More Sleeping

Here I am talking about Leah and sleeping again. I wonder how many posts in a row I could do? ;)

So last night she said she wanted to sleep in her room and then a little while later changed her mind but I was on the phone so I got a minute before I had to answer her.

As much as we all know I wanted her to sleep with me (and oh I did!), I decided I wanted to giver her some kind of incentive to choose her room. So I told her if she sleep in her room we'd still do books & songs (part of her nightly routine) but if she slept in my room - which she was more than welcome to do - we were only doing prayers and then going to sleep. She thinks for a minute and then chooses her room.

So we read the books, say her prayer, turn out the lights, sing her songs and right as I finish the last song she sits up and says "Let's go to your bed now!"

Um.

I think not.

HELLO? Did she just try to work me over?? Sheesh!

It was really hard for me to say no to that. I just told her she'd already made her choice & since we did books/songs she needed to go to sleep in her bed. I suddenly wished I hadn't started this path! But she didn't fight me. She went to sleep fairly quickly.

She did come into my bed in the middle of the night. I have no idea what time. I went to bed a little after midnight and I was sound asleep when she woke up. I barely woke up and she said "I want to stay here." and I let her curl in my arm and then I told her to go back to sleep. I woke up this morning with her against my back and it made me grin! :)

Happy Morning!

She did it! All night she slept in her room!

She woke at 6:45, crawled in bed with me, and asked for cartoons after a few minutes of snuggling.

She's such a big girl!!

PS I'm okay too. ;)

Sleeping

She's asleep.

Commence the weeping. I'm going to bed.

Oh help me!

Background - two weeks ago I decided to have Leah start taking her naps in her bedroom. I figured she wasn't ever going to make the choice to sleep in her own bed if she hadn't ever tried it and since she'll nap anywhere that seemed like a good place to start. She didn't resist at all except once about 10 days in but she was an hour late for that nap and really was just resisting napping at all!

Conversation between Drew & Leah (as related by Drew):

L: Monsters aren't real, are they?

D: No, there's no such thing as monsters.

L: No such thing as monsters.

.... quiet

L: Am I safe in my room?

D: Whenever Mommy or Daddy are home you are safe!

(then repeat the same question in various forms a few times)

D: Are you gonna sleep in your room?

L: Yes, I'm gonna sleep in my own room by mySELF. (she always emphasizes self like that lol)

And guess what? She's in her bed. I don't know what to do with myself. I want to lay down and weep. I'm holding it together until I know she's asleep. I forgot to have her pee before bed and she came out once to say she has to go potty. I think she has a sippy cup under the covers. That always keeps her awake longer but she takes a drink every time she starts to fall asleep. If those goes on too long I'll go take it away.

Anyway.

In all my cosleeping research I've always hoped to let her make this decision herself, why is it so painful that she's doing it? Does she HAVE to act so grownup about it? Is it wrong that I'm hoping she'll change her mind tomorrow and go back & forth for awhile???

Funny Video

Seriously one of the funniest things I've watched in sometime LOL

General Conference

I've been watching General Conference this weekend. I love it. Every six months it's such a treat!

If you don't know what General Conference is you can click here to see. ;)

It's not that I 'forget' but it's such a sweet reminder how good and kind and what wonderful disciples of Our Savior the leaders of my church are.

No matter the church - mine or yours or some other - a certain respect has to be offered to people who are willing to dedicate their lives to the service of God, yes?

Amazing!

The Husband

He has started his own blog!

I don't know that I have much faith that he'll keep it up but his first entry sure made me laugh hard ;)

http://ofthedrew.blogspot.com

PS he has a love/obsession with the word BLOG.

Bra Danger

What is "Bra Danger"? That's what you're wondering right now, I know.

When you live in a tiny town with very little shopping and it's 100 miles to everywhere in every direction... Bra shopping is a pain.

Because of this little by little my bras have gone in the garbage. All but a single bra. Sigh.

So the danger is two fold.

1. You wake up and remember your bra is in the load that you put in the washer before bed and you need to hurry and get ready - but your bra is wet.

2. You pull that one bra out of the washer to discover it bit the dust during that load. The wires were sticking our all over the place and it wasn't repairable.

Well, shoot me. I had to get dressed without a bra, put on a swear shirt to be semi-less noticeable and drive to a stupid store here in town and find a bra. Ridiculous.

I tired on about 20 bras. Bought the best of the them - and I still hate it. But it is, what it is.

And then I put it on in the van. LOL

Now I need to drive 120 miles to my nearest mall or department stores because clearly I need bras. And bra shopping is NOT my favorite thing in the world.

What a way to start the day, eh?

Good times.

Milk Maid Royals

I buy these because I love the butter rum ones. I don't care much about the others. They're caramel. I love caramel but oh the butter rum. :)

 

 

 

They're the gold ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They is a nice picture. Now I want some.

I haven't had any in FOREVER and I saw them at Alco the other day. So I excitedly buy a bag and when I get home I dump them out to pick out the beautiful gold butter rum ones...

And there were four. FOUR. In the whole stupid bag. I'm so irritated!!! Plenty of the chocolate - which I don't like at all.

That's all.

Smurfs

http://www.smurfsondvd.com - Smurfs on DVD!

Oh I want this!!