That sweet story from yesterday about Breanna being awake most of the night and how nice it ended up being? Well although my patience remained intact, it was not so cute the second night in a row. Just like Wednesday night, last night she woke up a little before midnight and couldn’t settle back down to sleep. She didn’t stay awake quite as long but it was still an eternity for a tired mother.
This morning she smiled at me and I noticed her gums looked swollen. I pressed gently on the gums on either side of the two bottom teeth, and they were definitely bulging. All of an hour later, I looked again and although they weren’t through, I could see the white line of teeth pushing just below the surface. Aha. Teething. Therein lies the answer to the late night wake-ups and the cranky behavior of the past few days.
So what do you do when you have a baby who is teething and making you an exhausted wreck, a four-year-old who is testing every limit in the book and then some, and two cats who are making you think plants are better than pets?
You quote The Tragically Hip and start singing, “happy hour, happy hour, happy hour is here” as you pour your Labatt Blue (or Bleue if you live here in Quebec), and you toast the end of a long week.
Cheers.
… and you gave it to Breanna or drank it yourself? (Just joking)
Nice example you set for your kids. “Oh WAH, I had a rough night/week/month and so no I will reward my survival by drinking a bunch of beer. I bet I will feel better after I drink some alcohol.”
And then you will wonder why your kids are coming home drunk at night and flunking out of school. Because of your stellar example, that’s why. I’m sure you will nurse your own disappointment with a brewskie or five. Parent of the year!
Wow, Misfit, thanks for the warning. Holy cow, I didn’t know having a couple pints of beer would have such a dire affect on my children. My wife and I should probably also abstain from sex lest the children grow up to become EVIL FORNICATORS!
So, who was the alcoholic in your family Misfit? You should really deal with those issues instead of projecting them onto any more strangers in their WEBLOG. Nice too how you implied not once (reward my survival by drinking a bunch of beer) but twice (nurse your own disappointment with a brewskie or five) that Sherry was actually slugging back a bunch of beer. Yeah, when I think of Sherry I think, “now there’s a girl who drinks hard core.”
pfffft, give me a fucking break.
I don’t like beer at all Sherry but that looks pretty appealing I must say 🙂 Have you recovered from the hang-over from all that drinking or have you just not stopped yet?
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Oh yes, the old “unwinding at the end of a rough day with a drink = alcoholic” canard, mixed with the hoary old “parents should live as ascetics or their children will be hellions and addicts by age 12” fallacy.
I would ROFL, but I’m too busy feeling nauseated that there are people who still want to trot out those lines of happy horsecrap in 2006, nearly 2007. That horse isn’t just dead and beaten, he’s dog food by now.
Ok Sherry, thats it I guess we’ll need to find new homes for our children while we sign into detox. I’m right with you in enjoying some “Mommy and Daddy juice” at the end of a long week.
Now what to do about that crack addiction….
Oh and misfit the fact that you keep implying overindulgence is really pathetic. Although I think it would be cool if beer came in “bunches” like a vine of tiny beer cans.
@ Prescott – It’s too late. If you’ve already had sex since becoming a parent, your kids have already been taught. They sill now grow up to be porn stars.
@ Flidais – No, I finished up my entire case of 24 beer and then left the kids with a sitter while I crawled to the nearest bar and did tequila body shots off some guy named Pedro. I’m doing okay in spite of that.
@ Dreama – Go ahead and laugh, I had to. It’s just so funny I couldn’t help it.
@ Shauna – Before we go into detox together, want to go on one last bender? Maybe we can make meth together.
And @ Misfit – You must have had a very sad childhood to project that kind of commentary on someone who occasionally drinks beer or wine.
You enjoy your beer and why ever not?!
Laura – because of the children, my god, the children!
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Aw, some of Sherry’s minions, I mean friends to the rescue.
Sherry, aren’t you still breastfeeding? Isn’t that one of the large cans of beer? That’s a lot of alcohol to ingest when you’re still feeding a baby who is waking up frequently at night. Perhaps a little bit is justifiable but all that? A bit much, no?
And it’s not so much the drinking that is a problem if it’s occasional, it’s the idea of modelling to your children that if you have a rough day or week that the only way, or best way to unwind from that is to have a drink. Why not teach them about relaxing in a warm bath or something that is a healthier way to go about it?
But no, just go ahead and jump all over the once disagreeing commenter and get a bunch of your friends to help you do it. Heaven forbid you think about what I said.
Hey Misfit – if your original post had been half as explanatory as your second, I doubt we’d even be having this conversation. It’s one thing to voice an opinion of dissent, giving a rationale for your position. It’s another to name-call and generally insult; that’s simply instigating, and quite frankly, trolling.
Sherry, I’m a minion now? Does this come with pay and benefits? Send the papers over and I’ll review them. No, wait, send them to Dreama first, then I’ll review them. 😀
Theres absolutely nothing wrong at all with a few drinks occasionally whilst breastfeeding. It tends to get filtered out fairly well anyway-what is important is that you have a mother who is happy and relaxed whilst breasfeeding and also able to meet her own needs now and again!!
Alcohol is excellent for the let down reflex anyway!!
I think it would be cool if beer came in “bunches†like a vine of tiny beer cans.