Happy New Year!

2015! Has a certain futuristic ring to it, doesn’t it? The last two years have brought plenty of changes and now, this new one promises to bring some of its own. This year will bring lots of learning, speech, increased awareness and motor skills in my little one. And it will bring TONS of opportunities for me to capitalize on daily ‘teachable moments.’ In fact, it has already begun.

So, I give you fair warning, if you are hanging out with my kid and me and I start to ‘teach’ her something, please just ignore us for a while- cause it’s going to be super annoying! You don’t believe me? I bet you’ll even be a little annoyed by the end of this post.

#1 I REPEAT MYSELF SOOOOOO MANY TIMES

She’s a little kid yet, so telling her a few times to do something just isn’t going to work! So I’ll be the broken-est of broken records.

“Put the block IN! In the basket! The block goes IN! Nope. In here. IN IN IN!” And on and on and on.

#2 I AM SUUUUPER STUBBORN

Going along with being a broken record, I will not stop repeating myself until the stupid block is in the stupid basket. Since I take myself so seriously, if I ask my daughter to do something, I then have to see that she does it. Argh, I’m getting annoyed with myself just thinking about this.

#3 I INTERRUPT CONVERSATIONS TO ADDRESS MY KID

You and I (the adults) will be hanging out, drinking coffee, being civilized and then my kid will ask me for some blueberries without saying please!! And I, in the most annoying move ever will start to ignore YOU, my friend, and wait for my daughter to remember how to appropriately ask for something that she wants. Then I’ll apologize once my Eye of Sauron refocuses on you, but it just won’t be the same.

I’m positive that if you are a friend of mine, I have annoyed you in the past. But moving forward, I fear that the levels of annoyance that I will elicit in people will reach epic new heights.

2015! The year of the perpetual eye roll!

Ugh. Whatever.