November 5, 2022 - Saturday



Things have not gone as well as I had hoped today. 🤦 I DID fall asleep a little easier last night than I have been, so that's a plus, but Ollie got up around 3 and came to my bed asking to snuggle. I didn't know what time it was. I thought it was morning, so I just said yes. After 40 min or so, she asked to go downstairs so I checked the time. Lo and behold! It was 3:50. I took her back to her room to resume her sleep and she was back in my room at 5:20am, just up for the day. Until 7, she begged to go downstairs, watch tv, wake her sisters up, eat, and on and on, never going back to sleep. I slept a little in between all of the requests, but not much. So frustrating. I don't know what to do to keep her in her damn room! We have the sound machine that changes colors at 7am and I talk to her about it every day. She's been punished... You know what though. I've never tried rewarding her for staying in her room until her sound machine turns green. I wonder what I could use as a reward that she would really like... Hmm... Something to think about! 

Anyway, it was a rough start to the day. On top of that, the girls fought from the second they woke up until we got out of the house at 10:30. I ran to the store at 8am to get my pickup order and then got my mac n cheese into the crockpot by 8:30am. (It turned out delicious, btw!) I fed everyone, ate my breakfast, did a few chores, cleaned the hot tub, got everyone dressed, read for a few minutes, and then it was time to cook the hot dogs and get out of the house! The weather was perfect outside. Cool, cloudy, breezy. So nice. The time at Anne's had its ups and downs. I felt so guilty about how dirty her place got while we were there and Clem stepped in dog poop at one point, which was a big to-do, but it was good to see my friends and visit for a while. Later, we went to a playground to get together with Chloe and her family. I really didn't want to be there, and it was a little rough, but I think it's important to try to keep that relationship going and so does her mom. Then I took the kids out to dinner at Bob Evans, but they told us they were running WAY behind, because they only had one server and the dining room was already full! I ended up just placing a to-go order and we ate at home. I turned on Unaccompanied Minors for the first Christmas movie of the season and we had fresh popped popcorn. That part of the day actually went really well. The kids loved the movie and Ollie was tired enough to sit still the whole time. She went to bed easily (although very, very late) and now I'm just getting myself ready for bed. It's daylight savings tomorrow. Hoping and praying this doesn't mess us up too much! 





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