No Tears!
Bobbin had a bad dream last night. I don't remember what time it happened, but at some point I dragged my pillow and blanket into her room and slept with her for the rest of the night. We woke up at 7:50am.
She woke up happy. She didn't argue. She didn't feign illness. She didn't resist going to school. She ate her breakfast. She got dressed. She left the house happy. I was so intent on capitalizing on this positive mood that I forgot my laptop and cell phone as I ushered her out the door and to the car. Tim brought them to me later at work :-)
We got to school and she didn't complain. She ran out to the playground. She enthusiastically hugged her friend who was waiting for her. And they ran off to play.
I stuck around for a couple of minutes. When it was time to say goodbye, she didn't cry. She hugged me and kissed me, and then ran off happily to continue playing with her friend.
It was glorious!
This evening, there were no protests when I announced it was jammy time. She went potty and washed her hands without me asking. She even brushed her teeth without my help and nagging. By 7:20 she was ready for her bedtime stories. I let her pick out 5 books, because she had been so fast and hadn't put up an argument. We got through two before she insisted she was "so very tired" that she needed to go to bed. I walked her to her bedroom, tucked her in, humoured her for 5 minutes as she insisted on a drink of water, one more hug and kiss, and one more hug and kiss after that. She tried to get me to stay but I told her I was going to exercise, and she laid there quietly, listening to her music, and apparently dropped right off to sleep.
I read somewhere online this morning that mercury is currently in retrograde. Apparently that usually causes chaos and destruction (if you subscribe to that stuff). However it seems to have had the opposite effect on our household. Or maybe, possibly, dare I suggest, that we're starting to come out of the "thrashing threes".
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Knock. Knock. Knockknockknockknock. :-)
Posted by Sarah on October 15, 2008 4:20 AM.