{"id":1778,"date":"2013-05-16T22:26:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T04:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/babyz.hottie-biscotti.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2013-05-17T08:21:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:21:53","slug":"136365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/2013\/05\/16\/136365\/","title":{"rendered":"136\/365"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"5-16-13\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lunch with Miss Carrie<\/em><\/p>\n

I know it should be Mrs. Carrie, but really Aunt Carrie, since that’s kind of what she is to Carson and Betsy. \u00a0What a blessing to have such a wonderful friend who is willing to have lunch with a ridiculous 2 1\/2 year old and a messy baby! \u00a0We were definitely the out of place group at lunch today. \u00a0The table next to us did have a baby, but he was probably 4 or 5 months old and an angel the entire time. \u00a0My child? \u00a0Not so much of an angel. \u00a0But sweet Aunt Carrie helped out tons by keeping him in line and off the floor. \u00a0I would not attempt lunches out without her! \u00a0Today was a much needed dose of adult friend time.<\/p>\n

The pergola workers came out again today (didn’t show at all yesterday) and framed the top of the structure. \u00a0I’m hopeful that they will be able to finish tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Carson was a mess tonight, and I didn’t help matters by falling apart myself. \u00a0He doesn’t throw proper tantrums very often, so when he does he makes it worth his while and I am so unprepared that I act like a toddler myself, a big mean mommy toddler. \u00a0It was not pretty. \u00a0He wouldn’t eat any dinner so I tried to feed him a bite of pasta. \u00a0He swatted my hand away and screamed at me. \u00a0So the sweet boy got a time out. \u00a0After 2 minutes I talked to him about what he’d done and why he’d earned a time out. \u00a0I asked him why he got time out and he says, “I hit Betsy in the head.” \u00a0which he had done earlier, but not this time. \u00a0And this just frustrated me further. \u00a0What’s the point of time out if they don’t know why they’re there? \u00a0So I explained to him again why he had time out and then he asked for something, cookies I think, I said no and he screamed like crazy. \u00a0I tried to just leave him there on the kitchen floor to deal with his problems himself, but it was making Betsy cry. \u00a0So what did this super mom do? \u00a0I put him in his room and shut the door. \u00a0Yep. \u00a0I did that.<\/p>\n

I finished feeding Betsy her dinner and went up to get him. \u00a0He’d finally calmed down and while he wasn’t easy for the remainder of the night, he wasn’t crying at the drop of a hat. \u00a0I was pooped by the time I got them both in bed and then I ate cold pasta for dinner. \u00a0THIS is why a lot of mom’s don’t get back to pre pregnancy size. \u00a0We no longer have time to exercise and we don’t have the energy to cook something healthy. \u00a0We eat our kids leftovers, and often I will then eat another dinner. \u00a0That can’t be good.<\/p>\n

Ben is on his first trip for work. \u00a0The first of many, I’m afraid. \u00a0He’s usually gone from 7 to 7 on a typical work day, so really I only end up with an hour or so of time by myself that I usually have Ben. \u00a0It’s hard to be alone when you’re so used to having someone else around, though. \u00a0And when that someone is someone who you really like having around it’s really hard. \u00a0I had no reason to cook. \u00a0I felt kind of lost about what to do with myself because we have a routine in the evenings and it’s all messed up when I’m alone. \u00a0I guess I have become a little dependent. \u00a0As I type this I have Ben’s pillows lined up next to me so that it at least feels a little like someone else is in bed. \u00a0Is that strange?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Lunch with Miss Carrie I know it should be Mrs. Carrie, but really Aunt Carrie, since that’s kind of what she is to Carson and Betsy. \u00a0What a blessing to have such a wonderful friend who is willing to have lunch with a ridiculous 2 1\/2 year old and a messy baby! \u00a0We were … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sWbPG-136365","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}