Back when Ellie was about a month old, I wrote about the difference an hour makes when a little baby is willing to take a nap out of your arms.  I was so happy to just have a little free time to myself!

Now, I’m experiencing another slightly less positive effect of a changing nap.  For the last couple weeks, Ellie has been napping from around 10:00-12:00 in the morning.  Note:  I am NOT complaining about a two-hour nap!  But, the morning (rather than afternoon) nap causes a few problems for me.

1. All of Ellie’s little friends nap in the afternoon.  So this makes it difficult for us to get together with and makes me feel a little housebound.  After lunch, we’re ready to go have some fun and everyone else is sleeping!

2. The only time I can easily or efficiently blog or sew is during Ellie’s naptime .  This means I’ve been sewing in the morning.  But that uses up my good “It’s morning!  It’s not hot! Let’s get stuff done” energy and by the afternoon, I’m tired and just want to sit around.  Sewing is mostly sitting around (plus it’s fun!) so I don’t mind doing that in the afternoon.  But cleaning house?  Accomplishing anything else?  Not much of that is getting done around here.

3.  All the fun stuff for kids is scheduled in the morning (like story time at the library or the singalong at the local bookstore).  I was just thinking I should start taking Ellie to that kind of stuff because she’s starting to really love interacting with other kids and getting out of the house.  Sorry Ellie!

Poor me.  🙂  I guess I just need to develop a little bit of discipline and change my own schedule.  The problem is that I’m getting more and more pregnant, which means I just want to nap all afternoon.  On the plus side, this does mean that Ellie is perfectly happy to go to bed at 7:30 rather than staying up until 10:00!