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tjscraps said:
Crystal - my dd is also a horrible sleeper. I feel like we'll never get a full night's sleep again lol
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I am sooooooooooo sorry! I feel everyone's pain if they have a terrible sleeper. I was soooo blessed by the first three that I had no idea how awful and hard it could be! there are days I feel like I am losing my mind because he won't nap more than 10 minutes and doesn't sleep but 30 min here and there all night long!!!!! It is so awful. But then I look at his cute face while we are laying in bed together and he's smiling at me and kissing me and I feel so blessed and I try to remind myself that it is a short phase that will be over [hopefully] in a year or two and I will long for late nights cuddling him again. *sigh* I prayed for that sweet boy for so long and ached for him so I try to be grateful and feel awful when I end up frustrated and crying. (sorry for the rambles. we had a particularly rough night last night)
 
My first daugther go back to school this monday but my second has just one month today Nothing is normal around here since one month I@m looking for a new normal life in fact ( and i hope mylittle dauther help me by sleeping all the night soob!!!!!!)
 
*Maybe* Thursday... or possibly just next week?

The beast nugget went back to school yesterday, but they had late start due to snow/ice. The hubs went back to work yesterday as well. My daughter is back at work today, so I do have a couple of hours of quiet today. My head is nearly ringing from the lack of noise. :)

Wednesday my grandma is supposed to be getting out of the rehab facility I've been fighting for the past six weeks, so I've got my fingers crossed for that. But then it leads to a host of other issues... like can she still live on her own? (She's almost 96, and she almost died from bacteria. She hasn't been home for almost two months. It is all crazy.) Should she be driving? Am I ready to continue all of her errands for her? Is one of us going to have to stay with her for awhile until she gets back to "normal" if she is going to be back to the same "normal" as she was before? I just don't know. She thinks she is going to be fully independent and back to her normal routine, but I'm not 100% sure. It will be a wait-and-see thing. I'm more confident than my uncle is, but I have a healthy dose of skepticism/worry. She seems like she might be a little unsteady on her feet and/or slightly confused about things, but then it is hard to tell when you are in a situation where you are uncomfortable, they don't want her to walk or do anything on her own and all of the days just blur together. She's already talking about getting home and then going shopping (driving herself) to get a present for Kennedy's upcoming birthday, but I think that is crazy talk at this point until some sort of baseline is established. Ugh.
 
Mostly "normal" will return tomorrow when the kids go back to school - since it's Wednesday it will be a 14 hour marathon of crazy until after church :).
 
As if my family wasn't enough chaos... my supervisor just called. I'm substitute driving on Thursday afternoon and then I'll be substituting all next week AM & PM for a driver that won a vacation from Kelly & Michael. When I drive in the mornings, it means getting up at 4am and out the door by 5:15am. This particular bus leaves the garage at 6:10am. Oh... and I'll have 4 of my children in tow. :)
 
crystalbella77 said:
I try to be grateful and feel awful when I end up frustrated and crying. (sorry for the rambles. we had a particularly rough night last night)
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This is how we feel too. DD is 7, and had sleep troubles starting around 1 year old (I used to brag how she was such a good sleeper as a baby lol) Big hugs, hang in there! :)
 
I went back to work yesterday but the kids went back to school today. I work for the school district but yesterday was a Staff Dev Day. This morning went pretty smoothly so I was happy to just get out of the door without having to raise my voice. :)
 
Well, I'm still on leave until the 27th (very nice), but my daughter (29; intellectually disabled), starts back on her day programme today that has been in recess over Christmas and New Year - at last!!!! It's very difficult to keep her happily occupied so we've both been hanging out for today - but of course true to form she is now currently refusing to get ready to go! **sigh** Oh well - I'm off to do battle - so yes - I guess we ARE back to normal!!!!
 
No. We have our grand dogs for the next few weeks and believe me two labs (one a teenager) are a handful. Especially with the cold snap we are having in Montreal, can't leave them in the backyard for very long and walks are very short. Little guy chewed up the edge of my Persian Carpet in the hall upstairs this morning. I think if I can remind a bit of the edge and fix the fringe it won't be too noticeable, but I'm quite upset still....
 
Yesterday started my back to work schedule. The whole month of December was scheduled PTO Friday - Monday, plus the entire week of Christmas. So I haven't had a "normal week" since the week before Thanksgiving. My sleeping is off, I was scrapping while I was "working" and now have to readjust all of that since I have real projects due. Sigh.
 
Things are about as normal here as they get lol. Unfortunately, after two weeks off, work is kicking my butt and I'm having a hard time readjusting my sleep schedule!
 
We started back to our homeschool schedule yesterday, we'll be back to all of our extra-curricular's next week. It'll probably take me another week or 2 to get into a normal routine here at TLP & then I think I'll feel like I'm back to normal.
 
Olivia went back to college on Sunday.

Daniel missed the last 7 days of school before winter break because he had walking pneumonia . . . and I missed that there was a change in the teacher planning day. I had it down on the calendar for the 27th, not the 4th. So, we get up, dressed, drive to school and . . . no one is there but a few cars in the teacher parking lot. DOH! So all my grand plans for yesterday went up in smoke. LOL

Daniel went back to school today, so I was all alone. I wandered around aimlessly for a bit before I started taking down all the Christmas decorations and placing them in a central location for boxing up later. And then I did some work. And I read. And now I'm working again and doing some laundry.

I think by the end of the week I'll be back to something resembling normal.
 
We just got back to the routine of normal.... though it's about to go into overdrive starting Friday! We start winter soccer leagues and we have practice on Fridays, Saturdays, and games on Sunday. Thank goodness they play indoors, lol! It's sure been hard to get back into waking at the crack of dawn for this night owl - which waking up that early is for the birds, literally. But I must, if I'm to meet the bus after work!
 
We started back to school yesterday. I'm not sure with homeschooling we ever have a "normal" schedule. haha. But school is back in session, and I kicked their butts out into the cold to play in the backyard in the afternoon so I could have so quiet scrapping time...so I guess that's pretty normal for us. ;)
 
My kids went back to school and DH and I returned to work (we are teachers at the same school). Life is slowely going back to normal... But we don't have that much time to breathe during the holidays. We're looking forward to the weekend!
 
woot, just dropped my boys off at school...aw...le' sigh...the girls are sleeping late,as they graduated Homeschool Rawks! and they go to work at 10am! Cleaning fridges out today, and gonna try and make some bread!
 
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