Comments on: in which i recognize that my daughter is not, after all, a full grown person http://honestyrain.com/index.php/2008/05/04/in-which-i-recognize-that-my-daughter-is-not-after-all-a-full-grown-person/ could kick your ass Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:04:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: psumommy http://honestyrain.com/index.php/2008/05/04/in-which-i-recognize-that-my-daughter-is-not-after-all-a-full-grown-person/comment-page-1/#comment-952 psumommy Thu, 08 May 2008 16:53:19 +0000 http://honestyrain.com/index.php/2008/05/04/in-which-i-recognize-that-my-daughter-is-not-after-all-a-full-grown-person/#comment-952 Ah, my apologizes to Drawdawn, both for making the assumption and for misspelling her name! I'm sorry! PREGNANCY MADE ME DO IT! You'd think that having more kids would make me more patient, but I'm ashamed to admit that no, it just makes me more patient with the younger ones. Because an 18-month-old's tantrum is so freaking CUTE and ADORABLE compared to the snotty, sassing, deciding-to-ignore-the-rules-"because-I-felt-like-it" attitude of the 6-year-old. And throw in there that perhaps what might be construed as 'patient' is also more like 'entirely too exhausted to notice and/or care' (except in important instances, of course, like limbs suddenly gone missing or a 3-year-old thinking it's hilarious to repeatedly whack his little brother on the head with a bat). Oh, and to throw in here...I had my first at 24. Definitely didn't have more patience. I miss wine....*sigh* Just 16ish more months until I can imbibe again! Ah, my apologizes to Drawdawn, both for making the assumption and for misspelling her name! I’m sorry! PREGNANCY MADE ME DO IT!

You’d think that having more kids would make me more patient, but I’m ashamed to admit that no, it just makes me more patient with the younger ones. Because an 18-month-old’s tantrum is so freaking CUTE and ADORABLE compared to the snotty, sassing, deciding-to-ignore-the-rules-”because-I-felt-like-it” attitude of the 6-year-old. And throw in there that perhaps what might be construed as ‘patient’ is also more like ‘entirely too exhausted to notice and/or care’ (except in important instances, of course, like limbs suddenly gone missing or a 3-year-old thinking it’s hilarious to repeatedly whack his little brother on the head with a bat).

Oh, and to throw in here…I had my first at 24. Definitely didn’t have more patience.

I miss wine….*sigh* Just 16ish more months until I can imbibe again!

]]> By: honestyrain http://honestyrain.com/index.php/2008/05/04/in-which-i-recognize-that-my-daughter-is-not-after-all-a-full-grown-person/comment-page-1/#comment-948 honestyrain Thu, 08 May 2008 02:38:39 +0000 http://honestyrain.com/index.php/2008/05/04/in-which-i-recognize-that-my-daughter-is-not-after-all-a-full-grown-person/#comment-948 psumommy, hijack away! a little conversation in the comments section is perfectly within code. and by the way, drawdawn is also on her fourth. you two, more patience in your little fingers than i have in my whole body. i mean, you must have - FOUR KIDS??? i don't think you're supposed to start drinking wine at 8am and i'd need to with that many kids hanging around. the shoutfree project would be <em>the let's make it til bed without packing them all up and shoving them out the front door project</em>. now, mind you, if i'd started having them at an earlier age i'd have had four. because for some reason i picture having been more patient in my twenties. delusions, me thinks. psumommy, hijack away! a little conversation in the comments section is perfectly within code. and by the way, drawdawn is also on her fourth. you two, more patience in your little fingers than i have in my whole body. i mean, you must have – FOUR KIDS??? i don’t think you’re supposed to start drinking wine at 8am and i’d need to with that many kids hanging around. the shoutfree project would be the let’s make it til bed without packing them all up and shoving them out the front door project.

now, mind you, if i’d started having them at an earlier age i’d have had four. because for some reason i picture having been more patient in my twenties. delusions, me thinks.

]]> By: psumommy http://honestyrain.com/index.php/2008/05/04/in-which-i-recognize-that-my-daughter-is-not-after-all-a-full-grown-person/comment-page-1/#comment-946 psumommy Wed, 07 May 2008 23:38:18 +0000 http://honestyrain.com/index.php/2008/05/04/in-which-i-recognize-that-my-daughter-is-not-after-all-a-full-grown-person/#comment-946 Drawndawn (sorry honestyrain, may I hijack your comments section for a minute?)- If it makes you feel any better...the kids don't seem to remember. Or even notice, while it's happening, to tell you the truth! I'm on my 4th pregnancy here, and trust me, the cranky cannot be stopped. It isn't so much an excuse as an explanation, and I for one HATE using pregnancy as an excuse (except, maybe in the first trimester to stop going to the gym because I can't peel myself off of the couch). Ok, I'm done- again, sorry honestyrain! Drawndawn (sorry honestyrain, may I hijack your comments section for a minute?)- If it makes you feel any better…the kids don’t seem to remember. Or even notice, while it’s happening, to tell you the truth! I’m on my 4th pregnancy here, and trust me, the cranky cannot be stopped. It isn’t so much an excuse as an explanation, and I for one HATE using pregnancy as an excuse (except, maybe in the first trimester to stop going to the gym because I can’t peel myself off of the couch).

Ok, I’m done- again, sorry honestyrain!

]]> By: honesty*rain » dammit! i almost made it!!! http://honestyrain.com/index.php/2008/05/04/in-which-i-recognize-that-my-daughter-is-not-after-all-a-full-grown-person/comment-page-1/#comment-941 honesty*rain » dammit! i almost made it!!! Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:03 +0000 http://honestyrain.com/index.php/2008/05/04/in-which-i-recognize-that-my-daughter-is-not-after-all-a-full-grown-person/#comment-941 [...] one of the shoutfree project was going so well! I managed to go all day without shouting at my children despite the fact that [...] [...] one of the shoutfree project was going so well! I managed to go all day without shouting at my children despite the fact that [...]

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