bedtime
i have got to get zen about bedtime. i am just so freaking burnt out!
i have it in my head that i should be able to turn off the light and have the kids immediately go to sleep. i mean really, i don't want to commit more than 30 minutes to the entire exercise and i want to be done by 9pm.
that isn't unreasonable is it?
the thing is, i can totally deal with putting one kid to bed. on the nights that jiro conks out early, i can be the happy bedtime mommy for satchel and read lots of books, rub his back, etc. but what seems to happen is even if jiro conks out early he does his 30minute-1 hour wake up right around the time i am getting satchel to bed. so i bring him in and i end up with both of them at once.
this is seriously crazy-making at times.
and if they cooperate and go to sleep fairly early/easily like they did last night it is no solace because then they are up again a million times during the night. satchel has a nasty cough and the medicine always wears off in the middle of the night. and jiro, JIRO, is driving me insane. the poor guy is clearly on the verge of getting all four of his eyeteeth but dammit I AM NOT A HUMAN PACIFIER!
really!
i think it is the all night nurse-a-thon that is wearing me out the most. the kid needs to be night weaned. and i need dh to be here to help make that happen.
i'm on week 7 or 8, but it looks like the 8 week dig is going to be 10 weeks.
hold me.
i have it in my head that i should be able to turn off the light and have the kids immediately go to sleep. i mean really, i don't want to commit more than 30 minutes to the entire exercise and i want to be done by 9pm.
that isn't unreasonable is it?
the thing is, i can totally deal with putting one kid to bed. on the nights that jiro conks out early, i can be the happy bedtime mommy for satchel and read lots of books, rub his back, etc. but what seems to happen is even if jiro conks out early he does his 30minute-1 hour wake up right around the time i am getting satchel to bed. so i bring him in and i end up with both of them at once.
this is seriously crazy-making at times.
and if they cooperate and go to sleep fairly early/easily like they did last night it is no solace because then they are up again a million times during the night. satchel has a nasty cough and the medicine always wears off in the middle of the night. and jiro, JIRO, is driving me insane. the poor guy is clearly on the verge of getting all four of his eyeteeth but dammit I AM NOT A HUMAN PACIFIER!
really!
i think it is the all night nurse-a-thon that is wearing me out the most. the kid needs to be night weaned. and i need dh to be here to help make that happen.
i'm on week 7 or 8, but it looks like the 8 week dig is going to be 10 weeks.
hold me.