Journaling: It now seems that W and I are settling into a "normal" routine. We spent yesterday going to church, getting caught up on financials, doing some house-cleaning, laundry, and finished last night with a great dinner prepared by W (grilled salmon, cous-cous, butternut squash, candied walnuts on brie). W has started asking all of us to start saying prayers before each meal. This is something that we did not do before, but I like it.
Our last MC session was also productive. We spent much of it on how I handled a situation with D3. D3 had been getting up every couple of hours crying for "mommy". After the second time, my W was furious. She did nothing, but let me know how she felt and it took her sometime to get back to sleep. So when it happened for the 3rd time at about 5:30 AM, I went in and told her "Mommy is sleeping and that her crying was waking D6 up (who sleeps in the same room.) I told her that she needed to stop crying or I would take her downstairs to sleep. She didn't stop crying and I did take her, a pillow, and a blanket down to the playroom and put her on the sofa where she continued to cry for "Mommy". I stayed with her for about 10 minutes telling her that she could go back upstairs when she stopped crying. This never happened, so I finally left her there and went back upstairs. W never woke up this third time. When she woke up the next morning and found what I had done, she was very upset. Saying that we "abandoned" her in the basement and it was akin to locking her in a closet. This made me feel pretty bad. But MC made a point to tell W that it was not an abusive and probably sent the correct message to D3. But he also made a point to tell us that we needed to work better together in planning "corrective actions" together.
