Friday, November 14, 2008

Mother of the Year

Julius is teething like mad this evening, quite inconsolable. I rock him and shush him and swaddle him for a long long time.

He is very tired but can't sleep and I'm in his room nursing him for what seems like forever.

Finally his body goes limp and he dreams. I gently lay him in the crib and step back.

Directly onto my glass of wine.

My baby nursery smells like a cheap boozecan.

Lovely

15 comments:

  1. ah yes, the sweet smells of motherhood!

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  2. I read this and nearly shot tea out of my nose!

    That's too funny!

    Mmmm wine.

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  3. Ha ha ha!!!

    I recently discovered that the pack and play we got has drink holders on the end (I can't imagine what else they'd be for). I'm totally excited about that.

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  4. You just need to get better wine, that's all (I at least hope it was white to minimize staining?).

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  5. Oh yeah, white wine for sure.

    One time, many years ago, Kaz as a toddler grabbed a glass of red wine I was drinking and swung it around his head in a circle.

    There was wine on the couch, the floor, the walls, the ceiling.

    He could not have done more damage if he had put it in a sprinkler.

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  6. For goodness sake stop stepping backwards! :)

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  7. Raises my glass of white in your general direction.

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  8. Mmmmm. I miss wine. I haven't had any since before the embryo transfer. This was so funny though. Thankfully I didn't have tea in my mouth, or I would've snorted it all over the laptop.

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  9. Better booze than barf!
    ;)
    Hope the tooth comes in quick.

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  10. There's nothing to do when a baby teeth's is there. D's in the midst at the moment, drooling all over the place, poor love, must be so painful for them!

    Chin chin my love and courage!

    x

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  11. In my neighborhood, they pass out beers to the adults on Halloween. And I was carrying Bella's jacket while she trick-or-treated because it was warm. And I found out the next morning, on the way into her school, that I accidentally spilled a wee bit of beer on her jacket. I'll let you guess which one of us smelled like we had spent the night in the gutter.

    Good times.

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  12. You know I had to laugh, right?
    (Just caught up on the last month or so here... why do I fall behind so badly? Anyway... interesting stuff with the boys. You never did say what they both think of it. Or did you tell them?)

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