My head is a little foggy, I’m distracted, jumpy and I cant really think today to much coffee already perhaps? My head is thinking of all the things I need to do to get ready for the family to come back to the house to say goodbye to my husbands Aunt. They start arriving tomorrow. From an only child’s perspective (me) its a lot of people but any more than one additional person is a lot yet I cant wait to see them. I cant wait to have them all under one roof. I love it when this crazy dysfunctional family gets together under one roof because the reality is they could have gone the other way. They amaze me with their laughter. They could have fallen completely apart, they could have taken their hard up bringing and done it differently but they haven’t. They have had their moments and not all of them have forgiven and non of them will forget but its made them what they are they tell me.
Better parents. Better people. Better friends. Better husbands.
So this along with working out how to bed 10 additional people, feed and care for them this is what I have running through my head.
Seriously it is..
1. Thank god its the last week of homework it was really starting to test my patience and my brain. Its a long time since I had to remember what a conjunction was and how to use it correctly. Imagine my disappointment when I got question seven and thirteen wrong last week.
2. I read somewhere over the weekend that when men have sex its the same sensation for them as sucking on your big toe just warmer? I’m not going to try it because I don’t think I’m that flexible anymore and don’t fancy putting my foot in my mouth unnecessarily (it will happen all on its on) and really I’m to selfish to care but I do wonder how they came to that analogy?
3. Did the woman who commenced breast feeding her four year old whilst ordering some mild Hungarian salami at the deli counter on Friday realised she had done it? Did she realise that she was lifting her shirt, pulling her breast out of her bra and ushering her four year olds face towards it all awhile ordering some Hungarian salami. Did she know what she was doing, in a crowded Woolworth’s on a Friday afternoon. I breast fed proudly yet always discreetly even in a crowded room. That poor prepubescent boy taking her order for a little salami learnt more that afternoon about breastfeeding and what it can do to a women’s breast a little earlier than he had to.
4. How did I possibly forget to shave my right leg last night?
5. Wish I could rock a bikini like the woman I saw at the pool yesterday and ladies she wasn’t a little girl. She was a big beautiful girl in her thirties but she rocked that two piece, the men loved her for it and the best part she knew it. Bravo.
6. Does anyone else like lettuce in their soup? Or is a strange fetish I have developed because I ran out of watercress the other night..
7. I loved how two young boys sat and watched me get out a tight park Friday afternoon. They assumed I couldn’t and sat smirking to themselves. A sweet old man came to assist me by doing the old hand measuring jig. He stood and watched instead. I needed neither I know how big my car is, I know how to turn the wheel and I know how to do a hill start.
8. Wish I had said something different to the young mum on Friday as she asked me how I managed to do all the shopping with three kids under six without loosing my cool. I wish I had told her I it was a good day, that I had threatened them with their life in the car and one day she will have one too and not to beat her tired self up.
9. Loves remembering how much I love wearing a pair of heels. I just wish I had more places to wear them to. Wearing them around the house just isn’t the same its just sad.
10. A glue gun is a dangerous piece of crafting equipment and needs to come with two labels..you may suffer third degree burns whilst using this equipment but the obsession you will develop whilst using it means you won’t care.
11.. My B3 said I was a great mum out of no where last night. No where. Needless to say he got a hot chocolate and a Freddo frog.
Enough said my sweets have a great day..
xx Deb
Thank you Jade I so appreciate that..you cant imagine how I have fretted..thank you lovely..it means a lot. Thank you xxDeb
Those of us tht read your blog Deb know that you werent trying to be offensive. I totally agree breastfeeding should be considered perfectly normally in public but given the fact the 4yr old would be 1. Toilet trained and 2. Old enough to take instructions from a kindy teacher, im sure he would understand instructions of waiting a minute…………
Love reading your blogs Deb, have a wonderful time with the family xx
Lea,
I never meant to be offensive and whilst I agree with you heavily in all respects this 15 year old boy and the men standing around her whom I assume she didn’t know given her location where very much uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable.
And again I agree with you breastfeeding is a very natural thing and should be taught as early as possible however I felt given the time and place ie she was standing in line at the deli counter and the child was old enough to be told if he could perhaps wait a moment, not hours perhaps a second until she could move away from the counter and the very clearly uncomfortable 15 year old boy standing in front of her.
Public breast feeding should be the norm I just don’t think doing it while ordering something at the deli is the right place to do it however she obviously felt completely comfortable with it as she should and bravo to her but the people around her clearly where not.
Again I apologies if I offended you it wasn’t my intention at all,
Debbie
There is nothing wrong with breastfeeding a child in public. Do you honestly think she wasn’t aware what she was doing with her own body? She was meeting the needs of her child. I doubt that every time you meet the needs of your kids that you do so discretely and out of public view. People need to begin learning about breastfeeding well before puberty, so she wasn’t actually doing the server a disservice.
I had previously enjoyed reading your blog.