Because I have not felt up to pretty much moving or functioning other than maintaining essential internal body functions, our schedule has been impacted. The kids mosey to bed around 9-10, with my 9 year old particularly bouncing out of bed several times each night for about 45 minutes. Last night I made the mental note to try and initiate bed time earlier to accommodate her bouncing, as it is disruptive to the 4 year old who shares her bed.
This is also in part due to the fact that we do not wake up with some kind of schedule. I have seen in the past that if I have breakfast ready earlier, it gets everything going earlier. Seeing as I got an almost full night of sleep and have been upright for more of today than many others, perhaps I will be able to do just that.
Quiet time:
-today I turned on an outdoor-ish quiet time video from youtube and snuggled with my 2 year old. We read 5 books which gets her super calm, she got her binki, and it took her about 10 minutes after that to go to sleep, even with the boys (4 and 7) "doing quiet time" in their usual quasi-quiet manner.
-the boys then came down. 4 year old insisted that it was way too hard to sit quietly. I argued that if he could sit still and watch the 90 minute "Scooby Doo" movie earlier that day, he could sit still for 30 minutes. Argument held no sway so he ended up "practicing" being quiet for about an hour and a half, starting his quiet time over whenever he was being crazy. The 7 year old was pretty good and only had his quiet time start over once and his was 45 minutes. I dozed off and on with the baby on top of me.
Xai and Eli, 7 and 4, just asked me to play "Sorry" with them. I told them, yes, if they set it up for me. They are pretty good at playing. Eli is still working on losing well. Xai is pretty good at it. I tend to let them win, which I am not sure helps.
Bed time:
We had scriptures around 7:45. Quinn started a short story. I rubbed his feet since Lily was gone (her usual "thing" that she loves to do for her daddy). Piper rubbed mine. Heaven.
It was quieter than usual. The four littlest were drawing on white boards, off the carpet of course. They all obediently stopped coloring and said a prayer when it was time--another unusual aspect of last night.
We had to do a super cleaning of beds and put them back together so bedtime stretched out. I sent the four littlest up to go to bed. Xai is normally responsive but he had Eli have had a harder time doing it on their own the last few days. Normally they have someone go up with them. Maia (9) hurt her knee earlier in the day jumping over cushions and so she took a bath to soak it a little. Liesl (2) saw her and asked to go in as well. They were in there for a while. Piper finished cleaning up the kitchen. It takes less time to do the work with less people here, even if those people are contributers. Quinn and I started making tapioca pudding together for Piper and us to share. The noises upstairs escalated.
I went up, put the beds back together. I couldn't quite lift the mattresses up so Piper helped with one and Eli helped with the second, lower one. Xai begged to help when I had asked Eli to. They were both so happy to do it.
Piper, Quinn and I played "Labyrinth" while eating our tapioca pudding after I said prayers with Eli. (Missed Xai.) Maia read to Liesl on her bed. Music played, a cd compilation by their grandparents with stories and songs. When we retired to bed, Liesl and Maia were still awake, reading. I fell asleep listening to Maia singing Frozen II songs to Liesl.
This is also in part due to the fact that we do not wake up with some kind of schedule. I have seen in the past that if I have breakfast ready earlier, it gets everything going earlier. Seeing as I got an almost full night of sleep and have been upright for more of today than many others, perhaps I will be able to do just that.
Quiet time:
-today I turned on an outdoor-ish quiet time video from youtube and snuggled with my 2 year old. We read 5 books which gets her super calm, she got her binki, and it took her about 10 minutes after that to go to sleep, even with the boys (4 and 7) "doing quiet time" in their usual quasi-quiet manner.
-the boys then came down. 4 year old insisted that it was way too hard to sit quietly. I argued that if he could sit still and watch the 90 minute "Scooby Doo" movie earlier that day, he could sit still for 30 minutes. Argument held no sway so he ended up "practicing" being quiet for about an hour and a half, starting his quiet time over whenever he was being crazy. The 7 year old was pretty good and only had his quiet time start over once and his was 45 minutes. I dozed off and on with the baby on top of me.
Xai and Eli, 7 and 4, just asked me to play "Sorry" with them. I told them, yes, if they set it up for me. They are pretty good at playing. Eli is still working on losing well. Xai is pretty good at it. I tend to let them win, which I am not sure helps.
Bed time:
We had scriptures around 7:45. Quinn started a short story. I rubbed his feet since Lily was gone (her usual "thing" that she loves to do for her daddy). Piper rubbed mine. Heaven.
It was quieter than usual. The four littlest were drawing on white boards, off the carpet of course. They all obediently stopped coloring and said a prayer when it was time--another unusual aspect of last night.
We had to do a super cleaning of beds and put them back together so bedtime stretched out. I sent the four littlest up to go to bed. Xai is normally responsive but he had Eli have had a harder time doing it on their own the last few days. Normally they have someone go up with them. Maia (9) hurt her knee earlier in the day jumping over cushions and so she took a bath to soak it a little. Liesl (2) saw her and asked to go in as well. They were in there for a while. Piper finished cleaning up the kitchen. It takes less time to do the work with less people here, even if those people are contributers. Quinn and I started making tapioca pudding together for Piper and us to share. The noises upstairs escalated.
I went up, put the beds back together. I couldn't quite lift the mattresses up so Piper helped with one and Eli helped with the second, lower one. Xai begged to help when I had asked Eli to. They were both so happy to do it.
Piper, Quinn and I played "Labyrinth" while eating our tapioca pudding after I said prayers with Eli. (Missed Xai.) Maia read to Liesl on her bed. Music played, a cd compilation by their grandparents with stories and songs. When we retired to bed, Liesl and Maia were still awake, reading. I fell asleep listening to Maia singing Frozen II songs to Liesl.
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