a new purpose for this blog
quite simply: to document the highly entertaining and "creative" things my dear wife says.
disclaimer: jess is truly the love of my life. i adore her in every way - truly. it's these types of things that make me adore her more in fact.
a couple doozies tonight:
i'll just go sleep in the car...
we put our three year old to sleep in his bed each night, we go to bed later, and sometime in the night or (more often) in the early morning he comes in to sleep with us. in many ways we love having him sleep with us.
but here's the major rub: we have a queen size bed and the boy is like that dog/cat you used to let sleep on the bed with you that insists on sleeping sideways all stretched out. he feels no shame in pushing you to the edge of the bed and then occasionally poking your ribs with his toenails throughout the night.
i'm a pretty heavy sleeper so it doesn't generally bother me. jess, well, she's a decidedly non-heavy sleeper so the small(ish) size of the bed and her light sleeping means the boy tends to keep her up at night (i.e. no solid sleep stretches).
in a brilliant fit of pure honesty she says "i wish i could have just one night in our bed where i could sleep comfortably by myself" (paraphrased).
bingo! (light bulb moment) i'll just sleep in the boy's bed with him tonight and give my dear wife a single good night of sleep to make up for the last three. i actually like his bed and though it's small, it's comfortable - and i like being close to him.
though this is all quite cool with me and (judging on past similar sleeping arangements) jaden, jess has to fight the ?good? fight against this plan. her final suggested alternative? "i'll just go sleep in the car"
gotta love this woman. seriously. :-)
why don't you just leave for work early and come home really late?
i recently started a new job with a slightly shorter commute (30 minutes less each way) and the hours have been pretty reasonable. the big bonus is how little i've worked from home after hours and on weekends. jess herself admitted she hasn't seen me so much in quite a long time.
i generally get up with the boy, get him fed and start if not complete getting him ready for school - then i'm off to work. i usually get home just in time to grab a few bites and start bath and bedtime.
recently we've noticed he gets sooo excited and wound up the minute i get home. sweet really - but not the best MO just before bedtime. it gets rather tiring for both jess and me and really draws bedtime out.
jess has been suggesting i either get home earlier (so he has time to be excited when i arrive and then calm down before we start bedtime), or just get home after he's in bed and on his way to sleep.
seems reasonable to me. i'm thinking of a number of ways we can do this.
jess' idea? "why don't you just go in a bit early and then come home really late?"
ummm, that's a bit extreme. the current 11 hours i'm away is enough to wipe out any stay at home parent (jaden is not a "mellow" kid) and jess is understandably at the end of her rope most nights when i get home. so yeah, why not tack on a couple more hours where she's completely responsible for him?
i agree we should change something but how about a change that doesn't push the entire burden on my dear wife?
disclaimer: jess is truly the love of my life. i adore her in every way - truly. it's these types of things that make me adore her more in fact.
a couple doozies tonight:
i'll just go sleep in the car...
we put our three year old to sleep in his bed each night, we go to bed later, and sometime in the night or (more often) in the early morning he comes in to sleep with us. in many ways we love having him sleep with us.
but here's the major rub: we have a queen size bed and the boy is like that dog/cat you used to let sleep on the bed with you that insists on sleeping sideways all stretched out. he feels no shame in pushing you to the edge of the bed and then occasionally poking your ribs with his toenails throughout the night.
i'm a pretty heavy sleeper so it doesn't generally bother me. jess, well, she's a decidedly non-heavy sleeper so the small(ish) size of the bed and her light sleeping means the boy tends to keep her up at night (i.e. no solid sleep stretches).
in a brilliant fit of pure honesty she says "i wish i could have just one night in our bed where i could sleep comfortably by myself" (paraphrased).
bingo! (light bulb moment) i'll just sleep in the boy's bed with him tonight and give my dear wife a single good night of sleep to make up for the last three. i actually like his bed and though it's small, it's comfortable - and i like being close to him.
though this is all quite cool with me and (judging on past similar sleeping arangements) jaden, jess has to fight the ?good? fight against this plan. her final suggested alternative? "i'll just go sleep in the car"
gotta love this woman. seriously. :-)
why don't you just leave for work early and come home really late?
i recently started a new job with a slightly shorter commute (30 minutes less each way) and the hours have been pretty reasonable. the big bonus is how little i've worked from home after hours and on weekends. jess herself admitted she hasn't seen me so much in quite a long time.
i generally get up with the boy, get him fed and start if not complete getting him ready for school - then i'm off to work. i usually get home just in time to grab a few bites and start bath and bedtime.
recently we've noticed he gets sooo excited and wound up the minute i get home. sweet really - but not the best MO just before bedtime. it gets rather tiring for both jess and me and really draws bedtime out.
jess has been suggesting i either get home earlier (so he has time to be excited when i arrive and then calm down before we start bedtime), or just get home after he's in bed and on his way to sleep.
seems reasonable to me. i'm thinking of a number of ways we can do this.
jess' idea? "why don't you just go in a bit early and then come home really late?"
ummm, that's a bit extreme. the current 11 hours i'm away is enough to wipe out any stay at home parent (jaden is not a "mellow" kid) and jess is understandably at the end of her rope most nights when i get home. so yeah, why not tack on a couple more hours where she's completely responsible for him?
i agree we should change something but how about a change that doesn't push the entire burden on my dear wife?
posted by jnichols959 at 10:59 PM
2 Comments:
Um...Redwood City is not 30 minutes closer each way than San Mateo or am I that sleep deprived?
30 minutes was a bit of an exaggeration. 25 would have been more accurate. it's 8 minutes closer on the train and between 15 and 20 closer from the train station to the office :-)
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