Ah yes it is upon me the daily naptime. No, the nap is not me, today anyway, but for the busy 2 year old. It comes every day sometimes even twice a day. Regardless of where I am at or what I am doing naptime is a necessity in our daily life, right now anyway. My daily routine is to schedule as much as I can around naptime, and then leave the “mom can do best alone” things for the sacred naptime. If I happen to need to run errands, such as to the grocery store, it must be strategically planned according to what time that busy toddler wakes, and what time she possibly could fall asleep in the car. It’s a task to figure this one out, she is not the best of sleepers at night…but when it comes to daytime naps she can go on for hours! So quickly, lets plan the naptime events; mow the lawn, make sure the chickens have water, walk the dog, throw in the load of laundry, hang the laundry out to dry, fold the laundry scratch that, she can be playing while I do that, make cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving, add a piece of wood to the woodstove, unload the dishwasher (saving the forks & spoons for her to do!) reload the dishwasher, vacuum and wash the floors…..and the list can go on and on.
Three days later as I finish up this blog, I seemed to have lost this sacred naptime. Lindsey has refused to nap and we are headed into day four. It’s been more of an adjustment to me than it has been to her, or anyone else in the family. By day four I found myself adjusting, and baking with her, Pumpkin bread and Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies, recipes and update to follow next week.
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