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Oct. 8th, 2009 11:38 pmI just signed up for a denture adhesive website. My deal-hunting hobby has gotten out of hand.
The girl is camping with Granny and Grandpa tonight. M says we should receive Parent of the Year awards for leaving her there tonight, whilst thunderstorms go raging through. Weather was fine when we left but we sure ran into it on the way home. I personally think that another amazing example of our parenting is that we didn't think to leave the car seat when we left. In case of emergency... my child has no car seat. Great. But... she so totally did not want to come home and I am trying to not hover so much.
Speaking of the baby, last week we tried an experimental run with doing away with naptime. Sadly, it seems to have stuck. It is sad for me because I loved that time in the middle of the day, but at the same time.... now that she sleeps in of the morning and goes to bed earlier (and without a fight), she actually seems like she's getting more and better sleep, and she has been even sweeter than usual. I am talking about loads of random hugs and kisses and just general pleasantness. She has her moments, of course, being two, but she is mostly doing really well. The best part, though, is that we are doing no fighting over whether it's time to sleep or not. She had begun fighting it both times no matter what I did. On the uncommon day that she won and there was no naptime, we were both kinda mad at each other by the time I gave up, and that is what made me feel so darned bad. As for me, I get the evenings back to do my own thing, and whatever time I have in the morning before she wakes up on her own. Other unintended benefits is that I can care much less about how much sugar she has during the day--I still don't give her much, but she gets a little more than she used to. Also, I can watch Days of our Lives again since it's on during her ex-nap. And I can go out for lunch any time I want now. There are some unintended downsides, too, but I'm trying not to dwell on those.
My parents are, as I said, camping this weekend. They wanted to go one more time this year, and unfortunately, it seems they waited just a touch too long. The weather is not cooperating. It's rained off and on all afternoon (started as they were setting up, naturally) and the forecast is just as bad. It also got cold and windy, which sort of takes away a lot of the pleasure in camping. Ahh well. I guess that we'll see how it goes.
Falling asleep in my chair even though there's no baby to make me go to bed on time. Disgraceful!
The girl is camping with Granny and Grandpa tonight. M says we should receive Parent of the Year awards for leaving her there tonight, whilst thunderstorms go raging through. Weather was fine when we left but we sure ran into it on the way home. I personally think that another amazing example of our parenting is that we didn't think to leave the car seat when we left. In case of emergency... my child has no car seat. Great. But... she so totally did not want to come home and I am trying to not hover so much.
Speaking of the baby, last week we tried an experimental run with doing away with naptime. Sadly, it seems to have stuck. It is sad for me because I loved that time in the middle of the day, but at the same time.... now that she sleeps in of the morning and goes to bed earlier (and without a fight), she actually seems like she's getting more and better sleep, and she has been even sweeter than usual. I am talking about loads of random hugs and kisses and just general pleasantness. She has her moments, of course, being two, but she is mostly doing really well. The best part, though, is that we are doing no fighting over whether it's time to sleep or not. She had begun fighting it both times no matter what I did. On the uncommon day that she won and there was no naptime, we were both kinda mad at each other by the time I gave up, and that is what made me feel so darned bad. As for me, I get the evenings back to do my own thing, and whatever time I have in the morning before she wakes up on her own. Other unintended benefits is that I can care much less about how much sugar she has during the day--I still don't give her much, but she gets a little more than she used to. Also, I can watch Days of our Lives again since it's on during her ex-nap. And I can go out for lunch any time I want now. There are some unintended downsides, too, but I'm trying not to dwell on those.
My parents are, as I said, camping this weekend. They wanted to go one more time this year, and unfortunately, it seems they waited just a touch too long. The weather is not cooperating. It's rained off and on all afternoon (started as they were setting up, naturally) and the forecast is just as bad. It also got cold and windy, which sort of takes away a lot of the pleasure in camping. Ahh well. I guess that we'll see how it goes.
Falling asleep in my chair even though there's no baby to make me go to bed on time. Disgraceful!
