The World As Reesie sees it

November 28, 2007

Dancing With Ourselves

Filed under: My Crazy Life, Stupid Parent Tricks — by reesiesworld @ 8:40 pm
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So, there we are, me and the two short people, waiting in the exam room of the eye doctor’s office. First we saw the technician, who performed all the basic tests, then we saw the senior technician, who performed more tests, now we were just waiting for the doctor to come in and tell us what we already know.  Nothing has changed.

For some reason, it was taking an extraordinarily long time for the doctor to come in and release us. Usually things move along at a pretty good pace, but today, the natives were getting restless.  The older one wanted to get back to school (she’s young yet) and the younger one wanted to explore every possible nook and cranny of the very small space.  As I say, things normally roll along pretty quickly so I didn’t bring the toy bag, as some times it can be more distracting than helpful.

Then inspiration hit, I have an iPhone.  That means I have music AND a speaker.  Voliá! That cramped exam room became a dance hall.  The three of us shook and shimmied our way through LeAnn Rimes “Nothin’ better to do”, Tim McGraw’s “Last Dollar” and Craig Morgan’s “International Harvester” just to name a few.  The doctor eventually made it in somewhere in the middle of Rodney Atkins “These are My People”.

As we walked out of the office into the waiting room, my three year old loudly announced “That was fun at the eye doctor’s office, can we do it again soon?”  Sure buddy, let’s say about 6 months ok?

September 13, 2007

What’s wrong here?

Filed under: Stupid Parent Tricks, What I think — by reesiesworld @ 1:31 am

I first read the story about a mother who left her 2 children aged 1 & 4 in a car on an 88 degree day in South Carolina via an AP report. As is typical of AP (by necessity most times), it was a very top level report. I had to know more. I found a detailed article here.

My first response is fury with the mother. What the HELL was she thinking??????? But upon stepping back, maybe she was thinking “Well, it’s 3pm now, the sun will go down soon, and it will be a little cooler then, plus, the kids will go to sleep, if I can get through this shift making barely minimum wage, then maybe we can have dinner for the rest of the week and I can by diapers, but if I call in, they’ll fire me and then we’ll be out on the street. So, it is stay in the car for a few hours or live there for months. Hmmmmm, what to do, what to do.” Desperation can talk you in to doing things you otherwise would never consider.

Everyone must be held accountable for their actions, and this ranks up there with COMPLETE STUPIDITY, don’t get me wrong. But if the woman is working a 3-11 shift and living in an extended stay hotel, then, my guess she probably doesn’t hold an MBA, and quite possibly, she is struggling to make the ends come within the same zip code never mind meet. The availability of affordable, flexible childcare in this country is a HUGE problem.

One that has dire consequences.

Peace be with you Triniti and Shawn.

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