My brain’s moving slow today. Okay, so it moves slow everyday. I am blonde AND Polish. What do you expect? Anyhoo, as usual I’m on the ‘puter while Marigrace naps. After only ten minutes of sleep I heard her start crying on the baby monitor. Initially I ignored her hoping she would fall back asleep but she didn’t after a few minutes so I went and checked on her. She was sound asleep. Odd. I figured she must have just cried out in her sleep. A few minutes later the crying started again. Once again I checked on her and she was sound asleep but there was still crying on the monitor when I came back in the kitchen. Am I going crazy? It dawned on me that I was picking up someone else’s kid. I know this happens but I’ve only had it happen to me one other time.

This kid has been crying off and on for 45 minutes and yes I’m totally eavesdropping. Obviously this kid’s mommy wants her to take a nap and the kid wants no part of it. She has cried, screamed, and rocks her bed against the wall. Mommy comes in every 10 minutes and talks way nicer than I would if my kid was playing this game with me. I can’t understand everything mommy is saying but I cracked up when I heard her say “I’ll be right back”. I’ve used that trick too. It sucks when it stops working. After a few minutes the kid figured out that mommy isn’t coming right back and started screaming again. Mommy went back in, still talking nice and I heard her mention a train which she turned on. Mommy leaves and the kids goes back to screaming. Several minutes later she’s back in with a banana and uses the “I’ll be right back” excuse again. The kid ate the banana then resorted back to screaming. This mommy has been back in that room at least five times already. My God I can’t take it anymore! Mommy needs to either let her cry it out or pick her up and try again later because she lost this battle. She’ll keep losing them too if she continues to handle it this way. Not that I’m an expert but I did this with my first and now she’s a manipulative eight year old who will throw tantrums to try and get her way. I do feel bad about eavesdropping. It’s like I’m hiding in her house. I must admit though I’m curious if the kid does actually go to sleep or play quietly for longer than 10 minutes.

I laugh at the thought of someone picking up my house on their monitor. I’m sure it was interesting.

I’ve lived up to my slacker name today. Connor fell asleep last night in the car so I put him straight to bed with his school uniform still on. I sent him to school today in the same uniform. It still looked clean!

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