I know I'm lucky - I have a mom-in-law who gets along well with us, lives with us here, and cooks us nutritious meals...but still: Work days like today are tough. Clients who won't call back (even when they have a good reason to do so); colleagues who are too busy for important planning discussions; horrendous-awful-75-minute-in-nonstop-stop-n-go-commute-traffic-home; followed by all-too-brief time with Deven; and then him falling asleep early (good) but then waking and screaming for 30 minutes at his usual bedtime.
See, we're now trying the cry-it-out method at night, and so far our hearts feel like they've been squished on the floor - it is SO painful to hear him cry. But we know he's not hurt, hungry, or in need of anything other than what he's gotten used to - constant attention, even when he's exhausted & needs to sleep. Daadi, for her part, thinks we're horribly cruel and can't understand why we're doing this; we had a good argument with her this evening about the whole thing. In the end, she respected our wishes (despite her better judgement); Deven finally went down, and has been sleeping since then. I wonder how tonight will end up.
If you didn't check out the photos yorselves, here's my favorite of my sis & Tommy:
My favorite "40th Anniversary Photo" of my parents:
(Given that my dad is 6' tall and my mom only 5'2", I think this is the first time the tops of their heads have been in the same general height-plane, ever!)...and my favorite "new family" photo:
And a video from a week ago:
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