Baby Sitter-less

My sitter may have to take an emergency trip to Puerto Rico, her father is gravely ill. This means that my mother will be taking care of Aixah for the time being. I don't want to start bashing my mother, cuz she is really great with the baby, but she also has this habit of annoying me. When it comes to my daughter I never do anything right. I don't give her enough milk, I give her too much water, her milk isn't warm enough, etc....you get the point...and this is on-going. She'll discuss that one issue for about an hour, she'll include examples and illustrations and there is always some current news issue that she includes just because. She'll ask if you are listening to her in between breaths. She is never wrong either. And if she is caught being wrong, it's not that she is wrong, it's that she was misunderstood.

I expect to hear how tired she is all this week. I hope Aixah doesn't give her a nervous breakdown. My mother got Bell's Palsy about a year ago and we all joked that it was the stress brought upon from a terrible-three-year-old cousin she takes care of (terrible, un-ruly, undisciplined, evil...lol).

The thing about my mother is that she is too good with the kids. I don't even think she eats or uses the bathroom, for that matter, when she is babysitting. At the sitter's house Aixah always comes back with bruises and I just shrug, bumps and accidents will happen...NOT on my mother's shift. This is the lady that would not let my knees brush against the pavement when I was riding my bike. Honestly, one time she slid across the pavement in order to keep my bike upright; I was learning to ride a bike without the training wheels and at one point I got nervous and took both feet off the pedals.

She is overprotective in an insane type of way.