You could be like most married women in North America, Elly, and be heading off to work yourself. Instead you claim that you are losing your sanity if you have to be around the people you produced as your side of the bargain for that house and the luxury of having someone pay your bills. Seriously, kiss off.
Like I said, she's kind of stupid and can't deal with having to change her routine. The first pre-Patterson treasury was all about how pregnancy was an anxiety inducing pain. The second was defined by the cover with Mom and Dad ignoring Howling Baby. We start with the usual doctor-versus-mother conflict which leads into what made Elly nuts: colic. Elly needs kids to be doing bad stuff on purpose to keep her from being a raging loon.....which is why in the third one, Marian tells Elly what a joy it is to be around her only week or so out of the year. If she'd kept on doing it, by now, we'd be talking about the collection Why Do They Never Call?
Now here we are with a reminder:
that Elly would prefer to "experience the peace"
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This, in practice, translates into her wanting children to be a superior form of walking doll which can be put away when she's tired.
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You could be like most married women in North America, Elly, and be heading off to work yourself. Instead you claim that you are losing your sanity if you have to be around the people you produced as your side of the bargain for that house and the luxury of having someone pay your bills. Seriously, kiss off.
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Like I said, she's kind of stupid and can't deal with having to change her routine. The first pre-Patterson treasury was all about how pregnancy was an anxiety inducing pain. The second was defined by the cover with Mom and Dad ignoring Howling Baby. We start with the usual doctor-versus-mother conflict which leads into what made Elly nuts: colic. Elly needs kids to be doing bad stuff on purpose to keep her from being a raging loon.....which is why in the third one, Marian tells Elly what a joy it is to be around her only week or so out of the year. If she'd kept on doing it, by now, we'd be talking about the collection Why Do They Never Call?
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Also, let's remind ourselves that children are 'wrong' to set the agenda:
because Elly does not want to admit how little she really has going on in her life.
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if she hates having parties why does she have them?
speaking of which, do little girls still play tea party? I think that's even older than cowboy costumes.
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So she can whine in her kids' faces about how little they think of her.
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