Oh I wish I had answers. DS2.6 usually takes a afternoon nap which is a wonderful thing (it's happening right now!), but he's decreased his night-time sleep now so that he sleeps from 10 pm to 6:15 or so. That gives DH and I virtually time at all to unwind, we have to put him to bed and then immediately go to sleep ourselves if we want to be rested for the next day. The alternative may be keeping him un-napped all day so that he goes to sleep a little earlier but I don't like that option either!
The other day he says to me while I am busy with something on the computer, "Mommy is having quiet time. Mommy needs to have quiet time now." He says this in a dejected voice as if the world has abandoned him, before going off to do something by himself. I felt so guilty but also proud of him that he's beginning to manage without me right there. His statement was a alteration of what I originally said to him a few weeks prior one day when he was not interested in napping, which was "Well then instead of a nap we are going to have quiet time now, DS you are going to have a hour of quiet time now where mommy does mommy things and you do your things. So I can help with the playdoh (or whatever it was he wanted to do) in a hour...". Of course he's dead on that the one who needs it is me.
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