Thursday, April 08, 2004
Yes, this is one of those pathetic, irrational, self-centered complaints.
All day yesterday and now today, Parker has been calling me "Mommy". My husband, meanie that he is, calls me this most often because he's TOO LAZY TO RESPECT MY WISHES to be called Mama, as my mom is called. I have respected his, by calling him "daddy" instead of "papa", which comes more naturally to me. And so, Parker, obviously calls him Daddy. But now, because of my husband's seeming lack of care, my child is calling my mommy and it sends chills up my spine. I can't explain it, but it makes me very sad, and angry at the same time. I figured rather than cry about it and yell at DH, I'd blog about it.
And, you know, I don't make a big deal out of it to Parker, I just say "Mama" and he'll say it. I think the reason it bugged me so was that it is perpetuated by Jeff, who decided that even though it mattered to me, it wasn't worthy of his remembering.
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