kay has not bn qt herself these last few evenings & mornings. she seems very v tired.

when i look at the reasons, i realise that it's bn a big adjustmnt turning 4yrs and being without a stroller, and still haviing to keep up. she's managed, but she's lookiing exhausted, even b4 the day is started and again when it's over. so today i'm setting things right...

a new plan swings into action tmw:-

a) i aim to put kay to bed 1hr earlier, and b)  give ky 1:1 dad/mom time during that extra hour.

how?:

1 -kay and ky will sitll go in the room together for snuggle-time, but it wiill be at 8pm instead of 9pm.

2- kay will hv her story and ky wll hv just 1 page of his (instead of the whole book). then we'll hv prayers and ky will lv the room. then kay wll hv her milk and fall asleep, hopefully by 8.30/9pm

3 -while i'm with kay, instead of going to sleep early, ky will go to daddy in our room and he wll quietly read him a malay storybook.  (kills 2 birds wiith 1 stone:-  malay finally gets some airtime, and ky gets some much-needed daddy-time) 

4 -when i am done wth kay, i  will take over from dh and finish reading ky his englsh storybook, then settle him to bed.    all being well, ky shd be asleep by 9.30pm.  "cool" says ky when he hears of the plan. "that's fantastic!" he chortels...  :b

....in closing the conversation, i requested that kay for now not be made aware of 'the changes'.....

"no secrets in the family" was ky's immediate come-back. :) dh and  were gob-smacked.

"is it e title to one of yr books?"  i asked dh, befuzzled... "you've dug us into a hole" he responded quietly... "it's not my book".

"no, i just saw it somewhere," kynan said smiling.  "well yr right" i said, smiling back.

"just a trick to get her to sleep early" explained  hubby... helping me out of the hole...  ;)

****yikes, parenting can be a treachorous journey!   now let's see how the new plan goes...