separation anxiety

Her whole life Cadence has been a pretty happy-go-lucky baby, as long as she has food available and has slept enough, she's content.  This morning we experienced our first dose of separation anxiety--I tried to leave her in the nursery at Bible study and she did NOT want me to go.  I managed to get her to play on the floor for a little while and snuck out without her really noticing, but then I came back an hour later and she was screaming again, so I stayed in there for the last half hour or so.  I know she'll get over it and be fine, as she has lots of opportunities to be away from me and then have me come back quickly, but it's still hard to have her just stare at me and scream her little head off!

We've been busy with basketball (what else!) again this week, so her sleeping has been thrown off again, but luckily today she got a good 1.5 hour nap in this afternoon, and she went to bed pretty easily at 6:50 after her bath.  I've been trying to work on a bedtime routine, but she is just not patient enough to sit through a whole book--two pages in and she's ready to nurse and go to sleep!  I felt like we were making progress on the not nursing to fall asleep front, but there's been some regression there lately.  It's hard because it's literally the only way to calm her down when she's upset--no amount of rocking, swaying, walking, pacifier putting in, etc. will do the trick--she just gets madder and madder! 

I'm looking forward to the end of basketball season, as it also means the end of concessions managing!  Although it's nice to have that extra money, it also adds a lot of work to my weeks.  For now I'm just praying that I can find enough host families for all these French students that are coming in June--it hasn't been as easy as I imagined!