Random thoughts today...
Why is bedtime so miserable? I think I start dreading the whole night time process right about the time I start dinner. The toddler and the ten year old are easy peasy - just tell them it's bedtime and they're out. But 8 and 4 seem to be in the same "make everyone miserable" camp. I pretty sure I'm losing my mind each night, and occasionally losing my cool. Currently, we put the baby in her crib and she's out. We ask N to read to KC in our room, which is super nice and sweet. Then we direct all our attention to T because he's the hardest at bedtime. I wish I could list everything we've tried at bedtime with T and how nothing has changed. It's always a huge rant about how we hate him (because he has to go to bed) and it goes on and on. N hangs with KC until one of us can come snuggle with her because she can't fall asleep withouth someone (and sometimes N falls asleep with her... thank goodness for him). I keep thinking we will get past this phase but honestly bedtime has been hard for about 6 years now... so still waiting.
My two easy sleepers, N getting Katherine up from nap over spring break.
Moving on...I'm pretty excited the "like to know it - instagram relationship" is going away. When I first joined instagram it was people taking snaps from their day. Then slowly it turned into so many staged pictures one right after the other with everything linked. It got harder to keep up with friends. I really like that now you can just swipe through stories of people linking ten million items (and I love you can mute stories of certain people!). I hope instagram goes back to cute daily snaps!
I ordered these cute suits for the girls from Target.
T refused to take his lunch to school today because he said N always packs stuff he doesn't like. But I packed his lunch and it's exactly what he ate for dinner (noodles and watermelon). I wrote his teacher to let her know I'm perfectly fine with him sitting without a lunch. I don't play the lunch game.
I remember when I used to blog about how cute and sweet my kids were... haha. We handle our stress with ice cream. It makes everything better.
The bedtime struggle is a pain over here too! F gives me a run for my money, but SS usually goes right down. If Matt is involved F is a saint.
ReplyDeleteSounds like T is giving you a run for your money these days! Bedtime is challenging with L for us. Tell is pretty good most nights, Lawter HATES bedtime, always wants someone to lay with her and then will talk talk talk until one of us has already fallen asleep in her bed with her. She's such a night owl! Then she's such a teenage bear inthe mornings. hah Good for you on the lunchtime stand. I need to start doing that with dinner and my terrible eaters!
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