It seems to be popular right now. I think this is a good thing. Way too many people are not drinking enough water. As I have shared before, I drink roughly my weight in ounces of water almost everyday. I start my day drinking 32-64 ounces before I even eat (even more still on the Saturday gym mornings) then proceed to drink 100-120 ounces of H2O at work and polish it off with 96 or more ounces in the evening. This is strictly my water consumption. I'm not counting my tea or coffee or milk. Just water.
Some days are harder than others, but I do find on the days where I stick to the water consumption like I should, I am much less "hungry."
The wee monster insisted for about twenty minutes straight that it was night night time. So I finally give in at 6:35 and take her to bed. I tuck her in and say my good nights. I have now spent the last thirty five minutes listening to her babble and play and laugh. All happy sounds so I do not check on her. I just let her be. This gives me confidence that when she is older the method I want to try for bed time may just work.
It's this method I read about when I was still pregnant or shortly after birthing my demon spawn... The cliff notes version is that you set a nightly quiet time, say around 7pm (depending on age of course). During this quiet time the child is to be in their room, ready for bed. They can play (quietly) or read or whatever. They are allowed to come out a certain number of times (this is set by the parents), plus one final time to say they are ready for bed.
When they are ready, you tuck them in and say good night and go back to what you were doing during quiet time.
I think this is a great idea. With toddlers I think it is very achievable, but I'll know for certain once we really start implementing it with our own.
I know it's only the middle of July but there is a part of me that feels like summer is winding down... I think that is mostly that I feel like I am catapulting through time these days. It might also be that I yearn for the cool, crisp fall weather. Oregon has some of the most gorgeous fall weather, and has always been my most loved season.
The fact that our summer has been hot and heavy straight out of the gate might also further contribute to my autumnal fantasies. Our summer normally has a slow, sporadic start. Not the case this year. We hit June and it was 90 flipping degrees almost every day of the month. July finally brought some reprieve in the last week with our highs topping out in the upper seventies and low to mid- eighties.
I was discussing this next shocking fact with my father during our monthly visit on Sunday. Next month, Collin and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary. I will officially have spent a third of my life married to this amazing, loving, caring, hilarious man. Ten years... I can't imagine having spent them any other way.
Funny story about us, while I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy and such, in the early stages of our relationship (so the first four months; we were married a year after we met, after all) we both swore up and down we had no plans to get married anytime soon.... Yea, you can see how long we waited...
The significance of our anniversary date itself is something I will share in the coming weeks. I figure now is a good time to have a "lay it all out there" retrospective, because many don't know the anticlimactic whirlwind of events that led to us being Us. Some know bits and pieces, but I don't know if anyone knows the full blown story. Maybe it's time to share before any offspring (we still only have one; I'm including the future child we hope for) can read this blog. I figure by the time we reach that point in their lives this will be old and dusty like the papyrus scrolls of Egypt.
The kid is still playing and chattering away.
We have the next two days off from work. Tomorrow, we are doing something sinfully selfish. We are taking the little one to "school" (as she calls her daycare, and I am inclined to agree) and then coming home and going back to bed. We are doing nothing. Not a damn thing. We are going to spend some much needed time together relaxing. This last year has been a torrent of events that found us constantly going every time we had a day off. Whether it was packing, unpacking, looking at houses, inspecting this house, doing paperwork, painting, cleaning, removing the deck, laying down the pavers, replacing the hardware, cleaning and on and on, we have not taken a true day off at all.
Originally, we were to go camping this weekend. With an unexpected high value expense (engine rebuild in Collin's car) we just aren't in a place where I want to expend the funds for such an excursion. So, tomorrow is a completely lazy adult day. We will pick the little genius up from daycare a bit early, go to the store and then I will go to the gym. The rest of the weekend will be a family fun weekend. Friday we will make another trip to the zoo (I love having a membership!) and Saturday we may go to the BBQ/fun day at our dentist's office (celebrating ten years of being in business).
Pretty much it will be a go with the flow, relaxed weekend. With a visit or two to see Grams.
Ugh, I think I hear the asshole ice cream man.... He comes cruising through here at 7:30 in the evening with music that is blasting. The other night I was watering the lawn (which is dormant/dead at this point) in the back yard with earbuds in an screamo punk cranked up and I could hear it over that.... Somehow, magically, the tiny human slept through it.
Off to do something else.
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