saving time

for the first time ever in her two years existence on this earth, about a week ago, kaiya slept through the night from 8 to 6 for the FIRST time EVER!! and she went to sleep all by herself it was so surreal, i honestly didn't know if that would ever happen. I also didn't how much time i was losing in my life to her sleeping schedule and routine.

chad was a major factor in this whole night time sleeping thing--he even calculated how much time he saved me in putting her to sleep alone. i used to spend AT LEAST one hour every time i laid her down for nap or bed getting her to go to sleep before i would leave her. chad lays her down and tells her he loves her and that's that. no games, no waiting we just lay her down and go. she doesn't even cry.

so here it is in a simple equation:

two hours a day seven days a week= 14 hours a week putting her to sleep. 14 hours x four weeks is 56 hours a month which is about two and half FULL DAYS a month. which is 12 and a half days every six months or 25 FULL DAYS a year.

she is almost two, so i lost two full months of my life, AT the very least, putting her to bed. that doesn't count night waking and the nights when it took longer than an hour to get her to sleep. it also doesn't count the times when it took less than an hour to get this girl to sleep. i think i may have spoiled her just a little bit. :)

don't get me wrong, i seriously don't regret it at all, and there are so many reasons why i don't--the biggest being all the priceless cuddle, singing, kissing and "i love you mommy" time that could never be replaced. but next time around i will probably try something different. but i still won't do the crying it out thing. its just not the right thing for me.

so what have i been doing with all this free time? like i said i feel like i have so so much more time on my hands. i always wondered how everyone got so much done and i felt like i didn't have any time to do anything. now i know that i am not an extremely inadequate housewife as i previously assumed, although its definitely not my strong point. i just spent A LOT of time putting her to sleep. which left not a lot of time to do other things.

so here's my list (i like lists lately) of things i've been doing:

1. i read the twilight books, as stubborn as i've been to not read them i enjoyed it. silly story? yes. but still entertaining. here's how i saw it: twilight-didn't like it very much but couldn't put it down. new moon- really liked it. eclipse-had a hard time getting into it, but l really liked it once i did. stephanie meyer did a good job at making me want to read the one that comes out in aug, she leaves you hanging at the end of eclipse.
2. i decorated kaiyas name in wooden letters to hang in her room.


3. ive almost finished making a dress for ME. which i've never done before


4. i watched A LOT of What Not to Wear, my all time favorite show.


5. hanging out at the beach

to save more time i decided that im going to blog in proper fashion and not capitalize my letters. it's been an internal dilemma since i started blogging a couple of years ago, i just have a hard time not doing it "right", but i have to say it's definitely saving me time. thats my new motto in life.

p.s. sadly i forgot to bring my camera with me a lot on this trip so i have like no pictures, but i should be getting some from other camera's soon. keeping my fingers crossed.