{"id":933,"date":"2012-11-02T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T17:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/?p=933"},"modified":"2017-03-09T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:09:03","slug":"quick-takes-the-whiney-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2012\/11\/quick-takes-the-whiney-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes, The Whiney Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019m so sorry for the radio silence. I have really good reasons for it. I\u2019m going to list them in numerical form and call it Quick Takes. Clever, right?<\/p>\n

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#7<\/p>\n

We had house guests. My brother-in-law and his wife came for a visit with my two adorable nieces and we had a wonderful time.<\/p>\n

#6<\/p>\n

Lincoln got baptized. That was the occasion for the visit, since they are Lincoln\u2019s godparents. The whole day after he was baptized he was so quiet and slept well and was basically a little angel, so his godmother and I had high hopes that he was only Angrypants McAngryface because he was a pagan. Alas, he awoke the next day in a reign of anger and rage that has increased exponentially since then. He seems to have taken a clue from Charlotte, who (when it was explained to her that she was baptized as a baby) began screaming, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be baptizen!\u201d and crying hysterically. I said, \u201cBut Charlotte, being baptized made you God\u2019s child.\u201d Charlotte screamed, \u201cBut I don\u2019t want to be God\u2019s!\u201d and then cried for an hour.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t be fooled by that innocent expression. She doesn\u2019t want to be God\u2019s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

#5<\/p>\n

I have a touch of PPD. Not too bad, not bad enough for medication, but bad enough that I feel blah and I don\u2019t want to blog or facebook or do anything except curl up into an unshowered mess in a comfortable chair and feel sorry for myself. Unfortunately I have four kids, and Angry Baby Lincoln refuses to let me feel sorry for myself for very long.<\/p>\n

#4<\/p>\n

Normally PPD involved me feeling sorry for myself for no reason whatsoever. This time I actually have a few legit reasons to feel sorry for myself, though. Lincoln seems to be a bad luck baby. Since he was born I have had a streak of bad luck to rival poor Sam\u2019s in \u201cBad Day at Black Rock\u201d. (That\u2019s a Supernatural<\/em> reference, in case anyone besides Leah <\/a>reads this post.)<\/p>\n