November 18, 2022 - Friday


Today kind of felt like a weekend day because all of my plans were cancelled and Jonas was home from school. The poor kid has a fever, a cough, and a terribly sore throat. I spent some of the day relaxing though. I gave up on my book. I can't get through it and I've wasted three weeks trying. I cleaned A LOT and did some laundry. I wanted the house to be clean before getting Christmas decorations up and I promised the girls we'd do that this weekend. 

Jonas had another one of his weird sleepwalking things last night. It wasn't as bad as last time, but still freaky. Again, he woke me up hovering over me, but this time he instantly hugged me when he saw I was awake and said, "I LOVE YOU SO MUCH." super forcefully. Weird, but I have to admit, also kind of nice. He's not big on affection at this stage of his life. I listened to his nonsense gibberish and then walked him back to bed. I tried to tell him a story to change his thinking and had him drink some water. He laid with his eyes closed during the story and then, when I finished, I asked if he thought he could fall asleep and he said, "I'll try, but my hands are still stuck in these boxes." and then I didn't hear anything from him the rest of the night. Ben did some research into sleepwalking and it's not very encouraging. It does seem like fevers and illnesses can make it worse and he has been very sick the following day BOTH times he's done this, now. They just happened to be within a week of each other. IDK what to do. He read his devotional before bed tonight. Hopefully that habit will help him. I also gave him a melatonin gummy, along with a bunch of other cold meds, before bed. 

Ruby pissed me off so bad today. She was in such a rude, disrespectful mood when she got home from school. Just dismissive of me and the household rules. I got so mad that I had to step away for a little while. And my anger doesn't just disappear when the behavior gets better; it lingers. So she calmed down quite a bit later on and I was still so angry at her. And she doesn't even really know what she did wrong! She's just being a hyper 6-year-old and I just was so mad. I didn't react outwardly. No yelling or anything like that, but I felt like I was going to explode for a while. 

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