Bedtime Goal – I will try again :)
15 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
in Love my Kids! Tags: parenting, sleep
Well I wasn’t in bed by 10pm. But I was close. 10:45. That’s better than I have been doing.
I just couldn’t get there. I did a load of laundry earlier in the evening – trying to wash away sick germs :) I went down to hang the blankets etc right before heading up to bed. They hadn’t wrung out. Grrr. Our washing machine takes these fits occasionally. Usually if I just restart the spin cycle it works and I go on about my life. So I did that. And came back in a few minutes. Still didn’t work. I shifted all the stuff around in the washer in case it was unbalanced or something and tried again. Nope. So I had to just wring it all out by hand and hang it up.
Then ready to head to bed….. but not before Kids 3 gets up, he thinks he may puke again, so we sit in the bathroom together for a while. Finally I can tuck him in and get to bed. So it was pretty good. Didn’t meet my goal but I was close. That’s still counts :)
Anyway, I do feel a little better this am. Kid3 only got up once last night. Fever medicine about 2:30 am. He slept in this morning and is eating more today. Hopefully we’re on the up-swing. Usually it passes to the other kids too of course. So today I am washing bedding and lysol-ing everything :) We have the windows cracked now trying to get some fresh air.
Gonna try my bedtime goal again tonight. 10:00 pm. I can do it!
There are lots of horrible things going on in the world right now. Earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear reactors overheating or something…. Feel silly to complain about my lack of sleep. I cannot even imagine the grief that many are feeling right now. So sorry.
Parent – Teacher Conferences Anxiety
24 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in Anxiety / Panic Attacks Tags: anxiety, distraction, panic attacks, parent teacher conferences, sleep, Thank You Lord
Parent / Teacher conferences were this morning. This type of thing usually really works me up for days in advance. Hard to explain why, but anyone that sufferers from panic attacks understands I am sure. This time I think I was just TOO busy to even remember they were coming up. It was awesome to realize the day was here already and I hadn’t flipped out about it :)
I had a rough night – have a nasty cold and was up coughing a lot last night. Did NOT get good rest. And that is my number 1 defense against panic attacks. That has proven to me to be the most important factor in dealing with it. So that worried me. But you know what, I was still feeling pretty miserable this morning and I think that was just the perfect distraction. Conferences went well. Very well. And I think I was more worried about coughing & sneezing on people than I was anything else. Aaaahhh, distraction. Worked wonders for me today :)
Thank you Lord for ….. MY COLD ?!?!? Yea, that’s right.
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