The Unthinkable
Monday, November 29, 2010 at 9:45PM I am adamantly, resolutely, unwaveringly opposed to baths. I think they are gross. Putting my dirty body into a small pool of warm water, sitting there for a while, even soaping up (and how do you rinse?)...this makes no sense to me whatsoever. I suppose people take baths for the relaxation of it, but it just adds stress to my life. Maybe you shower after you bathe? That's too much work. I feel exhausted after a shower sometimes, especially if I shave.
Baths. I don't like them.
But what happens when you have someone like me but also children like mine, who do like baths? There is much discord. Much weeping and gnashing of teeth. Much screaming and stomping and flailing. My older kids can take showers, so it's not such a big deal for them (although they do still like to take baths when it is possible, which isn't often). Eliana is a different story. Eliana doesn't like showers and she doesn't like standing in the tub while I wash her and then rinse her off. I try to be quick and I know she's a little cold, but her bottom isn't going to sit in our tub. I just never feel like it's clean enough. (The tub, not her bottom, although...)
Something strange happened on our trip, though. I can't explain it. I can only show you.
She was totally happy. No screaming. No crying. No flailing.
She loves the bubbles.
I just washed her really well as they drained out. I'm hoping that the tub in our new house is bathworthy. Because the screaming? It's not nearly as much fun as floufing bubbles.
Reader Comments (5)
I was always so happy when mine graduated to showers!
Dang she's cute. Totally worth the bath just for those pictures.
I'm with you! Baths totally creep me out. Unless you shower after, but who has time for that?!
you should name posts like these "things you never think about and now you do"
Ditto...hate baths! I don't find them relaxing (who gets relaxed when they look out ahead and see their "fluff" floating (or peeking through the water)....or the evidence of what childbearing did to their bodies?! Yeah, uhm, I don't get relaxed. And the thought of me sitting there marinating in all of the YUCK is just too much. How do you wash your hair with filthy water?! EWWWW. So yeah, when I take a bath (and it's not often, only when absolutely necessary for so-called "detox" purposes)...I immediately jump in the shower after (thus making a MESS on the bathroom floor)...and by the time I'm done with all that water, I'm ready to snuggle up in bed and go to sleep. So much work. Exhausting. Truly. But NOT relaxing. LOL