Well, today is a day of relishing and living in victory for me. The past couple nights Chirpee has decided he doesn't like to go to sleep so easily anymore and wants to be held instead of being in bed. He nicely falls asleep like always as I rock him and once in his crib he begins his little roaring to get up. I fell for this a few times as I thought maybe he was done napping in my arms and not tired anymore. He is a cat-napper so it is hard to tell if the ten minutes of sleep-rocking was enough or not. But I have finally caught on to the little man and was forced to make a mom decision.
I always thought I'd be a tough mom and not be tempted to give in to my son's whims, but now I know I am a push over at heart. He cried and cried in his crib and I so wanted to scoop him up, but had to keep telling myself this was our first battle of wills and mom has to win - for his sake. I felt forced to the opposing side, but waited things out and he eventually fell asleep.
Chirpee is really on my list of favorites today because he had his first official sleep-through-the-night. A full eleven and a half hours! I was so excited I couldn't sleep past nine hours. It isn't that I feel so rested and energetic from one night of nine hours in almost a year, but the knowledge that I slept so much has elated me!
Well, mom got a night of sleep and won the sleep battle all in 24 hours - what a day of accomplishments!
3 comments:
Wow. Good job Chirpee!
Hi, I just came by you through Chatty and was trying to figure out who you were....I had an idea from your profile and after reading your posts figured that I must be right!
As a kid I used to come out with my family and stay with and visit your husbands family quite often.
We would chase the goats and I would mess up his beautiful miniature farm table.
We would have bon fires in the vally and your hub would drive us around in the old pick-up scaring the living day lights out of me....not that I let it show, well he might think otherwise.
Anyway we always had so much fun, canoeing, swimming and exploring.
Cool that you have a blog....have seen some of the baby pics on facebook.....Chirpee is cute!
It's amazing how chidren can really bring out the weakness in us mothers. I never thot I'd let MY kids get away with anything...boy was I wrong! I think it's the downfall of motherhood, this pushover/not wanting to be tough and unbending. Sometimes I feel like a twig - I bend and bend so far and then SNAP! :-)
Well, I'm sure you're a wonderful mother, and Chirpee (love the name) has much to be thankful for that he doesn't even know yet.
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