I remember wond4ering, as a kid, why I had to sleep.
Now, I realize that sleep is for the parents...so they get a break.
The only time I get a break is when my kids are sleeping. I'm not complaining, it's just a fact.
Last night Phoebe and I went to the doctor and we both have the flu. Scott NEVER gets sick. Never ever. Lucy, little miss 6 surgeries and other issues when born? NEVER. We were told she may get sick more often because of her "issues" (the buzz word in today's society), but she is as healthy as a horse.
Pheebs is still in her reindeer jammies and I'm going to try to convince her that she'd like to go back to sleep.
Teapot is just raring to go, and most likely won't take kindly to being put in bed.
Asher will probably play some video games.
By the way, do you feel guilty when you let your kids watch tv/ play video games so you can get a break?
Sometimes I wish we lived out on a farm and the kids could run around, catching gophers and juicing the oranges they grow organically on the back lot of the farm.
Growing up, whenever we visited my grandparents' farm my brothers would make a sport out of shooting the cows with low-powered B.B. guns and making elaborate traps for gophers.
In other news, Asher is 6 on Wednesdsay.
6?!
Monday, January 14, 2013
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Oh, how I relate to this blog post! Many evenings I am crankier than my son at bedtime. Unfortunately I fall asleep most of the time while getting him to sleep so there goes the time for adult conversations and getting things done at night! Hope you and Phoebe feel better soon. :)
By the way, this is your across the street neighbor. :)
Grace, turning 3 this week, has been getting up 2-4 times a night to try and climb in with me! I have to get up and put her back. It is like having a newborn around her. I also stay up too late some nights because I just want to enjoy being ALONE!!!! Then I don't get enough sleep.
Sleep, who is getting it and for how long is the defining crisis of early parenthood. I am kind of looking forward to a grumpy teen who wants to stay in his room all evening and then wants to sleep in until 11 a.m.!
Hope you feel better soon.
Well if your wrong then so are most parents, we are not perfect and we do NEED down time! LOL Glad to see your being honest! :-)
I am convinced that video games & TV must have taken the place of whiskey in the sippy cup or something. I don't know how parents ever got a break without them.
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