I am one of 'those' people!

I think that my husband is a little skeptical about the experiment. Weird, right? I mean… have some faith in me man! I could be wrong, I guess… but today he thought we should have Nandos for dinner… perhaps because he will miss all that lovely grilled, but still juicy, yummyness??

Anyways… before I had kids, I would roll my eyes at parents that came out to eat with their kids, I mean really, were they masochistic… what kind of people would willingly subject themselves to that kind of torture?? Or were they just really cruel parents… why else would people force their kids out to a place where all they did was scream and complain?? And let’s not even talk about how the kids just never ate, and the parents always ended up swearing as they shoveled food into their mouths, so they could rush out the door with their little herd of critters as fast as parentally possible!

But see, the magical thing about being a parent, just like our kids, is that we forget… yes, we forget what happened the last time we took them out, and we forget that we said “I am never doing this again!”

Sadly, I am now that parent, and I knew that every person in the joint was shaking their head at me, rolling their eyes at the baby being fed fries, at the kindergartener who kept standing up and scratching his butt during the meal, and the preschooler who just could not stop singing!

Behold!

I know that it may look sort of calm to you, but everytime I brought out the camera to take some video of the baby, he would shut up…

Thoughts from Maliha

Salamaat,
That always happens to me…many a time, we’d ask for take out right after appetizers, because baby decides he must stroll over to the nearby diners and engage them in “conversation”.

If we try to keep him on his seat, he would cry his heart out.

I have said never again many a times..but yes, we do forget.

I can’t imagine trying to do so with three lil ones, you are very very brave lady (although the video did look really mild i must say).

Thoughts from Surviving

LOL, I have done the same thing so many times myself. I also do that about taking the kids to a store. I didn’t watch the video because I only have dialup and it just takes too long.  However, I have 3 boys (6, 2, and 6 months) so it isn’t hard for me to imagine what you are describing.

Thoughts from Mona

salaams, i’m better, alhamdolillah, thanks
it’s good to know that this is a fairly common pregnancy condition. i’d read about it but actually knowing people who’ve experienced the same thing really makes it easier for me. knowing that inshAllah, everything will go well.
i’m not even thinking about labor and delivery yet, i’ll deal with that later i think. besides, if it was so bad why would people have more than one child? and there would be fewer women around.
right?
:D
i kind of enjoy the chaos other people’s kids create in restaurants. unless they’re screaming / crying / throwing a tantrum longer than 20 minutes, i wouldn’t complain.
your kids are cute, mA.