Comments on: Dispatches from the Midwestern Front http://american-family.org/2007/11/17/dispatches-from-the-midwestern-front/ Wed, 23 May 2012 13:16:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Trope http://american-family.org/2007/11/17/dispatches-from-the-midwestern-front/comment-page-1/#comment-59506 Trope Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:16:42 +0000 http://american-family.org/2007/11/17/dispatches-from-the-midwestern-front/#comment-59506 Hang in there! How many more days? I just like being in the car, it gives us a controlled space in which to work. Not that the Bug is up to much but drooling and sucking his fingers, but it still helps. You do, in fact, have the patience of a saint! This stage will pass, I think someone told me. Hang in there! How many more days? I just like being in the car, it gives us a controlled space in which to work. Not that the Bug is up to much but drooling and sucking his fingers, but it still helps.

You do, in fact, have the patience of a saint! This stage will pass, I think someone told me.

]]> By: Peg http://american-family.org/2007/11/17/dispatches-from-the-midwestern-front/comment-page-1/#comment-59449 Peg Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:08:08 +0000 http://american-family.org/2007/11/17/dispatches-from-the-midwestern-front/#comment-59449 Yes, we are saints. And, I am so sorry I did not draw your attention to the six half-gallons of ice cream in my fridge when you visited, my just-in-case-stash. Essential to single parenthood. I love you. Hang in there. (And you both, too, are saints sometimes in your own ways--I can list them if you are ever in need....) You don't need to post this--I should have just sent you an email. Am in Asheville. E arrives tonight. Mom got trike, which sold out later same morning. Wants to know your source for Baby Bargains. Yes, we are saints. And, I am so sorry I did not draw your attention to the six half-gallons of ice cream in my fridge when you visited, my just-in-case-stash. Essential to single parenthood. I love you. Hang in there. (And you both, too, are saints sometimes in your own ways–I can list them if you are ever in need….) You don’t need to post this–I should have just sent you an email. Am in Asheville. E arrives tonight. Mom got trike, which sold out later same morning. Wants to know your source for Baby Bargains.

]]> By: Ashley http://american-family.org/2007/11/17/dispatches-from-the-midwestern-front/comment-page-1/#comment-59397 Ashley Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:25:59 +0000 http://american-family.org/2007/11/17/dispatches-from-the-midwestern-front/#comment-59397 L sounds like Brooklyn. We brought her home beg. of last Sept, and to this day she STILL has major sleeping issues. *sigh* Couldn't IMAGINE doing it while dh is out of town, let alone single parents. L sounds like Brooklyn. We brought her home beg. of last Sept, and to this day she STILL has major sleeping issues. *sigh*

Couldn’t IMAGINE doing it while dh is out of town, let alone single parents.

]]> By: Andi http://american-family.org/2007/11/17/dispatches-from-the-midwestern-front/comment-page-1/#comment-59386 Andi Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:43:28 +0000 http://american-family.org/2007/11/17/dispatches-from-the-midwestern-front/#comment-59386 My mum was a single mother, working as a teacher and looking after two little girls who didn't appreciate her nearly as much as we should have. I can't get over it, now, the level of her patience. She would break down and cry a fair amount but at the same time she was so strong . . . Of course it probably helped that we lived in a small fishing village where letting us run loose was not the danger it is in so many places. She could get a lot done by just sending us out back for a few hours, and we'd come back in hungry and tired and pretty quiet. I second the suggestion of seeing if you can run some energy out of them somehow-- it really will make them agreeably tired and hungry. Swimming, maybe? I work up the worst sort of appetite after swmming . . . Good luck! Someday they will come back to you as young ladies and say "Mom, we are SO sorry" and hopefully then it will be worth it :P My mum was a single mother, working as a teacher and looking after two little girls who didn’t appreciate her nearly as much as we should have. I can’t get over it, now, the level of her patience. She would break down and cry a fair amount but at the same time she was so strong . . .

Of course it probably helped that we lived in a small fishing village where letting us run loose was not the danger it is in so many places. She could get a lot done by just sending us out back for a few hours, and we’d come back in hungry and tired and pretty quiet. I second the suggestion of seeing if you can run some energy out of them somehow– it really will make them agreeably tired and hungry. Swimming, maybe? I work up the worst sort of appetite after swmming . . .

Good luck! Someday they will come back to you as young ladies and say “Mom, we are SO sorry” and hopefully then it will be worth it :P

]]> By: jaimie http://american-family.org/2007/11/17/dispatches-from-the-midwestern-front/comment-page-1/#comment-59385 jaimie Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:28:57 +0000 http://american-family.org/2007/11/17/dispatches-from-the-midwestern-front/#comment-59385 Would it help for you to get Skype? We used it the last time my husband was in China on business, and it helped A TON. Just to be able to talk face-to-face.... much less stress for both of us. And watching our one year old "talk" to her dad via the Internet was hilarious. Would it help for you to get Skype? We used it the last time my husband was in China on business, and it helped A TON. Just to be able to talk face-to-face…. much less stress for both of us. And watching our one year old “talk” to her dad via the Internet was hilarious.

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