Originally Posted by
Lydia
Nice smiley, Bridget. I could have used that oh, a zillion times. I didn't even know it existed. Babies!
We had to replace our blu-ray player so dh picked out a Playstation instead, and bought a game for us to play together. I thought it sounded nice. It was not a high-adrenalin game, more like a puzzle game and it's been getting a lot of good reviews - Portal 2. So the other night he started playing it and then handed the controller to me. I could not do it. I moved around awkwardly, looked up when I meant to look down, and had a really hard time with just the basic concept of the portal system. It wasn't clicking for me. DH told me to put the cross hairs on something and push a button, and I couldn't see the cross hairs he was talking about. It ended up being a blue circle, which he had to point out on the screen. We tried to play again last night. I had a longer turn, and I got more practice just moving around, but when I was trying to solve the puzzle I didn't really have an idea and dh got impatient and said he spent the last 20 minutes just watching me move around the room and I should just hand over the controller and he took it and in 3 seconds he moved on to the next level.
It reminds me of when he's explaining to his mom how to do something really basic on her computer and she's just not getting it. I told him this, and he agreed, but he said he'd been as patient as he could. I used to play video games but it's been like 12 years, and it was a whole different world. I feel like I should be getting this, but it's just not clicking. It's not just the moving around--with a little practice, I was getting better--but the whole premise of opening up portals over objects or below objects and being able to transport things through them and thus being able to solve the puzzles was not connecting for me, even after seeing dh do it. I feel like my brain is not performing like it ought to, and so this seemingly minor thing is looming big and scary and I could see dh losing esteem for me over this, and he will not easily dismiss this as well. I feel like I should practice but don't know when I'd have the time.
You're right. That is love. And likely went a long way toward their getting back together and his marrying her.
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I never knew much about Diana but she seemed like a lovely woman.
It is 5:20am and Sawyer has been up since 4. This kid. He's all smiles and chatter but not even pretending that he might go back to sleep.
Yes, it's pure genius that we are biologically wired to think they are adorable. He smiles at me at 4am and suddenly I'm singing him songs and nibbling his toes.
I bet if you did practice you'd have it no time. It seems like our brains just go into a different mode when our lives are taken over by mommy-hood. Was it unnerving to have him directing you? Because that would make me perfom even worse.
Conner can beat me on almost any game (even Wii Bowling) and I'm totally ok with that. I just figure that part of my brain probably isn't very developed or large (whichever part makes gaming come easy to some). 
I love those moments too. 
