You want to go to the store ? " I'll decide. "
You want to sleep for a extra hour ? " I'll decide. "
You really like those pants and want to keep them clean ? " I'll decide "
You want to go for a ride to the other side of town for a appointment ? " I'll decide "
You see, Emmy's and my biggest issue is the car. For the normal person is a automobile that super conveniently get's you where you need to go. For Ember it's the Anti-Christ put into a torturous metal chamber with wheels that can rush through the strange place know as ' the outside ' . She absolutely HATES it & will remind our entire family of these with each outing by loudly singing the song of her people, also known as crying. For the entire ride.
It always start's out good. She's all smiles as we walk out the door typically in some outfit I've forced her in, according to my own personal liking, and my mom and I will be most likely be bickering about her headband of the day that I've insisted upon and my Mom claims is misshaping her head. { She's wrong & they're adorable } Ember is happily sitting in my arms. Not a single worry in the world. Till she realizes we're not just going to walk around in the front grass, but are making our way to the dreaded metal boxes of absolute doom that take her away from her safe home. That smile quickly goes to a frown. Uh-oh, mayday. Sound the alarm the tiny human has been alerted or our plans. I used to always sit in the front seat, being the oldest sibling, I had claimed it as my birth right. Though now Ember decided I must be in the back with her to attempt { unsuccessfully } to calm her.
We'll slide into the back seat, no tears or scream just yet. It's not till I'm snapping the clips to her car seat that she realizes that mommy is no longer holding her. Her face will say it all " The world is ending I must alert everyone around me. " I know then all hell is about to break loose. It will start with an over dramatic pouty face's where her low lip curls into a picture perfect frown. Sometimes you can hold off the impending battle cries by using the most obnoxious baby voice you can possible muster up to talk to her. Though often those don't work for more then a few moments before the nearly ear piercing song of the tiny human people comes wailing through the car. From that point you're doomed, there's no stopping it till we either
A. Arrive at our destination & Take her out { Where she immediately stops crying, because shes a total faker & just wants to be held }
B. She cries herself to sleep
C. We don't leave to begin with.
I really don't understand nor know how to help her with this irrational hatred with the car. I am often told by other parents how their own little ones love the car and how for some it's the only way to get their screaming babies to sleep. For my own its the source of all evils, but frankly seeing as that is really our only major issue I'm perfectly okay with it even if it drives the rest of my family absolutely nuts. It is something we will in time hopefully overcome.
On a serious note.
Recently I've been getting a lot of uproar of how I express myself & how it could come off as me idolizing teenage pregnancy and mother hood & how I don't express problems we go through. I'm going to start off by saying, those who say it tend to be mothers themselves and Id like to address the issue with saying all babies are different. All situations are different. All methods of parenting are different. The problems you've had with your little one, the concerns you have are most likely completely different from my own. I'm naturally a pretty positive person so writing about my issues is hard for me, but be assured I have them.
On the subject of my idolizing my situation, I want to say is that having a child consumes your life. Please for my fellow young peers, don't look at my situation and think " Oh it's easy being a young mom. Who cares if I get pregnant now, I'm throwing caution to the wind. " because it's not Ember literally decides my every day based on her mood & personal wants. I was also blessed with an amazingly easy baby, who could one day be a horribly difficult toddler or teenager. So please. Be careful & use protection and be conscious of your actions.
I am making the best of what I can. I'm trying to diminish the " Young parents are bad parents who have no clue what they're doing and whose children are doomed " fad that seams to be ever present in modern day society. So yes, I talk about my situation in a highly positive light, because for me my daughter IS a positive and I love her to the moon and back.
I will continue to write about my situation with positive words and actions to the fullest, for that is how I see my situation. I love my daughter and I love raising her.
Ember has awoken though and now needs my attention
You want to blog ? " I'll decide "
Till next time,
Lace & Ember
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