The Sideways Screen

  You know the weirdest thing about my screen getting turned sideways yesterday was this: The day before yesterday I read this story about how these people played a trick on their boss and turned everything backwards and upside down, and .....the computer screen sideways. Now when I read this story I thought to myself "That is so weird, I didn't even know you could do that".

  So yesterday I am upstairs cleaning the bathroom when my dd7 comes upstairs and says "Mama, your computer screen is sideways" I thought she meant that the whole monitor was broke or something. So I ran down stairs and sure enough it was sideways. Guess who was playing at the computer?? Dd1!!! She climbed on the chair and was playing with the computer.  Isn't that the strangest thing???

  So.....I know you all are just dying to know how you can turn your screen sideways (in case you want to lay on the floor while on the computer) or upside down (maybe you would like to do a handstand while on the computer) so here it is.....you just press Ctrl+Alt+ the arrow in which ever direction you want your screen to be  TADA!!!

Sleep Problems

 Since dd1 was born, her sleep habits have been terrible. When she was a month old she would scream from 11:00pm till about 2:00am. Hubby and I would go back and forth, him walking her, me seeing if she wanted to nurse. It was exausting. She finally stopped doing this at about 6 months.

 My two oldest were always on a sleep schedule. But with dd1 it was next to impossible to get her to go to sleep in her crib. So I gave up and just let her go to sleep when we did or when she finally passed out ( I know, I know). Same with naps; I couldn't handle the hours of crying in her crib and I ended up letting her fall asleep when she felt like it.

  So after allowing a ton of bad habits I finally got frusterated and decided she had to go to sleep when I wanted her too.  I started putting her down for a nap at 1:00 and to bed at 9:00. However, she would only sleep for about 30-45 mins for her nap and she would wake up at 6:30am or 7:30am.

 For her nap I started leaving her in her crib for 2 hrs even if she woke up before that. She would always fall back to sleep. Now for her naps she almost always sleeps 2 hrs.

  Now nightime is still a different story. Although she does go to sleep fine she wakes up to nurse at about 11:30 pm and then I usually bring her in bed to nurse her, that way I can sleep. However, she is waking up about 10 times a night to nurse!!! I know this is waaay to much for a 18 month old. She also kicks us, screams, kicks the covers off ,ect  while she is in bed with us. I have tried to put her back in her crib but she just screams and screams. She might drift off to sleep but then wakes again in about 15 mins and starts screaming again, it is horrible.

  So I know I have created a monster and now I need to fix it. Any suggestions??? Or should I just let her scream in her crib till she gets the point??? All I know is that I have to do something, hubby and I are desperatly lacking in the sleep department.