Leila is doing super without the hoggies. Just super! She's asked for them a total of 5 times since leaving them out on friday night. Only once today.
I, however, am just heartbroken. Really, I feel awful about it, it really goes against my instincts. I keep telling myself that it's better for her teeth, she can still meet her need to suck because she is still nursing. I just feel so awful and depressed about it!
In which Sarah describes her attempts to raise her children, feed her family healthy substances, become more self-reliant, and be a good steward of our Mother Earth
June 2008
2009 Read-Book List
- The Creative Family
- Neverwhere
- Stardust
- Ender in Exile
- The Joy Luck Club
- high Fidelity
- Julia and Julie
- For One More Day
- the Five People you Meet in Heaven.
- The Brotherhood of the Wolf
- the Pinhoe Egg
- The Magicians of Caprona & Witch Week
- Charmed Life & The Lives of Christopher Chant
- The House of Many Ways
- Castle in the Air
- Howl's Moving Castle
- The Amber Spyglass
- The Subtle Knife
- the Golden Compass
- the Titan's Curse
- Sea of Monsters
- The Lightning Thief
- Slow food Nation
- This Organic Life
- Brisingr
- The Real Food Revival
- The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It
- Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket
- Raising Cain
- Harvest for Hope
- Animal Vegetable Miracle
- Keep Chickens!
- Eldest
- Urban Homesteading
- Eragon
- Square Foot Gardening
- The Runelords (Book One: The Sum of All Men)
- Digging In; Tending to Life in Your Own Backyard
- Living with Chickens
- Under the Tuscan Sun
- How to Raise Chickens
- Eye of the World
- Tomatoes Love Carrots
6 comments:
oh im so glad it's going well!!! i think i would just cry if i made auggie give up his lovey.
Way to go Leila! Hang in there Sarah!
I had to sew a mitt on the sleeve of Evie's jammies since she was sucking her thumb so hard that it made a big blister. I felt like such a meanie. I sighed and said "honey, this is only the beginning of unpleasant things that are For Your Own Good."
seriously, it's so, so hard! I didn't realize how hard it would be for me! she doesn't seem to care all that much, but I really want to give it back to her, I just feel awful! I know it is best for her teeth.
so right about the unpleasentrie. poor kiddos, it's a cruel mean world. But, I not only have to take care of her emotional health, I need to consider her oral health too. And personal asthetics... she will want straight teeth, right? right?
yes! right! she will appreciate straight teeth. mine are crooked and i secretly blame my mother. (it's hard to make statements like that now that I"M a mother TOO)
You are so strong! Keep it up Leila!
Yay, I'm glad to hear it's going well! And I think raising a kid that can roll with the punches is probably a really good thing. She'll be fine!
Of course...I'm not brave enough to try this with Zoe.
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