She's asleep!

[Not_Giving_Up]

Not sure if it was the classical music or pure exhaustion, but she is OUT now! The bummer part, I have to be up in 3 1/2 hours, so what's the point of sleeping??? I know I'll end up sleeping through the alarm, so I guess I'm up for a while.

[Heidi]

1. Everybody, be vewy, vewy quiet now!

And _do not_ wakeup the Not_Giving_Up_Spawn!

(Now you're freeeeeeeeeeeeeee to play, Not_Giving_Up!) :hi:

[Not_Giving_Up]

2. lol

Well, there are two spawns, technically. One has been sleeping for quite a while though.

I had a policy when they were infants. You wake 'em, you take 'em. People learned to shut up when my kids were napping.

[Heidi]

3. Excellent policy!

And I really appreciate that you just let your spawn wear themselves out. I used to know a woman who "Robo-dosed" her kids when they got too "wakey." She'd give 'em a shot of Robatussin to make 'em sleepy. What a nutjob. You sound like a good mom, N_G_U.

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. I thought so

I worked really well on the grandparents. When my son was tiny, he refused naps, and I didn't care if it was 3 or 4 in the afternoon. My mom would be over, telling me that he'd be up all night, and just be itching to wake him up. If you woke him up, he'd be absolutely horrid for the rest of the day. Fuck that, let him sleep. He's always been an early riser, not much trouble at night.

My daughter is a night critter, and I feel her pain, but she has to be awake for school. She takes meds that are supposed to help her sleep, but nothing was working tonight.

I've never given either one of them meds to make them sleep. Joked about it lots though! I do what I can!

[NMMNG]

8. I remember someone who would give her kids a heaping dose of Tylenol

just to knock them out. Of course the thing was she wanted them to be out of her hair so she could enjoy her own "medicines". :eyes:

[Heidi]

10. Man, that's sad.

She's probably a big advocate of DARE, too, huh? :eyes:

[Not_Giving_Up]

11. Yeah, I've known people that did that too

Not me. That's just awful!

[WCGreen]

4. WHAT DID YOU SAY!!!!!!!!!!

[Not_Giving_Up]

6. SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Unless you want a cranky child on your doorstep, keep it down!

[Heidi]

7. Ssssshhhhhhhhhhh!

Don't make N_G_U bring out the duct tape, bubba! :rofl:

[Not_Giving_Up]

9. Damn straight!

Don't make me open a can of whoop ass!

[WCGreen]

15. Promises promises

[Not_Giving_Up]

17. Don't make me reach back there!

You WILL be sorry!

[WCGreen]

19. You have a trailer.....

I always wanted to live in a trailer....

Kind of forces you to downsize.....

[Not_Giving_Up]

20. Ha! We have stuff stored in my MIL's garage

Some trailers are huge though...freakin triple wides!

Not a fun place to be when the tornado warning goes out though!

[WCGreen]

22. Yea, My MIL has stuff stored in my Garage.....

That's why i want to downsize....

[Not_Giving_Up]

24. Well, her garage has a loft to it

That's where we have boxes and boxes of crap.

[Heddi]

12. I'm heading over with some friends

we'll be quiet. I promise

[Not_Giving_Up]

13. I don't think you'll all fit in my trailer

I played French Horn years and years ago. Those were the days!

[Heddi]

14. Oh that's okay. We'll hang outside

by the way, recheck my post. I gathered up a few more for the par-tay!

[Not_Giving_Up]

16. Oh, good! The neighbors will love that!

I call the cops on them regularly for making my trailer vibrate with their music after 11 PM. Yes, it is payback time!

[Heddi]

18. I lived in a trailer most my life

I thought it was against the law to make inhabitable dwellings out of tissue paper :shrug:

[Not_Giving_Up]

21. I know...my daughter just doesn't get that I hear all

Her room is just a wall away from the living room. I can hear her getting into and out of bed, any noise she makes.

[Heddi]

23. I hated my room configuration

because my room was right off the living room. Not only could everyone basically burp in my sleep, but due to the...unique acoustics of our trailer, I could hear EVERY sound from the living room MAGNIFIED times 10. It was horrid. I mean, the TV could be at a barely audible level in the LR, but it was like sonic fucking boom in my bedroom.

I like houseboats because they're like trailers on the water.

[Not_Giving_Up]

25. What I hate is the air vents

My room gets blasted with cold air, but my son's room gets very little because he's at the other end.

[Heddi]

26. Yup. We didn't have central heating so

we had to use a kerosene heater in the hallway. My mom's was at one end, mine was at the other--so no matter what you did, one was freezing and the other was sweating and wearing tank-tops in 20F weather

[Not_Giving_Up]

27. The last place we lived had central air, but not heat

That suked big time. Space heaters everywhere in a trailer. Yeah, I felt good about that. All of them would cut off if tipped over, and we made sure nothing was around them to catch fire. One was remote controlled, and we kept it in the living room. The parakeet started imitating the beep it made when a button was pushed.

[cabbage08]

28. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz