A Mommy Story

So I was looking at BlogHer‘s conference information yesterday, dreaming of the opportunity to go, and for the first time noticed there is a student price. Wait, I’m a student! And $52.03 is a lot more do-able than $258.97!

Oh, BlogHer, you’re making it far more difficult for me to resist your siren call. But I still must somehow justify a $350 plane ticket and $75 a night hotel stay to my husband and to our budget. The student price puts it into the realm of possibility instead of just dreaming, though,.

Oh, the temptation!

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Cordelia has picked up a new behavior. Now, when she falls but isn’t really hurt or I scold her for something she’s done wrong, she fakes being upset.

Today she made a move at biting my arm, but bit only my shirt. I gave her a stern “No bite!” and pulled my arm away from her. She then scrunched up her face as if to cry, put one hand up to her left eye and poked herself in the eye to produce a tear, and made half-hearted “Wa-haa. Wa-haa.” sounds, all the while peeking between her fingers for my reaction.

If you have never encountered something like this, let me tell you: it is damn hard not to burst into laughter when your child is putting on a melodramatic act like this. I fought off the smirk and just watched her act. After about 10 seconds, she realized I wasn’t buying it, and smiled at me and started babbling something happy. Whew.

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Thank you to those who commented on the post about my father. It was good to get it out, and I’m sure eventually I’ll talk more about him. I appreciate the advice – my relationship with him is dependent on his actions. If he starts to regress back to the way he was, I will not hesitate to break off contact, in order to protect Cordy. So thanks again – I had no idea so many people have problems with family members in their lives.

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To end this post on a lighter note, new pictures of the little princess: