Mommy Seuss

She won't sleep.

She won't sleep at night, or during the day -- it doesn't matter at all what I do or what I say.

She screams and she jumps, she tosses about. She throws her bottle and pacifier out.

Her anger is real -- her face is so red! I don't know what to do...but she must go to bed!

I feel like a mommy who is bad and uncaring, but I can't take much more of this tantrum that's blaring.

She needs to sleep, and she needs to sleep long. I know this, I do, but it still feels so wrong.

I have no more tricks up the proverbial sleeve, and gas costs way too much to just up and leave.

I have sang, I have held, I have snuggled, I have rocked, and now I just sit and stare at the clock.

When will it stop? When will she rest? When will she lay her head in her nest?

These answers I have not, though a headache I do. So I'll just take more Excedrin and change some more poo.

And now that that's done (and she continues to wail), I seek a happy ending to this sad tale.

But my only solution (I can't tell a lie) is to let her stay in her bed and cry.

*sigh*