My Opinion on Co-Sleeping (Take it or Leave it)

So I know it has been a while,  I have been managing Black Friday Ads, Black Friday offers... two kids, two cats and a husband....

Now taking a deep breath, I am back to blogging with fabulous parental advice on Co-sleeping.

My advice. Don't do it.  And not for the reasoning you think... I honestly could care less how you choose to raise your kids and how you choose to sleep with them (mind you you take all the precautions on making it safe as possible - and not just a pillow wall).

My caution aka. warning is simple.

KIDS PUKE. 

And when kids share a bed with you and puke in the bed... you are most likely going to wake up in a puddle of puke.  And unless your kid eats rose petals and perfume... it will stink to high heaven.

A perfect example of this was last night in the Vargas household.

I would love it if Emily would remain in her own big girl bed... but she has figured out that if she sneaks in on dad's side of the bed, he will let her up and in for a snuggle... while mom gets kicked in the back and ousted from the bed.

So like any other night... Emily sneaks in around 11 pm. Around 11:58 pm I awake to yucky stuff on my back and promptly wake Bryan up (secretly hoping he would man up and clean the mess by himself while I went back to sleep).  It was a two person job.  Puke in hair. Puke in bed. Puke everywhere.

Poor Em was humiliated - cause what kid really wants to puke - much less be covered in puke.

So we stripped the bed... laid a sheet over the bare mattress and Bryan and Em went back to bed once the mess and Emily were cleaned up.

I went to sleep in Em's room.  Alone.  And slept much better than I have in a long time.

So there is my parenting lesson of the day.

(oh p.s. when you kid tells you that her tummy hurts - not a great idea to feed your kid pizza, Swedish Fish and gum... learned the hard way by Bryan).

Parenting is Awesome.

But today is not.

Hoolllllly Hell.  So I have been MIA since having Eli.... and yes two is more than one and I would like to return one as of right now....

Emily has found a fabulous new strategy on avoiding medicine.  She just spits it up all over her face when I try to give it to her which equals sticky face, sticky hair, sticky hands and sticky mom.

I am impressed with the strategy but not amused as of right now (check back in the morning).

Sigh.

Oh and did I mention if one cries the other cries?  yup that is my night.

But I still love them  go figure.

So back to catching you up on all things fabulous and not so fabulous... I am back to work and back to finding cheap-o projects...

The living room has yet to be painted (mainly because I cannot decide on a dark green or a dark blue) leaning more to dark blue with a yellow piano - but the hubby has completely nixed the piano idea... I can never win with him....

However, the purple desk has been put to good use...  Bryan got a promotion which allows him to work at a bit at home, and since I re-purposed our office desk into a purple desk for Emily's room, Bryan has found himself clocking in hours on the oh so feminine desk.... he is thrilled with me.

My garden in the back is growing strong and has found a few more additions - a few pink bleeding hearts and pink pom pom like flower mounds - love them and the fact that they were on sale.

So life is still trying to find some balance between two kids, a full time job, a husband and a house that begs for a make over daily...

Someday I will have it all together!!!