  yesterday morning John took Aidan to Target to buy Christmas lights and other supplies and leave me to some quiet by myself since Ellie was due for a good long morning nap.
They left and I nursed her to sleep, she gave a little fuss, but I stroked her hairline with my fingernails, the secret trick with her, and she dropped off. I put her in her crib and began to enjoy my alone time. I was just putting some books away, about twenty minutes after she fell asleep when she awoke. I was so frustrated! All week I've been holding out for the weekend to get some time to myself, and here we were finally at Saturday and it still sucked! Back in my arms, Ellie fell right back to sleep. I tried to put her back down and she awoke right away. I tried stroking her hairline, from the part outwards, to no avail. She was still really sleepy, too sleepy to just be awake and play, but she refused to sleep out of my arms.
I decided to try to find some way to still have a nice morning, so I sat on the couch, put on HBO and watched a movie with Ellie in my arms, sleeping through it all. I watched Nell, it was a nice movie. Very interesting theories about family modeling. Weak ending though. John and Aidan came home near the movies' end. We had planned on getting so much accomplished, but the cards just weren't falling for us. John put Aidan down for a nap and we watched another movie! 
