Mommy Musings

Happy Friday everyone!  It's rainy and crappy out here, but the fact that it's 50* makes it a little more bearable.  Gonna be coooooold next week! They have to do some maintenance at Emmy's school, so she has a half day today and is off all of next week!  I'm excited to get some quality time with my girl. Skip {who has to work on Thanksgiving and Emmy's birthday} is off from Sunday to Wednesday next week!  Four days of the four of us having no plans?  I can't wait.  It'll be the perfect relaxation time before the madness of the holidays begins.  I think it says a lot about people who have decorated for Christmas already and their lack of ability for delayed gratification. I believe I have found the answer to what has been destroying the ends of my hair for the past two years.  After doing a little research, I stumbled upon some people whose hair was ruined after using coconut oil {yes, the amazing stuff that is supposed to fix...

Today is part II of "I feel like I'm failing at parenting".  Part I about Charlie's disdain over anyone but m e was up yesterday.  Today I'm going to talk about Emmy for a bit.  Last March, I blogged about how she suddenly started coming into our room around 2:00 am or so to sleep .  And while I was never really a fan of co-sleeping, we just went with the flow on this one.  With everything we had going on at the time, we figured it was what she needed. Well pretty soon March turned into April, which turned into May, which turned into June, you get the idea, and Emmy was still coming into our room every night at some point.  Sometimes she just falls right to sleep, and sometimes she babbles away for hours, trying to convince us to let her watch Netflix on the IPhone. And if I'm being honest, it's normally the latter.  Which is resulting in a whole lot less sleep for all of us, which really isn't good for Emmy.  Even if she falls righ...