When Riley was a baby she came everywhere with me. I took her to my business meetings, my doctor appointments, my hair-cuts, everything. She was a good-natured kid and anyway we didn't know any babysitters who could watch a kid at 1:00 on a weekday. So she just tagged along and always has.
So... we've been home for 2 months and I'm just now getting that this doesn't work so well with two. The odds of a successful outing diminish RAPIDLY. I took them both to a recent doctor appointment and it was a disaster! Sunder was throwing stuff down the stairs and thinking that was a fun place to play. A few of the doctors ended up babysitting my kids so I could get through the appointment- very embarrassing!!
Today I was a helper in my oldest daughter's classroom. No biggie, right? I've done this before when she was in pre-school. Everytime I drop Riley off at school, Sunder is in heaven playing with all the stuff in the classroom. So I see no harm in bringing her today. She'll just play and be all cute. Again disaster! Sunder suddenly has no interest in the toys. She wants to be held and carried around the classroom. If I set her down...tantrum...disruptive to the whole class. Her few minutes of groundtime, she goes right up to her sister and starts hitting her. Lovely. After 1.5 hours of this we finally have to leave.
So apparently I need to change my ways. I guess it's time to either schedule all my activities at 10:00 at night or find a babysitter :)
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Oh I completely understand! I will bribe my teens with most anything to avoid taking the little ones anywhere together!!!!
heh heh heh...
(sorry, but I just have to laugh...)
I came to this same realization over 12 years ago when Jack was born. What an adjustment! Then I had to come to the same realization when Bing Bing came home. You would have thought I would have remembered.:)
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