Wow, sleep issues really bring out the commenters in full force! Thanks to everyone who offered ideas, experience, and book recommendations yesterday. I am pleased to report that last night’s bedtime was much less painful than the previous night. I will get to why I think that was true in a minute. First, a note […]
A few nights ago my husband and I heard the inevitable kaboom of our toddler lifting herself over the side of her crib and landing on . . . God knows what body part. Sasha seemed fine but we didn’t want to risk that happening again, so the next night we took the side off […]
Okay, just on the shortest end of another shortish longest shortest time over here. Last time I checked in about this, Sasha had bronchitis. That wound up blooming into an ear infection and on top of everything she got slammed with a stomach virus. She woke up vomiting three nights in a row. Shivering in […]
Yesterday my mom brought over a journal she kept for the first couple years of my life. Odd similarities between me and Sasha. And some very different things (see diet).
The start of our “We Can’t Stop” series — kids’ media we can’t stop consuming.
If you’ve been reading this blog for the last couple months, you know all about how nobody in our family slept for weeks after Sasha broke her leg. Some of you offered theories about how my own anxiety might be contributing to Sasha’s inability to sleep, or how having another person putting her to bed […]
Back when I first posted about the book Sasha and I were creating to help process her broken leg, I got a comment from my friend Margaret recommending that we read the “I Feel” books by Marcia Leonard. These tiny board books are not in print anymore, but you can find them easily through sellers […]
Our pediatrician has a catch phrase. Or maybe it’s more of a greeting. The first thing he does when he enters the exam room is walk up to Sasha, say hello, press his finger to her nose and go, “Boop!” He does this with all of the kids, every time. It’s sort of an inside […]