File this under “A Lazy Mom’s Trick To Get More Sleep.” I made no-sew, mind-numbingly-easy, shortcut, DIY blackout curtains. Enough adjectives for you? I’m an over-explainer. Anyway, this isn’t the professional way, it’s the cheater way. Haha.
First the why. Although the faux wood blinds on Clara’s bedroom window provided a decent amount of light-blockage, I knew blackout fabric would make the room pitch black in the middle of the day (which means it might help with the just-one-forty-five-minute-nap that we’ve been getting these days). To JoAnn fabrics I flew, and purchased 5.5 yards of blackout fabric (which sort of felt like the white fabric on roller-blinds). Thanks to a 50% coupon I got it all for $15.
How I Made Blackout Curtains:
- I returned home with the 5.5 yards of fabric (I measured her existing curtains to see how much I’d need beforehand)
- I washed the fabric (it said dry clean only but the lady at the counter said I could wash it on cold and air dry it without any issue and she was right)
- I unclipped the two fabric curtain panels from Clara’s room and laid one on the floor on top of the blackout fabric to use as a template
- I cut two blackout curtain panels to the same size as the two curtains
- I debated sewing the back side of the fabric to the back side of the blackout fabric on three sides and then turning it rightside-in to hand sew the top closed, creating a finished panel the same way you’d make a pillow cover
- I realized I had four minutes before nap time and couldn’t wait to see if the blackout curtain would even make a difference
- I used my ring clips along the curtain rod to clip the curtain up in front of the blackout fabric without sewing anything together (thanks to the weight of both materials, the fabric drapes down in front of the liner, looking virtually identical to how it looked without it)
Haha, so with that description of virtually identical, I will now share a photo of Clara’s room that looks pretty much the same as many others I’ve shown sans blackout liner. Haha. But know that it’s there. Lurking.
So yeah, I’ll probably go back and sew at least a few sides of them together like a proper semi-dysfunctional seamstress (remember, I’m not exactly old friends with Oh Brother, but for now… it works). Clara has been giving us about 90 minutes for naptime instead of 45 for the past two days since we added it (we’ll take it!) and now sleeps 12+ straight hours overnight (from 7:30 pm to 8 am). In the keep-it-real department, she has always been an awesome night sleeper (I take no credit, it’s just how she was made) so this was more about attempting to convince her that napping for more than 45 minutes in the 12-ish hour span of day between that awesome night of sleep is a good idea. It was a total bonus that her usual 7:30 wake up time scooched back to 8.
So those DIY blackout curtain liners are well worth the fifteen bucks and fifteen minutes spent. Sleeping until 8 for the past two days has been amazing life saving, especially since we’ve been going to bed around 2am due to book stuff. But it’s all worth it! Can’t wait to share sneak peeks of our book shoots and other how-does-this-word-doc-become-an-actual-book stuff as we go (now that the final manuscript is in as of last night, well, this morning at 2:14am). Woot!
Have you guys taken any shortcuts lately? Are you all in complete disbelief that Clara runs around all day long and only naps for 45-90 minutes? When the Bowers came to visit Will was regularly serving up three hour naps and Jeremy couldn’t believe how Clara would pop back up a little over a half-hour later and be raring to go. And yes, I was jealous of their sweetly slumbering son. Very, very jealous. Do you know how much backsplash tile we could start installing over a nice three hour chunk of time? Haha. That’s ok though, we definitely can’t complain about the awesome night sleep Clara has given us pretty much from day one. And the fact that we can put her to bed at 7:30 and hammer away from 8 o-clock on is pretty darn awesome.
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Amy says
We did black out curtains at about 4 months with our daughter and she is a super napper. This is the one piece of advice I share with new moms. Yay for blackout curtains!
Ashley Jensen says
I just scored some curtains at Target that were $24.99 in the store one day and $12.49 online the next! They are not black out so I will be doing the same project and cheating all the way, though I will probably end up using no sew tape for the seams. Our girl has always been a great sleeper. Even now at the age of 4 she will sleep 10+ hours at night and take 1.5 to 3.5 hour naps almost every day! She sometimes skips the nap but does just fine. She gets it from her Dada.
Leigh says
I am a firm believer in black out curtains. We’ve had them in our little man’s room since day one. He slept through the night from 7 weeks old until 4.5 months and then…he stopped when he started teething. He’s now 6 months old and won’t go to sleep until around 9pm is up 2-3 times each night and wide awake around 6am. Add this to the fact my husband and I both work full-time outside the home and you have some really tired parents! I am so jealous Clara is such a good sleeper!!!!
I am also semi friends with my Brother sewing machine. Sometimes I swear he deosnt like me.
YoungHouseLove says
Aw Leigh, I’m so sorry it’s so hard around there with the teething (and the sleep aftermath)! Here’s hoping it reverts soon! Clara definitely would change her routine a bit with teeth or things like the time change for daylight savings (inching things up an hour or even two, suddenly going to bed an hour later, etc) but slowly would re-adapt and go back to longer stretches. Here’s hoping your little man gets back to things soon!
xo,
s
Stesse says
Perfect timing on this post – we just moved into our new house & desperately need blackout curtains. Your tutorial tied with one I found on using electrical conduit as a curtain rod with Ikea finials will save us a TON of money. Plus, I get to wrestle with my sewing machine (oh brother…)!
Danielle says
Oh my gosh this post couldn’t have come at a better time! My husband and I were talking about needing to buy new curtains because our bedroom lets so much light in. Now that our little one is here (three weeks old today!) and we are spending time in there more often (I always loved naps but now they are my best friend!) while I’m on maternity leave we wanted something that would be a bit darker. This is such a great idea! While our curtains have tabs and not clips like yours I know we can rig something up that will work and cost MUCH less than buying four new curtain panels! THANK YOU!
Diana @ Boy + Girl says
Great idea! I might try this for my own bedroom. Sleeping in on the weekends is virtually impossible with so much light streaming in. Although, I’m a morning person anyway so I’m not sure it would make a huge difference for me. The boy on the other hand may sleep until dinner. Good thing or bad thing? I can’t decide.
-Diana
YoungHouseLove says
Haha- could go either way…
xo,
s
Kay says
Clara is so happy & sleeps so well at night, though, so y’all are doing something right!
Really, and I mean this, Dr. Weissbluth’s “Happy Baby, Healthy Sleep Habits” is priceless.
I was not a huge baby book reader (so many seem common sense marketing schemes)! But the tactics he teaches (all the way to preschoolers) are not necessarily intuitive.
It’s a bit of a hard read. But worth it.
YoungHouseLove says
Thanks for the recommendation Kay!
xo,
s
Meredith says
I took a week off at Christmas and went to what I like to call “Mama Leigh’s Sewing School”—my mom is a sewing master and I LOVE to sew when she’s around, because whenever I encounter a snafu/snag I can just say “Mom!” and she’ll fix it. It’s AWESOME. If I could sew that way all the time I wouldn’t ever feel like “oh, brother”. Two baby quilts completed, minimal swearing involved. :)
YoungHouseLove says
That’s amazing! Congrats!
xo,
s
Morgan @ Created With Love says
This is great! I need to do some of these for my 17 month old…his faux wooden blinds are definitely not blacking out enough…especially on the weekend mornings when he should be sleeping a little later than 6am! (He’s on school morning mode). I don’t have a sewing machine, so this would be a great fix. How heavy is the overlaying main fabric – want to make sure whatever I get will drape cleanly over the blackout fabric like yours does! http://www.createdwithlove.blogspot.com & http://www.laughter-ever-after.blogspot.com
YoungHouseLove says
I would describe the curtain fabric as pretty thick and weighty. It’s sort of like the material on indoor/outdoor pillows. Hope it helps!
xo,
s
Kristin F says
I feel your pain about the sleeping. My oldest was like that from BIRTH! I remember when she was two weeks old crying and saying to her “you’re a newborn, you’re supposed to sleep all the time!”Not only did it cost me precious “chore” time, it cost us a babysitter. Emma was sleeping through the night by the time she was 2 weeks old (6 hrs) but never, and I am not exaggerating, never napped consistently. My BFF was her sitter and had 2 kids under 4, both of whom were marathon nappers. Well, after two months of watching my napless child, she told me she couldn’t do it anymore. She just couldn’t get anything done while her kids were sleeping since mine was wide awake. Her next sitter had to put her pack-n-play into a separate room as Emma wouldn’t sleep and disturbed the other babies. Now, as a then FT working mom, I appreciated the 12 hrs at night she gave but would have truly loved an afternoon free when I was home! Now at 13, she is still a 12-hr night sleeper if we let her, but won’t nap unless she is crazy sick.
ps: 2nd child was better in the sleep dept but made up for it with asthma related hospital visits and fussiness. We joke if he’d been first, he’d be the only. :)
Camille says
We had the same experience with black out shades: the first time we used them, her naps doubled, and she never looked back. I have two energizer bunny babies like Clara, and they needed to know: dark room = nap time! If we ever have a third kid I will install black outs before it emerges from the womb. I work at home too, so I know exactly how precious those naps are :)
Alissa says
I was born in Alaska in spring and my folks didn’t have blackout curtains in their home. Then they were driving through a tunnel with five-month-old me and I started whimpering. They couldn’t figure out why until they realized that living my first few months of life in Alaska summer I had never seen dark! So they flipped on the dome light for the rest of the tunnel and I was fine.
YoungHouseLove says
That’s so cute!
xo,
s
Erika says
I was actually getting amazingly jealous of the thought of a 90-minute nap + 12 hours of night-sleep. I can’t even fathom a 3-hour nap, ha. The whole world would be my oyster with that amount of free time while baby was down!
Pamela says
Omg I’m so jealous! I wish my daughter either a) slept that long at night or b) had such long nap.
Lately she’s been sleeping from 7pm to 7am but she still wakes up a few times in between, and she used to have two 1.5 hour naps during the day but now she is down to only one. I miss sleep :( Lol.
I tell myself she’s 15 months old so only another 15 months to go and she should sleep really well….I hope haha.
Melissa Evans says
Great job! I got a sewing machine for Christmas last year….one of the best presents ever.
I’ll admit…I find sewing machines to be a bit intimidating. I found that if I threaded the machine wrong..and I start sewing on the dining room table..the dining room table would pound, the boyfriend glares at me…..and proceeds to say “that doesn’t sound right”…..so SO frustrating! lol
Sarah Kyle says
Congratulations on getting the manuscript submitted!!
I can’t wait to see the book!
Kate from zmombie.com says
I might have to do something like this. We have blackout shades, but a whole lot of light comes in around the side. I might try some drapes on the side to see if it helps. Ellie only ever naps for 45 minutes. (And she wakes up every 2-3 hours). I’m thinking she might be teething. At least that’s what her grandma says. :)
Erin @ One Project at a Time says
I sewed some blackout fabric into the panels I made for my son’s room from the start, and we have been thrilled with the results. His room is dark and cave-like in the middle of the day, and my 3 year old is still taking 3 hour naps. Life. Saver. http://oneprojectatatime.blogspot.com/2011/02/90-curtain-call.html
YoungHouseLove says
3 hour naps! Amazing!
xo,
s
Stephanie says
Those curtains are so pretty, I always love seeing them in pics of Clara’s room. I also wanted to give you a tip on sewing in the lining. I’ve sewn a couple of panels for my really sunny house and I’ve found the best way is to cut the lining smaller than the curtain and then hem all the edges. For the one’s I did, I had a 1/2 inch hem on the sides and a 2 inch hem on the top and bottom. So I cut the lining 1 inch short on the sides and 4 inches short on the top and bottom. Then fold the sides in 1/2 inch, iron, then fold 1/2 inch again, iron, and sew. Same for the top and bottom with 2 inch folds. But since your curtains are probably already the size you want, you’d probably want to do smaller hems. If you sew it like a pillow it may have a little poof at the seams unless you sew it again once you flipped it right side out. But however you do it, I’m sure they’ll look great! That’s just what worked for me.
BTW I’m absolutely in love with your newly painted kitchen. You guys have done an amazing job! Can’t wait to see the rest of it!
YoungHouseLove says
Great tips! Thanks Stephanie!
xo,
s
Stephanie says
Way to go! Love how you share your real, not-so-professional projects.
My little one was also a great night time sleeper (7:30-8am too!), but I could never figure out why he wouldn’t nap for 3 hours in the afternoon like his cousins. Then I found out that his cousins were always awake 2 or 3 times in the night all through toddlerhood. So, I guess it’s a trade-off. 12+ hours ain’t such a bad thing!
AS says
I love Clara posts! I will be trying this for my non-napping six month old. Thank you for sharing the reality of your life!
Amanda says
In the keep-it-real department, she has always been an awesome night sleeper (I take no credit, it’s just how she was made)
Go on, take credit, you made her. :)
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, that’s sweet to say. I think we totally got lucky!
xo,
s
Jenny says
Hmmm…Maybe this will be my first sewing project this year to help insulate against the cold up here in the north. I have some I bought in previous years the have, um, gotten ruined when laundered. This is probably a cheaper way to go (with a coupon, of course).
Janine says
Wonderful idea. The curtains I bought that said they are blackout curtains are not so black out. I think I will adapt your idea to my lame ones.
Pam @ diy Design Fanatic says
Great job on the blackout curtains! My oldest daughter only took one 20 minute nap a day when she was little and I couldn’t get anything done. Then I had my 2nd daughter only 14 1/2 months later, but thankfully, she loved her naps and when she was old enough to walk would head to her nap room exactly at 1:30pm and sleep for 2 hours.
Dianne says
Great job with the blackout fabric! I have been sewing with blackout fabric for over 20 years in all of our homes(cuts down on inside fabric decay) and love it’s insulating properties. I wash it in hot and dry it on medium with no problems. After purchasing hundreds of yards over the years and also purchasing paint protection tarps, I noticed they were the same fabric (rubber liner with adhered fabric on both sides). The paint tarps have a wider width (albeit some are stitched to make them wider) and usually quite a bit less expensive per yard, even with the Joanne’s 40% off coupon. So glad Clara is napping a bit longer for you- which I’m sure makes you all :-).
YoungHouseLove says
Such a great tip about those tarps Dianne!
xo,
s
Ang says
Wow! Great trick. You’re so crafty! I can’t help but throw in a plug fir a very amazing kid’s clock that also helps kids and patents get sleep. My cousin invented it, and I know you monitor comments so if you don’t wanna shareknow I understand. It’s called http://www.MyTotClock.com. This is fir those parents whose kids just won’t sleep. And it does other cool stuff too like play white noise and stories! Love the blackout curtains. I might make ME some!
Ang says
Ugh! Sorry about the typos, I’m using my phone!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, no worries! Thanks for the tip!
xo,
s
Wendy says
Love the curtains! Love the sleep!
Reader Editing Time: “semi-disfunctional seamstress” … the “i” in “disfunctional” should be a “y.”
Peace.
YoungHouseLove says
Thanks Wendy! Fixed!
xo,
s
m @ random musings says
not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but you dont need to do the whole turn it inside out gymnastic – just iron a 1/2″ seam allowance and sew with wrong sides together 1/8″ from the edge. google “tutorial … how to sew a roman shade” at 33 shades of green for pics of the process.
YoungHouseLove says
Thanks for the tip M!
xo,
s
CampDallas says
I’m with you on this! Our 9-month old, Declan, gives us a good 11 hours at night (can’t complain there! He’s a Ferber graduate!)….and 2 or 3 thirty-minute naps during the day. He wants to go to bed by 6:30 – 7, and as a working mother, it’s kind of tough, because I only get to see him for a couple hours. I keep wondering if he’ll start to nap longer when he gets older, but Clara has led me to believe I should dream on…! So, so grateful for that night sleep, though!! Totally worth the short naps!! Oh, and I introduced my husband to YHL last night (we’re debating buying a house that needs some help). He kept asking all these questions about your house projects, your blog, etc., and I proceeded to answer questions about you guys like we are old friends. So crazy, this blogging world! :-)
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, I love it.
xo,
s
Michelle (aka mybelle101) says
My oldest was exactly the same way…slept through the night (a full 8-hour stretch) at 8 weeks old, but quickly dropped to one just one nap, and then decided he didn’t need a nap at all about a week after we brought his baby brother home from the hospital. He was 25 months old. If only I had had some blackout curtains! I hope Clara gives you many, many more, longer naps! ;) Here’s to high-energy kids! LOL
Molly says
When I made curtains for our nursery, I was told that real “blackout” lining fabric was made with lead and that “thermal” lining fabric was made with rubber. I didn’t want to use lead in the nursery so we went with the thermal, which insulates well and does a decent job at blocking light (though not as good as real blackout fabric would).
YoungHouseLove says
I think all that they sell at JoAnne is the thermal lining fabric! I tried to find the “real” stuff (not knowing about the lead thing- yikes!) and the woman pointed to the sign that said “thermal liner” and said “this is the same thing” – whew!
xo,
s
Whitney says
LOVE the drapery! Is that Amy Butler fabric?
YoungHouseLove says
It’s actually Waverly from an outlet a few years back!
xo,
s
Teri says
Good idea on the “blackout curtains”! I have three girls and the older two were never good nappers… I always blamed it on my husband (it’s never my fault, haha!) and never thought of trying blackout curtains. With baby girl #3 I am definitely going to be using your trick. Thanks for the inspiration!
Kathy says
Our bedroom curtains are done this way. And likely to stay so because I kind of like changing our curtains seasonally. Plus, when we went on vacation, I unclipped one of the panels, threw it in our suitcase, and rearranged the other so it covered the whole window (for insulation reasons). Great for convincing our 15 month old that it really was time to go to sleep, even though it was still light out in California…
Robyn says
We LOVE our blackout curtains. They help a lot in the summer too to keep our daughter’s western exposure room a lot cooler.
I cannot emphasize enough how incredibly lucky you guys are that Clara is a good sleeper. The entire first year plus of my daughter’s life, ALL I talked about/thought about/Googled/etc. was how to get more sleep. You have no idea what kind of bullet you’ve dodged in Clara being a naturally easy sleeper. Just the idea that you never had to pick up a sleep book or cry your(own)self to sleep thinking about how you were ever going to solve this “problem.” Wow. I cannot imagine the first year of my daughter’s life without those issues. And they continue to this day and she’s 18.5 months old!
I wish it worked the way your mom says it does and every parent who’s never had to endure months of sleep deprivation would get the pleasure with #2 and every parent who HAS endured months of sleep deprivation would get a break with #2. I’m afraid it doesn’t work that way.
Baby #2 due in July. I’ll report back on my experience! I’m told that #2 is tough because you have #1 as the benchmark. Lucky for my #2 the bar is pretty low!! :)
YoungHouseLove says
Aw, I hope baby #2 is fabulously sleepy! Haha. My BFF had a baby who never slept and two years later she had a little guy who is so sleepy! He can fall asleep anywhere, anytime. It’s awesome and she so deserved a break! Hope you get one too!
xo,
s
Brigid from www.naturallyattached.com says
Oh. My. Gosh. You just saved my life! I haven’t gotten around to buying proper blackout curtains or shades for my 14 month old son’s bedroom so I’ve been layering blanket tacked up to the wall over the wood blinds. Can you say UGLY? This is such an easy way to get it done quick, easy & cheap! He sleeps SO much better when it’s dark in a room – who could blame him?
LOVE LOVE LOVE!
Pam C says
Um…yeah. No complaining about Clara’s short naps. Remember, you aren’t scheduling projects around work-away-from-home schedules. I’m not insinuating that you aren’t busy (I think you’re way busier than most couples) but you seem to have a lot more control over your daily schedule. Yes, I’m jealous! Ha!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha- don’t be jealous! I usually have my arse parked in a desk chair from 8am-8pm (writing posts, sizing photos, answering comments, researching projects, writing book/magazine contributor stuff, managing ads, organizing giveaways – all that makes blogging a total desk job!). Most of our projects are done in the evenings or on weekends just like folks who go off to work every day! That’s how we painted our cabinets over the last three weeks – at night after C was in bed or during her naps on the weekend (when the blog is less active so we can sneak away).
xo,
s
Lizzie says
OFF TOPIC: a story John may enjoy http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/01/05/imus-makes-greatest-map-united-states?hpt=hp_c2
YoungHouseLove says
Amazing! Off to show him!
xo,
s
Cherri Porter says
Mine did not nap and at age eleven still has trouble sleeping.
ange says
Great idea and I so miss those curtains, I had the same ones in my dining room but had to leave them behind when we moved this summer. My son is 2.5 years old and doesn’t nap, anymore, at all. If he does take a nap like the other day, he is then up until 1am. Yes, it’s true, a two hour nap during the day put his bedtime at 1am. He was quite chipper and thought 7:30am would be a good time to wake up the next day. I miss nap time and I am sure you enjoy the napping! Looking forward to seeing you at Haven!
Susan says
I feel your pain! My 16 month old son also 45-60 minute naps everyday, I only wish he woke up at 7! Heck, I wish he would sleep until 6 most mornings! My 4 year old used to take those 3-4 hour daily marathon naps, right up until age 3. It was AMAZING, I got so much done! Maybe I will try your super sophisticated blackout curtain technique…
Lauren says
I wish I had seen this before I bought blackout curtains! This looks so easy and so much cheaper. But yeah, blackout curtains rule. Nora is the same — great night sleep, but not so much with the napping. The blackout curtains help a lot. We love them so much we even bought travel blackout curtains that attach with suction cups. Favorite thing ever.
Rainey says
Thanks SO much for this post. Literally, an answer to a new mom’s prayers. I had just laid my 7 month old son down for a nap and resolved to go to JoAnn’s for blackout material when I read your post. He too thinks 20-40 minutes of napping is plenty! Not so. Plus, if he wakes up and sees me as I lay him down in his crib, it’s all over with! Fingers crossed the curtains with work …
Thanks also for your post on highchairs. We’d been getting by using his Bumbo, but I decided it was high time to order the real thing. Problem was I couldn’t find a full-size highchair that seemed worth the money. Thanks to your review, he’ll be eating his mushy banana in that Fisher Price booster tomorrow!
Rainey
PS – We’re neighbors! (well, kinda) I’m over in Cville.
YoungHouseLove says
Hi neighbor! Glad to help!
xo,
s
tina says
if you have/ or soon get a tv special/series offer please oblige! you’re so entertaining & likeable. i’m all about the blackout panels from day 1. we used them to signal day & night differences with our infants.
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, so sorry Tina, a show of our own is just not for us! We love hiding behind our computers!
xo,
s
Darcy says
YEAH!! Congratulations on getting your final manuscript in!!! That has to feel sooo good to have that completed! I know that there is still so much to do (actual projects, pictures, etc. etc.) but I hope you are taking a few minutes today to bask in the knowledge that it is done!! And the projects and the picture taking is the good stuff (right?!?) –so I hope you go out to dinner tonight to celebrate!!
So — to the topic at hand…Love the black out curtain idea– I am ALL for anything that can get me more sleep!!
(in fact, my 2yo still uses a binky just because he will sleep for 2+ hours with it, instead of 45 min. without!)
And I think as busy as you all have been, this little shortcut that no-one will ever see, is completely justifiable!! I say, don’t do it!! (sewing any parts of this)
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks Darcy!
xo,
s
Anna P. says
I think I have you beat on the “laziest mom” solution. I don’t have curtains up in my kiddos’ room yet, so I’ve clothes pinned black trash bags to the back of the faux wood blinds. Not the prettiest fix for a longer night’s sleep, but it was quick and works like a charm for now!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha- whatever works!
xo
s
John says
Any leftover dot tile would look great on Clara’s toy sink/stove backsplash as she really liked it.
YoungHouseLove says
Haha- you’re reading my mind! I called dibs on the extra stuff after we finished building it last week!
xo,
s
Zoë says
When I went through sleep struggles with my littles, I thought about getting blackout blinds or curtains, but couldn’t figure out how to do it as we only now have the same curtain rods and clips like you use (thanks for the inspiration BTW).I’m not a confident DIYer, but you guys give me hope. Now I have no need for them as I have been blessed with great sleepers. It took a while to get there though. My oldest and youngest both went on nap strikes at 6 weeks old, where they would only sleep for 45 minutes total at a time (middle kid napped like a champ). Of course, 20 minutes of that was holding them until they were fully asleep and putting them down in the crib, only to have them wake up 25 minutes later. They always slept great at night though. With my youngest, I went with the cuddle nap, meaning I could help her through the 45 minute transition by rocking or giving back the paci, and then she would get better sleep. That lasted for a couple of months. Now at 15 months old, she takes one nap that is 2-3 hours long, plus she sleeps through all the noise at daycare, and sleeps for 12 hours at night. I think it’s her way of thanking us for giving her what she needed when she was tiny. I wouldn’t mind the odd cuddle nap these days though.
Susannah says
Sherry, if you are lazy, the rest of us are DEAD! I am constantly thinking to myself that you all must have an extra 12 hours in your day up there in Richmond. :)
And every parent knows that it’s worth pretty much anything to get a few more minutes of sleep out of their kiddos. Great work! Our daughter was a short napper, too, and I’d second the recommendation of the Healthy Sleep Habits book. It was a life changer for us!
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks Susannah!
xo,
s