Jibber jabber @ 6am
It’s 6am and I’ve been lying in bed for the past hour or so with my mind whizzing with lot’s of different thoughts. Everything from my loss of creative mojo, how I will handle looking after my sister’s daughter two mornings a week when she goes back to work, why Grace won’t sleep through the night and what we should do about it, which swimming lessons should I enrol her for, what food shall I make for my sister’s BBQ on Saturday. You know, just the usual thoughts at 6am! lol
So where better to have a rant than here on my blog. So tune out now if you’re not keen to hear a load of Jibber jabber! hehe 
Firstly I had a thought about my creativeness. I really does annoy me that I can’t seem to get it sorted! Anyhow I think the problem lies in the fact that I keep trying to come up with the greatest layouts with the coolest of products. Looking at everyone’s 1st layouts I realise that none of us got into scrapbooking to simply showcase the many lovely products out there. We got into this addictive past time because we wanted to tell the story of ourselves and families. I need to get back to just telling the story of our life for Grace. Plainly and simply I need to capture the moments of Grace’s life and not care about what pretty paper or flower I use… Sounds simple I know but I only just remembered it! lol It’s so easy to get caught by the great new ideas and product that keeps coming out. So that’s my plan from here on in, just capture the moments and record my beautiful daughter in action.
The other thing that has been really on my mind is the fact that Grace won’t sleep though the night. She was doing well there for awhile, (7 hour stretch’s are a good night for her) but now she is back to waking twice a night and I’m getting tired of it. She doesn’t take long to feed and get back to sleep but I know she should be able to sleep through by now. She never has , EVER! I have read several books and they all say let them cry it out with varied degrees of invention. When I have tried letting her cry, she is still crying it out 1 hour later, so I give up. Maybe I just need to persevere. The thing that puzzles me is, that during the day she sleeps fine with no hassle. I just put her in bed and she sleeps without any fuss. She also goes down easily at bed time too, it’s just the middle of the night where we hit speed bumps! I was wondering what you did with your children, were you lucky enough to get good night sleepers? or were you in my boat. Would love to hear any ideas.
Onto another topic completely, here are some photos I took of Nessa and Maddi in the weekend. I had a play with Picasa and came up with these. What a cutie-pie!
Anyhoo thanks for listening to ramblings, I do appreciate me loyal readers. I should probably go and make some breakfast, I’m sure Craig would appreciate a coffee in bed. It’s a rarity that I be up before him! Now I just have to figure out the darn coffee machine!?! 
I love hearing all your jibber jabber. Sometimes the key to get your mojo back is just to simplify and don’t overthink it. Just do it for you and not for what other people will think of it. I have lots that don’t make it to my blog.
As for Grace sleeping through the night - its been a while for me on this one but I think I went with the flow and just put up with it. I think I looked at it as one of those phases and it would soon pass and then they would do something else like not going to bed until later but sleep all night. You will get there!
I agree with the whole keep it simple thing when it comes to scrapbooking and since adopting this, the number of pages I am getting done is phenonamal (sp?) - challenge blogs are also good for inspiration, I rarely submit but the ideas are great!! As for Grace - this was Paige (our second) to a T - and we did try everything, in the end I stayed 2 nights at Mum’s (over the weekend) and Aaron was on duty while she cried and as he had more resolve than me she gave up after an hour (obviously peeking around the door to make sure she wasn’t sick, overly distressed etc) - but it is an attention thing according to all the websites, books, Plunket nurses etc and they just simply are being ’social’ - not that being awake at 2am could be called social lol! Good luck and it does get better
hmmm, these are the things I don’t envy about having children!, and make me thankful for my wonderful four legged babies! I’m afraid I don’t have anything inspirational for fixing the sleepless nights, but why not see if you can come along to our next crop that might help to stimulate the creative mojo again.
I’m going through a bit of mojo loss myself … haven’t got time to scrap at the moment anyway but when I do I’ll probably look up a challenge to get me started … one where they tell you to use certain colours and 3 photos and ribbon or something. Don’t need to actually enter it in the challenge but just narrowing down the options is helpful and then the golden rule “Just stick it down!”
As for miss Grace sleeping at night … that’s gotta be one of the hardest things as a parent … lacking sleep but still trying to be a great parent. I’m all for the Baby Wise style of parenting … if you want to discuss it more I’m happy to give more details, just ask. :o)
Lack of sleep has to be the toughest part of parenting. Tyler (my second) was not a great sleeper. He did start sleeping through the night at about 4 months, but it did not last. By 9 months, he was waking twice at night for a feed and then up for the day at 5.30am. I was exhausted. We did the CIO (cry it out) method. I’m not saying it works for every baby, but it did work for Tyler. Took about 2-3 days (and they were NOT pleasant days!!!!) but it worked and he slept through every night from that day on. Now he is 4 and is a fantastic sleeper like his brother (who slept through the night from 10 weeks of age). Every baby is different and you have to go with what works for you and your child. If you do the CIO method again, I urge you to hang in there and not to give up after an hour. That only teaches her to cry for longer, and then you will eventually come. It’s AWFUL leaving them to cry (I cried the whole time Tyler was crying when we did it!) but at the end of the day they won’t remember those few nights, and the result is worth it. There are other less extreme options like Diane Levy’s “pop in” method, and many good books out there (check out the library or Plunket). Whatever you do, rest assured that it WON’T last forever! Hang in there.
Hi Rochelle
I’m a friend of weemegs, just thought I’d say gidday.
Firstly fantastic blog and love all your scrapbooking creations. I’m a beginner scrapbooker and mum of a one year old baby girl. I don’t know where you find the time to do all that you do!!! I wonder if Grace is teething? I know that the teeth move around causing pain (and sleepless nights) for about a month prior to actually making an appearance. A late comment, hopefully things have improved for you both by now.