Good Ideas

In normal fashion I went all yesterday thinking of great things that would make great post - and alas here I am and I only have 2  - 

Yesterday I was in Union Square for lunch w/ a friend who also has a baby. We were enjoy a nice day, people watching - the kind you can only do in Union Square! - and having a good chat. All of a sudden 4 benches down from us there where these two grown men throwing punches, beating up each other, pulling one another over the fence - craziness! Really? You both think thats a good idea? Your grown men for goodness sake! But yes, yes they were acting like children - badly behaved children @ that! So like the good little mothers we are, we scurried off the little ones to another area to get away from the action. And just when we thought we were safe, one of the grown 'boys' in the fight came and sat down right next to us!!! Not only did he do that, but then he proceeded to light up the cancer stick and puff away! Hello! Babies! Right next to you! Its not like we came over to site next to you, you came to us! Some people have no clue, and are completely oblivious to the things, and others around them - no wonder your fighting in the park as a grown ass man! Mind you, we thought @ that moment our time in the park had come to an end, so we left - w/ babies, in toe - the craziness behind!

In other news - Its raining today! I'm being thankful for the rain though, and the chance to be lazy and still - I will welcome the rain, and be thankful that I have this opportunity to rest and let Kaia rest. She's been a little whiney lately and I don't know how much more I can take of it - Maybe we've been doing too much? So forcing us to stay home will be good change. 

Being a mother - what a job! Part of my reasoning of never wanting kids was the

mother part! Give and give and give, and deal w/, put up w/, and tend to. It's a lot of work, and very trying on your sanity. I didn't want to be an angry and temperamental mother, who had 'those' kinds. I was so afraid that I'd have hard, difficult and very trying children, that my life would be hard all the time, and I'd always be tired, and in no mood to be fun, or do fun things @ that. I did not want to be that, and I didn't want to sent myself up for disappointment, as a mother, and wife, and friend, b/c I knew that having children changes everything!  And it does, however - I'm so glad to have Kaia! I still have all those fears - but I want to be a good mother, the best that I can be! I want to be understanding, and patient, and loving, and helpful. Kaia has been a wonderful baby - from the time we found out we were pregnant its been a great experience. But this whining! Oh my, I'm going to have to read some books or something, b/c this has  been very hard to deal w/.

This was her yesterday - I was preparing her food, and wondered what she'd think of whole broccoli - She was chewing on it for a while, I did not expect her to eat this, just curious as to what she'd do w/ it - 

Times like these, bring a smile to my face, along w/ what a man said on the subway the other day 'There's something about a baby's smile, it brings a smile to your face no matter how bad your day is, seeing a baby smile makes it all better!' 

I couldn't agree more : )