How do they do it?
posted in General |Am I a failure, if I need someone to watch my kids 2-3 days a week, so I can get “work” done? These last two days have really encouraged me to accept this “failure” and get done what needs to be done.
Last night, before dinner, Baby K was playing in the upstairs, and I was working on the laptop. With my acknowledged hearing loss and the lack of a baby monitor, I’ve found it more comfortable to work on the laptop upstairs while she sleeps in her crib. But yesterday she was playing in the upstairs. I was happily working away when I heard a huge thump and crash from the kitchen. Believe it or not, she had climbed ontop of the kitchen table and came crashing down. On her forehead. Which answers the question- which is harder, oak or bone- but also which is harder- oak or flesh; she has a huge purple black bump on her noggin.
Today, I can’t get the dogs to quiet down. They spend too much time in their kennels anyway, and they’re “just being dogs” wrestling over a ball. I think the ball was just an excuse to rough house. Baby K thought this was entertaining, except that they were wrestling over her ball. So I had screaming kid, growling play-angry dogs. Finally, I gave up and took Baby K downstairs to play “quietly” while I work on the big computer.
Remember that we moved the scrapbooking area downstairs?
I heard a thump, and some crying, and then some more crying, and then she started to get angry. I came out to find her, with her arm stuck in a drawer of the plastic craft carts, clutching a ball, with the cart pulled over on top of her.
I gave up; she’s in the crib, actually sleeping now, and I’m on the laptop. How do other daddies handle this? I’m going to need professional help.
