Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Odds and Ends

Text from daughter:

11:35:  hear suspicious sound emanating from baby.  Discover major poop blowout.  Take 15 min to clean fallout.   11:50:  lift baby to put on clean outfit and feel tell-tale warmth on butt.  Change diaper again and dress baby.  12:05  Baby becomes fussy.  Discover pee leak-out.  Change diaper and outfit again....
That seems to be my daughter's life right now.  I had forgotten how much a parent's life revolved around a baby's butt...


And back here in Grandma's land the other shoe has dropped:  the furloughs the agency was dodging have proved to be unavoidable and the paycheck is going to shrink painfully each payday for a while. Fa.  Guess that takes care of the kayak I was looking at.   I can use an occasional day off but having the money to do something would be nice.


8 comments:

  1. I really don't miss the "laden-diaper" phase, but it was worth it. Of course, it's easy to say that now. :)

    Re: the unpaid furlough ... sorry.

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    1. And then there's the moments where you haven't even had time to get the next diaper on there...

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  2. Ya know what Federal employees are not going to be furloughed?
    Congress-critters and their ilk.

    Sorry to hear; I suspect my turn's coming up.

    Q

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    1. Oh, don't you know it. Their perks won't be affected, either.

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  3. She's just begun to earn her Mom merit badge.

    There's still the next 18 to 24 years.


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    1. Or forever, which is what I'm discovering parenthood is.

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  4. Sorry to hear that (and the poopy butt)... You will survive them both!

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    1. Daddy gets to deal with it when he gets home from work. Hilarity ensues...

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