Neighborhood-Kids All Local. All for Kids. All the Time.

I have a very small house, and the girls share a bedroom. Joy has a tall loft bed, and Clara's crib is tucked beneath it. They love each other so much, and they do fine sharing a room... until bedtime. We are not getting any sleep, and I don't know how much longer I can take it! They wake each other up all night long. Clara goes to bed early, and when Joy goes to bed, she wakes Clara up. Once Clara is up, it takes me another hour to get her down. When I put her down, it wakes Joy up. Joy gets up during the night to go to the bathroom and that wakes Clara up. It takes me another hour or two to get Clara down... and so on All.Night.Long. I am seriously losing it - I cried at the grocery store this week. Yes, it was partly because I didn't have enough money and they had to put some of my groceries back (!) but if I just wasn't so sleep deprived I know I could handle this kind of thing with slightly more aplomb!

I am just venting; I'm pretty sure I'll find a good solution for this someday. And if not... you know, someday they'll move out of the house and then I'm pretty sure I'll get some sleep. Unless they want to live here with their own children. You don't think they will, do you?

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Cross-posted from singlesupermama.com

So, this whole last week was a Bad Week. Both girls were really sick, and as a result, none of us got much sleep. And I had a Bad Experience with what may have been considered in some alternate universe as a date, but for this single mom a more accurate description would just be a Bad Freaking Idea.

Anyway, here's the good news about having weeks like these. There's nowhere to go but up! So, here's a toast to the upcoming Better Week (I'm holding up my Dr. Pepper). And maybe I'll fill you in on the more amusing details from the last week as I perk up and they start to actually seem amusing. :-)

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."
- Leo J. Burke

I have another dream: that we still stop getting cold after cold and be healthy for awhile! And get several nights' worth of sleep right in a row! Argh!

This is what my bed looks like at 5:00 a.m. I know what you're thinking. Where do I fit? And that, my friend, is the same thing that I am thinking. That, and why on earth are we awake at 5:00 a.m.