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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Parent-Child Outings for an Exhausted Parent

The good news is that my younger son (YS) did a good job sleeping through the night last night. That is not to say that he slept completely through the night or that there weren't any shenanigans. So that means I should really stop whining. However, I realized when talking to my aunt today that I forgot to mention how similar things feel to when I had a newborn. For example, I completely forgot what day it was and drove my older son (OS) to school at the wrong time.

OS goes to Pre-K on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and to Enrichment class on Tuesday and Thursday. Pre-K and Enrichment start at slightly different times. On Thursday I was so convinced that it was Wednesday that I was geniunely perplexed about where the teachers were when I pulled into the parking lot. This was not helped by the fact that OS actually has the same teachers for both sets of classes. When I got home and my MIL mentioned something about my Thursday parenting class, I was momentairly at a loss until I realized that it was in fact Thursday.

I had promised OS at the beginning of the week that he and I would have some special time together on Friday. I specifically agreed to take him to the Ecotarium. Never mind the fact that he had already been there twice last week. Friday was unfortunately the morning that I was up at 3 am. I knew I couldn't go back on my promise to OS to have some Mommy and me time. I came up with what I thought was a brilliant plan: going to the movie Hotel for Dogs. No matter how I tried though, I could not convince him that Hotel for Dogs would be better than the Ecotarium. Of course I couldn't use my best argument on behalf of the movie, which was that I could sleep through the whole thing. At least I don't remember telling him that. I do remember offering to buy him both popcorn and candy. I also pulled up the trailer on my computer and reminded him of the cute McDonald's Happy Meal toy that Sally HP got him last week. No luck.

We ended up at the Ecotarium and had a good time. We saw a show at their planetarium. This was another shot at a movie with nice, comfy chairs, and it was an easier sell since OS is learning all about space in school. No, I couldn't sleep through that one either. In fact, if you're ever thinking that the planetarium is good for a snooze, let me tell you right now it's not. In addition to the fact that I had to practically pry OS off of me because he had never been to a planetarium before and was freaked out by the fact that the door was closed, it was incredibly loud. Had I fallen asleep, I would have had weird dreams about being in a cardboard box with a creepy man. Most importantly, I enjoyed it. However, since we were the only ones there we got a personal "tour" of space. OS particularly enjoyed getting to see the way the earth spins so that the sun shines on Massachusetts to create day and shines on the other side of the world to create night.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: The planetarium is a great place to go if you need some space, but a bad place to go if you need some sleep.

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