a journey in motherhood

Nap time last week was particularly rough and through the weekend it got worse. Friday I didn’t have a minute to myself as Elizabeth didn’t take a morning nap and that meant that they slept at different times. When I don’t get those couple hours when they are sleeping to myself to clean up or read or rest it makes for a tough afternoon. My patience is tried, I feel tired and frusterated. That, and Libby is so mobile that when they are both awake I have to be giving 100% attention to keep them out of trouble. Then Sundays are always tough for naps b/c we get home late from church & by the time they go down they’re over tired and sometimes don’t sleep at all. As you can see in the pic below, Elliot did just that today.

The entire room was covered in baby powder (Fortunately for our lungs it was the cornstarch kind, not talc). It took us quite a while to figure out how to even clean it up. At least he was a hilarious sight and we were able to laugh about it so the 45 minutes devoted to vacuming, wiping, changing sheets, blankets, pillows, etc. was made less annoying by our amusement. The baby powder has been in a cubbard that he’s had access to for months and it never crossed my mind, I’m usually good about keeping things way out of his reach. You can bet I’ll be even better at it from now on.