Cheated by Home Economics

Tonight while ironing John's dress shirt I had an epiphany. I was cheated by Home Ec. Instead of learning useful things, like how to properly iron a dress shirt, I followed recipes to make very mediocre food. Really the only thing I remember doing in home ec was baking and a little bit of sewing. I am a terrible ironer (is that a word??). It would probably make it easier if I removed dry clothes from the dryer right after they were dry instead of letting them sit in there dry for 3+ days. But still. I can decently iron a pair of pants (without a crease) and I can skim over polo shirts to make them wearable. But button down dress shirts are a whole different story. It took me 28 minutes to iron John's shirt tonight. He starts his new job at Mercedes tomorrow and,trying to be a good wife, I wanted to make sure he looked his best. I would iron one section and as soon as I did another section I would realize that I somehow messed up the first section I did. It was rather frustrating. So I decided that home ec should be required to teach you how to iron. I never ironed anything before I got married. I just threw it in the dryer to give it a fluff. Boy clothes don't "fluff."
As I sit listening to Will SCREAM, I am also reminded that carrying around a 10 pound bag of flour did nothing to help me understand babies and taking care of them (Please tell me your middle school offered a babysitting class as an exploratory). I just learned that babies/flour can be rather heavy when carrying it along with textbooks, binders, purse, etc. However, I am pretty sure Will was not 10 pounds for very long, making that whole class a waste as well!
As for the screaming...since Will was born we have never had to let him cry it out. Not once. Actually, I kind of remember listening to him whimper for about 15 minutes one night when he was like a month old but that was not crying it out. Just getting settled. For his entire first 9 months of life he has gone to bed VERY easily. No rocking, we just lay him in there awake and he snuzzles his little nose in his sheet and goes right to sleep. The past 3 nights have been different. Friday night he screamed, I went in and rocked him, he went to sleep. Last night it took a few tries, but he went down pretty quickly. Tonight I decided that this is when Will was going to test us. He has been screaming for 30 minutes off and on. He will quiet down only to erupt. I keep telling John that if we go in there and rock him (which he fights) it is only going to teach him that when he cries, we are going to run in to get them. Now I know some people are very opinionated about crying it out. I have read and read about this topic and finally just had to pick something and go with it. I know every baby is different. I think Will has just become a LOT more mobile recently (pulling up on crib, etc) so he is able to fight sleep a lot more now. I am hoping we can break this habit soon!