BEDTIME

(note: started this on last Thursday , finishing onThursday the 26th!) Ok so I know I am not the only mother that has bedtime issues but some nights I handle it better than others. Tonight actually was ok . She just says some funny stuff sometimes.... tonight she had to go to bed without a book being read to her because she didnt get out of the bathtub in a timely fashion, you know, according to my time! She was done it was getting late, almost 9:30!, and I was ready to be done with it! LOL ! SO I told her if she didn't get out by the time I counted to three she wouldn't have any books read to her. She acted like she didn't here me and so we didnt get a book read. When I finally got her to bed, after threatening her with a spanking with a wooden spoon... that story in a minute, I did the ritual, cover her up and her babies , just zoe tonight, patted her back then said "Good Night baby", she said "don't tell me that", so I said "sleep tight", again don't tell me that! What am I supposed to say then??? "Sweet Dreams!" was the reply!! Awwww!! LOL It was very sweet but now I guess our night night sentiments are her idea! It's funny listening to the new phrases she comes up with or hears .. in the bath tub she was cleaning the shampoo bottle(one of the many I have for her!) and she would get done wiping it off and exclaim "much better, much much better!



Now the wooden spoon story... Harper got sent home from Mt. Calvary with a note on Monday saying she was hitting a lot, and if I could please have a talk with her! Our hands are for loving gentle touches and helping one another and not hitting. Well, I have also read that if you spank it should be with something other than your hand for those same reasons, so last night when she would not go to bed she was told she would get a spanking if she didnt, she popped off with some backtalk so I spanked her , with my hand, and her response was "dont HIT ME!" Oh brother I thought... is this where she's getting the hitting from? That night was awful trying to get her to bed. Wednesday she came home with a note saying she was SPITTING!! Is she turning into a MONSTER?? What's next biting?? I'll tell you what's next in a sec! So again we had a talk about it and I asked her where she learned that? School was the answer of course! So the next morning just like Tuesday morning we marched in and apologized to Miss Linda for being ugly and spitting we would work on trying not to do it again! This past Tuesday night(23rd) on our way home from Nanny's house we were having a converstaion when I asked how was school, fine. DId you get in trouble. YES, for what? PINCHING!!!! WHAT ? WHO? John Thomas, the boy she was hitting and spitting at!!! Did he cry, Yes. DId you get in trouble , YES, sat in time out, and missed snack and lunch! Yeah right like they would not let you eat! Told her that we were going to apologize the next day and if she wanted to keep friends she NEEDED to be nice! When she went to bed that night she was hollering at me to come back to her room , she told me she was sorry for pinching John Thomas! The next morning we apologized to Miss Linda, but she knew nothing about it, either it happened in the afternoon when Linda is gone or it didn't really happen!!! Either way we apologized! Is she turning into a MONSTER??? I pray not! Bedtime really hasnt gotten easier, she now tells me she needs to poop, we get the diaper off and sit, then she tells me "it not working!" It takes forever to get her to bed! UGH!!

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