Chores and Punctuation.

This evening while discussing the possibility of earning her own money, Paige agreed to start doing daily chores.

So after dinner we all sat down as a family and brainstormed.

We came up with a chore list. Or, Paige did. But we agreed to it.

While writing down above mentioned chore list I realized my daughter is receiving quite the education in her kindergarten class.

First of all she made me label the paper with ~Chores~. Which I thought was just cute.

After the list was completed, I explained that the list was a preliminary one and I would re-do it to make it look all spiffy. But even knowing this, Paige insisted that I use proper punctuation.

You see when I wrote the list it looked like this.

~Chores~
Clean Paiges room
Pick up the toys in the living room
Clean Lillies room

But Little Miss Smarty Pants insisted that I put commas (apostrophes) on Paige and Lillie. To make Paige's and Lillie's. I have to admit I was a little shocked. I had no idea that my 5 year old knew anything about punctuation.

Now I know that she said comma instead of apostrophe, but I think we can let that slide. The fact that she knew the correct placement and that something belonged there in general is pretty awesome to me.

Pretty awesome indeed.

Solutions.

I think we have a solution to the problem we call "Lillian".

(I kid. I do love her you know.)

We put her to bed in our usual way, but instead of keeping her confined to her room all night, we let go.

We don't close the door.

We don't have the baby gate up anymore.

We just let her be.

Our house is pretty much baby proof anyway. The kitchen (which is, to me, the most dangerous place in any house) is gated off, so she's relatively safe.

Besides, when she does wake up, which she always does, she just comes and gets me. No more screaming in her room for hours..........just a nice calm "Mommy" in my ear to wake me.

I prefer this method.

Although I was pretty anti roaming-baby-all-night for the last year, I have come to realize she really isn't that interested in roaming the house causing trouble. She'd much rather just know she's not stuck alone in her room.

After all who would wanna be stuck in one room for 11 hours?!

This all sounds like common sense now, but two years of sleep deprivation can make you a little loopy.



P.S.

She still isn't sleeping through the night, but at least she isn't waking up the entire house. Maybe the sleeping part will come on it's own?

A girl can dream can't she?

Well I guess she can't if she doesn't get any sleep..........

Moving Update.

Well.....................

THAT sure blew up in my face.

I didn't get her to sleep until 3 a.m. (Seriously. No joke.)

Back to square one. (Or her room.)

Eh..........sleep is overrated............

Moved.

The television didn't work out as planned.....

On to plan one thousand four hundred and eighty six............


We've moved her back into our room.............

A year and a half since she's been in there..........but at this point ANYTHING is worth a good nights rest.

ANYTHING.

She can't wake up crying for me if I'm in the room now can she?

Can she???

I hope not..............

This Week......So Far.

My car took a poop.

Fixed itself.

Then took yet another poop.

So yippee for my birthday present! A new transmission! Hooray!

(Did you like the birthday hint? Very strategically placed I know.)

My youngest child decided (yet again) sleep is just "not her thing" and she'd prefer to just stay up all night and cry about it all day.

I love her.

I REALLY do, but come on! When (oh when!?) will I get to sleep for more than 3 hours at a time!??

Someday right?

So against everything I stand for (okay that might be a bit melodramatic)we gave her our television and DVD player.

Please Dora, babysit my 2 year old. Sing her to sleep. Lord knows she won't allow me to.

(As a side note, it's 8:15, a good 45 minutes after we put her to bed and she is still up, yelling for me.....Oh the joys of motherhood.)

On the upside, my laptop (which pooped out about 6 months ago) decided to randomly start working again. So at least one thing is working out for us.

Finally.

This is our week so far. And it's only Tuesday.....

Apology.

I'm a bad blogger.

Blame it on my computer please.

I do.

For some reason whenever I try to upload any pictures it does this really neat trick and

BOOM!

it freezes.

It's pretty awesome.

Anywho,

I apologize to the few people who actually read this.

I'm working on fixing this sucker.

But by then the kids will be all grown and out of the house.....

..........so don't hold your breath..................