For our last day in the June Group Writing Project, we have two more great entries, to bring the total number of entries to THIRTY-EIGHT! So don’t forget to read and comment on our last two entries, and stay tuned Monday to find out who wins the $30 Amazon Gift Card!
- Three things I want my kids to understand. by Jo Beaufoix
- Three Things I Want my Kids to Know by Kymberlyn
Three things I’d like Hayden to stop:
- Waking up so early. This month, I made a goal to get up at 7 so I’d have an extra hour to work. Hayden, apparently, made a goal to defeat everything I ever do, so he began waking at 7:15 (instead of 8 or 8:30). Today he woke up at 6:45 (which is okay; I don’t work on Sundays, but still. I was hoping to sleep in).
- Being a total monster at church. Every other day of the week, he can’t be forced to take a nap in the morning, no matter how tired and grumpy he is. Sundays, he can hardly make it through the 9-10AM hour (the beginning of church) without throwing a fit or having a major meltdown. And guess what? After that, we have two more hours of church. Hayden hasn’t seen the end of church in probably six weeks. I pity the nursery teachers who’ll have to deal with him starting next month (hooray!—although I’m sure he’ll be fine for them.)
- Switching between a one nap schedule and a two nap schedule. Okay, kid, I know you want to be a big boy. Here’s your chance: either wake up at 8 and take one long nap in the afternoon or wake up at 7 and take two naps. Stop switching schedules back and forth, stop taking a two hour morning nap and expecting to stay awake from 11 AM to 8 PM, and stop sitting in bed talking, screaming and yelling for an hour when I put you down and you were yawning and grumpy.
Don’t forget to check in Monday (this is for you, not Hayden) to read my final list of three things, see the full list of entries and, of course, find out who won the gift certificate!
3 replies on “June Group Writing Project Day Six”
The transition from two naps to one is a hard one. You have my best wishes — and my sympathy.
Thank you for organizing the Project! I’ve read every one and loved every minute.
It’s true that the wakeup time totally affects napping … this transition — and we’re sneaking up on it as well — is not something I am looking forward to enduring.
I just wanted to say that I’m totally behind in reading blogs thanks to freelance work, mothering, housework, etc. I didn’t realize you were doing another writing project until the last day. Darn! I totally would have participated, too. Please let me know next time … if you remember. I’ll try and stop back more often now, too.
I can totally relate! No matter what time I get up in the morning (with grandiose plans, of course), my daughter gives me just enough time to START, then here she comes!