Aubrey Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Dd1 & I have a cold. She's drippy, red eyes, miserable. I'm just miserable. Tired. Ds8 & dd5 have kind-of had the run of the place the last few days, between this & family in town. So I went to lay dd1 down today, & she got up (toddler bed--she finally discovered a way out of the crib). I put her back, closed the door, & she stood there & cried pitifully. The way her nose is running, I really didn't want to leave her there like that. So I went to reason w/ her. To explain that crying will hurt her nose. That sleep will make her feel better. (Hear my desperation?) So we make compromises involving a song from my soar throat & a duck who needs a nap, too. I sing. She closes her eyes. Ds8 & dd5, who are supposed to be making sandwiches & picking up play kitchen stuff, respectively, begin making TONS of noise. Enough that if I had stretchy arms, I'd have reached down the hall, grabbed them, & put them to bed. But I don't. Then--oh, THEN!--they had the GALL to actually WALK. INTO. THE. BEDROOM. where I'm trying to put 1yo to bed. Our apt. is so small that if 1yo is *close* to going to bed much less IN it, we treat the whole house like holy ground, lol, so they KNOW the rules. I just sent them up their ladders to bed. By then, though, it was all over for 1yo. She was smiling, playing peek-a-boo, etc. So *she* got up, & ds8 & dd5--w/whom I was going to do school once dd1 was down--are down instead. Do I a) give the Latin & Hist & Math to 1yo to do for them :lol: b) get them up & make them do school w/ 1yo running around c) make them do school *after* a *full* nap (1-2 hrs), as in, the rest of the day, during dinner, whatever d) go back to bed myself & ignore it all? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 MLK Day....its a no school day. Relax, get well and start again tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Take a day off, you deserve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree House Academy Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 This would be a day off in my house with that scenario, I do believe. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowWhite Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 D. Take your 1yo to bed with you and get some much needed sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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