore I Am
by UnknownMami on March 29, 2011
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, on this very same blog, I came up with a weekly feature called “I Comment Therefore I Am” (comma left out intentionally). The purpose of this feature was to write a post comprised of comments I’ve left on other blogs or comments that have been left on mine. It is a way to celebrate the back and forth in the blogging community and also a way to highlight posts that inspired my comments.
I stopped doing this regular feature because it requires quite a bit of work and I have a new baby that requires my attention. My real life baby will always trump my bloggy babies. I didn’t want to abandon my bloggy baby all together, so I gave custody of it to gaelikaa, who has done a wonderful job of tending to and nurturing this brainchild of mine. I intend to periodically join her when time allows and I invite you to visit her post this week.
Here’s what’s been going on in my commenting world…
My bloggy buddy Eva posted a piece that was construed as offensive to those of Muslim faith by one of her readers (I did not read the post in question). What did Eva do? Not only did she apologize and remove the post, she also published the comment that made her reevaluate the original post. We all make mistakes and it’s okay as long as we learn from them. Here’s the comment I left for Eva…
Sara Santiago reminded me that it’s okay to step away from the blog and just do things that I don’t even intend to blog about.
That’s it for this installment of I Comment Therefore I Am.
Do you give good comment? Wanna play along? Go forth, spread the comment love, and turn it into a post (I keep a draft post open while I read blogs throughout the week). Recycle, reuse, and reduce my friends; it’s the wave of the future.
Oh and feel free to comment on my comments otherwise how will I know that you exist.
If you play along please link back and/or post the button below. Let gaelikaa know and she will link to you in her post. Spread the love, spread the love! You can grab the button code from my sidebar.
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