I don't know, maybe I'm very permissive and my kids get away with murder.
Maybe I have extremely well bonded children who love me very much.
Maybe my children's love language is touch, and they want to show me how much they love me.
Maybe they are sensitive little souls and need lots of reassurance.
But I seem to have one or other of them attached to me 24/7.
Midget is at least starting to sleep on a mattress on the floor, so there are a couple of hours after she first goes to sleep at night, then she is in with us. She is having extreme separation anxiety, all perfectly understandable when she has been taken to a strange place and is meeting a lot of strange people, but she cries whenever she is out of my arms. I mean she cries if I put her down at my feet to turn on a tap. She cries if Daddy is holding her and I am out of sight. She cries if I am sitting next to her on the ground but not actually holding her! There is some playing in between, but it doesn't feel like very much.
And when she does let go to play, Widget grabs hold. I don't mind giving her cuddles because of the endless round of trips and scrapes, I don't mind the feeds and I don't mind her sitting on my lap if she asks. It is when she sits next to me but half on top of me and starts wiggling over, so I end up squashed. Or I'm in the middle of eating or doing something and she will try to climb onto my lap. And God forbid that I try to go to the toilet.
It's nothing major, just the constancy wearing me down. And the bit that worries me is that I don't feel like I've had a break. DH is understandably caught up with his father at the moment, and we are spending as much time with them as we can. And it doesn't really feel like a holiday with everything that's happening. But at the back of my mind there's a little worry that we're almost going home, then it's back into it until July.
I just hope that being back home will mean the girls are a bit more settled and I become a human again, rather than a piece of the furniture.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
I'm not a piece of furniture!!!!
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Hugs Deb. I do understand what you're talking about, though I only have one. Sarah also likes to try and squeeze into my lap in the most uncomfortable ways sometimes.
Hopefully things will be more settled when you get home. I have to say that moving locations affected Sarah quite a bit - when we went to Germany and she was still waking quite a bit at night she went through a stage of needing to see BOTH Mummy and Daddy in the middle of the night, I think just to check that we were both there.
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