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Looking Over the Hedge
"How am I going to do this?" is a question I pose all the time, so often that it is perhaps a wonder I get anything done. When I step back and listen to my inner monologue (which I don't recommend anyone do as a rule), it seems amazing that I manage to get anything done.
Among the things I have riddled myself lately that seemed relatively impossible:
How am I going to get this baby out?
How am I going to get this other baby out?
How am I going to make it until Wednesday with this hideous tooth?
How am I going to turn this thing in on time?
Many other issues have plagued me lately, among them: how am I going to handle toilet training? It was a mystery to me. The pediatrician kept saying that one should never exert any pressure on the kid, but waiting on the Felix turned me into a pressure cooker.
It wasn't so much that Felix was resisting or had no interest. He wasn't particularly interested and I wasn't sure how to begin and at some point his school wasn't going to be particularly sympathetic.
And then suddenly, things shifted. I have said that before of course. At one point I almost thought I had some kind of prodigy, willing to toilet train himself at 17 months of age. (Stop laughing. Just stop it. I didn't mention it because I know what hubris is. And I'm not too proud to say I was wrong. So I was wrong. I had months and months and months of diapers to deal with. So what?)
But this time, I think this time we're on our way. I hope so because I don't know how we got started on this path, and I'm not sure I could re-create it.
Here's hoping.
posted by Elise at 7:24 PM
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