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nap vs no nap

Okay here's my mom dilema do I let #2 still take a nap or do we try to cut it out. I send her to her room for quiet time and she falls asleep. BUT she then isn't a great at night fall asleeper. She sings and talks and BUGS her sister. And to boot she has 2 volume settings: ON HIGH and OFF. If I let her skip her nap or she just plain refuses the evening and even the next day are a bit like every scary-someone's-head-is-spinning-around scene. She's more of the sleep in type of girl. Which is all kinds of interesting since her sister is an extreme morning person (6:30 at the latest) and she's more of a night person (still sleeping and its almost 8 but stayed up until 9)

OH the dilema!

SIGH!

I know she'll be going to K soon and will naturally reduce the need.  Although its morning K so our quiet afternoons may just lull her into a nap or two.

I just don't know what to do in the mean time. Kill the nap and deal with the girl from a Stephen King novel or get creative for our nighttime routine.

And for those of you who know me, know that I have an EARLY bedtime for my kids. I have let them stay up later for the summer. BUT can I tell you I hate it. That after 7 pm time was my time. My kids are super early risers, so it doesn't matter HOW early I get up they get up with  me. I just want to drink my coffee and spend some quiet Bible time and they are all like "mom, I am hungry, I need a drink, mom, mom, mom." I am being TOTALLY selfish and I don't like that about me.


So that, people, is my dilema. Good or bad, selfish, nap vs no nap....

Psalm 136:23 "To the ONE who remembered us in our low estate....His love endures forever."

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  1. hillJune 19, 2013 at 4:14 PM

    oh man. i'd say no nap but an even earlier bedtime or some forced quiet time on the couch with a book time when it gets scary (very familiar at our house). thanks for linking up!! xoxo.

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