Mistakes in Motherhood

Where you know the moment you wake up that your day is ruined?

Today is that day, and I knew it at 2am when I woke up and could not go back to sleep. When I did manage to sleep I was awoken every 15-30 minutes. After 4am it was ever 5-10 minutes.

At 5:30 Matthew woke up screaming, like he was in pain, so I went to check on him and he thinks it is time to get up… no way, I CANNOT deal with him awake the entire time I have A.

I snapped at Bobby who asked me at 5:45 if he could help… I told him the only way he could help is if he could turn back time so I could sleep, or let me go back to bed. That did not happen and I feel bad for taking my stress out on him.

I feel sick, baby A. has a cold, we are out of Coke, and Matthew is still awake. Can I please just go to bed and wake up on Saturday?

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This is my kitty Jacob, after his antics last night, his days are numbered. He started around 3 AM when he decided he wanted to jump on and off the bed… then later he wanted under my covers. A little later he started up with the meowing, first because he was pestering the puppy and she was smacking him with her paw. Then he decided to “dig” in my comforter, not sure if he thought he was burying something or if he was playing. When he started meowing at the door because he thought it was breakfast time, I gave him the boot, but too little, too late.. I did not sleep worth a damn last night and I am paying for it today. This is precisely why we nicknamed him Stupid

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Tonight we had an orientation meeting for Austin’s school, I am so in love with this school, I asked when *I* could join. It is academic/success based with requirements being much like college. You must have a 2.0 to pass, failure is not an option. The school encourages character building activities, like volunteering in the community; and the high school is college prep, with AP classes counting towards college credits. The enrollment is capped at about 300 students for middle school; Austin is looking at a graduating class of 100. I also love that it is rated 23rd in the state, so it is in the top 4% of the state.

I also love that they believe in removing distraction by wearing uniforms and having single sex classes at the middle school level. Austin is currently in a single sex classroom and his grades and test scores have never been higher with him achieving honor roll. I absolutely love that he will continue this into next year and beyond.

After the meeting we went out to IHOP for breakfast for dinner. Austin was very excited for the new school, and Christopher is rearing and ready to go too. We told him that he has two years to get his grades up, and I hope he starts working harder so he can also go. Matthew was tired from not napping today, and was a terror at dinner, I hope he sleeps well tonight because he has been SO crabby lately!

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