tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post7132873810950087760..comments2023-11-05T02:43:58.241-05:00Comments on Mimi on the Breach: Sleep, and love/like, and helpMimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10812707312289852258noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-8366272931767602732007-01-23T19:47:00.000-05:002007-01-23T19:47:00.000-05:00Isn't that the funniest, sweetest thing when you r...Isn't that the funniest, sweetest thing when you realize that you've made a person that you actually LIKE? I have to tell you that my 7 year old daughter and I are hanging out, we have the BEST time. A friend mentioned the other day that she was going to loan a certain book to her teenage daughter and that they'd talk about it later and I got so excited because someday I can talk about books - Beckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13953517447164263617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-67893765664038692862007-01-23T16:18:00.000-05:002007-01-23T16:18:00.000-05:00Yeah, gotta watch the jinx. In the past, when I've...Yeah, gotta watch the jinx. In the past, when I've crowed gratefully about WB sleeping well (finally!), I've been punished. The gods watch me, I tell you, for any sign of impiety.Her Bad Motherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03535958887714152413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-8507044544033804782007-01-23T13:13:00.000-05:002007-01-23T13:13:00.000-05:00Just read your comment over at Beck's and I had to...Just read your comment over at Beck's and I had to concur. We don't get the G&M anymore but when we did, I would sit at the table raging over Leah McLaren's articles and Joe would always ask, "Why do you read it, then?"<br /><br />Why, indeed. Sigh.NotSoSagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04782162947524115936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-74907613121414911912007-01-22T18:15:00.000-05:002007-01-22T18:15:00.000-05:00god, even though we now just get brief night wakin...god, even though we now just get brief night wakings on rare occasions, it kills me. This weekend, for example - she woke up for a few minutes one night and the next morning I felt like I'd been hit with a 2x4. It makes me wonder how the hell I am even considering starting over with the baby business. I'm not sure I would survive it...kittenpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05215443551546036909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-769065586903920612007-01-22T14:32:00.000-05:002007-01-22T14:32:00.000-05:00I am constantly torn by my belief that "it takes a...I am constantly torn by my belief that "it takes a village" to raise a child and my feeling of (for lack of a better word) ownership over how she is raised. I might feel a lot less of the ownership if I felt that people in our families agreed with and respected the way we were raising her, but I digress... Parents really do fare better with help and having a break now and then, but it's hard toNotSoSagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04782162947524115936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-9719907463290985462007-01-22T14:01:00.000-05:002007-01-22T14:01:00.000-05:00I was having a really hard time disentangling what...I was having a really hard time disentangling what I initially imagined as three distinct threads: sleep, love/like, and help. But they are so tightly wound together, and my decent mood and non-overwhelmedness only comes from the combination of the three. So it might be 10 good nights talking. Or it might have been a family dinner. Or it might have been Miss Baby discovering rice rusks and Mimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10812707312289852258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-35504057037118297942007-01-22T12:29:00.000-05:002007-01-22T12:29:00.000-05:00Tried to comment here last night but Blogger was b...Tried to comment here last night but Blogger was being a pain in the patootie.<br /><br />At first I was going to be a smart ass and say, "are you sure that's not just 10 days of well-restedness speaking?"<br /><br />But really, I know exactly where you're coming from. Isn't it positivley wonderful when they start becoming endearing, interactive friends?<br /><br />As for the help part of the Madhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13416585771017767796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33659348.post-50963404110315103512007-01-21T22:26:00.000-05:002007-01-21T22:26:00.000-05:00You had a baby who cried in the car! That is a ha...You had a baby who cried in the car! That is a hard, hard thing. I can remember one or two journeys with each baby where the blessed and expected sleep did not occur (those memories are burned on my brain), but otherwise car rides were necessary times of respite. <br /><br />As for your point about help - it's so, so true. I covet those nephews of yours: my babies will probably not have any Beahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15957626443087438904noreply@blogger.com