November 2nd 2009
Tags:
family,
sleep
3 Comments
I have a full size bed. Which is slightly (and I do mean slightly) larger than a twin bed.
For the past couple of years, there have been many mornings when all three of us girls have woken up in my bed together - Joy and I on either edge, and ...
January 22nd 2009
Tags:
sleep
One Comment
This morning, Clara woke up at 4:00. She's been regularly waking up around 4:30 or 5, but I am not prepared for 4:00, that's just ridiculous. So I decided to let her "work it out." The problem is that she and Joy share a room in our tiny 2-bedroom house. ...
January 7th 2009
Tags:
hapless,
sleep
3 Comments
This is Clara after she dumped over the whole box of crackers. After she woke up at 4:30 (when I'd been up sick until 1am). And after she refused to get dressed. But before she colored on the kitchen wall with ballpoint pen.
This is Clara after she fell asleep in ...
Actual quotes from Joy at bedtime tonight, screamed at the top of her lungs from her bedroom (no exaggeration necessary, taken straight from the mouth of the 7-year-old):Today is the BADDEST day of my LIFE, being with you.It just doesn't seem like you're the perfect mommy.I HAD to scream, you ...
September 15th 2008
Tags:
sleep
7 Comments
I'm tired.We start at 4 am. Clara has been waking up long before the sun even thinks about rising. And I start with the breakfasts, cleaning, laundry. My own shower before Joy gets out of bed. Then we all eat and get dressed, drop everybody off, I get to work ...
September 4th 2008
Tags:
hapless,
sleep
5 Comments
I have sad news. For many years now, on particularly hard days, I have been putting Joy to bed early and ... stretching the truth about it being "bed-time". But it now appears that her DARNED teacher has gone and taught her to tell time. And tonight she said, "NO, ...
July 24th 2008
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sleep
One Comment
Joy had a nightmare last night, and climbed into my bed to sleep through the remainder of the morning. But before going back to sleep next to me, she wanted to get it all off her chest."There was a bad guy chasing us. So Tante stayed with me and Clara ...
July 21st 2008
Tags:
sleep
3 Comments
Joy, waiting to be "checked on" for the thousandth time tonight. So she can tell me about how she bit her tongue. And has a scratch on her elbow. And her tummy sort of hurts. And one of the kids at camp fell on his knee today and got, like, ...
June 12th 2008
Tags:
baby,
sleep
One Comment
I am putting the resistant Miss Clara to bed and she's less than thrilled at the idea. She lays down in her crib where I've set her, but she's not happy about it. Her middle two fingers go into her mouth and her eyes close. They flutter open again and ...
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