Grrrrr.  I'm about to open the gate and release her into the world.  Ok, just kidding, but good grief she sure is driving me nuts!  This is the THIRD time tonight she has "needed" to go out.  She is in heat (oh, lovely day) so I don't know if that has anything to do with it.  This is the last time I am taking her out though, at this point I would ( Read more... )

So I give Emily 3mg of melatonin, a safe herbal supplement, to get her back on her sleeping schedule.  She falls asleep at 9:30, so far so good.  However she wakes at 3am and we have been up ever since.  You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.  I, of course, am exhausted, but she is running around trying to make PB&J sandwiches for ( Read more... )

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Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it. If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

24
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
American Idol
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I wake with Charlotte growling low in her throat, this deep menacing growl and I am sure that when I turn on the lights there is going to be some intruder in the house. Well, needless to say, there wasn't. I still don't know what she was growling at. I let them outside, and she was hunkered down and growling in the kitchen too. The only thing I ( Read more... )

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Well I paid for Emmy's good day on Saturday, she was pretty beastly yesterday. So today I have a decision. Drop her off at PlayDate (the drop in child care that costs {gulp} $6 an hour) and then run errands and have lunch out by myself. (A nice relaxing afternoon except for all the driving around) Or drag her with me on my errands (a hectic, ( Read more... )

Emmy was actually GOOD yesterday. We had a good day, I didn't have to yell at her but maybe once or twice. This is an all new record. She didn't hit anybody, she listened pretty well, she didn't give me too much grief. I mean yeah, there were instances of the real Emmy shining through, if she were ALL good I would rush her to the ER!

How does a 4 year old need the same amount of sleep as a 29 year old? She is on a horrible schedule right now. Last night at midnight she was chatting away, rolling around on the bed, and insisting I never stop rubbing her back. I finally had to send her to her room, I promptly fell asleep so God knows what she was up to after that. I guess I ( Read more... )

Emily was just plain beastly today. Commissary shopping tends to take longer when you have a 4 year old yelling through the store how much she doesn't like you, how mean you are and how you never buy her anything. My head feels like its going to explode. I just don't know what to do. On one hand her Daddy just left, there are bound to be some a ( Read more... )

He left this morning at 9:15am. The goodbye was one of the hardest things I have ever done. I was crying and sobbing as we said goodbye. Emmy was ok until he actually got into the car and then she started crying. When she started crying then Karl just lost it. It was so horrible, I can't even begin to tell you. After he left we both cried for ( Read more... )