Reason #44 – It takes an act of violence to make me spend time with my son
Reason #44 – It takes an act of violence to make me spend time with my son
Jul 19Today I spent time with my son. Quality time. Just the two of us. And although I wasn’t handcuffed and dragged into the playroom kicking and screaming, it wasn’t far off.
I live in the same house as C’s babysitter, the mighty Adi. Her mom and her older sister are also adoring fans of my boy, and don’t miss any chances of spending time with him: “Do you mind if I feed him?” “Can I please put him to sleep?”. I totally one-up Angelina on this one issue: I have three sitters for one kid. (Also, she may have bee-stung lips, but I have I’ve-just-been-headbutted-by-my-son lips, and they are as pouty as anyone’s.)
With babysitting on tap, it’s easier for me to focus on all I have to do: 9-5 work, freelance work, bloggy stuff, Facebook Scrabble improving my vocabulary.
Let’s be honest, I don’t spend a lot of time with C.
But today, a neighbour was assaulted right down our street, and all my babysitters housemates dashed out to the rescue, leaving me alone with the boy. This is how I came to spend couple of hours of quality time with C, and I am glad to report that they were not as bad as I had feared.
That said, thank goodness the girls are back, because I got 2 new post ideas that need jotting down.
And a bingo to put down in Scrabble.
3 babysitters – sounds like utter bliss.
I don’t have any live in nannies and have only been able to hire the occasional baby sitter for a few hours in the evening..on about 3-4 occasions a year. Your lifestyle sounds like bliss!
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ofthesea Reply:
April 5th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Oh, darling, that was my old lifestyle. The down side was that my husband lived far away.
Now I get to live with my husband… and to watch C aaaaaaall by myself. Bliss of a different kind, for sure!
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LOL. Thank heavens for those random acts of violence!
Thanks for Rewinding at the Fibro.
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ofthesea Reply:
March 2nd, 2011 at 12:03 am
I’m still laughing at your concert face rewind, even though those days are still way far off in the future for me!
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Hey! you’re so lucky about the babysitters! I will be death if I haven´t my babysitters on my house. In fact, I’m so sad today because she told me (after 2 years taking care of my baby) that she’ll quite the job next December… OMG!!!!! why??? why life is so cruel? it means, no more boyfriends nights, no more movie nights, no more “no-mom-LIFE”. Damm it!!!! Life is crap.
PD: Sorry for my bad english
PD2: I start a breastfeeding blog, and few month later I felt I have more “crap-mom” post ideas than breastfeeding post ideas. I thougth in changing the blog’s name, and start writting about my fucking life as a mom, but I didn’t :(
So, I envy and admire you!!! And you make me feel a little more happy today, even I’m thinking in return to my blog and write a post called “I rather watch my Blackberry Messenger than watch my daugther doing whatever”
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ofthesea Reply:
December 11th, 2010 at 9:34 am
Oh no!!! Life without a babysitter is not worth living!
Y aprovechate del “y mas” del nombre de tu blog para escribir otras cosas! ;)
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I wished I had live-in babysitters. The only time I don’t have them is when I’m at work or school. Other than that, they are with me, annoying me, asking me for juice or cereal or something to eat. What do I look like?? your mom?!! Well yes. lol.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 25th, 2010 at 9:18 am
I am beyond lucky, and I thank my lucky stars every day.
Then I go, do bad things, and write about them on the internet.
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Sure thing! We'll just move to a bigger house!
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Three babysitters, and I can't even find one! There are nights where my daughter is having nightmares, and between getting up with her and my son, I end up spending 22 hours of the day with them. Maybe I could move in with you guys too?
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The key point to quality time is that it is brief. “Quality not quantity” and all that.
10 minutes a day ought to be plenty, IMO ;)
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My girls are 4 and 5 – I love spending quality time with them. But MAN, there are days where I am more than happy to pawn them off on my mother [whom I live with].
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I'm visiting from SITS (pro-blogger challenge) and think this is a great idea for a blog, and a funny way to deal with all those endless mommy challenges. And FYI if you think you are having a hard time now, just wait until he's a pre-teen/teenager!
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LOL I remember those days of “forced quality time” it gets better when you force the quality time on them when they don't want it. I came over from the SITS 31DBBB and I'd say that your short elevator pitch matches your blog… Very fun, short and too the point.
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