Morning Snuggles

Ever since our little girl was teeny tiny, she'd wake up fairly early in the morning, around 5 or 6 AM. Since this was before we had to get up, I'd slip in to give her the pacifier and she'd go back to sleep for a little while. The last couple of weeks, well probably more like a month or more, she'd be standing up waiting for me to come in. The pacifier didn't do the trick anymore, so now she comes into bed with us until it's time to get up. This is okay as long as we are close to getting up, but it doesn't work very well when it happens at 3 or 3:30 in the morning! Little girl is a bed HOG.

We figured out that most of the time when she wakes up super early, something is bothering her, usually her teeth. A little TLC and a lullaby or two and she'll go back to bed.

The 6 AM wake ups, don't bother me too much because I enjoy getting to snuggle with her for the 30 minutes or so before hubby is out of the shower and ready to take over. Little girl doesn't want to snuggle with Mommy too much during the day anymore.

A little frustrated

I'm a little frustrated/worn out right now. Since about 2006, I have been a sounding board for my Mom. It started with my the process of my grandfather moving into the apartment at my parents house. First it was the stress of an independent 80+ man figuring out how to live in a new place basically with his child. Then it was the issues around diagnosing his ALS and following treatment, hospice care, and death in 2007. Since then it's been one thing after another... we'll go weeks without anything, then we'll have weeks where there is something everyday.

I know she needs someone to talk to and I don't mind being there for her. But, sometimes it feels like I am being taken advantage of. When she calls, she asks what I'm doing, but it doesn't matter if I am busy or not - she just keeps going. I don't know what to do.