Clint has been gone for three days now and it feels like it has been F-O-R-E-V-E-R!!!! The first night he was gone I literally got NO sleep. I will be honest...I am a baby and am STILL scared of the dark! (You all can laugh, it won't bother me AT ALL!) Then, the second night I couldn't fall asleep, instead I decided to hoard TWO Granny B's Sugar Cookies and an ENTIRE bag of microwave popcorn to MYSELF! Can you say...OINK, OINK! (No wonder why I couldn't get to sleep...too much butter & sugar, ewww!) So....last night was THE night to get in some good rest, after all I was HIGHLY exhausted from the lack-of-sleep from the previous nights, so you can just imagine my excitement when I was crawling into bed! My sleep was WONDERFUL.....he he he, WRONG! Poor little Rachel was up ALL NIGHT LONG with a HORRIBLE stomach ache! I felt so bad for her, she started at about 9:30 PM with screaming, crying, rolling around and kicking....MISERABLY. She woke up EVERY hour with the same episode. When she woke at 11:00 PM she was crying for her *daddy* and so I gave in and let her call him. It was so sad, I could really tell that it just tore at Clint's heart to hear his little girl so upset and not feeling well and there wasn't much he could do about it. At about 1:00 AM...still continuing with the waking up episodes I began to really get worried, you know...with all the talk about food poisoning (salmonella in the peanut butter sauce) and we had been at a Birthday Party earlier for my niece and nephew and I kept trying to think of what she may have eaten and so I decided to call my parents home...yep, at 1:00 AM! Sorry Dad & Mom, I just HAD to know if anyone else was sick too (which they weren't, phew!)! Anyways, last night was HORRIBLE which made the day a little tough because I was so EXHAUSTED! I would have LOVED having a nap, but seriously....how was that going to happen, with three EXTREMELY creative kids running around. I could just imagine waking up to Brock beating on Kory, Kory analyzing SOMETHING and Rachel running around the neighborhood....wearing who knows what, if anything at all! Not gonna happen!
So, I toughed it out today and NOW it is 11:30 PM and here I sit typing this post....what is wrong with me? All the kids are asleep...Brock and Rachel are feeling MUCH better now and tucked into their beds, so why aren't I? Hmmmm......oh yeah! I was feeling guilty tonight about the sugar cookies & popcorn that were eaten last night and the 1/2 loaf of Chocolate Chip Banana Bread & the 7 Lindt Chocolate Truffles that I ate today, so I felt like I needed to do some exercising tonight after all the kids went to bed....a mixture of dancing, kickboxing, strength training and step aerobics from 9:30 to 10:30 PM, no WONDER why I am wired right now! DUH!!!!!!
I guess that most of my sleep deprivation is self-inflicted, right? I CANNOT wait for Clint to be home, so that things can get back on schedule and life will get back to normal! I even told him tonight that I felt like something HUGE was missing....like losing an arm or a leg! It sure felt great to hear him say that he felt the same way too! Clint will not be home for AT LEAST four more days...I hope I SURVIVE and don't turn into a ZOMBIE.....or WORSE....a 500 lb CRAZY woman! (You know, from all the binge/comfort eating that is going on around here, sheesh!)
