January Blues
January 21st, 2009 @ 10:49 pm

Does anyone else hate January? It’s always such a blah, depressing month. And when I’m feeling blah and depressed I have a tendency to hibernate. I hang out around the house in my yoga pants and t-shirts and have no desire to get out. It doesn’t help that getting ready to leave requires such great effort when you have a toddler. But getting out definitely helps me feel better, so I’m forcing myself out of the house.

This week, Daphne and I have been to our weekly mom’s group, escorted Chris to get his immunizations for his Dominican Republic trip and might go to Toddler Time at the local library tomorrow and the park on Friday. Even though I’ve planned these events around Daphne’s nap time, it is still screwing up her sleep schedule. She will nap in the car on the way home, then sleep in her crib for maybe 20 minutes and be up for the rest of the day. Grrrr… And she’s been waking up in the middle of the night. Which means- Jenny doesn’t get an afternoon nap or a decent night’s sleep. If we don’t leave the house, she’s fine. Seriously, I can’t win. Last night, she was shrieking in her crib. Not her normal “I’m a little bit awake, where’s mommy?, OK, I’ll just go back to sleep” cry. I let her cry those out, but the shrieking “I’m totally awake, where are you MOMMY?!!” normally gets her out of the crib. I guess I just need to let her scream it out, or as my mom tells me “unplug the baby monitor”. That’s really hard for me.

Daphne

4 Comments

  1. Chris
    said,

    January 22, 2009 at 9:19 am

    January is usually blah for me, especially the past few years, because college football season is over and OU has lost its bowl game, and there’s nothing left but basketball. Also it’s usually too cold to go out and work on the cars, which is my main relaxing activity.

    And don’t feel badly…everyone struggles with the crying it out thing. Heidi and I still struggle with that ourselves.

  2. Heidi Mallow
    said,

    January 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    I feel the same way almost every January. I don’t even have the energy to take Owen out most days. I know I am pregnant, but still..it is a very blah feeling overall. I can’t wait for spring…my and the babies will be out all the time then.

  3. tash
    said,

    January 22, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    I’m, with you, i don’t like messing wth sleep schedules too much either, mind you 10 days on holidays and 5 theme parks later, i thought the twin’s sleep routine would be all over the shot, but not so. Slipped right back into it very easily with staying home for a few days in a row.

    Good for you for getting out, Have you read “healthy sleep habits healthy child?”
    This is a very interesting book on sleep from newborns to school age, and i think this has helped me train my girls to sleep from a young age (they are 10 months now and have been sleeping thru the night since 10 weeks of age)The idea of this book is that sleep is soooo inportant and can effect lots of things especially behavior and learning. It opened my eyes to alot of things i had previously thought about sleep, that may not be so true. Anyway, rambling, so i will close, and just recommend it, check it out if you are at the library.

    All for your mom, too…unplug the monitor, or wean yourself slowly and turn it down a little, or even put it on chris’s side of the bed!

  4. Mom
    said,

    January 27, 2009 at 8:26 am

    Jenny, I never could let you cry either! But, then again we didn’t have monitors back then so maybe you just were a loud cryer. Love you

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