Lately I feel like an NFL player at the twilight of his career. The bodily injuries resulting from two kids are mounting. Charlotte, who flops her head around like a bobblehead doll, head-butted my lip the other day. I now have a dark spot on the upper right side. My right arm and shoulder have been sore for weeks. Carrying an 18-pound “infant” around in his portable carseat is no easy task. Did I mention his 32-pound sister still wants to be held… and hoisted into our bed? I often do it from the lying-down position. So, yes, my rotator cuff has permanent damage. Oh, and my right knee is shot. It’s a combination of the extra, I don’t know, 50 pounds I’m carrying around on my body and the multiple bags I drag in and out of the house and work daily–a diaper bag, a bag with all the paperwork and bills I need to get to, my breast pump bag and a lunch bag to keep my calorie intake up thereby compounding the aforementioned weight problem! Yes, being a parent to young children is like an ongoing basic training course–you know at some point it will get easier but you never seem to adapt. Dave’s back is messed up. It could have happened from a number of things–shoveling and snowblowing the drive for the 20th time, taking down all the outdoor decorations, catching Charlotte as she catapults on top of him from the couch, restraining Thomas when he thinks Daddy’s lap is a jumper, carrying me out to the car so my feet don’t get wet–are you kidding? That would land him in the hospital, for sure. I just wanted to make you smile.
Posted under Baby Thomas: Month 5
This post was written by Tara on December 26, 2008
Wow, I thought for sure he carried you out
…I read your blogs at least 4 times a week…but I never leave a comment. I see you at the store and want to approach you but none of us have time to chit chat especially at the store. My daughter is 2 years and 8 months old and I know exactly how you feel sometimes. She started daycare 4 months ago and there’s a little girl who bites whenever she wants something that someone else has…so my dd has taken on that bad habit and now I’ve been bit also. We are being abused by our little ones 
…but we still love them…after all this is what we signed up for isn’t it?!?!
Have a good one.
I am with you on that! I have a 2 yr old and a 6 mo old and between her, the car seat carrier, diaper bag and all of my stuff! I thought maybe getting a massage would make me feel a littler better however I had so much tension in my neck and left shoulder that the massage did the complete opposite, I will not be having one of those anytime soon. Ah the things we do for our kids.
Your blog is wonderfully entertaining and I hope you can eek out time to keep it up. And I do love that you acknowledge that you have to enjoy your children while they’re young. It’s so over before you know it!
Tara: Keep up the honest and straight forward blogs. It is refreshing to know that there are people who are in the lime light, who have the same every day problems with children and work, and are not afaid so tell it like it is. I appreciate your honesty. You will always have my respect, and just knowing you are a real down to earth person says alot.
God Bless You and Your Children and You Husband.
Dale Wille
As a young mother we tend to try too hard to please everyone…when really all we need to do is take care of ourselves so that we can take care of our children!If all this viewer has to complain about is the sound of your voice maybe she is spending too much time in front of the tv!
Love the last one!! Too funny Tara
Please do not stop writing…sometimes your blogs are the happy part of my day!
I think my nose has been head-butted so many times—it’s just never going to be the same.:-)They don’t do it on purpose–just happens, but over the last 15 yrs my nose has really taken a beating!
Hang in there—more injuries to follow I’m sure!