I'M CRYING

The last few weeks Daerik has been taking 2 1/2 to 3 hour long naps. I was thinking to myself that this is a wonderful new development and I have reveled in the extra time that I have had to myself. You know, the ONLY personal time a mother can get. I have been able to do all sorts of things like clean, sew, cook. Even with these extra long naps, I have sometimes been able to do something that is a novelty, take a nap. Well, I didn't know that these three hour naps meant that Daerik was working himself up to no naps at all. If that were the case, I would have taken advantage of these naps more than I did.

Yesterday I put Daerik down for a nap only to have him screaming for me to get him up. Needless to say it was a l-o-n-g day. Today I thought we had made a deal. It was simple. The deal was that he would take a nap. I thought for sure that he would, since he was so tired yesterday from not sleeping, and, you know, he said he would. I was wrong. He played in his crib for a while before, once again, screaming for me to take him out.

I repeat, I am CRYING!! I am not ready for him to not take naps! What have you all done when your children stop sleeping to get some personal time? I guess I am just going to have to wake up at 5:00am. But usually when I do that I take a short nap when Daerik does. My world is turning up-side-down! I'm kidding. I just like to exaggerate a little sometimes, but really, I am upset. The looney bin is looming ever closer.