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\"1-29-13\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sweet Smile<\/em><\/p>\n

Another ridiculous day at the Zinnecker house. \u00a0I couldn’t help but start to blame myself for Betsy’s poor nap habits. \u00a0It is just hard to juggle two kids. \u00a0I almost wrote “manage” instead of “juggle” but then it would’ve had to have read, “It is IMPOSSIBLE<\/em> to manage two kids.” \u00a0Am I right, moms? \u00a0No matter how hard I try it seems like I’m neglecting one of them. \u00a0I can’t leave Carson in the backyard for half an hour while I rock Betsy to sleep, and I can’t let her cry forever. \u00a0A lot of my day is spent torn between the needs of them both. \u00a0I want so desperately to be a really great mom and meet the needs of every member of the family, and it seems like I am failing someone at some point in the day. \u00a0That sounds a little dramatic. \u00a0I’m not on the edge ready to jump, but I am worn out and cried and prayed multiple times today asking for help. \u00a0Because this is impossible to do on my own.<\/p>\n

So I read a bunch of stuff on sleep today, in the books I have and online. \u00a0This is dangerous. \u00a0It’s hard to read all that information, some of which is conflicting, and balance that with what you know about your kid. \u00a0I think I at least have a place to start with Betsy. \u00a0I’m going to have to work harder at making sure she’s getting the sleep she needs. \u00a0Apparently she should be getting 14 hours of sleep total per day. \u00a0My calculations tell me that she’s getting about 10 hours, maybe 11. This is going to mean doing less outside the house, at least for a little while, to get a routine of sorts started. \u00a0I need to put her down when she needs it and not let her nap in the car quite as often as I do on days when I have to run errands. \u00a0I do wonder though, this can’t be what every mom does. \u00a0There are moms who go shopping and lunch with friends with their kids in tow. \u00a0They’re not sitting around the house in their pajamas watching the clock to make sure their baby goes down within that “magic window” I keep reading about that produces no crying. \u00a0I dislike this stage of life.<\/p>\n

One of the great things about this project is that I am already sick of iphone photos. \u00a0They’re not terrible, but I’m not becoming a better photographer by using instagram filters. \u00a0So yesterday and today I used our DSLR to take some photographs. \u00a0Today I even put the camera in manual<\/em> mode and played around with the f-stop, shutter speed and white balance to shoot some pictures of Betsy. \u00a0I’m probably going to be famous for my child photography come December…<\/p>\n

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Sweet Smile Another ridiculous day at the Zinnecker house. \u00a0I couldn’t help but start to blame myself for Betsy’s poor nap habits. \u00a0It is just hard to juggle two kids. \u00a0I almost wrote “manage” instead of “juggle” but then it would’ve had to have read, “It is IMPOSSIBLE to manage two kids.” \u00a0Am I right, … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,5],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sWbPG-29365","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}