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[metaphortunate]

Also we got home & Mr. E asked "how was dinner?" & I said "it was nice!" & Mom said "IT WAS AN ORDEAL." Has it just been too long since she hung out with small kids? Or would most people not count a dinner outing where the baby throws up, the kid knocks over the neighbors' water, and the parent, despite her best efforts, is moved once to loudly state "Mother. FUCKER." as a success? I can't remember anymore. :( Relatively speaking, it went well!

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[thistleingrey]

Yeah, for that level of spitting up, it sounds like a relative success to me, too.

A couple of friends (different households) with slightly older kids have also said that people forget surprisingly fast what it's like to have a child of a specific age. I've forgotten a lot myself, it turns out from interacting with neighbor kids younger than mine. Brain self-protection! but frustrating when people have no idea how much they've forgotten, or that they've forgotten. (MIL keeps giving us stuff that's totally the wrong interest/age range. Lately my daughter looks at it dubiously, then hands it back and says, "Maybe for another kid.")

[metaphortunate]

Aw, that's really polite for a kid!

Yeah, I think she must have forgotten. She's giving me shit for never having taken the 3 year old to the symphony.