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Sleepless in NJ

January 15, 2014 9:42 pm ⋅ 4 Comments ⋅

These past few weeks have been so rough for me. I cannot shake this cold I have had for close to 3 weeks. It started to get worse last Friday. It is a combination of the dry air too because when I sleep in my daughter’s room, the cool mist humidifier is a great relief.

Speaking of Sydney, we have been having quite the battle with getting her to sleep for the night – full on wailing in the middle of the night, wakings 2-3x a night. A lot of things come to play of course:

  • Getting her own room just 2 months ago
  • Battling being scared of the dark
  • Night terrors
  • Weaning from breastfeeding last month
  • Me being pregnant and cranky
  • My time being split up with a new venture

One of my favorite sleeping positions was her sleeping on my chest and we can’t do that of course with me being pregnant. And I am not the most naturally compassionate person, ask my husband. I think I hid behind my boobs to be honest. It was easy to be sensitive to my daughter’s needs because nursing was an in.cre.di.ble soother. I didn’t have to say much either.

Nowadays it is hard for me to come up with the words that my daughter needs from me. It makes me feel like a terrible parent. Lacking sleep while pregnant does not help at all.

It really could be too much change for her. We brought her back to our bed tonight so at least we can all get some sleep again.

I read some other parent’s bedtime routine on parenting.stackexchange.com was not having songs because it was too stimulating. So I took it out of our bedtime routine a few days ago. But I forgot that my own child finds songs soothing.

When I heard my mom singing to her, it reminded me that she loves music during the day and night. It also reminded me to take tips with a grain of salt.

Thanks to my mom for being the surrogate pillow for her and calming her down for me by singing to her.

Lola the surrogate pillow

Lola the surrogate pillow

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What we did the First

January 2, 2014 6:50 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Yesterday Sydney asked about the grapes hanging in the doorway. I love that she noticed and told her about some Filipino customs. In Filipino culture it is superstition that what you do on the first day of the year is what you will likely spend the rest of the year doing. So I did the following:

  • Homeschooling with Sydney
  • Taking a nap
  • Coloring with Sydney and reading a ton of books/sang songs
  • Cooking dinner
  • Preparing taxes for my small biz
  • Playing two games of Dominion with hubby while Sydney napped
  • Ransacking the house for my 2014 planner (I love paper) and organizing our bookshelf

Hubby spent the first day:

  • Sleeping in
  • Programming
  • Practicing magic
  • Watching some TV
  • Reading/Playing with Sydney
  • Washing the dishes
  • Playing Dominion with me

Sydney spent her first day:

  • Avoiding breakfast
  • Playing/Coloring
  • Doing tricks on her dinosaur ride on toy
  • Running all over the house
  • Eating half a cookie
  • Drinking more than her usual share of milk

Sounds like us alright. We will see if hubs will wash the dishes more and Sydney’s appetite grows. I meant to do our laundry but my mom beat me to it. That sounds about right too even though I keep telling her to stop so she can relax. She is recuperating from being in the hospital  last week and she is supposed to be on bedrest!

I look forward to more time for my own art and growing our biz throughout the year! I hope to be more organized and establish a routine that will allow me some more Mommy time without slighting Sydney. The next few posts will be holiday recaps and I will throw in some more reviews in there. I like to avoid technology as much as possible during the holidays and now it’s catch up time!

I hope you had a great time ringing in the new year and that you surprise yourself this year. I know I plan to.

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