{"id":1039,"date":"2012-11-26T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2017-03-09T17:08:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:08:38","slug":"thanksgiving-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2012\/11\/thanksgiving-miracle.html","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Our Thanksgiving was lovely, and was capped off with a seriously un-lovely cold that mostly skipped right over the mobile children and felled the Ogre, Lincoln and I like pine trees at Christmastime. I\u2019m actually going on day 2 in the same pajamas, surrounded by tissues, tea and orange juice, and once again thanking God that I have my very own nebulizer to use on just such occasions like this, when breathing is so difficult that putting\u00a0 my hair in a ponytail leaves me gasping for air.<\/p>\n

But the day after Thanksgiving, a package arrived. In this package was the catalyst for a Thanksgiving miracle. Honest to God, I screamed when the Ogre pulled it out of the package. It is the single most amazing baby gift that anyone has ever sent us. Most of all, because it transformed Lincoln from this:<\/p>\n

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Angry Lincoln<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

to this:<\/p>\n

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Happy Lincoln<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And that, my friends, is the gift. Right there. A friggin\u2019 TARDIS blanket.<\/p>\n

Right? Right? <\/em><\/p>\n

Lincoln loves it. And I\u2019m not kidding, in the four days since we got the blanket, he\u2019s gone from being Angry McAngrypants anytime he\u2019s not sleeping (and yeah, he was even angry whilst eating) to being happy. Genuinely, heart-breakingly happy.<\/p>\n

Before, this was our routine: I would feed him, and he would fuss and bob his head and let out occasional screams, then I would burp him, while he screamed, then I would try to soothe him while he screamed, then he would fall asleep whimpering and occasionally let out a little sleepy scream. Now, I feed him, and he mostly eats pretty happily, then I burp him, then I hold him and look at him and he looks back and smiles at me. <\/em>Then I\u2019ll talk to him in a ridiculously high-pitched tone, using mostly nonsensical phrases, and then when I fall silent he\u2019ll look at me with these wide, dark-lashed, beautiful blue eyes, shrug his tiny shoulders, and say, \u201caahhh-goo\u201d and I\u2019ll squeal in delight and tell him he\u2019s the cutest most adorable smartest best baby who was ever born in the whole wide world yes he is, and he\u2019ll laugh. I\u2019m not kidding, the kid laughs<\/em> now. Here, I\u2019ll prove it:<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s Liam, cuddling up next to him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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And it\u2019s all because of Doctor Who.<\/p>\n

(I\u2019ve also stopped eating dairy, but I\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s beside the point.)<\/p>\n

The transforming blanket was made by Charlotte of Waltzing Matilda<\/a>, and you can read her post about the blankets here<\/a>. You can also comment and tell her how completely brilliant she is for making the most awesome baby blanket that has ever existed, because she is, and it is.<\/p>\n

In honor of the magical powers of the TARDIS baby blanket, the kids and I had a Doctor Who marathon this weekend. We started with the advent of David Tennant, because Christopher Eccleston is my favorite doctor ever and I actually know every single episode by heart and have no need to re-watch them, and made it all the way through the overly dramatic yet tear-jerking demise of Rose and well into the teeth-grittingly-pathetic unrequited love of Martha. It\u2019s really difficult for me to watch Season 3, because Martha (who is, oddly enough, probably the only companion I would actually like in real life and is certainly the most heroic) is my least favorite companion. It\u2019s just so sad to see her making puppy dog eyes at the Doctor, and after about three episodes I really wanted to fast-forward to the refreshing lack of frustrated desire that Donna brings to the series. But I\u201dm going to continue, because\u2026I don\u2019t know why. Because I feel like I should, I guess. Watching David Tennant made me realize how much I miss him as the Doctor, though. I\u2019ve gotten used to Matt Smith, and I even like him sometimes, but David Tennant was so fun. Matt Smith isn\u2019t nearly as much fun. He\u2019s quirkier, but lately the show has gotten so heavy that I\u2019ve wanted to throttle Stephen Moffat. Bring back fast-paced, fun, witty dialogue! Stop making every episode revolve around some new, totally not-at-all surprising \u201crevelation\u201d about the Doctor\u2019s character! Stop creating awkward, nonsensical plots to serve a purpose (I\u2019m looking at you, The Angels Take Manhattan) and try to remember how you used to make actual good episodes that could stand on their own (Blink, Silence in the Library, anyone?)! Stop destroying River Song! Actually, just go away, Stephen Moffat. You kind of suck now. Stick with Sherlock<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Okay. I\u2019m done rambling about Doctor Who. Maybe tomorrow I\u2019ll tell you the story of how this weekend I went to confession and instead of actually confessing my sins I mostly just cried. I feel really bad for the priest. I think I should send him a fruit basket or something. Happy Monday, and I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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