Adventures in Babysitting My Own Kids, 24 hours a day, forever
Posted in Health on Jun 25th, 2008
When I’m not pregnant I very rarely take naps. Why? 1) Because I don’t really get that tired during the day. 2) Because even if I am that tired it’s hard to figure out how to get the kids to both go to sleep at the same time or be in an otherwise safe state [...]
Posted in Health, Self Improvement on May 9th, 2008
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I’ve been exercising 30 minutes a day, every day except Sundays, for more than 40 days now! This is a huge change for previously unathletic me, and I’ve learned a couple of things in the process. I thought I’d record my thoughts on the subject while I’m in a good mood so that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2007
We've been working on teaching Degen to sleep in his bed all night, as I mentioned in an earlier post. For the last few months we've been putting him to bed after his bedtime routine, closing the door, and letting him pound on the door and cry himself to sleep. Now that he's not really [...]
Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Mar 10th, 2007
In November 2006, on the recommendation of a friend, we bought a parenting book called Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth. At the time we were a month into having a new baby and we'd been dealing with Degen's crazy sleep habits for months and were just about at our sleep-deprived wits' end. I [...]