if your DC doesn't nap

Amanda&Chris

can you be productive?  Usually I'm really productive during naptime, but Lila hasn't fallen asleep yet and I'm just sitting here listening to her on the monitor and waiting for her to fall asleep instead of getting up and doing the things I need to do.

Zenya

DS doesn't nap anymore so during his down time (now - he's watching TV) it's my time. I generally start dinner now... clean up etc.

xbrooklyngrl

Sure! I put on the TV and get done what I need to get done.

brightning

I can't get anything done when DD isn't asleep, either. I don't want to make any noises that'll disturb her. Right now I'm also watching DD on the monitor as she rolls around in her bed. Once she goes to sleep, I've got a list a mile long to get through, so I hope she falls asleep quickly!

femmegem

It's hard. I find it very distracting when he doesn't nap, which is pretty much every weekend now.

shellbug79

Isabelle doesn't nap anymore but I do a ton of productive things while she's awake, most of the time we even make a game out of it so that she's helping me.  She helps me clean up around the house, we sing the clean up song from Barney; she helps me sweep the kitchen & dining room floors & sometimes I give her a wet rag so we clean the floors together too.  She also has a fake vacuum so she'll help me vacuum too, or she'll run around while I vacuum & I "chase" her while vacuuming, it's a lot of fun.  She is also learning to put her laundry away or at least take a stack & put it in her room or mine & dh's room.  She also loves to dust, I give her a dry dust rag & she'll dust the entire living room, it's not as great of a job as me but it gives her a sense of responsibility & she thinks she's being a grown up. 

Michelle