Why I am the bedtime stickler?
Oh, c’mon Alyssa! It is summer - shirk bedtime for your kids once every so often and get out and have some fun!! Folks think I am crazy for strictly enforcing our kids bedtimes of 7/7:15pm for Quinn and 7:45pm for Tyler. Last night, we decided to be lazy and all four of us hung out in our bed playing and being silly. At one point we had made a tent with the sheet and all 4 of us were under it. Quinn thought this was just hilarious. It was fun and I think we should make more time to spend together like that. However, as a result - both kids were down at 9pm. It took me 40 minutes to get Quinn to sleep.
…and here is the kicker. BOTH kids were up EARLIER at 6:15am. They didn’t sleep in, they didn’t even sleep to their more normal 6:45 (for her) and 7/7:15am (Tyler) wake-up times - they were both up early. Oh, and they were crankpots. I mean he was minus one hour…which isn’t good when there is no nap to make it up. She was minus 2 hours. Of course she napped today from 11:45am to 2:30pm. No surprise there.
Lately, Tyler has handled a late bedtime okay - he goes down in about the same amount of time - but he doesn’t sleep in. This is why I am such a stickler - they don’t sleep in, so I end up with two cranky kids which makes me cranky.
Mom says that Bryan and I were the same way. We woke up at the same time no matter when we went to bed. Anyway, I am trying to head out the door to swim, but Tyler keeps telling me that he is “busy playing”. :-p Now he and Quinn are playing…I should be viedoing this - they are both giggling their heads off… they are just so cute together