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by Marilyn on November 29, 2008

Even though, you know, the song is “Easy like Sunday morning” and it’s very nearly not morning any longer. Ahem.

Kile let me sleep in a little bit this morning, until after 8 am, which felt like HEAVEN. He got up with Evie and then when Liam woke up, got him up too. I heard some ruckus downstairs at one point so I got up and came downstairs to find Harry staring at the TV, transfixed, and Liam screaming (which was making Evie scream too). What the heck? Turns out, Kile had been watching “Pan’s Labyrinth” on OnDemand (one of our favorites). And it turns out that the scene where the child-eating monster is chasing the little girl was sort of scaring our little two year old. YOU THINK?? Kile said that he’d been okay until the monster ate the fairies. At that point, my eyes rolled so hard into the back of my head that I gave myself a headache. And it was at that point that we put the “Elf” DVD in and everything was better again. I swear, if that kid gets nightmares it’s ALL HIS FAULT.

Anyhow, I slept in because I’ve been so exhausted the last couple of days. And yesterday’s shopping trip just plum wore me out. And Evie slept in our room for most of the night last night, she came in (doesn’t that make it sound like she just got up herself and walked into our room?) just as we were going to bed. Boo! To her credit, though, she is pushing through her top two teeth. So I guess I’ll give her a little slack.

And, on the plus side, Beetoe didn’t sleep with us last night. The night before, we had her in with us. And since she had helped “clean” Harry’s plate after Thanksgiving, she was experiencing a little indigestion. As a result, she was rather restless all night, wandering around the bed. At one point, she got up next to my face and I was turned away from her. But you know how it is, when you know someone is staring at you, you just can’t shake it. So finally I turned to her and said, “What??” Her timing was impeccable. At that moment, she burped, right in my face, and I got a whiff of Thanksgiving Dinner Part 2.

Let me tell you, not the best way to be woken up in the middle of the night.

Today, we’re taking it a little easier. Harry keeps pestering us about going out and going shopping. I’m thinking he wants to spend some of the birthday money he still has left. He’s not interested in taking my word for it when I tell him that NO, we’re not going out today. We’re going out tomorrow, and that is good enough. Nope, today we’re sticking to home and making Christmas candy to go in our gift bags. So far, Kile has gotten a jump start on the peanut brittle and I’m going to help with the candy canes and pretzels after he gets out of the shower. I’m thinking the hardest part will be not eating any of it. Just wait until we get started on the fudge. (OMG, FUDGE.)

So what are you all doing this weekend? Still recovering from the holiday? Decorating for Christmas? Finishing up shopping? Anyone else’s husband scar their children with “Pan’s Labyrinth”?

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by Marilyn on October 9, 2008

This has been a hard week. Partly because Evie is teething (I can finally feel the little buggers poking through her gums now!) and as such her sleeping has become a lot more schizophrenic. Partly because Liam is acting every inch of TWO YEARS OLD and I’ve about had it with his constant boundary testing. And partly because, well, I’m not taking thyroid medication. Again.

So, I’m mentally cringing in anticipation of the accusations I’ll get from you guys. I know I should have been more on top of things than I was. But I just don’t know HOW I could have been. I saw the doctor back at the beginning of August. He prescribed me 100mg of meds, 100mg less than I was taking before Evie was born. He had me go get my blood tested and sure enough, my levels were Not Good. I forget the number now (maybe I put it in a post somewhere? Far too lazy to go look for it), but it was fairly high. The idea was I would get my blood tested again in September and go back in to see him a week after that and we would re-evaluate my meds then.

Hmm. Riiiight.

The thing is, I cannot, cannot, take two small kids to get my blood drawn. Not when one of those kids is Liam. We don’t even have any labs near our house, it’s a good 20 minute drive to get to any lab. It just can’t be done without additional adult assitance. And Kile, well, he’s been busy at work. He can’t really take a lot of time off. It’s great that his job is so stable, don’t get me wrong. We definitely don’t want to rock that boat. So I haven’t pushed the issue. In truth, I haven’t made it a priority. And, to be honest, once I was able to get my blood drawn, I surely couldn’t go to the doctor with both kids either.

Basically, I’m trapped here at home with the kids. I cannot leave with them so I cannot leave, period.

And, unfortunately, I’m feeling the effects of it. My temper is short (not good when matched with Ornery Two Year Old), I’m easily frustrated, and I can tell that I’m circling the drain yet again.

So basically… when it comes to taking care of myself I am an Epic Fail. And I just don’t know what I can do anymore to pull myself out of this hole.

by Marilyn on September 25, 2007

Wow. Last night was the worst of all. My child is stubbornly rigid about his routines and last night was no different. Kile put him to bed, since I was out at the grocery store with my mother in law. As such, he forgot to give our mad teether a dose of motrin before putting him down. I can hear all you moms out there groaning along with me. This child doesn’t do teeth one or two at a time. Ho no. No, he’s putting through SIX right now. And four of those are molars. So putting a child like that to bed without motrin should be a punishable offense, right? At least, the offending party should be made to get up with said child when he inevitably wakes up in the middle of the night, miserable. Right? Wrong, apparently. Liam woke, cried and then dozed off again continually for several hours after we went to bed until just before 2 am he decided that he wasn’t going to doze back off again. So I got up with him. I had to wait for the motrin to kick in before going back to bed so I was up for a while. I got to see at least one full episode of “Angel” on TNT though, if that tells you anything. He cried off and on for the rest of the night as well, but slept better.

Meanwhile, I’m still struggling with the suddenly unbearably uncomfortable bed and getting restful sleep on it is getting to be pretty laughable. It seems no matter where or how I lay, there’s always something sharp or angled poking into me, be it my own arm or the bed itself. I’ve said before that this mattress sucks, but it’s never sucked this bad. I don’t know how I’m going to make it through the rest of this pregnancy, I really don’t.

Some yahoo took a wrong turn onto our cul de sac this morning, right after Kile’s alarm went off (so it was probably about 6:30, I’m guessing). I’m guessing he through the street actually connected to something at the other end because he tore up and then seemed surprised when the road, you know, ENDED. He laid on the breaks, spun the wheel, squealed the tires and ended up plowing through the rocks in our neighbor across the street’s landscaping. Niiiice. Tell me that didn’t just about give me a freaking heart attack. We totally need one of those “Not a Through Street” signs, I don’t know why we don’t have one.

So “Halo 3″ comes out today. I’m pretty depressed about this. We lack both the game (duh) and an Xbox360 (pretty important if you want to play it, of course). Meanwhile, I’m dying to know how the story ends. It’s almost like with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” (but not quite). I’m so tempted to look up spoilers online (I know there are some out there) but have resisted so far. Mostly. Okay, I did read that review that the San Jose Mercury News did, but it didn’t really reveal anything. I don’t know when I’ll get to play it, but I’m hoping I won’t have to wait too long. Considering the price of an Xbox360, I’m not going to hold my breath.

Hey, I upgraded WordPress last night. Can’t tell, can you? That’s okay. I can hardly tell myself. There’s some nifty new features, such as integrated tagging. But I’m so lazy, I don’t know if I can keep up tagging. I’m giving it a shot for this post, at least. It also has some more advanced visual editor quicklinks, which I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting for. Also kinda dig the update notifications on the plugins, since I am currently running about a billion of them and it can be hard to keep track of them all. Other than that? Nothing too groundbreaking. When are they going to release a WordPress that will just type my posts for me? That would rock.

I don’t know if I’m going to get a nap this morning or not. Liam is once again in the closet, snoozing away (or so I believe since all is quiet on the baby monitor). But I’m afraid to go up there for fear of waking him. Seriously, last night traumatized me. Even so, I’m about dead on my feet here and if I don’t get a nap I’m afraid of what will happen. Someone might just get eaten.

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