This definitely wasn’t the post that I had scheduled for this week, but this week was been hideous so a lot of things haven’t happened as planned so a bit of venting is needed. Now who decided to make Easter weekend and Daylight Savings ending fall on the same weekend!? Stupid, bad, terrrible idea!
First the kids get all excited about easter, fueled up on the excitement, chocolate and festivities. Then why not make the clocks go back an hour! Ummmmm no! Big mistake. It’s given Miss Chloe a horrid jet lag effect. Bedtime has become a nightmare, naps have become an emotional fight, and mornings are starting way to early. One or two days of this is acceptable but by the end of the week I’m losing my nice mum persona . . . especially at 11 at night and I just want to go to bed myself or 5 in the morning and no one in this house are morning people.
So I just want to point out that Chloe is going through the toilet training phase and is doing amazing, even by being dry through the night but that has resulted in a new 6 am wake up time to use the toilet. This had been only been happening for a few weeks so she hadn’t gotten back into the habit of going back to sleep for another hour. I am perfectly aware that this is the time other kids wake up but Miss Chloe is not a morning person at all and would normally sleep to 7.30 and for a little one who is always on the go, not a big eater and still needs a afternoon nap, that loss of an 1 and half hours sleep was starting to show its effects.
Then this weekend happened, it was great we caught up with family, did chores around home and Chloe throughly enjoyed been given lots of chocolate. All was ok, especially for non routine weekend, but then the clocks went back and Chloe’s body clock has been confused ever since. It’s comparable to pretty much like when we got back from the UK, she’s all over the place with her moods, sleep and eating. And after 2 days of Kindy you can imagine what she is like now on Friday, she is an emotional mess. She’s lost some of her appetite, not wanting to swallow her food and when she eats like a sparrow anyway it turns my overthinking mum brain into overdrive. Now I don’t if she is fighting a bug as well just with how she is acting or is it just over tiredness. Her tonsils are a bit on the large size anyways so it’s just such a guessing game most of the time.
The past few days she has spent the afternoons napping on and off and then crying non stop, so today has turned into a quiet resetting day and trying to getting back into good sleeping habits cause next weekend she is going to have her first mini holiday to Auckland. It’s time that she finally meets her Great Oma. The last time we tried this she got sick, so all fingers and toes are crossed that this time happens.
Oh and Oma if you are reading this, Chloe will be fine for her sleep over tomorrow night . . . This Mum and Dad need some time out and are looking forward to kid free time to celebrate our 5th Wedding Anniversary.