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Monday, February 19th, 2007...7:29 am

This too will pass – won’t it?

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First day at home as sole grown up in charge of baby and child.

And yesterday the television broke.

omg

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22 Comments

Cristy
February 19th, 2007 at 7:42 am

What?!

Well that is just unfair. Dick Smith sells very cheap televisions…
ThirdCat
February 19th, 2007 at 8:15 am

I will never forget that day. Just me and them. I will be thinking of you, Zoe.

I remember the moment when both of them were crying because they needed settling or feeding or somesuch and it was kind of reassuring rather than frightening, because I thought well, this is about as bad as it will get and I am coping.
The Devil Drink
February 19th, 2007 at 10:03 am

In the voice of the crusty old fart demon you try not to sit next to at the bus stop, lest you get reined into discussing the disappointments of the modern world: why, oh why can’t people make their own fun these days? Is television really better than the tried-and-true palliatives for mother and child, like gin, methadone, and a good shake by the shoulders? Hit it, Mick.

What a drag it is getting old
Kids are different today
I hear every mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she’s not really ill
There’s a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter
of a mother’s little helper…

Sweet merciful Allah, were the Stones really that trite and moralistic? They don’t seem to have aged well at all. You’re right, give me television, rage, cocaine and an all-Gallagher brothers special.
Gianna
February 19th, 2007 at 11:20 am

hmm, i thought it was now Sage’s job to entertain his new brother while you make yourself a nice cuppa and relax into some blogging. isn’t that the whole point of having a second kid?
ampersand duck
February 19th, 2007 at 12:05 pm

If I wasn’t chained to my desk at school I would have staggered over with my tv for you. Play lots of diverting music.
TJ
February 19th, 2007 at 12:56 pm

Sigh. Foo just bought a giant top-of-the-line flatscreen TV, and I got yelled at for ‘corrupting it’ by playing the BBC Pride and Prejudice series on it.

I was more amazed that I managed to use the damn thing for a couple of hours without him stroking and humping it.
mouse
February 19th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

Our video died a few weeks before JR was born. I’ve since invested in a hard disk recorder.

It’s a brilliant thing.

I record everything because the boy seems to always squeak for attention during the good documentaries or I want to go to bed early to catch up on sleep. So I catch up on the viewing while I’m feeding. The downside is that sometimes now the boy wants to watch the tv too…. My bits don’t stretch that far!

Good luck with the latest solo parenting. I find I walk to the shops almost daily just to give us something to look at besides each other.
Zoe
February 19th, 2007 at 5:23 pm

It was fine, of course. There were tears – mostly mine, but as I cry when I am happy, sad, angry or frustrated that’s not too unusual. Mind you I have just had first shower of the day and it’s nearly half past six.
Mindy
February 19th, 2007 at 8:08 pm

DVDs on the computer. Bah to two hours of television a day, I need my sanity.
lynn white
February 19th, 2007 at 8:20 pm

Zoe, you are a hero if you are managing to shower at all. Either that, or you are a selfish bad mother who is putting her own needs before her child’s.

Sorry, won’t channel Penelope Leech or those bizarre continuum theorists anymore.
nick cetacean
February 19th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

Hmm, there’s a typo in your post. Should have read: “omfg”.

No TV. I’d be dead by noon and the kids would have re-animated my corpse as finger puppets by 12:15…
Nabakov
February 19th, 2007 at 11:57 pm

You’re missing a rather good stoush about men with weapons over at LP.

On second thoughts, having just given life, you’re probably not missing it at all.

How is the little tacker? Hold him up closer to the screen.

Awww…so cute…arrgh! pumpkin soup alert!

Has Sage showed him how to make a slingshot yet? I was talking to my (three year younger) brother just the other night and he said I most impressed him in our pre-tweens by exploring and sharing knowledge of primitive but effective projectile systems.

The next decade’s gonna be a real adventure under fire for you and Owen.

You can’t take the boy out of the man.
byrd
February 21st, 2007 at 2:46 pm

I was thinking of moving interstate without an OMFG TV. The little ones can bloody well read to themselves.
Well they can, they just don’t is all.
You are no doubt familiar with the ‘cant converse eyes on the screen’ thing a great many of us suffer from(sorry what did you say, the lights are a flickering). Clyde does the same mental blanking if i try to talk with him and shuffle ‘littlegoldenbooks”tm for the reading of/to.
TheDailyMagnet
February 21st, 2007 at 6:36 pm

tv shmee-vee, just put radio national on and they will fall asleep straight away.
Kay
February 21st, 2007 at 9:18 pm

omfg is right!
Get it fixed immediately.
(Liam has of course just started school at Orana where they hate TV, so of course we went and had a baby six months ago (eight, anyway) and his tv time skyrocketed. I did *mean* to wean him back down before school began…)
Kay
February 21st, 2007 at 9:19 pm

PS Hope it went well. And continues to do so. It does get easier.
Cristy
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:01 am

I am intrigued by the ‘evil Zoe’ category… particularly because it seems to have been created just for this post.
ampersand duck
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:12 am

When you get a moment, dudette, change your ‘about me’ page to make Jethro a real person, not an ‘almost Elvis’. And give me that rabbit pie recipe.

and…
and…
and…

… or just sit down and smell that baby’s head again.
Gianna
February 26th, 2007 at 10:36 am

hope the little tyke is going gangbusters Zoe. we need an update!
Armagnac Esq
February 27th, 2007 at 9:04 am

Need TV, need DVD too. Great shows you can hire or buy and watch in 15 minute snippets (if you are getting 15 minute snippets, people keep phoning during ours, I’ve taken to pulling the phone out at the wall…) include:

Deadwood
Love My Way
West Wing

… good luck.

PS we going well, bear putting on nice amounts of weight, starting to smile =)
peacay
March 1st, 2007 at 4:52 pm

Hollow out the tv and use it as a crib.
C.L.
April 10th, 2007 at 10:44 pm

Nabakov, by slingshot surely you mean a shanghai or a ging, yes? I had an older brother who made superb gings and that was, indeed, impressive. I had another older brother who used me as target practice. Not so good.

Congratulations, Zoe. Best wishes…