Queen of Rambles

How can a mother look at a little boy that cute and darling and into household chores and bear to listen to him scream his lungs out for an hour? Everything I’ve read has promised that kids get used to the bed time routine and will soon go down like a dream. Ha. Funny, funny. Ha ha ha. Mike has been the one putting him down (I did one night and it was HORRID), so now Erik freaks out and starts the screaming as soon as Mike takes him out of the bathtub. He’s no dummy. He knows what’s coming. And this whole thing? Makes him wake up for a couple of hours in middle of the night. We never had that before. Ok, it’s happened on occasion, but only three or four times his whole life. Not three or four times in a row.

I would really like to call up our pediatrician and spew horrible obscenities in her ear. He was JUST FINE before. We were JUST FINE. Mike is committed to doing this and I am trying to be committed as well but I just lack the understanding. I don’t quite see the point.

If I get one person telling me what the point is in a way that does anything but sooth me (which is to say if you criticize me one tiny bit) I will blow a gasket and find you and beat you up. I am tender. I have a broken heart. If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. Listening to him cry and knowing that it is somehow good for him and I can’t comfort him is the very worst thing about being a parent.

The funny thing is, I get all freaked out at night by his screaming but during the day I just want him to go to sleep and I get pissy when he doesn’t. Today we went to the gym, I got out of the car, opened the back seat, found a sleeping baby. I didn’t know what to do so in the end I just drove home. He woke up as soon as we got in the house and was a grump grump grump for the next five hours since he really needed a nap. Charming.

On to happier things. For those interested in quilty goodness, I uploaded a few pics of the Dutch Doll quilt my grandma made me over at my flickr page. I had it spread out on the bed for the pics and noticed that a lot of the quilting is coming un-done and it really needs to be re-bound. Also, some of the little dresses and arms are fraying. I can fix the first two but don’t have a clue on the fraying dresses.

Other happy things: A few weeks ago Mike and I watched a fantastic movie that I think most of you would enjoy. It’s called The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio and is about a housewife from the 1950s who makes ends meet by winning jingle writing contests. The acting is great, the story feels very true (it was written by one of her daughters), and it gives a modern woman a lot to think about and be grateful about. Highly recommended.

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