Dear Emma,
I love being your mom. I wouldn't give the last 1368 days back for anything.Your sweet voice and adorable bouts of smooches and hugs have me suckered in. You got me, I'm yours forever.
There is, however, one thing I'd like to mention. The constant calling, yelling or bellowing of, "Mom!!!". At a certain point, say after hearing it 75 times within an hour, I find myself ready to run screaming from the house with no intent of ever returning. It isn't that I don't like hearing your compulsively call my name, 'cause I do, it's just that I don't quite understand why it's necessary for me to verbally reply to each of your incessant calls. I mean really, couldn't I just reply to the first one and then since we're already engaged in conversation you could just continue talking? Apparently this is not a task with which you are at all interested in learning, and it's okay. I'll just take another deep breath and start my hourly count over again.
Love, Mama
mine used to do this from the backseat of the car...and then would expect me to LOOK at her everytime she said "MOM"...ummm...I'm driving here Alex...can't look at you...so frustrating!
Posted by: jen paddack-hyde | February 22, 2006 at 11:26 AM