Day 29
THAT IS IT!!!!!!!!!
I got something going on around here that needs to be changed. It used to work beautifully but it is now, I guess you could say, broken.
It is bedtime.
What used to take 10 minutes has now turned into a 90 minute production. Maybe it is the heat. Maybe it the fact that summer is here. Maybe they are over tired. I don't really know the cause. I just know I am not liking it one bit.
I pride myself on my patience. I have a lot of it. I used to teach kindergarten. It takes a lot to get me overwhelmed with kids. From the minute they wake up in the morning, I do my absolute best to speak to my children with respect and love. I am so not perfect but I am very aware and I try.
Bedtime...........all bets are off.
This is MY time baby. No joke.......don't mess with this mama after 8:30pm. It isn't pretty.
I am sure my craziness is NOT helping the situation.
With this being the last day of school, my hope is that we will have a new more relaxed routine. What I really hope, let's get honest here, is that they are exhausted every night from the sun and water that they just zonk out. But being that this was my plan tonight ( after a full day at the beach and then a swim in the pool) and it backfired, I am not so sure what I am in for. I mean, seriously, they are like running on empty right now!
So I send my wish out to the bedtime fairies or whatever............ We are in desperate need of a peaceful and happy nighttime. My kids need their last memory of their mother every night as they drift off to slumber to be something other than her ranting, yelling, or saying a thousand times...."THAT IS IT!!!"""
Goodnight, God Bless, I love you..................so much better.
I have a very serious, kind of stomp up the stairs that I do. My equivalent to "that is it"!! Although, I have my fair shares of "that is it"s myself. Ahhhhhhh....bedtime!
ReplyDeletekids just don't wanna give it up! i have in my life 3 children. first two have endless ritual-water, the correct number of cubes- but i learned. the littlest girl-18 mos- gets a 'goodnight', and off the light goes-and she's fine! that is, until she catches on to the other two...lol
ReplyDeletealso, i think the more we parents reinforce the ''rituals'', the more we reinforce their need for the rituals- and they become so long, involved and complicated, that kids start to think they can't sleep without all the drama. a friend of mine gives her kids 3 ''tickets'', good for 3 visits from mom or dad. when tickets gone, no more visits!(sorry to write so much!)
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