Things I Will Remember
The things about today I will forget:
G waking up at 5:15am, per usual.
Struggling with the kids to get them dressed, only to have them soak their shoes and pants in the snow on the 10-yard walk from the front door to the car.
Waiting at the pediatrician's for over an hour with two hungry kids, the younger of which made such a spectacle that I couldn't decide whether to cry or run away.
The doctor telling me my son has a ruptured eardrum. I don't care if it's not as bad as it sounds. It sounds bad.
G whining incessantly for eight hours and refusing to take a nap.
Asking, then begging, then pleading, then yelling, and finally screaming to the kids to "Stop fighting! Stop wrestling! Share! Don't go out the door! Don't throw the flour!"
G tossing her used diaper onto the kitchen floor then running off in the other direction to hide, while H runs through the house with handfuls of plastic forks.
The things about today I will remember:
G throwing her arms into the air and shouting, "Yay Mommy! Yay Mommy!" after I gave her a potato chip.
H spontaneously giving me the most sincere smile I'd ever seen and saying, "You make me so happy."
You make me happy too.
G waking up at 5:15am, per usual.
Struggling with the kids to get them dressed, only to have them soak their shoes and pants in the snow on the 10-yard walk from the front door to the car.
Waiting at the pediatrician's for over an hour with two hungry kids, the younger of which made such a spectacle that I couldn't decide whether to cry or run away.
The doctor telling me my son has a ruptured eardrum. I don't care if it's not as bad as it sounds. It sounds bad.
G whining incessantly for eight hours and refusing to take a nap.
Asking, then begging, then pleading, then yelling, and finally screaming to the kids to "Stop fighting! Stop wrestling! Share! Don't go out the door! Don't throw the flour!"
G tossing her used diaper onto the kitchen floor then running off in the other direction to hide, while H runs through the house with handfuls of plastic forks.
The things about today I will remember:
G throwing her arms into the air and shouting, "Yay Mommy! Yay Mommy!" after I gave her a potato chip.
H spontaneously giving me the most sincere smile I'd ever seen and saying, "You make me so happy."
You make me happy too.
posted by Anne at 9:10 PM
4 Comments:
I hope you grabbed G's nose and rubbed it in the diaper after she did that and yelled "Bad G! Bad".
:)
Where do I sign up for your parenting classes, Chris? ;)
Probably time for the diapers to go anyway. It'll be a messy couple months.
G seemed very excited to show me her new underwear when we Skyped on Sunday. When I asked her what color they were she said "blue" (for the pink one) and "brown" (for the blue one).
Strangely my parenting classes have a structure that seems to resemble raising dogs.
Hrm. It works though.
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