home sweet home
Thanks everyone for the prayers & well-wishes - the three year old got a great report from her doctor and came through the procedure beautifully. We’re home, safe and sound and slightly exhausted, but happy. I’ll get to bloghopping later on so I can catch up with everyone, and then I need to write. Because, you know, page 140 and all.
But first, a few brief observations from our trip.
To the woman sitting in front of the three year old on the trip from New York to Cincinnati: I understand that, to most people, bringing a child on a plane is the equivalent of bringing the devil’s spawn onto a plane. And I understand that, I really, really do, because I am one of those people who will say, please don’t seat me near any kids, even if I’m with my own kid. Which is why I could never teach on the elementary level (and bless all of you who do - but give me hormonal middle and high school kids every time.) Anyway - please note that the three year old kicked the back of your seat for maybe thirty seconds before the husband and I noticed it. And we immediately held the three year old’s legs so she could no longer kick. But I don’t think there was a need for you to yell out, Oh, this is going to be fun, and to answer your husband with, well, now it’s down to intermittent kicking, when both of you clearly turned around and saw us holding said child’s legs and you clearly heard us say to one another that, as soon as the plane took off, we’d unstrap the seat and turn it so she could no longer kick the seat. I’m terribly sorry that I didn’t think to unstrap her seat during take-off for your comfort.
But, when you got up to go to the bathroom, and I saw that you were pregnant, I just shook my head. So did the husband, because we were thinking, good luck to you, sister. Because, you know, the karma thing and all.
To the surfer dude who sat next to the husband on the trip home: I wish I could’ve sat next to you, since you were using both my favorite yellow-sized writing pad and my favorite pen and you pretty much wrote non-stop from the second you got on the plane until we landed. It looked like a screen play, and we so could’ve talked writing, dude. Or surfing, which would’ve come in like, totally handy for me.
And Jaq will be happy to know that I finally read Play Dead. I’d started it, but it creeped me out and I couldn’t bring myself to pick it up again. But Jaq was right - I loved it. I’ve loved all three of the Anne Fraiser books I’ve read, but I’m finding that the key is not to read any author’s books right in a row no matter how much I love the author.
Steph T.
June 14th, 2005 at 10:17 am
Steph, glad you’re home safely and all went well.
June 14th, 2005 at 10:45 am
Ditto what Linda said, and a pox on the pregnant woman!
June 14th, 2005 at 10:45 am
Oh yeah, Steph, I’ll pray the pregnant lady has a little retlin monster
Would serve the heffer right.
Glad you’re home safe and sound and that you’re sweet baby is going well.
June 14th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
Glad everything went well! We did the airplane thing when our oldest was 1 1/2. We haven’t done it since. *winces*
June 14th, 2005 at 1:38 pm
June 14th, 2005 at 1:38 pm
I’m so happy everything went well! Sounds like the pregnant lady is in desperate need of a sense of humor.
June 14th, 2005 at 2:42 pm
To the pregnant lady, all I can say is: Bwahahahaa…you don’t know what’s coming, sweetie. Colicky nights and sleepless days. Definitely karma!
And wow on surfer dude. So disciplined!
June 14th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
So glad to hear the three year old’s back home and doing well!:bravo:
June 14th, 2005 at 3:44 pm
I’m glad everything went well! I hope the pregnant chick has the kid from hell.
And I would have wanted to sit by the surfer dude, too. Yum!
June 14th, 2005 at 3:53 pm
:???: Well, I am a late comer to the board, so I’m a little lost yet, but I’m glad that your daughter is okay! And I loved your recount of your flight! OMG! Too funny about the pregnant lady and surfer dude! And yes, here’s hoping that the pregnant lady will one day remember you regretfully when she takes her own baby on it’s first plane trip!
June 14th, 2005 at 4:27 pm
I’m so glad everything went well. And about the pg lady . . . She’ll get hers.
June 14th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
Steph, I’m exactly the same way! (At least I don’t feel so horrible now. gg) –love my boy down to his toe nails; wasn’t all crazy about about other people’s kids. gg. But, unlike the pregnant chick, I was/am very understanding of what it takes to parent, and how ‘trying’ the little angels can be. ;)
I think Ann Fraiser rocks! Glad you loved PD. I absolutely agree about not reading an author’s books back to back. All their littly idiocyncrasies become really apparent and sometimes pull you right out of the story. That happened to me with JAK/AQ/JC. I had to stop reading her completely for a couple of years.
June 14th, 2005 at 7:13 pm
((((steph and the little one)))) I’m glad things went well!
Karma..she’s one nasty bitch.
June 14th, 2005 at 7:21 pm
Aw, poor Steph! I’m glad your baby was FINE and yes, that poor preggo chick will get hers, LOL, when she takes a flight next year and her kid is SCREAMING. Ha.
June 14th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
So glad your girl is doing well!
About the pg bitch, we had a similar flight when my younger son was 10 months old. We’d had a 5 hour layover and he wouldn’t nap, so by the time we got on the final leg of our flight, he was DONE. And he cried and cried, and this evil woman kept GLARING at me, so finally I told my son, so the woman could hear, “You go ahead and cry as loud as you want so you can ruin that lady’s flight.” Made me feel better anyway.
June 14th, 2005 at 11:09 pm
Don’t ya just love being a lepher on a plane when you have your kids?
June 15th, 2005 at 1:18 pm
Glad your daughter is okay!
Plane stories. Sigh. We had been delayed for hours once, my little guy was exhausted, and got on the plane and cried himself to sleep. This man turned to me and said “that’s why I have dogs, not kids”.
June 15th, 2005 at 7:02 pm
So glad all went well, and your home safe.
Oh, and next time you see a surfer dude like that on the plane, if you thinkhe’s sorts sexy, give him my email would you?