If you’ve been around my blog for a while then you know how hard of a time we had with Boogie when it came to naps and sleeping. I was adamant from the beginning that we would never allow her to cry it out or leave her if she needed comfort. I guess you could say we practice attachment parenting in that, and really many other aspects of parenting. You read everywhere how children will never learn to self soothe if you don’t let them CIO, well I’m here to say that I have proven those naysayers WRONG. We have always comforted Boogie, held her, rocked her, nursed her, loved…

I am at a complete loss. It doesn’t matter what time this child goes to bed… either a noisy neighbor is waking her up or she’s getting up at her own at 5am every freaking morning. I’m exhausted. Granted, J gets up with Boogie most mornings, but on his double shift days I do. I stay up doing homework, and at this stage in my pregnancy I’m not sleeping well anymore. I toss and turn (or should I say flop? because that’s what it feels like now) all night, I don’t have a restful sleep… I’m burnt out. I’m short with her, I’m impatient with her, I snap at her….…