Page 17 - Giv'er Miramichi magazine - Christmas 2018

to get back to the dishwasher, laughing cord of some kind, a disgusting shoe, a
a laugh you can only assume is cute for small leaf, a “baby proofing” outlet
the sole purpose of tricking you into blocker, or in one horrible case...dog
having a sense of false security, vomit...) and go back to what you were
because it is only reserved for moments doing.
of the naughtiest intentions!!!! Finally! The dishes are done!
You do this a few times until either: maybe we can start on that laundr-
1. he gets frustrated and starts GRRrrrRrRRRRRrrrr.... “was... was
crying, or that my stomach?” You look at the
2. you get frustrated and put him time.
back into the safe zone, where he also “HOW THE HECK IS IT 4:30PM?
starts crying. I just finished the dishes from breakfast
Rinse and repeat. and last nights dinner!...I SKIPPED
Sometimes you’ll think you got LUNCH?!”
lucky, you put him down with his toys You then have to make and eat
and he seems real content. You get a bit dinner. After cleaning up the food that
done and you think “gosh he’s being so mostly ended up on the baby’s hands,
quiet, God I love him! What a sweet face, and high chair, you are rightly
boy” so your motherly heart swells and pooped.
you wanna sneak a peek at your content little baby. But his Then someone asks you what you did today...
back is to you...the back is always to you...because they “Dishes.” you say completely and utterly defeated as you
know...they know that if you see what they have, you’ll take look at all the dirtied dishes from the dinner you just ate.
it away!...they’re sneaky! WHEN THE HECK DID THEY
LEARN TO BE SNEAKY! After a while though you just Monique Walker is a 27 year old novice photographer/writer. She
know to be suspicious of the quiet. just moved to NB from AB this past June after buying the camp her
So you take away the “danger toy” (ie: phone, electrical Grammy and Grampie built in the Upper Miramichi area. Visit her
Facebook page “City Mom, Country Life”.

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