Comments on: Don’t Wake the Baby!!!! http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257 Do you feel like we do? Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:38:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Randee http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257&cpage=1#comment-497 Randee Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:19:51 +0000 http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257#comment-497 The same goes for when you work night shift and the neighbor wants to mow the lawn...just as you have pulled the curtains and drifted off to the soothing sounds of the New Age satellite music channel. Or when the lazy county workers suddenly decide they must scurry to the rock pile across from your house and cram their week's worth of beeping trucks and smashing doors and rolling gravel into the hour in which you are finally hitting REM...which freaks out the horse and sends him pounding by your window a few times. How about the Saturday morning you get to sleep in and some phone salesman calls...seriously...on SATURDAY MORNING BEFORE 9:00??? My blood is boiling with all these negative thoughts, so I'll stop before is gets out of control. The same goes for when you work night shift and the neighbor wants to mow the lawn…just as you have pulled the curtains and drifted off to the soothing sounds of the New Age satellite music channel. Or when the lazy county workers suddenly decide they must scurry to the rock pile across from your house and cram their week’s worth of beeping trucks and smashing doors and rolling gravel into the hour in which you are finally hitting REM…which freaks out the horse and sends him pounding by your window a few times. How about the Saturday morning you get to sleep in and some phone salesman calls…seriously…on SATURDAY MORNING BEFORE 9:00??? My blood is boiling with all these negative thoughts, so I’ll stop before is gets out of control.

]]> By: the Coconut Girl http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257&cpage=1#comment-455 the Coconut Girl Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:06:51 +0000 http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257#comment-455 Funny post by Dooce on same topic, 3/12: http://www.dooce.com/2010/03/10/next-blood-thirsty-bunnies Funny post by Dooce on same topic, 3/12:
http://www.dooce.com/2010/03/10/next-blood-thirsty-bunnies

]]> By: Erin http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257&cpage=1#comment-454 Erin Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:21:17 +0000 http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257#comment-454 For me the winner was our (adult) neighbor across the street, who liked to play with his remote control monster truck during naptime. Yes, you heard me right. For me the winner was our (adult) neighbor across the street, who liked to play with his remote control monster truck during naptime. Yes, you heard me right.

]]> By: the Coconut Girl http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257&cpage=1#comment-446 the Coconut Girl Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:41:29 +0000 http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257#comment-446 Holy moly, Carolyn and Amber! You have my sympathy and empathy! Maybe in the ten minutes before our kids are rudely awakened by noise pollution, we could design some "Baby Bose" earphones for our nappers. I often think I'd be a WAY more informed home buyer now that I have kids. I'd check to see if a prospective house is located along a city or school bus route (in our case, yes and yes), and when/how trash pickup is handled. It's no coincidence that realtor open houses typically happen on weekends. It's not just about people being off of work to attend them. It's about other people being off work whose truck driving/tree-chipping jobs normally shake the homes' rafters Monday-Friday. Holy moly, Carolyn and Amber! You have my sympathy and empathy!
Maybe in the ten minutes before our kids are rudely awakened by noise pollution, we could design some “Baby Bose” earphones for our nappers. I often think I’d be a WAY more informed home buyer now that I have kids. I’d check to see if a prospective house is located along a city or school bus route (in our case, yes and yes), and when/how trash pickup is handled. It’s no coincidence that realtor open houses typically happen on weekends. It’s not just about people being off of work to attend them. It’s about other people being off work whose truck driving/tree-chipping jobs normally shake the homes’ rafters Monday-Friday.

]]> By: Carolyn http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257&cpage=1#comment-445 Carolyn Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:02:41 +0000 http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257#comment-445 oh - and another thing about babies and noise: a wise mother once told me it was the THRESHOLD of noise that is the issue - VERY clarifying distinction about noise and baby's sleep. So if you are a steel worker and your baby is strapped to your back all day as you bolt bumpers on with your industrial strength pneumatic drill - baby will (if the theory holds) blissfully sleep through the eardrum cracking sound - AS LONG AS THE EARDRUM CRACKING NOISE IS CONSTANT/CONTINUAL. Yes ! Music to baby's ears !! Like a momma's soothing lullaby. It's when your shift is over and you go out to the quiet parking lot that you need to worry about ? OKAY ! GOT IT !! oh – and another thing about babies and noise: a wise mother once told me it was the THRESHOLD of noise that is the issue – VERY clarifying distinction about noise and baby’s sleep.

So if you are a steel worker and your baby is strapped to your back all day as you bolt bumpers on with your industrial strength pneumatic drill – baby will (if the theory holds) blissfully sleep through the eardrum cracking sound – AS LONG AS THE EARDRUM CRACKING NOISE IS CONSTANT/CONTINUAL. Yes ! Music to baby’s ears !! Like a momma’s soothing lullaby. It’s when your shift is over and you go out to the quiet parking lot that you need to worry about ? OKAY ! GOT IT !!

]]> By: Amber at Beyond Postpartum http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257&cpage=1#comment-444 Amber at Beyond Postpartum Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:19:40 +0000 http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257#comment-444 I literally almost posted to this effect on my blog on Friday after for the second day in a row during my son's nap we dealt with: -a firetruck with sirens blaring that decided also to honk it's horn loudly just by my son's window as it passed our home -a call, text message to my cell and two calls to the home phone...none of which I wanted to answer -a garbage truck that can't turn around on our street so it honks while approaching our street, while entering it and while traveling in reverse the entire length of it to be sure no one can rest at 2pm 4 days a week - the meter reader ringing my doorbell so I could escort him to our meter in the backyard - several small but very loud planes flying directly above our home at low altitude Thank you for doing your part to tell these people to keep it quiet between noon and 3pm in neighborhoods littered with small children! :) I literally almost posted to this effect on my blog on Friday after for the second day in a row during my son’s nap we dealt with:
-a firetruck with sirens blaring that decided also to honk it’s horn loudly just by my son’s window as it passed our home
-a call, text message to my cell and two calls to the home phone…none of which I wanted to answer
-a garbage truck that can’t turn around on our street so it honks while approaching our street, while entering it and while traveling in reverse the entire length of it to be sure no one can rest at 2pm 4 days a week
- the meter reader ringing my doorbell so I could escort him to our meter in the backyard
- several small but very loud planes flying directly above our home at low altitude

Thank you for doing your part to tell these people to keep it quiet between noon and 3pm in neighborhoods littered with small children! :)

]]> By: Carolyn http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257&cpage=1#comment-443 Carolyn Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:45:57 +0000 http://www.thecoconutgirl.com/?p=1257#comment-443 I will NEVER forget (or forgive) our next door neighbor's grocery shopping at midnight (for real), zooming back into the driveway from the all-night Kroger, parking her car at her back kitchen door (a mere 6' from the bed of my darling, formerly sleeping child ) - loudly slamming the car door (driver's side) of the behemoth station wagon w/sky cruiser accessory feature - opening the back hatch of the wagon, noisily unloading the PAPER bags of groceries - rattling paper bag by rattling paper bag, onto the concrete slab back porch ---- even on occasion (in the summer when our bedroom windows were open, natch) tapping the horn for her drug head son to come help her with the rattling PAPER BAGS - opening and closing the aluminum storm door each time: errrrrrreeeeeek ! bang !! errrrrrreeeek ! bang ! (gotta) Love thy neighbor. I will NEVER forget (or forgive) our next door neighbor’s grocery shopping at midnight (for real), zooming back into the driveway from the all-night Kroger, parking her car at her back kitchen door (a mere 6′ from the bed of my darling, formerly sleeping child ) – loudly slamming the car door (driver’s side) of the behemoth station wagon w/sky cruiser accessory feature – opening the back hatch of the wagon, noisily unloading the PAPER bags of groceries – rattling paper bag by rattling paper bag, onto the concrete slab back porch —- even on occasion (in the summer when our bedroom windows were open, natch) tapping the horn for her drug head son to come help her with the rattling PAPER BAGS – opening and closing the aluminum storm door each time: errrrrrreeeeeek ! bang !! errrrrrreeeek ! bang ! (gotta) Love thy neighbor.

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