Monday, April 23, 2007

kids & sleep

i am trying to study for my exam tomorrow in spanish. Logan keeps getting up. i swear the kid has opened his door at least every 10 minutes, if not sooner since 8. he was unbelievably cranky when i put him down and seemed very tired. And now he is all sorts of pleasant. I would just yell at him or whatever, but he keeps asking to go potty. which when we get there, he wont actually go. Since we are in the middle of potty training, i dont want to discourage him from asking to go, but i know he is manipulating me and just saying it so he can get up.

he did the same thing last night, and i eventually stopped letting him try and a few hours after he finally fell asleep, he peed so much he wet the whole bed and came running into my room at 3 am (i was up for work already so at least he didnt wake me) and didnt go back to sleep until after i left for work at 4am. I had to wake my parents to deal with him b/c he was getting into everything. All last week he went to bed great. no fuss, no getting up. (well, not much, once or twice a few nights, but not like this) Why does he have to be so one way or the other?

So basically that leaves my studying being interrupted every 10 minutes. And i could just quit and go to bed, but thats what i did last night and i still had to get up over and over. I have to be at work at 4 am tomorrow. and then i have a spanish exam i am pretty much unprepared for. and i am tired.

**sigh**

i am just frazzled. i cant wait til this school crap is all over. on a good note, i picked up my cap & gown today. that was cool. it makes it feel more official.

Of course, just because i am not in school doesnt mean i will be a whole lot less tired. i still have to get up early for work and if logan is staying up too late, then i will still be tired. we are gonna try waking him up early for a few days and see if that doesnt help. hopefully it will fix this problem. it's probably a phase or some crap and i just have to wait it out, but it sucks. there, i said it and i 'm glad. ;)

anyway, he has been quiet for a little bit now, maybe he is down for the night and i can get some rest. wouldnt that be nice? good nite.

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Kristie :: 9:15 PM :: 1 comments

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

too busy

i am so ready to be done with school. only 5 more weeks. and then i will be a college graduate. whoo-ee.

I still havent gotten the pictures from our vacation from my sister, but as soon as i do, i will put them up along with a post about our trip. Which, by the way, was alot of fun, even if it was too cold/windy to use the boat & jet ski.

All i do is study, go to school, go to work. the remainder of my time is spent being mom. Which is rewarding, but it's hard when there you are on your own. by the time i get home, my mom is done. i dont blame her, she's been watching my kid all day and she needs time for herself. but what sucks is that i dont get that time to myself. joe has to work late all the time and even if it's not too late, by the time he gets back to this side of town, logan has already gone to bed. so now i might get a sunday here and there to my self, but not every week. and then i have to try to cram everything i didnt get to thru-out the week into that one day. it sucks and i never get to everything.

i cannot wait to graduate.

i keep repeating that in my head. over and over. it's all that keeps me going sometimes. ;)

well, thats all the update i have time for today. another thing- once school is over, i will be able to blog again. yae.

good nite. wish me luck for my test tomorrow (in the class i dont really get, and that i am not as prepared as i would like. ugh)

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Kristie :: 9:16 PM :: 2 comments

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Friday, February 16, 2007

bedtime

logan seems to be getting worse and worse about bedtime. i should count myself lucky that he sleeps thru the night and always has since he was a newborn, and that up til recently, he pretty much went to bed with minimal fuss. But lately (dont ask me how long, i am so tired, it all runs together now) he gets up over and over for up to an hour and a half after i put him down. today, for instance, he played hard at school, according to my mom he played good at home, we went out to dinner with his auntie anna and we played good after that. he didnt take a nap except for 5 minutes in the car on the way to dinner. he looks tired. but he is literally skipping around his room. c'mon already. i have to work at 5 am tomorrow and just need to get to sleep. its been 2 hours now. i need a break. granted, i love seeing my kid, because w/school and work, i dont see him all that much, and i would love to just let him stay up all night and hang out with me, but we both need our sleep and in the long run that would not be the best thing for him, so i try to keep bedtime as stable as possible. he pretty much only stays the night as his daddy's once a week now, (if that) so i cant blame him for messing the schedule up, so i just dont know what's up with it all.

sorry if this makes no sense, i am really really tired.

I did get to watch last night's grey's anatomy tho. (altho i had to pause it every 5 minutes to put someone back in bed). what an intense episode. i dont know if you watch it, but you should. i have been a fan since day one. i am almost bummed i watched it..with episodes like that it is more fun to save them for all at once that way you dont have to wait a week to see what the hell is happening. arggh. i still have heroes to watch from monday and lost too. maybe if i am lucky i will get to see those this weekend. we'll see.

well, logan has been quiet now for 15 minutes. hopefully he finally passed out. i am so ready to do the same.

Tags: mom, motherhood, parenting, sleep, tv

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Kristie :: 9:44 PM :: 2 comments

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Monday, February 12, 2007

why arent i in bed yet?

it has somehow become 924 pm and i am awake. arg. And i still need to shower. Of course, logan didnt go right to sleep when i put him down at 8, and the last time he got up was 840 and i was just killing a few minutes until i knew he was asleep so i could jump in the shower and now so much more time has gone by than i meant! i was actually finally going a reading a few of your blogs. I miss them so much. I cant wait until i have time again to really get back into them. And this might sound sort of cheesy, but I also miss the little bit of traffic i used to get here. I never had a lot, but now i have like 3 or 4 people who stop by. that's pretty lame. of course i went with no readers for a long time when i first got started, so i suppose i shouldnt complain. If i actually had time and something to post about, things would be different.

oh well.

So, remember i had those quizes/tests last week? Well so far i have gotten the grades for 2 of them and i did really good!! i got a 90 on one quiz and a 93 on my test. i still have one grade to get and one more quiz this week...yae! last week sucked. i was sick, tired and stressed the hell out over all the school work i had looming over me. why is that all your classes schedule tests and assignments to be due the same week? I mean really, do they have staff meetings and say "hey, i have a huge test coming up in two weeks, who else wants to schedule the mother of all tests?" "oh me!! that'll really mess the kids up!!"...ya, i know..i am really lame. cant help it- i was born this way- take it up with my parents. It's their fault. And my kid will be lame too. so there. i said it and i'm glad.

Anywho...

i am off to get cleaned up and get to bed.

oh one last thing! i let my sister and her friend pierce my ear lobe. (the top part). Me. The person who was petrified of piercings (even of the ear). maybe it was the few beers and the glass of wine that convinced me to let them have a go at it, but ya know what? it really wasnt that bad. the piercings i have in the lower lobes that were done with a gun hurt worse. a straight, hollow needle really is the way to go. i will take a picture this week and show it off. ;)

ok, really this time: Good nite!

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Kristie :: 9:26 PM :: 0 comments

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