Sunday afternoon, another race day in the Strawn’s house. Both children are asleep at the same time (the first time since last Sunday) and Al & I are relaxing on the couch, eating popcorn and wasting the day away.
I really would like to get out of the house and do something, but watching the race usually takes priority. It is a beautiful, sunny day and I’m looking forward to making mud pies with
Nothing significant happened all week, really, but I’d really like some motherly advice on how to get my now 17 month old son to take an afternoon nap somewhat regularly. Every day this week, he slept for about an hour in the late morning, and then was up all day and ready for bed at 6:00 p.m. Which is, of course, the time Al gets home from work, supper happens and bath follows. It’s too hectic to fit in bedtime, so I either keep him up and listen to him crab, which is what he does all afternoon, b/c he’s tired from a too-short nap, OR put him to bed before supper, which has issues of it’s own.
On the flip side, I could just let him sleep when he’s tired, crab when he’s crabby and eat when he’s hungry, but WHEN do you stop accommodating their schedule and try to work them into your schedule?
I realize this is my second child and I should already know the answers, but this is my first boy and it’s a whole new ball game now!
No late night meetings this week, which was a nice change. However, Al had jury duty Thursday afternoon, so that threw off the regular work week a bit.
Friday was a fun surprise. I wanted to go out and take the kids somewhere and do something out of the house, but it was the 1st day Al was home on his day off and nobody was sick, so we stayed here.
Well, a couple of weeks ago was Kyra’s 8th birthday, but the day of her big sleep-over party, she got strep throat. Laura (her mom) re-scheduled for this past Friday, and ended up with strep throat herself. So, being the good friend that I am, and bored to death will all this cold weather and sick & crabby children, I said, “Have it here!” Laura had to think about it long and hard (about 30-45 seconds) before she said, “Ok”.
About 30 minutes before their arrival, I went down to the computer and said to my hubbie, “honey? You know how you didn’t want to go do anything today? Well, I offered Kyra to have her B-day party here. Don’t worry, I’ll make them stay upstairs”
Uh huh...
School gets out at 3:25 and Mark showed up 5 minutes later with cake & ice cream, and nine 8-year-olds.
Two hours, 9 make overs, 90 painted fingernails, cake & confetti ice cream and 9 presents later, I was ushering everbody down to the landing to get their coats and shoes on to go home. It was great fun, and Eden & Lars loved the company.
Enjoy the photos of somebody elses’ kid’s birthday party at my house!
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