Week that went in potty training -Weekly wrap up
Hello Readers! I hope you all are safe and well and don’t have too much cold or snow. Last week had been slow even with the kite festival here. We didn’t much celebrate it. I’m not fan of the festival and I don’t like my already brown skin getting dark by staying on terrace for two days. We usually spend the festival at my mom’s but she was on trip and my brother was tested COVID positive previous week. Thankfully his symptoms were mild and my dad and his wife didn’t caught it but of course we couldn’t go as he was in quarantine.
As the schools are closed again due to increasing cases and we were going to spend long weekend at home, it was high time to potty train my kid before her schools starts again in April. And I tell you it was not as easy as they say on internet. My kid fears toilet and she also refuses to sit on potty seat for kids. It felt like my whole week went in it and I couldn’t do anything else. Looking at how it is progressing it will take 2 more week before i can say she is fully potty trained.
I managed to read 1 book and that too during the night when she went to sleep which means I could only read for an hour after midnight. It’s time when I’m too exhausted and often fall asleep while reading.
Here is what I read last week and what I’ll be reading next-
I read
Beyond the Lavender Fields by Arlem Hawks
I just finished this. It was slow read. I don’t how I managed to read back to back slow historical romance. I’m enjoying this genre these days but I like them steady or fast paced. This was original. I don’t think I read any book set in France before WWI or WWII. This was set in 1790s during the French Revolution against the monarchy. I don’t know anything about this time period and it such tense to read whole situation in France and how it affected the characters’ life. I enjoyed reading both characters, their family dynamics, and life situation, about French revolution, and how amid this tense time period both main characters, one royalist and one révolutionnaire found a common ground to form a friendship that eventually turned into love. It was more exciting to see how it will end. My review will be up on 21st so I’m off to writing it before I start next book.
Next this week
A Secret at Tansy Falls by Cate Woods
The old farmhouse at Tansy Falls. A little patch of paradise in the hills of Vermont. Home to happy couple Connie and Nate. And a long-buried secret that will ignite a devastating spark…
Connie knows she’s been lucky in life. She lives in a place that makes her soul sing—a beautiful red clapboard farmhouse among the daisy-strewn hills of Tansy Falls—with her soulmate Nate, her husband of twenty years.
But while she can still feel the sunshine on her face, there’s a heaviness in her heart that she can’t shake. The laughter and the lingering kisses are beginning to disappear. Ever since Nate lost his job, the man she thought she knew inside out has changed.
Connie knows this happens in long marriages. When Nate forgets her birthday, she’s determined to enjoy her day regardless. But as she blows out the candles on her lemon sponge cake, surrounded by her girlfriends, a stranger arrives and reveals a shocking truth about her husband. Nate is the man Connie has always loved but in just one evening her life changes beyond all recognition.
As Connie looks at the home she loves, and the husband she has known forever sitting beneath the cottonwood tree, she knows that starting over will be the hardest thing she has ever done. But if she doesn’t, will she ever find the woman she is meant to be?
If you love gripping, heartbreaking romantic stories by Elin Hildebrand and Robyn Carr, then you will be hooked by A Secret at Tansy Falls. A completely compelling read about secrets and betrayal that will have you reaching for the tissues.
I enjoyed The Inn at Tansy Falls last year. It was one of my most favorite book and I’m really excited to start this sequel and meet the beautiful setting of Tansy Falls once again.
Thank you for reading! Let’s chat…
- Have you read any of these books or added to TBR?
- What are you reading this week?
- Does anyone have tip for kid fearing toilet and how to deal with it?
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Hi, I'm Yesha, an Indian book blogger. Avid and eclectic reader who loves to read with a cup of tea. Not born reader but I don't think I’m going to stop reading books in this life. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
24 Comments
Carla
Ah, potty training. My kids are trying to train my youngest grandson and it is not going well. He will say he has to go, take off his pullups, sit on the potty and then do nothing. He than says he is done, flushes, puts everything back on and within half an hour, has gone in his pullup. So much fun, NOT.
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At least he is saying! my kid won’t even tell and she will hold back if she hasn’t wore diaper. It was painful to see her in pain and how do I make her understand when she wouldn’t get what I’m saying! We took break and will try again next month. 😮💨
Lashaan Balasingam @ Bookidote
Oh my goodness. Potty training sure does sound hard! I hope it went smoothly. Once it’s accomplished, you will surely feel soooo, so relieved! 😛
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One thing I have learned in 3 years is there is no short of things to teach a kid. It looks never ending thing.
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Rosepoint Publishing
Ah, Yesha, yes, it’s tough. I had 2 under 2 and came home from the hospital with my youngest to discover my mother-in-law thought I should have potty-trained the oldest by then. She wasn’t ready, but since it was started…and a new baby. Didn’t work. When my daughter was somewhere around 4, she decided her brother needed to be potty-trained and took it upon herself to do so. He was ready. You never know.
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It is very difficult and she will take more time than we thought. She is late bloomer in everything.
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Susy's Cozy World
I am sorry to hear about your brother, but I am glad his symptoms are mild!! And since you have begun the potty training I hope next week would be better!!
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I hope so too. Thank you!
kat
Potty training is definitely not an easy task! My youngest is 4 and still wears diapers to bed and doesn’t let me know when she needs to go, but I have hope that she won’t want to be 14 and still in diapers. All kids get there in their own time, but best of luck getting there. And that’s great you were still able to read a book! Potty training is such a busy time and I don’t think I read much when working with my two kids.
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I have to start now as her school year starts in April with nursery. Mine is same she won’t say she pooped in diaper and if that continues she won’t say it to teacher as well. She started saying about pee when I stopped putting on her diapers when we are at home and now she doesn’t need diapers at night as well and as she realises pee thing it’s better to start with potty as it will take longer than pee. It’s really time consuming and frustrating but I have four months so I hope she will potty trained by April.
WendyW
Both my kids were a bit older than normal for potty training. My son because he was just stubborn. And for my daughter we were just about to move to Japan, so we held off until we were all moved and settled in to our new place, and by then she was more than ready. Best of luck!
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Here in India usually kids learn it by 3 so we are also little late but not too late. It’s perfect time. She can spend night without diaper so I hope in few weeks she is fully potty trained.
Krysta
Ha! I feel like everyone acts like everything about childcare is so easy, if you just say the right words in the right tone, or read the right book, or hand out gold star stickers. Everyone has their “magic” trick. And it’s never that easy is, it? 😀
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Definitelty not easy. For now it seems impossible to find that magic trick. I used all tone, not working. we changed words not working. she doesn’t like books, she is hyper active so if I give her toys she would get up and start playing. she wouldn’t even sit with rhymes or kid videos in TV or mobile. I tried showing her Potty videos, she would mimic kid in the video but wouldn’t sit long enough to do in potty… It’s going to take lot longer. I so wish there is some potty fairy out there.
confessionsofayareader
Potty training is so hard. I hope it gets better for you.
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I hope so too.
Teri Polen
I have frustrating memories of potty training. My oldest fought it, but the youngest seemed to get it much quicker. Good luck, Yesha!
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Definitely not great memories. it’s seriously tough when kid is so stubborn and fears it. It feels like nothing I say is getting in her head. Thanks, Teri!
nickimags @ Secret Library Book Blog
I remember potty training my son and staying at home for a week to get him started. After that we just got him used to sittingon it whenever we could especially at his grandma’s watching kids TV. Hope it goes well however long it takes Yesha! xx
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I hope mine learns soon. For now it looks impossible. She is giving us tough time.
nickimags @ Secret Library Book Blog
Maybe she’s not ready? Perhaps leave it for now unless of course you have to do it.
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She is near ready as she can spend whole night without diapers and she can tell she need to pee. And she has gotten dependent on diaper for poop. She wouldn’t even say she has soiled it. I have to make her realise she needs to tell me and do it in toilet. Also her school starts in April. How she would say to her teacher if she isn’t even telling me! ANd now at this age it’s so unhygenic.