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Why Can't I Do This?
So I checked in at Babble today and while poking around, frustrated with myself for poking around and not being more productive while feeding the youngest and second hungriest member of the household (top prize in that department still goes to the terrier who, this weekend, jumped on the coffee table while family friends were over and snarfed a huge bite of pate-- oddly no one wanted more after that stunt). While there I had an unusual experience.
For the first time I developed celebrity-with-baby-envy and if you check out this photo of actress Kerri Russell, you'll see why. I want to do that. I want to be able to pop out with my kid in some contraption and take big slugs of (increasingly vitally important to everyone's well-being) coffee while taking care of errands both necessary and frivolous.
What am I instead? I am the person who sends her coffee splattering on the street while making some broad gesture. I am the one who simply can't trust the sling even though, I know it, all sorts of cultures including my own have used it for hundreds of years, or at least five, to great success. I am the one who managed to fall over my shopping cart in my second to last week of pregnancy, bringing on a huge knee gash that was somehow amusing to the No-Nonsense Nurse from Russia who got me out of bed and wandering the halls after Sebastian was born.
I want to multi-task. I want to bounce around like some sort of Shiva statue, coffee in one hand, book in another, two more holding the phone and dialing the plumber, and a fifth kitchy-coo-ing one child or a dog or all three.
Instead I am sadly stuck, sloppy and single-tasking, but I aspire.
posted by Elise at 10:40 AM
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You're fine. But. One word for you. Ergo. :)
6/26/2007 7:33 PM
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