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I'm going to throw back to thursday instead Yesterday I had to stay home from work with my sick infant. While home for the day I managed to play with and take care of said sick infant (which included a whole lot of nursing), bring big sister to preschool and have a really nice breakfast with her at her school, clean the kitchen including loading running and unloading the dishwasher, do six loads of laundry and make the beds back up after sheet washing, pick sister up from school and feed her and get her ready for soccer practice, catch up with some girlfriends, AND managed to get a half day's worth of work done. #boom Sometimes I think I could rule the world if i just had one day a week at home.

@Foodnerd81: with the way the baby sleeps (or more correctly, doesn't sleep) I certainly FEEL like I'm awake for 40 hours a day!

@hellobeeboston: Do tell! How on earth do you quit it? It's such a lifeline for me/us!

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I think my parenting win for the day was managing to get the kids out of the house twice today. Once in the morning to continue our "find a new park everyday" quest. And then once more in the afternoon for my sanity and the necessary nap that LO1 refuses to take. I swear, naps in the car could be the end of me...until potty training, and big boy bed, and...

@sweetooth: same, re: lifeline.

We were away for the long weekend and the bad behavior was especially bad. We've been talking about limiting for a while so this weekend was the last straw. LO will be 4 in October and I feel like his mind was turning to mush. So. Got back and said the iPad was gone forever, made sure he knew it wasn't a punishment but that it was just gone. Now, I admit to more yelling due to LO harassing his almost 1 year old brother all week, but there was more playing and conversation and using his imagination. I did rely on it in the mornings as I'm on my own to get the boys fed and ready and myself out to work, but we did ok all week... We will see. I'm only 5 days in. Oh - and we didn't cut all screen time. I allowed one 20 minute show on Amazon prime each morning and night!

@Foodnerd81: omg we deleted YouTube from iPads and iPhones long ago! SO. BAD! I hated it... Our new problem was the Disney Jr app and an endless stream of terrible shows. Ugh. I had it.

@hellobeeboston: Thank you for sharing! My two boys are 19 months apart and sometimes the only way I can manage to feed all three of us at once is to rely heavily on the iPad. I feel like it's seriously messing with my LO1's ability to eat well though. Maybe I need to just "lose" the iPad. It's just gone! I don't know where it is! Eat your carbs!

DD went down so easy tonight! soooo thankful bc earlier this week she was sick and no one was getting any sleep.

I survived my second full day solo with both kids! We did soft play, lunch out, then the museum for a nature exhibition. I have fitted a buggy board to the pram! It doesn't sound a lot, but being alone with both kids is a minefield of anxiety triggers for me.... and getting out and about with two is a logistical nightmare that I have avoided until now...... but I'm determined to get over this and do the SAH mummy thing until I go back to work at the end of the year (it will be my only chance to actually do it). So yeah, we survived! Two days in a row, soft play, two different museums, six meals and countless trips to the toilet....! Today I'm taking both kids to E's swimming lesson alone because DH is working (I would usually ask my inlaws to have the baby while I take E). I'm doing it