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We’re always on the hunt for the next great bedtime routine.
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Davis lives with her two children, Gemma, 9, and Wilson, 2.
Her daughter is currentlydistance learning, which has been difficult to navigate.
And Daviss me time comes infrequently, if at allusually, she falls asleep in bed with her daughter.
People didn’t understand really that it was a major disease.
And for us, it was.
It’s not just a little itch or something.
It’s not just a little dry skinat least it wasn’t for us.
My older one is either listening to music or I let her watch one show.
That’s the good thing about having different ages.
Occasionally, they want independent time but there’s only one of me.
And I say to him, I’m going to go put Gemma to bed.
He’s like, Why?
And I was like, Okay.
He said, The crib is very comfy.
And I said, Yes.
He said, Why?
And I said, Because the crib is made for sleeping.
It’s a good thing.
And he was like, But why?
I mean, they’re just so funny.
So anyway, I put him to bed, and it goes pretty smoothly.
We read and we sing before bed and then we rock.
Then I read with my older one.
She’s into some very deep books at the moment.
Last night we readA Kids Book About Feminism.
The series also has a book about racism.
We’ve gotAKids Book About Anxiety.
We’ve gotA Kids Book About Death.
There’s all of it.
She’s into it.
Wedon’t turn on the newsat home because the news is just too unfiltered and shocking.
And that for her generation, we want things to be better.
We just talk about it in that way.
This is the whole problem, and it’s my fault.
I’m so tired.
She wants me to hold her hand, so I hold her hand and I fall asleep.
That is when I lie on my heating pad for my back.
I don’t know how.
I just venture to keep up with her as best as I can.
And then occasionally Ijump on the trampolinewith them, which is just a really fun thing to do.
I’m alsoa bath personall the way.
I want to just lie there in a hot bath.
It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does, it’s awesome.
My wellness, as you want to call it, is about trying to sleep.
That is my wellness focus.
I used to be ayogateacher.
I mean, my yoga credentials are ancient, really.
I really would love to do yoga [again].
I just need heat.
I have Tiger Balm.
I have some CBD oil.
I can’t tell if it does anything, but I put it on there.
There’s no me time starting at about five in the morning.
Then the children get up and then obviously we’re off.
The horse race is on.
So the me time is not until the evening.
I mean, I look at my phone occasionally.
I always misspell my Instagram posts because Im interrupted as I’m trying to do something.
The nighttime is the time to be talking to them.
I mean, if I’m functioning.
I’m just doing the best I can do.
Nobody’s going to be perfect.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
