La pazienza e` la virtu` dei forti
Just when I thought I was able to pick up my life again (condition had been recovered, parents were on the point to clear the premises, routine had been re-established) I was sneakily grounded again by a vicious infection with convulsions and extremely high fever (I had not been running a 40 degrees fever since years, I have to admit that it scared me a bit). You know, one of the many typical perks of breastfeeding.
So here I am confined to bed rest again, you have no idea how disturbing that is. Daytime TV is another one of the things that suck in the Netherlands, nothing more than tel-sells, and with the media player acting crazy after all of Dennis experiments to increase the bandwidth, there is not much media enterteinement left, I am going positively insane!
Patience is the word of course in this case as in many others. Everything will turn out right in the end. I guess I stumbled into another thing I am not so good at, being patient. The one bitter sweet thing about having children is that you are constantly confronted with your own weaknesses and shortcomings. That should of course make us better people, but unfortunately it is not always the case, I hope it will be the case for me though.
To use a sentence that has more often appeared in my posts, "I should not complain so much". Based on my past six years experience this parenting business only gets more complicated with the time and as they say for investment funds, results achieved in the past give no guarantees for the future.
As a good friend of mine once wisely said, as a parent you only have a certain amount of capability to worry in you, if you have one single child you will direct it all to that one kid, if you have ten children each will get one tenth of that same amount. This is somehow a very comforting notion, because it basically means that when the going gets though, either you get thougher or you start caring less. There is also another positive note worth adding, this time for Nora. With the birth of her brother, is not so much that she has to share attention, but more that she gets her parents off her back for half of the time!
So here I am confined to bed rest again, you have no idea how disturbing that is. Daytime TV is another one of the things that suck in the Netherlands, nothing more than tel-sells, and with the media player acting crazy after all of Dennis experiments to increase the bandwidth, there is not much media enterteinement left, I am going positively insane!
Patience is the word of course in this case as in many others. Everything will turn out right in the end. I guess I stumbled into another thing I am not so good at, being patient. The one bitter sweet thing about having children is that you are constantly confronted with your own weaknesses and shortcomings. That should of course make us better people, but unfortunately it is not always the case, I hope it will be the case for me though.
To use a sentence that has more often appeared in my posts, "I should not complain so much". Based on my past six years experience this parenting business only gets more complicated with the time and as they say for investment funds, results achieved in the past give no guarantees for the future.
As a good friend of mine once wisely said, as a parent you only have a certain amount of capability to worry in you, if you have one single child you will direct it all to that one kid, if you have ten children each will get one tenth of that same amount. This is somehow a very comforting notion, because it basically means that when the going gets though, either you get thougher or you start caring less. There is also another positive note worth adding, this time for Nora. With the birth of her brother, is not so much that she has to share attention, but more that she gets her parents off her back for half of the time!
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