Reason #84 – I let my boy scream till someone else rescues him
Reason #84 – I let my boy scream till someone else rescues him
Sep 14I have just sat down and opened a magazine when C starts requesting my presence.
“Wah.”
“Waaah!”
“WAAAAAAAAH!”
Ack, the boy is hollering. Too bad. Maybe it can wait?
See me being hopeful:
“Shh! I’m coming Booboo! I’ll be with you in a bit!”
Nope, that won’t do.
“Gwaaaaaaaah! Aaah! GAAAAAH!!”
Dang it, can’t he wait for one minute?
“Gimme a sec, dammit, I’ll be right with you!”
And then I hear…
Ms Lilly has come to the rescue!
“My poor baby! What is the matter? What do you need?”
And just like that, milk, cuddles, songs and kisses are all his. Little con man.
I know he needs nothing.
I fed him and changed him before settling him into his spanking new crib with a gorgeous made-to-order bumper and a bunch of educational toys.
Still he started hollering the second I was out of his sight. I tried reasoning with him and soothing him from where I was, but I was sure as hell not going to rush to the rescue. Bad mom! Bad!
Even if I had wanted to, I couldn’t have come to C’s rescue. You see: I had to take an important call.
From Nature.
Ahem.
Sometimes a mom’s gotta do what a mom’s gotta do, and to heck with everything else.
Honestly… I let my son cry too. Nothing wrong with it and there is no reason on this earth that he needs to be held all damn day! He’s clean, fed, and has things to play with.
And now that he can crawl… he follows me to the bathroom. I’m hoping that he doesn’t decide to follow one day when I do laundry because I don’t think he’s mastered stairs yet!
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Ha ha! I do that too when Scott is home. I suddenly shut off from being a parent for at least a half hour….oh he’s screaming and crying for god knows what reason….you can handle it hubby….I need my me time.
I have sooo enjoyed your writing and reading all the funny reasons your a bad mom, which I’m sure you are not because 90 percent of the stuff is something I’d do I’m sure, but I like your blog and have thus given you a blog award. :) Would love for you to stop by and pick it up at Mommy Only Has Two Hands.
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ofthesea Reply:
September 15th, 2010 at 8:25 am
An award! How exciting! Thank you very much! :) I’ll be there as soon as I get my hair and make up done for the red carpet!
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Yup, been there. Now that the kiddo is older, he follows me into the bathroom. There are many, many days that I just want to yell, can I pa-lease poop in private?
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ofthesea Reply:
September 14th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
This is one of the MANY things that I still swear “will never happen to me.”
I bet you will be laughing at me and my invaded loo in no time. Watch this space.
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Crying it out a little never killed anyone ;)
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ofthesea Reply:
September 14th, 2010 at 8:37 am
You should have heard the outrage in his voice: “WHAT? Are you SERIOUSLY not coming???”
It will do his lungs a world of good to get a good workout every now and then ;)
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This made me laugh until I cried a little!! I even read it to Private Ryan, and he laughed a little too … even though we never talk about woman poo. As far as he is concerned, women DON’T DO THAT.
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ofthesea Reply:
September 14th, 2010 at 8:21 am
Heh, I will NEVVA admit to it either! I just had to… you know, take a call. Ahem.
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Brandi Reply:
September 14th, 2010 at 9:04 am
That’s too funny! *ringringring*
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ofthesea Reply:
September 14th, 2010 at 9:35 am
Some calls you just HAVE to take! XD