Hello everyone! It’s time for another week of Mommy Confessions!
I hope you had an awesome break, and are getting all your holiday confession posts ready for us to read (and laugh about, and sympathize with.)
This past week has been my nightmare. Not one of those horrifying types that wakes you up. No, more like the slow kind that you walk carefully around, but you know something is going to happen. Something terrible.
It finally backfired for us (or, I should clarify, “me,”) on Saturday night. You see, for a back-story, we’ve had a jam-packed week. And all of you with small children know that family gatherings and such equal no naps.
After a day of no naps, needless to say, Vivien fell asleep on the hour long car ride home. There was no avoiding it, she was way too tired to attempt to keep her awake. We got home at around 9pm (her normal bedtime is 10) and I kept her awake for a while longer, knowing she had just slept an hour. She went to sleep at 11:30pm. And then, 1am rolled around…..
And she started crying.
There was no consoling her, and she was just way too over-tired. She ended up staying awake and playing until 5am. I finished a book on my kindle while watching her run around like a crazy person, and spent between 4am-5am rocking/begging/cursing her to go to sleep.
You guys, I don’t think I’ve ever been so tired in my life as I’ve been this past week, because of her messed up sleep schedule.
I want to be social, and I know that these few weeks haven’t been an accurate depiction of the normal week, but honestly, all it’s done is motivate me to stay home and become a hermit with my well-rested daughter.
Am I alone in thinking that it’s just easier to stay at home? How did the holiday season go with your little one?
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You ARE NOT ALONE! My children are so out of schedule from the holidays that they aren’t going to bed till 11:30 (or some nights even later, still get up at the crack a** of dawn, and then fight naps until almost 4:30 in afternoon/early evening)… I got so extreme as to change plans around and host some of the festivities at our house… I am totally with ya’ on the being a hermit with well-rested child/children!
Man we planned EVERYTHING around naps because of this. It happened to us one time and I was like eff this noise. If we were local we’d explain to folks that he had to get at least an hour nap and I’d do my best to be there when I could.
Usually if we had a drive ahead of us we’d leave early and he’d sleep in the car. But I’ve turned down a ton of get togethers because of nap time lol. We’ve even split it where one of us would stay home and the other would come later with the kiddo.
I’m not going to be up all night because of a few hours of socializing because I’m crabby as hell and it’s not good for anyone :/
EVERYTHING is so much easier when they stay on their sleep schedules! ; ) I completely agree with you. I think from 8 months to about 17 months was when my son’s schedule could really get messed up and ruin whole weeks! Now that he’s a little older (19 months) skipping a nap isn’t as detrimental as it used to be. I hope it keeps getting better! : )
Oh man. I just throw mine in bed fully clothed without shoes when I hit thay point in the night. If I can plan ahead, I bathe the kid and bring some jams when I know sleeping in the car is inevitable. I will also be like “well its 730, too early for bed and this kid ain’t making it home. Guess you have to hang out with us for another hour” and my in laws only do stuff at nap time I swear. So I finally had to start turning them down. I just don’t want a jerk for a kid so I conform to the schedule we have.
Oh what a bummer! I am so sorry to hear that you had a rough night with your little ones! My youngest will do this when he takes a late nap during the day {which I try not to let him, but it happens}. I hope you catch up on sleep soon! Thx for linking up to the mommy brain mixer.
Girrrrllllll I FEEL YOU! The holidays were such a nap nightmare that Derek swore we are not going to ANY family parties next year. “We have a small child. They can come to us at our house if they want to see us.” (Absurd, and no way in heck I’m missing out on our family parties!) It was atrocious.
I love that you actually have the stamina to let her run around in the wee hours of the morning like that. I’d be crying and swearing, which is pretty much exactly what I did when Ben was up from 1-5 on Christmas night. I was not nice. HORRIBLE. Too bad his up-all-night didn’t coincide with V’s up-all-night and we could have cried about it together
I didn’t link up with y’all this week, but I’m just now getting around to reading some posts…I live with this on the daily. My daughter needs a routine and she isn’t one that functions well without naps. She will not fall asleep on the go, not in a stroller or carseat, and cries until she gags, chokes, and sometimes, vomits if she’s tired and we’re not home! It’s so stressful that I’ve just declined invites to BBQ’s or dinners out with friends…I say no alot. And people give me a hard time, or imply that I’m just making up excuses, but the truth is sometimes when you’re a mom you make sacrifices. And I’d rather stay home and have my daughter sleep peacefully than go out and make her stress herself out for no reason. Oh well, everyone!