The Quiet Game.

mommyeverafter — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:49:55 +0000

Today, on our way home from Home Goods, after the 80th question from my daughter
(“Does pool water taste salty?”)
My mom decided to try to implement a technique they used with me when I was a child: The Quiet Game. They would challenge me to see how long I could go without speaking. Apple. Tree. You know.)
After 5 seconds, this is what ensued (and I wrote it down, feverishly, as to not miss a word.)
Daughter: I do not like not talking. I do not like trying not to speak. I do not like quiet game.
Mom and I laughed to ourselves.
Daughter: And I do not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not like climbing trees. Or mountains.
My mom: Did you ever climb a mountain?
Daughter: Yes and I keeped slipping off it.
My mom: Really?
Daughter: Of course not.
My mom: I’m having deja vu.
Daughter: I’m having meshugenah
Me: Mom, you realize your encouraging this
Daughter: I’m NOT encouraging this. What is encouraging mean?
So my mom explained. She got it.
Daughter: I encourage you to tell my mommy not to hit me in the face.
And then we died laughing.
Scene.

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Groundhogs Day

mommyeverafter — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:33:29 +0000

Groundhogs Day has come to signify the “Deja Vu” phenomenon in popular culture.
And in my house today, that’s exactly what it did.

My daughter sat on my lap and read this book to me.
And as she flipped through the pages, I was overcome with a feeling of familiarity; I have been here before.
…
April, 2010. The day after we came home from the hospital. My sweet doula took me by the hand and led me into bed, instructing me to rest. And I did. Until I woke up, missing my new baby. I walked, gingerly, in my pajamas, into the room next door. In the nursery, I found my baby, nestled in my doula’s lap, listening to a story. Her first story. A story about a child’s love for her mommy. It became real, that day. She was mine. I was hers.

…
Today, as my baby “read” this story aloud, naming the animals on each page, making up words as she went along, I remembered, so distinctly, that first book, on that first day.
As she sat on my lap, as such a big girl, I saw the shadow of what we once were. Of how small she was, then. Of how much we’ve both grown.
If I could wave a wand, and live that moment over and over and over again,
a moment during which my daughter felt so close to me,
a moment in which she is (we are) so happy,
a moment in which she loves me more than anyone else in the world
and tells me so,
I would do it.
I would do it in a (February) Second.

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The Quiet Game.

Groundhogs Day