What is up with my sweet baby not napping? I don't understand it. She usually naps like a champ. This week, not so much. Yesterday she "laa-laa-laa"d in her crib for almost 2 hours before she fell asleep and of course I had to wake her up shortly after because it was almost 4 o'clock and she had to eat lunch before dinner was ready. Today, no nap whatsoever. She la-laa'd for 90 minutes before starting to protest loudly. So we sprung her from the clink and off she ran to the living room to play. Perhaps I need to adjust her schedule. Because as much as I love having Miss Priss up and about, it's really hard to get things done that need doing. Her naptime is my prime time cleaning, prep-cooking, and computer time. Tomorrow morning is her swim lesson so hopefully she'll be tuckered out and ready to snooze. (That's right, I just said tuckered out like I'm Ma Ingalls on the Prarie.) The trick is keeping her awake for the car ride home. I have resorted to rolling windows up and down and pumping her full of fruit squeezie to make it home before she sleeps. Because if she does fall asleep, she considers that her nap and then the day is totally screwed up.
Of course, with recent news stories about random shootings on my route to swim school, that will make the trip lively for her as Mommy dodges bullets on the way home. Seriously, on the very road that I take to the pool, there were teenagers (they think) randomly shooting at cars the other morning. Just for kicks. They hit a minivan with a Mom and 3 kids. Thank God no one was hit or injured. What kind of punk-a$$ coward shoots at a minivan full of kids from his apartment window just for the hell of it? What is this world coming to? Well, let me say to this monster, that if you EVER attempt to hurt a hair on my baby girl's head I will find you and I will tear out your throat with my bare hands. Do not mess with me. Thanks to these wastes of human beings, I'll have to take an alternate route tomorrow, as I have no idea if they ever caught the suspects or what. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll rob a Subway and get shot by a fed-up clerk. Not that I'd wish that on the Subway guy, but lately fast food workers seem to taking care of a lot of the criminals around here and saving taxpayer money. Between these stories and all the recent daytime home invasions, Kurt's idea about moving to the mountains to raise goats doesn't sound so bad...anyone know anything about goats?
2 comments:
Just want you to know there is a goat farm (or is it ranch?) just down the road from your Momma - I think that moving to the mountains idea is a great one!
Grandma Fagan
Holy Cuss are you kidding me? Greg thinks it is a horrible idea, but I wish I could be in charge for just one week. In my opinion a whole lot is wrong with the world, but I think are biggest problem is lack of love. People just plain don't love their kids enough. They don't love them enough to put them first, not have more when they shouldn't, can't afford them, don't like the ones they have, or can't provide for them. Then on the opposite end of the spectrum you have these FREAKS who only care about parading their babies around like TOKENS with $400 outfits on and they never bother to teach them that they aren't the center of the universe, how important it is to give back and be a good human, and that "stuff" can't fulfill them. That's not love, it is accumulation and competition. Those of us firmly in the middle are the true minority. Stinkin' people!
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