I’m THO THTUPID!!!
All this time….
All this time, there was such a simple solution….
Why did I…?
Why did I ever decide to…?
Why did I ever decide to FORGO THE NAP???
The monkey has NOT been napping AT ALL for several months. I was convinced she gave it up. Lots of other 2.5 year-olds I know have given up their naps, so I figured it’s normal for my little monkey to run around like a maniac ALL the livelong day…. But, helloooo? Sanity? Are you out there?
Are you there Sanity? It’s me, Haley-O.
Well! This afternoon, I had TWO AND A HALF HOURS of ME-TIME because…look….LOOOOK:
(Exhibit #1)
(Exhibit #2!!!!!)
Can you believe how BIG? It freaks me out — no kidding.
They are sleeping. DURING THE DAY! What a foreign freaking concept!
I’m telling you…. It’s the answer to my prayers….
So is spinning….
This morning, instead of taking the monkey to see a fire truck (as I’d planned), I hauled my arse over to the gym. Yes, I dropped the kids off at the gym daycare and got on that bike at 9:30 this morning. I SUCKED. Was the slowest, most outta shape spinner there. But, that was okay! I was sweating, and I could FEEL the fat disintegrating. Awwwwwesome!
Okay, had other stuff to say but am too tired. Collapsing on keyboard. See?: ijreoarg;hrieir38953i5j
Also. I made salad:
I LOATHE making salad. But, it = good.
Tomorrow is weigh day. Wish me luck…. Hopefully spinning did it’s THANG.
TELL ME, GORGEOUSES: if you have kids, when did they give up their naps?
Wanna know why this post is a little whatevs today? Because I’ve been working on my NEW SITE — sooo much preparation to be done! AND, I’ve been spending most of the night tending to my other haunt.
I just had to tell you, though, that I feel good again. Tired. But, much better. Thanks for ALL OF THE SUPPORT and HAPPY WORDS, Gorgeouses! I have the BEST READERS IN THE WORLD! LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!
Nikki said, January 18th, 2008 at 6:58 am
yay for naps!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so glad you had some ‘you time’
good luck with weigh in day
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SciFi Dad said, January 18th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Yay for the mid-day nap!
Oh, and the munchkin has the same socks (I think).
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LD said, January 18th, 2008 at 8:18 am
My son has only kind of given up naps. (he’s almost 4). At daycar he sleeps sometimes. On weekends he sleeps sometimes. I’d say since he was 3 he really hasn’t napped consistently. If we have a really busy morning he may, but he’s quite happy to have “quiet time” and watch tv and lie on the couch. I’ll take it. If I’m home with him I nap and he watches a movie (like Peter Pan) that I know keeps his attention so he won’t get into anything.
Good luck on weigh-in. I know the stress!
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Erin said, January 18th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Yummy salad! I also hate making them. It takes so much time to chop/cut all the yummies for it.
My kids still nap. Adylynn, 4, naps pretty regularly during the week. BUT I can’t call it napping. It is rest time and she watches a movie in my room or on the couch and almost always falls asleep for an hour or more. Jaden, 2, naps everyday in his bed for at least 1.5 hours. My stepson, 6, will rest when we have had a busy day and is now getting to a point where he will ask to lay down if he gets tired in the afternoon.
I think schedule is most important. Make sure you have naptime around the same time everyday. And start saying things about nap is coming. Adylynn usually has her movie picked out for rest time when she gets up in the morning. She picks out her movie and decides where she is going to rest then when I put Jaden down she gets her snugglies and blanket and lays down to wait for me to start her movie.
Hope today brings you more naps
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LAVENDULA said, January 18th, 2008 at 8:50 am
lets see #1 slept for an hour almost every day until he was 4.#2 stopped napping as soon as she started walking(13 months) #3 napped for an hour if i did(i did) #4 has a bad habit of falling asleep at 5 and getting up at 7 and then won’t get too bed until oh midnite….the kid i babysit usually naps for like 5 hours and goes to bed at 7 is that even normal?
Rebecca said, January 18th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Having that mid-afternoon break is SO refreshing! Of course, I always pass right out myself whenever The Baby naps, but that’s pretty refreshing, too.
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Anonymous said, January 18th, 2008 at 9:02 am
We always had “go in your room, read, listen to music (quietly). Called Quiet Time. No exceptions. The boys got used to it, and even slept at times, but regardless, Quiet Time was 1:00-2:30 every day!
Lindsey said, January 18th, 2008 at 9:32 am
The only way to keep you sanity is to lie down yourself when you really need it while they nap. Of course getting them to nap at the same time isn’t always easy! I know it’s hard to nap cause there are usually a million things you want/need to do! I can relate but sometimes you just have to say…screw it and order in dinner, the laundry can wait a few hours.
I don’t really practice what I preach but it’s a good theory, isn’t it??Hahaha. My 3 year-old naps 2-3 hours a day… usually. Three mornings a week at preschool poop him out and the rest of the time I make sure to tire him out… all a big prep for the afternoon nap (AKA Mommie’s quiet time). The 4 month-old doesn’t always sleep at the same time but when he does it is BLISS!! I also stay up waaaay too late just to have some peace & quiet. Sometimes I’m cleaning the kitchen at 11pm and checking your site at 12:30am to see if your newest post is up yet!!
multi-tasking mommy said, January 18th, 2008 at 9:36 am
The bunny has been toying with giving up her nap since the summer (just before 2 1/2). Some does she sleeps like a log and other days, no nap at all!
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JMC said, January 18th, 2008 at 9:46 am
My oldest didn’t give up naps COMPLETELY until she was about 4. By then she was only napping every 2-3 days, though. The next one gave them up around 2 1/2, because she shared a room with my 3rd, and kept waking that one up, so I tried napping her in another room, but she’d have none of it. My 3rd stopped napping around 2 1/2 also, mainly because of scheduling problems with running her sisters all over creation. So she would still sleep in the carseat sometimes, but no good bed naps. This last one is 15 months, and she recently went from 2 naps per day to one. I hope she’ll keep the one for a long long time, though. Since the others will be in school as she gets older and the house will be quiet, I’m hoping for a napping history more like my oldest’s.
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Don Mills Diva said, January 18th, 2008 at 9:50 am
That salad looks awesome! My son is 26 months and still naps really well. I think kids give up their naps waaay too early. I have been told try and have them keep them until they are 3 or 4 or even 5 because kids are getting increasingly less sleep these days.
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LoriD said, January 18th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Love the sleeping babies pictures… so cute! With the older two, I stopped letting them nap at about 4 years old, because it really affected how well they slept at night. Until then, they had at least 1.5 hours in the early afternoon just to take the edge off. The 2-year-old is still anywhere between 1.5 to 2.5 hours.
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Kathryn said, January 18th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Oh yes. Kids must have naps. My mom always tells me about how she forced us to take naps until we went to 1st grade. I plan on doing the same thing with my boys. Even if they don’t sleep. They need the down time. And so do I!
Each kid is different with naps. My Joe is almost 5 and he still goes down for about 1-2 hours in the afternoon. More if he didn’t sleep well the night before.
That salad looks delish!
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Katie said, January 18th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
My oldest, who’s 2 1/2, still takes a 1-2 hour nap every afternoon. Youngest, 1, is sick and taking 4 naps right now, but normally takes 2 1-hour long naps each day. I think I’d got nutso if oldest didn’t nap, since he’s so active!
I need to follow your lead and start excercize, but it’s hard to do with 8 hour work day and then taking care of my monkeys at home!
Renee said, January 18th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Even if you can’t get her to nap (it is common for her to only take one ever few days now) you can insist that she play quietly in her room by herself.
I forget when DD quit her naps for good…probably about 2.5. See we never had any routine or schedule…so if she wanted a nap she would go lay down, if she didn’t no big deal.
DH would always worry that if she napped too late that she wouldn’t be tired at bedtime. He didn’t need to. It never mattered when she slept, bedtime always stuck.
Hey, you could probably use a nap too.
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Redneck Mommy said, January 18th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
All of my kids had afternoon naps until they were well past four years old. (And if they weren’t sleeping, they were playing quietly in their rooms.)
It was a sanity saver and boy do I wish I could make them take naps now that they’re older! LOL.
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allie said, January 18th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I think my kids gave up their naps around the time they start Kindergarten…they would have the odd one….but now my son is in grade 10 and he can fall into a nap in a snap….so they lose the nap but then it finds then again!! lol
have a groovy week-end!
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Kelly said, January 18th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
My babies will nap every day until they are teens. Even if I have to strike them on the head with a mallet each afternoon to make it happen;)
Peace out!
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Cyndi said, January 18th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
It’s funny how you wear yourself out to work out, but it somehow makes you feel more energetic later.
My daughter is 4 and down for her nap right now! I heart naptime!
ali said, January 18th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
i miss the naps most of all, scarecrow.
my goodness, i wish i could get isabella to nap. the move to the bed made that impossible. also, she goes to bed at 6:45…so i really shouldn’t complain…but she gets so tired in the afternoon!!
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Susan Helene Gottfried said, January 18th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
But you don’t tell us HOW you made that nap happen!
#1 gave up his nap one month into preschool (he was three and a month).
#2 napped longer, until last year, I think. So she was four. Still tired, though: until October, she’d get tired out if she played with a friend much past 2, although she still wouldn’t nap.
Now, she’s caught up and goes all day long. So when I need a nap, I curl up on the couch and she can watch TV, play with her brother (if he’s home from school), or play computer. Or read. Or do anything quiet.
It’s the law around here. Let Mom Nap.
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Dannielle said, January 18th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
ah the blessed nap! I can’t wait until my little guy starts to nap at predictible times so I can try to take advantage of these moments! Right now he just randomly falls asleep with no rhyme or reason. Yesterday I took the little guy into work to see some co-workers. I was bouncing him on my knee chatting away when someone walking by says, “looks like he fell asleep”. I look down and sure enough there is his head bobbing around because I’m still bouncing him and he is trying to sleep. ha ha oops.
Kristen said, January 18th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Glad today is a good day for you!
My youngest, who is the same age as your monkey, still naps 4 or 5 days a week. If I am home I put her down in the crib for at least an hour even if she doesn’t sleep. I need it!
The 4 year old will sleep if we are in the car between 4 and 6. So nice!
The older 2 did not nap. period.
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Karen MEG said, January 18th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Hales, I thought you were blogging about your napping… which although I was told and I told any newborn mom who would listen, is what you’re supposed to do when the baby naps. Yaaahhh, rrrright…
Anywhoo, big boy stopped napping at about 4.5, but really only because his friend at daycare wasn’t much of a napper so he wanted to stay up just like him. Other than that he would likely have kept sleeping like a rock for 2 solid hours until grade 1. The G still naps for about 1.5 hours every afternoon, and she’s about 37 months now (I know, months… she’s 3 now but it still hurts Mommy to admit it).
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Chantal said, January 18th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Howdy Haley, My D stopped napping at 4. M is looking like he will kick the habit around 3 (3 months from now). He could already do without, but I can’t (you know what I mean). Naps are the saviour of moms (and video games and TV, oh yes I am the best mom in the whole wide world
). You are a trouper doing spinning. I did it a few times and I find it so much like torture. Although it does work. Take Care Haley.
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workout mommy said, January 18th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I could not function if my son stopped taking his naps! He is almost 2.5 and I insist on them everyday. No negotiation, kid MUST nap! My baby is pretty good about sleeping too, usually he takes two good naps per day.
Keep with the spinning, it does melt fat!!!!
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kgirl said, January 18th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
At just over 2 1/2, Bee gives up naps periodically, and I cry and wonder how I will cope and by 4pm she hits the wall, and just when I’m pretty sure that I’m gonna off myself, she willingly starts to take naps again. Aaaah. So I’ve learned not to force her, but to persevere.
Now if only I could get both my kids to sleep at the same time… well, a girl can dream.
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Holly said, January 19th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Oh 2 1/2 hrs! Mine is still tiny…well ok maybe not that tiny, but it my eyes he’s tiny. Ekkk 21 months already! But anyway, he still naps, but I only get 90-120 min if I am lucky! Glad you enjoyed your quiet time! WTG on the spinning. That is one class I don’t have the nerve to try!
Di said, January 19th, 2008 at 8:42 am
My first born (Haley) napped until she was 6!!! I only had them all day on weekends as I was working full time, but that nap on Saturdays and Sundays was delicious!!! When she gave up her nap, #2 (Rory) was 3 1/2 and he gave it up too!
Spinning is the most amazing and addictive workout. I was a 5 classes a week Spin junkie when I was in the BEST SHAPE OF MY LIFE. Why am I not doing it now??? Not sure. I’ll keep you posted.
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shay said, January 19th, 2008 at 11:22 am
YAY! I love naps. LOVE THEM!
My youngest, can NOT nap! CANT ever or she’s up until 11 like last night cuz she napped with her Grandpa.
(I was shopping with my mom – YAY to cross border shopping and moms!!!!)
My oldest napped until he was 5. FIVE?! WHAT?! Yes you did read that right! Boys rock with the whole sleeping thing!
and good for you with the spinning! I’m going to run today in the snow…brrrrrrrrr!
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Chantal said, January 19th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Haley, you have to check my latest post. Too funny
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Anne said, January 19th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Nap times ROCK! Mine Napped till he was about 5 and a half! They got shorter as he got older.
Believe it or not kids who have naps sleep better at night time as well! I have a friend who had a child with sleep issues and this was what solved her problem. They took him to all kinds of specialist.
Routine. You have to make it part of the Routine. And Don’t let them sleep too long too late! I think the best Nap Time is from 1:30 – 2:30. (Longer for younger ones.) Dinner at 6, Bath at 7, Then story time and the light goes off at 8.
THEN you have Mommy and Daddy time and we all know how special that is!
My Mom always told me that you have to make sure when you’re married you have time alone with your husband. Even if you’re just watching TV together. Kids grow up and move away. It’s the relationship with your spouse that is most important.
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Lisa said, January 19th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I vote for age 4, too. Mine started kindergarten at that age, and they got naptimes in the afternoon. Of course, that quit in first grade.
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Wormbrain said, January 19th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
My three-year-old phased out naps when she turned three. However, once in a blue-moon she passes out mid-day.
If she’s napping while the infant is napping, it’s a friggin’ miracle. I do cartwheels.
Dina said, January 19th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Lucas gave up his afternoon nap before his 3rd birthday, but he will occasionally fall asleep in the car mid afternoon. I love naps!
Your kids are SOOO cute!
Good Luck with the weigh in.
FENICLE said, January 19th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Unfortunately, Ethan gave us napping at home around 4 years old. (Although he totally would take one if he was at school all day!)
But we incorporated room time – or quiet time in your room – whatever you want to call it. Everyone needs some down time!!
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Mrs. G. said, January 19th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Naps are a beautiful thing. Hopped over from Zenmomma. Hope the weigh-in was all that you hoped it would be.
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Julie said, January 19th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Naps are the best! It seriously almost ruins my day if I can’t get them down to nap.
Noah is slowly giving up his naps. He naps probably 5 days our of 7 and when he does it, he’ll do 2-3 hours. During a growth spurt or if he’s not feeling well he’ll even do 4 hours.
Katie is not much of a sleeper. She does about 45 minutes in the morning and an hour or if I’m lucky 1.5 hours in the afternoon.
I’m all for quiet time though. On the days that Noah doesn’t nap he has quiet time in his room with books, stuffed animals, etc.
I’m glad you are feeling better! Sounds like you are doing great. And spinning to boot!
Maribeth said, January 20th, 2008 at 12:13 am
I love nap time, this Mommy needs nap time. I have three children and watched a niece and nephew. All of them lasted until 2.5 almost 3 w/ naps. My 2.5 will still occasionally take a nap but it has to be before 3:00-anything after and we are up way past midnight.
I’m pregnant with my fourth so I hope we will be able to sneak some nap time or at least rest time when the baby is born.
P.S. I always loved spinning, I actually would feel like I got kicked in the a** after one of those classes
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manda said, January 20th, 2008 at 12:15 am
my daughter gave up naps around age 2. *cries*
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creative-type dad said, January 20th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Don’t ever scare me about them outgrowing naps.
I almost had a heart-attack
pussreboots said, January 20th, 2008 at 1:19 am
I’ve had a couple rare times where both my 5 and 1 year olds have napped at the same time. Ah bliss!
shroom-monkey said, January 20th, 2008 at 5:51 am
The twins turned three- they are total nappers, nice big one in the mid of the day… and honestly none of mine stopped taking naps till they were in school, don’t know about Canada but in pre-k here they take an hour long nap.. my oldest kids during weekends and summers still nap.. and they are old.. naps are good!!!
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Ginny said, January 20th, 2008 at 7:32 am
My kids would both still nap if I let them but then it makes for miserable bedtimes so I don’t encourage naps at all. At this point I would rather have evenings than an hour during the day! They are 5 and 3.5.
melissa said, January 20th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
my oldest, who is turning 12…he’d still be napping, if i let him. my daughter…going to be 10…NEVER napped…from birth…never, ever! and, my youngest, just turned 4…he only naps when he is sick. me…i still need to nap only…i’m not allowed!!! and, i’m so freaking crabby all the time!!
Teena in Toronto said, January 20th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
I’m not a huge napper (I don’t have time) but when I do … they rock!
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Jenifer G. said, January 20th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Naps are your friend. Rosebud is 4 and still naps and yes I know that is probably not the norm, but she needs it and so do I! She falls apart without them and since her sister napped until 4 1/2 I am milking this for as long as I can.
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BlondeBlogger said, January 20th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I am SO not one of the good blog friends! I’m sorry! I’ve been AWOL off and on for so long and wonder if I’ll ever be able to keep up a regular blog reading routine while homeschooling.
But I love you to death and am so glad to hear you’re feeling better. And if you ever need to vent, even if I’m not blogsurfing, I am always here to listen!
((((BIG HUGS))))
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Anne said, January 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
I think naps are very important. My son napped every day till Grade 1 and my daughter who is 4 still naps everyday from 1:30-3:00. It definately takes the edge off and I agree kids need routine and sleep. Of course I live for naps on the weekends.
Drea said, January 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I just wanted 2 say I love the picture of Monkey sleeping on the bed… that is such a cute photo… im behind on blogs!! Ow and I like tim gunn 2
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