Thanks to comments from Kevin Cox in the last post. I'd have to say that given the circumstances of my living arrangement, I'm not entirely in control of where he sleeps. But, I will say that last night there was a small victory of sorts. Most notably that he slept almost entirely through the night! After a small struggle, I got him down by 9:00 PM or so. He woke up at 2:30 AM, but I got him down again. We all slept in until about 7:30 AM, and had a nice and slow time watching the snow continue to fall. Now we're sitting here having a nice quiet morning. Sam is playing with a box and I'm just about to turn off the television. The sun is shining outside, and I'm happy that I've made it through another night.
My tavern is closed indefinitely tonight, after a fire that broke out early this morning. I had just dropped off my daughter at day care, and heard a bulletin on 1400 AM , one of our two sports-talk stations. I didn't even know they did local news, but at least on this occasion, they did. All I heard was "evacuation at Court Square" and I immediately thought I should drive over there. The big building at 500 Court Square was still standing, so that gave me a bit of hope. People were moving around Market Street, and seemed happy. Or at least, not burned. Then I turned up 5th Street, and saw one of the front windows, covered with a tarp, and a huge pile of debris on the sidewalk. Oh crap, I thought. I've worked at the Tavern since August of 2004, and have gone through many ups and downs while there. I started as a server, and became a manager and began bartending that December. It was the first place I was able to work since my separation from my first wife. Working the
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It's one small step towards the goal. Your effort to get your son to sleep brings back memories. One of the things that really helped me was learning that everbody wakes up in the middle of the night and then chooses to go back to sleep. It was something I wasn't really concious of. Realizing this helped me deal with my daughter. If conditioned to interaction and some kind of "entertainment" then children will choose to stay awake. Taking away the "entertainment" helps them to develop their own feeling of self sufficency, I think.
Look to the future. Our ten year old has no problems falling asleep. I just now read a few pages of The Jungle Book to him, he quickly fell asleep and tomorrow I'll have to wake him up and push him into his daily routine. The problem now is getting him to wake up!
Cordially,
Kevin Cox