I am sitting here with my 4 year old leaning against me napping, knowing this means he will be up till some ungodly time tonight yet unable to get myself to move him because how much longer will he want to snuggle up and nap next to me...
I know better than to let him nap too long but I let him do it anyway, knowing the consequences. He will probably give us hell going to and staying in bed until about 11pm tonight and I will be cursing myself for letting him nap as long I did.
It is a strange phase to be in right now. No longer getting the extra snuggles during nap time, moving past nap time and no longer having that chunk of time for myself. On the flip side, now we will be free to get out and do some fun things like play in our kid pool, enjoy more of the day and get him to bed at a reasonable time at night so then my husband and I actually get some no kid time together.
I like my routines and have a lot of anxiety around huge transitions like no more nap time. I procrastinate transitions as long as I can until I have to just put my big girl pants on and walk through to the next phase of parenting, to the next stage of my life wherever they take me and hold on for dear life.
