Today was a bit of a doozy. Our little terror was in full terror mode this morning.
The reason? Lack of sleep.
This kid will not go to bed at a reasonable time. We have tried every trick in the book and so of course Monday mornings are no fun for everything.
We have tried idle threats, rewards and no matter what it’s “Dad, I have to tell you one more thing”
I want no more things. I want a child to go to bed at 8pm and get up at 7pm and be happy and healthy. That’s what I want for Christmas.
The rest of the day was pretty normal. She came home and changed into her swimsuit and bounced over to Carson’s house so they could jump on the trampoline and run under the sprinkler at the same time. It sounds dangerous, and probably is but this is happening at Carson’s house instead of ours so there’s that.
I was tasked to go collect my wet charge from Carson’s house and halfway there I found the child standing on the sidewalk just standing there. At first I thought she was talking to somebody but then I realized, no, that’s not it.
Maybe she’s watching a bird or cat or deer…nope
She was singing a song. Itwas called:
The world doesn't seem so fair to me
I asked her if she felt the world was unfair and she told me no, that it was just a song and that it was “from a movie in my head”.
Oh. Okay.
Well Then. What the heck do I do with that? That’s pretty dark for six. What happened to sunshine and unicorns?
She ate well tonight and I thought we could get her to go to bed at a good time and it was better but not great still. We did not hit the 8:00pm deadline and it was more like 8:15 by the time she surrendered to sleep.
It’s been a rough few weeks with the emotions here and I blame lack of sleep and school, which now keeps her much busier than kindergarten I think. I have no idea how parent are taking their children to after to school activities too.
We have one weeknight activity:
I like to call it: Go To Bed!!!
Here’s to being well rested.
TH and Co.