Totally screwed myself on nap time today. My kids usually go to sleep between 12:30 & 1:00. Pretty easy routine laying them down. On Mondays I have an extra 2yo who comes in at 1:30. He is extremely well behaved, probably the best behaved 2yo I've known so I don't mind making an exception for him one day a week. His mom is also a long time friend. He lays down as soon as he gets here with o trouble, but sometimes the movement in the nap room wakes up my challenging 2yo. So today I thought, hey. Every one is in a good mood. Why not just wait & lay them all down together? Of course he didn't show up on time. I had toddlers melting down all over the place. I finally laid them all down at 2:00 assuming he's not coming. And he showed up 10 min later. Of course they're all so overly tired & off schedule at this point so I'm now sitting at the foot of my challenging dcb's cot to keep him quiet b/c it's 2 hrs past normal nap time & he's still too keyed up to sleep. Thankfully the rest of the crew are sleeping nicely. Ugh...yes I know I shouldn't have allowed late drop off, kept kids up longer than normal, or let friendship Trump business procedures. I'm sitting here kicking myself as we speak...

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I’m sure we’ve all had those “kicking myself” moments. Your plan sounded logical to me!

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