Well, I've known this day was coming, but I've been fighting it tooth and nail. I at least hoped we could get through the transition to having the new baby at home first, but apparently that is not going to happen. Remember the brand new crib tent that came last Saturday? Well, Emilynn has destroyed it already. She got out of her bed at nap and would not take a nap. I didn't try to get her back in there, I was asleep on the couch myself, Dustin went in to get her. She came and rubbed my arm and hair and woke me up. So, Carson was the only one who napped today, although Daddy & I both desperately wanted a nap. I tell you, I've been out of sorts all day about it. Mainly because of the horror stories I've heard from others of not being able to get their kids to bed till 10 or 11 at night. I can't even imagine that, yet that's where we could be headed. Tonight we put the kids down at 9 sharp, as usual. Emilynn stayed in bed and I think, hope, and, pray is asleep by now. She wasn't the last I checked about 30 min. ago. The blessing is she hasn't gotten up. Soooooo....maybe I'll only have to stay in the room during nap to try to get her down. I am very big and very slow right now, so laying on the floor is going to be loads of fun. I just can't give up on nap entirely at this point. She is WAY too grumpy at night if she hasn't slept. I've been thinking all day of how I'm going to have to rearrange our schedule to accomodate this change. I will now have to get up before the kids and shower, where as before I could wait till I heard them, then get a shower while they played in bed for a few minutes. Dustin's alarm goes off at 5 am, which also has been known to wake Emmy up, and she would just go back to sleep. Now, I don't know what will happen. It's not like she could lay with me in bed, because neither of our kids will go to sleep with us because they never have before. It's actually a blessing really. Also, naptime is when I have been getting my dishes done, eating my lunch because I can't eat with the kids watching, they attack me!, laundry re-loaded and put away if necessary, etc. etc. Basically everything I can't do with the kids awake, which is basically everything. I know it is a mindset and I'm just going to have to re-think our day and schedule and the most important thing IS still spending time with the kids. I think I am going to have to give up any extra things that don't involve taking care of the kids and let go of the guilt about it. There's just never enough time in the day to clean everything and do everything, but I know I can tackle the dusting, cobwebs, and bathrooms when the kids are grown and gone. For now they should be my top and only priority. I guess we'll see where this new chapter of parenthood takes us. I'm a little worried cause Papa is keeping the kids tomorrow while we go to my ultrasound. I know he's banking on them being asleep......I'll have to update as to how THAT goes. I'm hoping we can get them down before we go. I think I'll go read my Bible now for some wisdom and go to sleep. I will need to go to bed earlier now, yet nighttime is also a time for chores. I will find balance! I know I will.......just before our new little boy arrives and shakes it all up again! LOL. God is definitely keeping me on my toes!!!!
By the way, I haven't forgotten about the birthday post. I just never have the camera near the computer to load pics. I will try to do that this week.
Emmy was watching T.V. tonight before bed and saw something...I have no idea what it even was and put both her hands on her head and said "That's amazing!". She keeps us on our toes AND in stitches. She also kept telling Carson, "I got you boy! I got you boy!". She followed it up with a choke hold wrestling move on him, so we had to put an end to that. Not sure where that was learned either........ You never know what she will come out with, she knows words we don't even know where she learned.
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