

When Nighttime =/= Sunshine or Roses
After my last post I had a friend comment how happy she was for us that our transition to two littles was going smoothly in the bedtime category. Oops! I guess my relative silence on the matter of the sleep transition followed by a glowing review of our dear daughter’s sleeping habits may have been a little misleading. It’s so easy in the blog world to read all of those rosy details we bloggers like to announce on a regular basis and to slip into thinking that our favorite


The Sweet Sound of Sleep
“Should you go check on her?” My dear husband asked nervously after about three minutes. You see… our beautiful, nearly two and a half year old, daughter was upstairs all by herself. Not making a sound. I had just come downstairs after trying to put her to sleep. We did our bedtime routine, as usual, and I laid down to nurse her to sleep… just as I had hundreds of nights before. Evangeline has nursed to sleep since she was a newborn. There have been few instances that Dad