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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Ugh

I meant to post yesterday, but I was just too tired. The rest of Tuesday was still eventful after my older son's (OS)encounter with the door and my encounter with yet another dose of mommy guilt. Because of the level of hysteria surrounding the evening's events, OS never got around to eating dinner; he hadn't been hungry when my younger son (YS) and I had eaten before the accident. Thus, it shouldn't have been much of a surprise when he woke me up at 11 pm to tell me that he was hungry. Since 1)I was feeling badly about his thumb 2)I didn't want him to wake up his brother and 3) I didn't want him crying, I went down to the kitchen and fixed him PB&J and hot chocolate. Let's be honest here. The only thing worse than OS crying because I wouldn't give him a sandwich would be him waking up YS with the crying because I wouldn't give him a sandwich and having two crying kids and my husband in another state. No matter how badly I wanted to go back to bed, it just wasn't worth it.

The quick dinner seemed to fix everything and a happy and full OS went to bed. Phew. The next morning he was in a good mood. He couldn't wait to go to school and show everyone his new band-aid. More specifically he said, "I'm going to tell everyone at school how you hurt my thumb in the door!" Great. Let's just add a social worker to the stream of workers that would be coming by to my house that day. Thankfully the Big Giraffe will be home tomorrow.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Context is everything.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 7:05 PM   3 comments
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  • At 10/23/2008 7:28 PM, Blogger bethandrobert said…

    I'll be single parenting for a few days coming up this month. Our day starts tomorrow with a morning drop off at grandma's at 6:30. After a 40 minute drive to get there... I like things so much better when Rob's home!

     

  • At 10/24/2008 1:54 PM, Blogger Suzanne said…

    You should have told OS to show everyone how he tried to come into the bathroom while you used it. People love demonstrations!

     

  • At 10/24/2008 3:41 PM, Blogger Jen of A2eatwrite said…

    Oh, Alex... what a day! I missed the last post... was having my own drama here yesterday, but I can imagine what happened. HUGE hugs!

     
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