A Lovely Weekend

This weekend was surprisingly un-busy. Usually we don't stop all weekend, so this was a nice change. We did a little shopping, got some stuff done around the house, went swimming today, but for the most part we just enjoyed having a lazy weekend and I think we all needed it. Especially because next weekend will be hectic. It's Jamie's birthday so I'll have a big family dinner to take care of, I'll have to have the house clean, we'll have to do his shopping for the work week (and possibly finish up the Christmas shopping that weekend too) and it's Christmas decorating time. It will be busy for sure.

As I said, we went swimming today and Addy loved it! We've taken her swimming a few times before and she's always enjoyed it, but never as much as today. She was splashing around, trying to blow bubbles in the water (not to mention drink the water...lol) and moving around like crazy. It was alot of fun to watch her enjoy herself so much.

Well, I have been complaining about Addy's sleep issues for some time now, and knowing it was time to do something about it, I checked out Darcie French's ebook on Empathic Sleep Teaching. I really love the principles it teaches. I find that letting Addy cry it out is too aggressive of an approach that is detrimental to her, but always comforting her and basically parenting her to sleep is way, way, way too passive. This method lets you comfort baby, but still teach him/her to self-soothe and fall asleep on their own. So I read through the book and we now have a sleep plan that we are working on and it's been really good. Only one difficult bedtime so far. The one problem we have with her, though, is the parenting her to a drowsy state. Jamie not as much, but it seems that whenever I'm around, the horns come out and she refuses to be calm and relax like she needs to. But we'll get there. She is still waking up in the night sometimes, but not all the time and not nearly as often as she had been (knock on wood). Hopefully we'll get past that in the next few weeks (days would be ideal, but I'm not going to be naive about it).

Jamie has sold the Cavalier. I am sooooooooo happy! That thing has been sitting and sitting and sitting ever since we got the Fusion (which was the beginning of August...Ugh!), but that was mainly because he has been lazy about advertising it. I made him fliers to put up close to a month ago (at least) and he finally put them up about a week ago and I also posted it on Facebook and Kijiji as well and now it has a buyer. Finally! Tomorrow it will go to its new home. Jamie is being kind of a baby about it, but I guess that's just a guy thing, being attached to their cars. Although, I don't understand how having a shiny new car doesn't make the imaginary man pain of selling the old car go away, but apparently it doesn't.

Anyways, I'm off to enjoy the rest of the evening with Jamie because bright and early tomorrow morning (actually, it won't be bright yet, but it will certainly be early) he's off to work for the week. Bye for now.