Mon 23 Jun 2003
Hidden Sleeper
Posted by Sandi Atherton under Uncategorized
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I believe one of the hardest parts of raising kids is getting them to go to bed. Whether for naps or at bedtime, this is the task I hate the most. Celia seems even harder to control than Carissa ever was. We all know that the more kids you have, the more you tend to let things slip by. When Carissa was growing up, we always put her promptly back to bed. With Celia however, we just don’t have the energy. She likes to come out of bed for any reason she can think of. Her most famous one is to tell us she has something to say but when you ask what it is, she can not produce anything. One night she decided to try to hide from us so she climbed into the corner. We put her back only to have her come out and hide behind the curtains. It was at that point when we just did not care anymore. If she wanted to sleep on the floor, and she actually stayed still there, then…. Well, let her! Those nights after she fell asleep we carried her back to bed.
The other night however, we had a wonderful laugh. We were heading to bed and commenting on how easily Celia went to bed, when we turned the corner to find a surprise. There was Celia asleep in the corner. Why she wants to crawl out of her comfy bed to sleep on a hard floor with her head up against a wall, is beyond me!!! But hey, she went to sleep!
