September 26, 2008

busy, busy, busy

it's been one of those weeks. i knew september would be hard... i just didn't anticipate just how hard.

it doesn't help that we all got sick - a nice stomach bug. nothing like puking kids to stress ya out. follow that up with a severe cold, first cohen, now lili, and as of last night, luci too. and she, of course, isn't tolerating it as well as the other two.

in fact, i haven't slept more than 3 hours per night for 3 nights.

poor little angel.

anyway... activities are almost into full swing. lili's art class got canceled - of course, the one she was looking forward to the most. i'm still trying to find a replacement class... but honestly, i'm not trying that hard.

this week was really hard - cohen had hockey every night. so between me teaching, doing clinics, driving people everywhere... yesterday, for example, went something like this:
am - drive cohen to school
am - drive to clinic, teach for 90 minutes
pm - race home, get lili ready for school, drive lili to school
pm - try and straighten up, clean, prepare snacks for long night
pm - pick up lili from school, drive straight to skating lessons (deep south)
pm - come back home, drop julia off, swing by drive thru for dinner, rush off to cohen's hockey (NE)
pm - drive home... put kids in bed. clean up, do dishes, collapse into bed only to be awoken at 2am by a hysterical luci. 7am, finally fall asleep. alarm goes off at 7:30.

yeah. stupid busy. my van looked like a bomb went off in it.

anyways. i'm sure i'll settle into it. starting next month i won't have my niece to look after, so it'll be a little easier. hopefully.

i'm also dealing with a bum knee, which is making everything hard. it's not that it hurts so much, but it's a consistent pain, which, after a few hours, makes me pretty darn snappy and irritable.

otherwise... i'm so proud of cohen - he looks like a natural (well, a 6 year old natural) on the ice.

lili's doing great too - although she's being having some separation anxiety lately... so there were some tears at ballet and at violin this week. once she settled down, she had a blast. hopefully she'll remember that part next week.

i'm so tired, sorry if this isn't very coherent.

life is good... busy but good... i'm really grateful for these amazing kids... and i've made a vow to really make the most of the last half of my mat leave. since i may never be a stay-at-home mom after this, i want to squeeze as much into it. lots of cookie-making, craft-doing, nature-walking, story-telling, song-singing... etc.

sleep... here i come. please, luci, give me at least 4 hours...

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