It is official.  I have an end date for taking care of T.  He actually has a nanny who will come to his house and he will be the only child being taken care of.  T. will be so much happier to have the attention only on him, and he will be home.  I am [...]

I wrote earlier about some of my frustrations with the two boys that I am looking after; my own and a friend’s son. I was trying to figure out how I was going to get our rules to mesh a bit better. The unfortunate thing is that we can’t have a rule for [...]

Well, ok, it started well. Then I realized that Tristan is a sleep moaner. A loud sleep moaner. Aidan did well and I made sure the music was on. Unfortunately the sleep timer kicked in at about 45-50 minutes of his sleep. Which for those of you who don’t know Aidan’s [...]

The answer is “NO!” They are both asleep. They talked (well Aidan did) for about 5 minutes, and when I peeked in just after the last post they were both quiet and lying down. Five minutes later both, asleep. Wow. Time to myself. Yeah!