Comments on: The Open Wound http://mothersofbrothers.com/the-open-wound/ All about life with boys...and life in general Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:09:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lindacopy http://mothersofbrothers.com/the-open-wound/comment-page-1/#comment-4794 lindacopy Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:39:17 +0000 http://mothersofbrothers.com/?p=733#comment-4794 You taught me something there, Emily. I never thought of it that way...that it is only when your anguish exceeds your child's that the pain starts to subside and equilibrium starts to be restored. It's an emotional equation...the math of motherhood. And it seems like you're really good at doing the math! You taught me something there, Emily. I never thought of it that way…that it is only when your anguish exceeds your child’s that the pain starts to subside and equilibrium starts to be restored. It’s an emotional equation…the math of motherhood. And it seems like you’re really good at doing the math!

]]> By: venessa.levin http://mothersofbrothers.com/the-open-wound/comment-page-1/#comment-4790 venessa.levin Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:47:37 +0000 http://mothersofbrothers.com/?p=733#comment-4790 Reminds me of a quote I often have going around in my head: “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body” -Elizabeth Stone. I feel your pain. Glad Noah is back at home safe and sound :) Reminds me of a quote I often have going around in my head: “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body” -Elizabeth Stone. I feel your pain. Glad Noah is back at home safe and sound :)

]]> By: Nikki Benner http://mothersofbrothers.com/the-open-wound/comment-page-1/#comment-4786 Nikki Benner Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:47:28 +0000 http://mothersofbrothers.com/?p=733#comment-4786 I was prepared for the sleepless nights, the crying, and the fussiness of a new baby. I was not prepared for the constant state of worry, or how my heart ached with each shrill cry after the immunization needle pricked Jackson's leg, or how helpless and hurt I felt when he ran his first fever... I liked it much better in some ways when I was still pregnant, because I had (the illusion of ) much more control over his safety. Now that he's "on the outside" I have to face the fact that Jackson's life is his own, and I cannot save him from life's bumps and bruises. At one point, I was inconsolable over the idea that Jackson was going to get hurt and I couldn't help him... that his heart would get broken some day, that he might get turned down when he asks a girl to a school dance, that he wouldn't get accepted to his first choice of college... Jesse looked me in the eye and said, "Nikki - he is six weeks old!" I was prepared for the sleepless nights, the crying, and the fussiness of a new baby. I was not prepared for the constant state of worry, or how my heart ached with each shrill cry after the immunization needle pricked Jackson’s leg, or how helpless and hurt I felt when he ran his first fever… I liked it much better in some ways when I was still pregnant, because I had (the illusion of ) much more control over his safety. Now that he’s “on the outside” I have to face the fact that Jackson’s life is his own, and I cannot save him from life’s bumps and bruises.

At one point, I was inconsolable over the idea that Jackson was going to get hurt and I couldn’t help him… that his heart would get broken some day, that he might get turned down when he asks a girl to a school dance, that he wouldn’t get accepted to his first choice of college… Jesse looked me in the eye and said, “Nikki – he is six weeks old!”

]]> By: kim shimer http://mothersofbrothers.com/the-open-wound/comment-page-1/#comment-4783 kim shimer Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:34:14 +0000 http://mothersofbrothers.com/?p=733#comment-4783 You're too much. I'd like to say I'd tell Ian to suck it up, but then I'm the mom who drove 15+ hours round trip to pick him up when he didn't feel well on a church trip to NC. And he seemed quite fine to me on the drive home... You’re too much. I’d like to say I’d tell Ian to suck it up, but then I’m the mom who drove 15+ hours round trip to pick him up when he didn’t feel well on a church trip to NC. And he seemed quite fine to me on the drive home…

]]> By: Well Read Hostess http://mothersofbrothers.com/the-open-wound/comment-page-1/#comment-4782 Well Read Hostess Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:27:20 +0000 http://mothersofbrothers.com/?p=733#comment-4782 oof. oof.

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