Just blew my nose and suddenly it's very quiet in here. I can't even hear NJ's radio. Oh. There's the ringing, though, and the instrument compressors. Got that
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I'm glad I'm not alone in dealing with a three-year-old teenager. ;-) My Sam was pretty easy to handle prior to, oh, the last four weeks, and now we are suddenly parents to a little boy who has an opinion about EVERYTHING and who regularly makes his displeasure known by slamming doors and dismissing us with the wave of a hand. Suddenly sleep issues are not our biggest challenges.
I am with you on feeling like I am not there for him enough... I think all mothers must feel this way to some degree, but I'm betting it's especially acute in working mothers.
slamming doors and dismissing us with the wave of a hand
YES!
Thank goodness he hasn't said "I hate you", yet, but he has declared, "I don' like you!" This wasn't too bad, as it allowed me to pull an old family favorite: "That's ok, I love you, but I don't like you right now, either."
When mom used it on me, though, it got my attention. It doesn't seem to work on Samuel. I was disappointed.
I got a bad cold on vaca in Arizona. The second day there I noted to W, "It's odd how this dry air makes me feel as though I'm coming down wwith something." Duhhh.
So I pushed and pushed and pushed. We were on vaca in a part of the country we had never seen before and I wanted to hike all the trails and see all the cliff dwellings. OMG there are a lot of cliff dwellings...
By the time we got to the rim of the Grand Canyon I was so sick I couldn't hear a thing. I got it into my head that the high elevation was what kept my ears from clearing. So we cut our trip short in the final two days, got a room in phoenix and ate chinese food until our flight out two days later.
It wasn't the elevation. It was just having that nasty a cold. If I every get such a miserable cold again, I'm going to medicate myself into oblivion until I wake up and can hear again, even if it means sleeping four days straight.
I knew I was coming down with something on Friday, and I was feeling crappy on Saturday, too. But yet I still went outside with the whole family. Mom and dad were working on the stone path, Jeff was digging beds around our trees. I was the idiot giving horsey rides and tumbling around on the grass with the kids.
By Sunday, I felt like I'd been hit by truck. I'm such a dumbass sometimes.
Cactus finally hired me, but they're sooooo slooooow about it all that I haven't had any work yet. Oh well. Maybe they want me to be a bit better rested first?
Samuel's new mad words are certainly much better than what they were. And you're doing a great job with your kids. I know you're not with them as much as you'd like, but you do spend lots of quality time.
It was very slow in the beginning for me, too. When you're new, they try to find shorter jobs for you, to help you get your feet wet. Then they'll be well-spaced, because you'll get feedback on your first few jobs.
After a couple of months, you'll probably start getting pounded. My longest quiet stretch was 12 days, but then BAM! It's one right after the other. I've got a 5000+ word assignment due tomorrow O_o
Heathen that I am, oh, dammit didn't bother me nearly as much as you're stupid bothered me. He knows the connotation of the latter, but not the former. It's so cute when he says it, too. A very sing-songy dammit. We don't fuss about it, but gently suggest a better word may be darn or drat. He's chosen to go with darn. Usually
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That's great news about the scan. Must be a relief to have finally gotten that done (especially after the runaround they gave you).
Grats on the editing work, too! I just severed my contract with the group I'd (supposedly) been working with. Way too flaky and not enough work. Plus, I think the part of my brain that understood science has atrophied beyond repair, hehe...
No clue about the kid stuff though. (I'm looking to you for cues on all this!! :D) When my sister and I were little, my mom had a terrible time settling us down for bed and books were the one thing we were allowed to have. She said she didn't mind if we stayed awake, but the only thing we could do was stay in bed and read. To this day, I still read for 20-30 minutes before bedtime. :)
Unfortunately, due to the general flabbiness of my midsection, I cannot comfortably navel-gaze while seated in the lotus position. Not that I can sit in the lotus position, either.
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I am with you on feeling like I am not there for him enough... I think all mothers must feel this way to some degree, but I'm betting it's especially acute in working mothers.
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YES!
Thank goodness he hasn't said "I hate you", yet, but he has declared, "I don' like you!" This wasn't too bad, as it allowed me to pull an old family favorite: "That's ok, I love you, but I don't like you right now, either."
When mom used it on me, though, it got my attention. It doesn't seem to work on Samuel. I was disappointed.
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So I pushed and pushed and pushed. We were on vaca in a part of the country we had never seen before and I wanted to hike all the trails and see all the cliff dwellings. OMG there are a lot of cliff dwellings...
By the time we got to the rim of the Grand Canyon I was so sick I couldn't hear a thing. I got it into my head that the high elevation was what kept my ears from clearing. So we cut our trip short in the final two days, got a room in phoenix and ate chinese food until our flight out two days later.
It wasn't the elevation. It was just having that nasty a cold. If I every get such a miserable cold again, I'm going to medicate myself into oblivion until I wake up and can hear again, even if it means sleeping four days straight.
Good luck, Ducks.
Oh, and on the book front: what a quandry!
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By Sunday, I felt like I'd been hit by truck. I'm such a dumbass sometimes.
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Samuel's new mad words are certainly much better than what they were. And you're doing a great job with your kids. I know you're not with them as much as you'd like, but you do spend lots of quality time.
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After a couple of months, you'll probably start getting pounded. My longest quiet stretch was 12 days, but then BAM! It's one right after the other. I've got a 5000+ word assignment due tomorrow O_o
Heathen that I am, oh, dammit didn't bother me nearly as much as you're stupid bothered me. He knows the connotation of the latter, but not the former. It's so cute when he says it, too. A very sing-songy dammit. We don't fuss about it, but gently suggest a better word may be darn or drat. He's chosen to go with darn. Usually ( ... )
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Grats on the editing work, too! I just severed my contract with the group I'd (supposedly) been working with. Way too flaky and not enough work. Plus, I think the part of my brain that understood science has atrophied beyond repair, hehe...
No clue about the kid stuff though. (I'm looking to you for cues on all this!! :D) When my sister and I were little, my mom had a terrible time settling us down for bed and books were the one thing we were allowed to have. She said she didn't mind if we stayed awake, but the only thing we could do was stay in bed and read. To this day, I still read for 20-30 minutes before bedtime. :)
Hope you feel better soon, too! <3
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Jeff and I need to start exercising...
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