We had a very long day. We started off with a family dance party and contest. We all get together, put the iPod on shuffle and dance. After breakfast — and after Big Girl came in first– we went on the boat, rafting up with seven other boats. (All the boats tie up next to [...]
Category Archive for 'Sleep'
Favorite Things Friday: Love Edition
Posted in Favorite Things Friday, Siblings, Sleep, Toxins on Feb 5th, 2010
It’s been a while since I’ve written a true cool things-focused Favorite Things Friday, so I figured I’d go back to my roots. For all my new readers — and there are a bunch of you these days — Favorite Things Friday is my opportunity to write about things I have seen and liked recently. [...]
Baby, Get Some Sleep
Posted in Emotional development, Sleep, toddlers on Nov 16th, 2009
I have two good sleepers. Both girls were sleeping through the night within a week or two. (And no, I didn’t nurse, so I know that has a lot to do with it. And yes, I got a lot of crap about not nursing. We’ll get to that in a separate post.) Today, my big [...]
Sleep More, You’ll Like It (And so will your body)
Posted in Health, Meditation, New York Times, Preventative medicine, Sleep on Sep 28th, 2009
I was just browsing the New York Times online and came across a recent Really? column about sleep. (BTW: My story about neti pots pre-dated the one on the NYT’s Web site by three days. Sigh.) The gist of the story: People who sleep more are less likely to get colds. But, according to my [...]
