July 4 – 10:00 AM
Dear Other guests of the Courtyard,
I’m sorry. I’m really, really sorry. I know the screaming you heard coming from our room for an hour at bedtime last night was a big inconvenience. I know that you were gritting your teeth looking at your wife, saying “can’t they get that kid to shut up?!” I know that you were hoping for some peace and quiet around 8PM last Saturday, but instead you heard a baby wailing like someone was holding her down and cut her fingernails.
I wasn’t. I promise. I was really just trying to get my child to go to sleep. You see? At home we have a little itty bit of fussing and then glorious sleep. But in a hotel, a strange place, with other people in the room. Nope, she just wasn’t having it.
Thank you for not having us kicked out of the hotel.
Love,
The crazy lady with the cranky (but cute) kid.
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Juy 4 – 2:45 PM
Dear State Troopers in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina,
I’m sure having a passenger extend her seat and scooch backwards so that she can feed the baby, check her diaper or just otherwise entertain a bored-out-of-her-mind nin- month-old child who didn’t want to sleep is not particularly safe. I understand that had we been in an accident at that (any of those many) moments I could have been seriously hurt. But, a cranky crying baby is not conducive to save travels either. Because whining and screaming from the back seat tends to make the driver a little uptight and flustered. So, really, I’m taking one for the team and for the safety of your interstates.
Thank you for not arresting us.
Best,
The contortionist driving down I-95.
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July 5 – 5:15AM
Dear People who set off fireworks ALL NIGHT LONG,
Go to hell.
Hugs & Kisses,
The crazy chick who was two seconds from finding you when woke up my kid.
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July 6 – 6:15 AM
Dear In-Laws,
I’m sorry C woke you up for the past two nights at 3:15. But, you invited us and I warned you. And she made up for it with smiles and kisses.
God bless you for taking her from me when after two hours, I couldn’t get her back to sleep. I was about to lose my damn mind.
XOXO
Your Grateful Daughter (& Sister)-In-Law
PS. She will do it again tonight.
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July 7 – 3:30 PM
Dear All the people along the way who smiled at my kid,
I know, right? She’s so cute you can hardly stand it. Go ahead make faces at her and wave bye-bye. It’s her newest trick and she loves to show it off. And, when strangers coo over my kid, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Smootchies,
The person who was holding that cute kid in Target
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Yep! I’m back and I’m still begging asking for votes. Would you be so kind to click that link and help us claw back onto page 1?
XOXO!
The semi competitive person who writes this blog
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lol!!!!!!! voted
Oh man, hotels are like the gate to hell for babies aren’t they? We’ve stayed in ONE for ONE NIGHT in Baby Evan’s whole last 15 months of life and it was awful. The first room was right over the bar where the pounding music kept us all up until midnight and after switching to a nice, quiet room on a fancier floor the baby screamed every time we tried to set him down. I felt like I needed to write apologetic notes and slip them under every door on the hall.
And if one more person sets of fireworks on my street I cannot be responsible for my actions. DEATH.
I’m a voting for you!
Sounds like a fun and interesting trip.
Glad you are back!
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