Archive for the ‘Parenting’ Category
Night Terrors in Children – Daisy’s First One in Ages.
Despite experiencing them before with Daisy and despite predicting she would have one (no nap today) it still caught me off guard when the sounds of uncontrollable sobbing started.
Poor little thing…went upstairs and she was trashing about, saying no and crying her little heart out.
I dampened down her hair and made reassuring noises in her [...]
Girls Sharing a Bedroom, Night 13
Thought it was going to be unlucky 13! No nap for Daisy, again, today so needless to say she was exhausted and grumpy and was fighting going to bed. That was until it was Molly’s bedtime, then of course she wanted to be in their room turning the light on and being noisy. Bless her, [...]
Girls Sharing a Bedroom Night 8
Guess it was too much to hope for that things would continue as well as they had been. Am writing this at 9.30pm and Daisy (2yrs 8mths) is lying on the sofa…she did make it to bed and appeared all relaxed after 3 (just one more Mummy…) stories, but she was tricking me…ten minutes of [...]
Work / Family / Childcare Balance
Am officially back to work on Monday , albeit self employed and working from home, after my maternity leave for daughter number 2. Although the relaunch of the website is exciting and hope will be a success, it has brought to the fore again the need to balance childcare with ability to be efficient with [...]
Children Sharing a Bedroom
Night 5 of Daisy (2yrs 8months) and Molly (6 months) sharing their bedroom and have just come back downstairs after feeding Molly . What a difference those few nights make! Night one I was convinced that the slightest sound from one would wake the other, so let Daisy stay up until she was exhausted and [...]
Night terrors in childen.
Our daughter, Daisy, 2 years 8 months had another night terror this evening.
Should have guessed as she was out of routine with not having her nap this afternoon and her hair did seem rather flyaway this afternoon after coming in from making a snowman….
Yes being tired, being out of routine being cold outside, central [...]