Sometimes bedtime is easy- Xander lays in bed and watches his iPad while I nurse Augustus to sleep. Then I lay with Xander and talk about his day, kiss him and then he goes to sleep.
And then sometimes neither kid is having it and I spend an hour (or more) going between them, asking myself how I ended up by myself in the woods when I have a fabulous husband who I wish was with me.
Anyway, tonight was a rough bedtime. They were both tired but neither wanted to sleep. I nursed Augustus, but that wasn’t working, so I put him in his crib to see if I could get Xander to sleep. Augustus was crying, so I tucked Xander in and went back to try to get the baby to sleep. But then Xander started crying.
After a few minutes, still crying, he yelled, “mommy! I’m crying” which was very sad, but I figured if he could articulate it, he was probably ok. When I went back to him, he said, “I just need you to snuggle me for five minutes.”
Both children did, eventually go to sleep.
