It has been 4 nights since we started "teaching" Mason to sleep through the night. I am happy to say I stayed strong and moved him to his own room. The first night he cried when I put him to bed but he slept until 5:30. I knew it was a fluke so I braced myself for night #2. As expected, he had a horrible night. He woke up, cried for 10 minutes, received comfort, fell back asleep for 1/2 hour and then started the cycle all over again. This went on all night. The kids were zombies when they got up for school on Friday. Friday night the boys(including Dad) had a sleepover in the basement! Mason spent one hour of the night waking up but the rest of the time he did great. And, last night after going to bed nicely, Mason slept until 5:45 without making a peep. I consider that a victory! I hope that will be the norm now. I am sure there are still sleepless nights ahead of us but hopefully we are over the worst of it.
I have never been a runner. I have grown up around runners. My dad has run 7 or 8 marathons. My mom has run 2. My husband ran one 7 years ago. I have always cheered from the sidelines and wondered why in the world anyone would EVER do something like that. It is just plain ridiculous. In my quest to get rid of the after math of 2 pregnancies in a years time I decided to step my workouts up a bit. I am a really good walker. I would much rather walk 4 miles than run 1 but I needed to burn more calories. So, running it was. I decided if I mostly walked with some intermittent running that would help. I started out running the downhill portions of my 2 mile loop. Pretty soon I would walk my 2 miles, put Mason down for a nap and run a few loops in the park. About a month ago, Russell challenged me to run the full 2 miles. He pushed the baby stroller while we ran. I was not very conversational , but I did it! I was so proud of myself. I incorporated that 2 mile run into my wor...
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