Aside from the current two year old go to sleep issues, I love bedtime.  I love snuggling with clean, snuggly babies and reading our favorite stories.  And then it’s time for back scratches and songs.  Lucky for me, I still have two bedtimes in my house.

It’s nice to have kids in the “sit in the lap” stage, because it gives me time to reflect on the logistics of the day. And there is something about night that gives me a sense of accomplishment. No matter the fails that were faced, it’s over now and we can take a deep breath knowing we made it through another day. (It also helps that crawling into bed myself is in sight.)

I also love mornings, partly for the same reason I love the end of the day. Knowing it’s a new day to do things better, to not lose my patience (with a 2 year old who loves to push my buttons and a 1 year old who put everything in her mouth), and to be more present in those ‘look over moments’ of play time on the rug. 

I started identifying these two favorite times of day when I became a mother. When you have a newborn, you are up at all hours of the night, and there is this sense that it’s just the two of you. There is also a certain peace that comes with gazing out at a full moon or watching the sunrise with said newborn. It’s almost like you’re stealing time and you know you wouldn’t have that moment if it weren’t for your little one. Snoozing away as you walk around the room with them.

Nikki commentary: After bath time, Jeffrey has two options when leaving the bathroom, to go left to his room to get dressed or to run into our bedroom and jump on the bed, naked!  He usually chooses the latter. This is also when we play “good night, wake up” which is a simple game of saying “good night” followed by pretend sleep and Jeffrey shouting  “wake up” and him jumping on us.  

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