I would like to state for the record that it is just after 10:00 a.m., and I've been wondering how early is too early for bedtime for the last hour. Birdie is, shall we say, Having a Day. In between battles over potty training (which is going well overall, but today is a fight almost every time the timer goes off, and since it is set every 25 minutes, well,...you get the idea). And she just can't seem to stop bugging Ponchik every chance she gets. And ignoring all the toys in the house in favor of climbing on the furniture, hanging on the window gates, stripping all the pillows off the couch and bouncing on them, and climbing up the stairs on the outside of the bannister. So, yeah. When is naptime again?
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Speaking of sleep. Last night was one of the most horrid nights I've had in a while. I couldn't fall asleep until well after midnight for whatever reason, both girls were waking in 20 minute increments from about 10:30 p.m. on, and Ponchik refused to sleep altogether from 1:00 a.m. unless she was tucked up in bed with me, her head on my bicep. And she is an active night sleeper. And I'm still seeing a chiropractor for persistent shoulder pain. And everyone was up for the day at 5:30. Again. There isn't enough coffee in the world for me today.
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I had thought maybe to finish that last project I have waiting on my summer sewing list, but I'm just too tired. I know I'll make dumb mistakes, and the girls are just unhappy and fighting, so it won't be peaceful at all. When I realized that sewing wasn't going to happen today, I thought maybe about trying to do some creative writing, or something, but again, no one is happy today, and I'm trying to resign myself to a day in which Nothing is Done. I hate being this tired.
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Also: it is 84 degrees in the house, and the humidity is very high, so it is not exactly comfortable in here. I'd go somewhere air-conditioned, but then Ponchik will fall asleep on my back or in the car and this afternoon will be terrible, so we're stuck at the house for the morning at least. And: I'm too tired to go anywhere anyway. We walked to the post office and Rite Aid earlier this morning and that was my limit for the day.
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Right, so moving on. This morning I put the red Koret skirt away. It was a vintage pencil skirt I bought on ThredUp in the spring, and it was the perfect shade of poppy red to match my Tossed Flowers fabric, as well as being a nice shape and length. The skirt fits okay in the waist and hips, but it is snug across the tops of my thighs. So unless I want to wear a serious amount of shapewear and look like a pin up girl, I need to lose a little more weight before wearing it. I was keeping it in the back of my closet in the somewhat vain hope that it might fit this summer, but as the summer wears on, and the belly bloat that arrived in early May seems to be persisting, I need to get realistic about things. That includes putting stuff away that doesn't quite fit but I think might in the near future. There is no reason to taunt myself with it, and if it is put away with the out of season stuff, I can more easily put it out of mind for now. I also decided it was time to make peace with the stuff I made in the late spring and early summer that doesn't fit right or doesn't suit me and either donate it, or deconstruct it for another project. I have plenty of clothes to wear that do fit and suit me well, and I just filled a major summer wardrobe gap with a RTW plain navy blue skirt from eshakti.com (which I hope fits!), so I'm feeling okay about the closet right now.
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I just saw a trailer for Pompeii (which is available on DVD now on Netflix) and it went straight to the top of my Netflix queue. Action, romance, Jon Snow, history, disaster, Jon Snow, special effects, did I mention Jon Snow? (Okay, I know that isn't his real name, but I think of him as Jon Snow, and to judge by the comments on the FB page, so do a lot of other people!) I've got Murder at the Homefront at home right now and am looking forward to that one! I'm still debating about starting season 4 of Game of Thrones. Part of me feels like I should let that one go, but I'm also curious to see what happens.
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Well, this has taken me long enough to get us right to lunch time, so at least nap time is in sight! Onward!
My aunt used to make such delicious ponchiki when I was a child so now when you mention that "name", I go back to my childhood :-)
ReplyDeleteThe toddler sleep has been my pain forever. My 2 years old son had the night yesterday, I thought I'd go crazy. I don't like this age at all.
How old is Birdie?
Hope you will feel better and get some rest, and little more time for your projects, time which we all "poor" mums need so much, don't we? :-)
Mmm, ponchiki. Birdie will be three at the end of August, but because of all her health issues as a baby and young toddler, we really couldn't sleep train her effectively. So she is a nervous sleeper, so to say. It has gotten better over the past year, but still not as good as the boys were at this age. So it goes. We've just not been able to sleep train Ponchik at.all for a variety of reasons, although she seems to be starting to settle into a rhythm now (at 13 months), which is about the time the other kids did too. Hope springs eternal!!
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