Monday, January 31, 2005
DOING BETTER
I have been sleeping alot better this last week. It feels really good to be
back on a normal sleeping schedule.
The High School music department had a fund raiser on Saturday night. We do a silent auction. We had over 500 items donated! It seemed to go well. We won't know for a few days how much was made. This should help the kids to go on tour this spring, and to do other things that need to be done. The choirs and the different orchestras performed throughout the night. Em said that she really enjoyed the 3 or 4 hours just to hang out and enjoy her choir friends company.
Em and I get to travel over to Idaho Falls this weekend. We are really looking forward to going.
back on a normal sleeping schedule.
The High School music department had a fund raiser on Saturday night. We do a silent auction. We had over 500 items donated! It seemed to go well. We won't know for a few days how much was made. This should help the kids to go on tour this spring, and to do other things that need to be done. The choirs and the different orchestras performed throughout the night. Em said that she really enjoyed the 3 or 4 hours just to hang out and enjoy her choir friends company.
Em and I get to travel over to Idaho Falls this weekend. We are really looking forward to going.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
SLEEEEEEEEP!
I did really good last night for the 1st 2 hours that I was asleep. I went to bed at about midnight. We sat up and watched Jay Leno's tribute to Jonny Carson. I've seen all of those clips time and time again for the most part, but Jonny was a part of our lives for so many years.
Em came in at about 2:30AM and was upset over a bad dream. When she woke me up I was in a really deep sleep. She scared me so bad that I probably jumped a foot off the bed. Well now I'm awake, I am sandwiched between her and her dad, and I am getting warmer, and warmer. So I get myself out from under the blankets. BURR!
So I try to snuggle up to Shane. It helped some but I am still cold! Finally after
Em falls asleep good I get out of bed and go out to the kitchen. I make a cup of Herb Tea, Listen to Barry Manilow, and just sit at the kitchen table and wait. Finally 5:00 rolls around and Em gets up. We visited for a few minutes then she goes to get ready for school. So I go back to bed. Just the fact that I get up and move wakes me up. Every time that I drift off something happens to wake me up. She and her dad finally leave for school and work and I am finally able to relax and go to sleep without any fear of my sleep being interrupted. I didn't even hear Phillip leave. I slept until 11:55AM.
Please God let me sleep tonight.........
Em came in at about 2:30AM and was upset over a bad dream. When she woke me up I was in a really deep sleep. She scared me so bad that I probably jumped a foot off the bed. Well now I'm awake, I am sandwiched between her and her dad, and I am getting warmer, and warmer. So I get myself out from under the blankets. BURR!
So I try to snuggle up to Shane. It helped some but I am still cold! Finally after
Em falls asleep good I get out of bed and go out to the kitchen. I make a cup of Herb Tea, Listen to Barry Manilow, and just sit at the kitchen table and wait. Finally 5:00 rolls around and Em gets up. We visited for a few minutes then she goes to get ready for school. So I go back to bed. Just the fact that I get up and move wakes me up. Every time that I drift off something happens to wake me up. She and her dad finally leave for school and work and I am finally able to relax and go to sleep without any fear of my sleep being interrupted. I didn't even hear Phillip leave. I slept until 11:55AM.
Please God let me sleep tonight.........
Monday, January 24, 2005
SLEEP DEPRIVED AGAIN
This time it has lasted for about a month. I am not sure what is happening here.
This time I think alot of it has to do with a dog that was diagnosed with an illness, and the med's we have to give her makes her thirsty, so she drinks more, so she has to go out more. Since she was diagnosed I'll sleep for about an hour, regardless of the time that I go to bed, then she will get up and wake us up to let her out to go potty. Often times she has to get up a couple of times a night.
Then Shane won't set the alarm and get up when it goes off, instead he will hit snooze two or three times, by that time I am ready to clobber him. We have a small mattress that we keep in our bedroom when Em isn't feeling good she'll sleep in here.This morning she let the alarm ring 4 or 5 times. I hadn't slept all night. I finally fell asleep around 6:30 am. Right now I am so tired that I can't believe it. I am just afraid of trying to go to sleep.
This time I think alot of it has to do with a dog that was diagnosed with an illness, and the med's we have to give her makes her thirsty, so she drinks more, so she has to go out more. Since she was diagnosed I'll sleep for about an hour, regardless of the time that I go to bed, then she will get up and wake us up to let her out to go potty. Often times she has to get up a couple of times a night.
Then Shane won't set the alarm and get up when it goes off, instead he will hit snooze two or three times, by that time I am ready to clobber him. We have a small mattress that we keep in our bedroom when Em isn't feeling good she'll sleep in here.This morning she let the alarm ring 4 or 5 times. I hadn't slept all night. I finally fell asleep around 6:30 am. Right now I am so tired that I can't believe it. I am just afraid of trying to go to sleep.
Friday, January 21, 2005
ANOTHER WEEK JUST NOT QUITE ORDINARY
Em had her wisdom teeth pulled Monday morning. She did really good thru the surgery and after getting her home she only slept until about 11:30am then she was up and around laughing and giggling and being her sweet self. Tuesday was much the same, so she and I went to the movies together. We went to see THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
I never went to college to learn all of the fundamentals but I do appreciate great music. This is some of the best I have ever heard. I grew up with parents that taught me an appreciation for good music, so I enjoy classical music and just about everything else out there. I can tolerate some of the new music these days but all of the undertones of sex, drugs, killing, no hope just makes me nuts...
I heard a musician one time say that to find out the attitude of a generation look to their music. During WWI they sang songs like, Happy Days Are Here Again. WWII
Was the Swing Era. Vietnam was the beginning of the antiwar, drug, no hope type of music. It started again with the Iraq war. There is alot of good music out there, don't get me wrong. It just makes me sad that my kids are exposed to music that has no regard for any morals of any kind.
Now that that tangent is overwith! Phantom is FANTASTIC. I can hardly wait until I can buy the DVD.
Tuesday evening Em's mouth started to hurt. So she stayed home again on Wednesday and again today. She plans to go to school Today, after all it is early Friday morning. Considering all she has done really good.
I never went to college to learn all of the fundamentals but I do appreciate great music. This is some of the best I have ever heard. I grew up with parents that taught me an appreciation for good music, so I enjoy classical music and just about everything else out there. I can tolerate some of the new music these days but all of the undertones of sex, drugs, killing, no hope just makes me nuts...
I heard a musician one time say that to find out the attitude of a generation look to their music. During WWI they sang songs like, Happy Days Are Here Again. WWII
Was the Swing Era. Vietnam was the beginning of the antiwar, drug, no hope type of music. It started again with the Iraq war. There is alot of good music out there, don't get me wrong. It just makes me sad that my kids are exposed to music that has no regard for any morals of any kind.
Now that that tangent is overwith! Phantom is FANTASTIC. I can hardly wait until I can buy the DVD.
Tuesday evening Em's mouth started to hurt. So she stayed home again on Wednesday and again today. She plans to go to school Today, after all it is early Friday morning. Considering all she has done really good.
Sunday, January 16, 2005
LIL JSM
THANKS to Jizr. He put this cool clock program onto my blog for me.
When I received it as an email several months ago I thought that it was
so cool. Now you can enjoy it also.
When I received it as an email several months ago I thought that it was
so cool. Now you can enjoy it also.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
SMILES
I am so proud of Phillip. A break from a loved one is so hard, but he acts like he has had a ton of weight lifted from his shoulders. He acted more like his sweet self than he has for several months now. It was like there was a black cloud hanging over his head, and it is gone now. He'll be ok.
Monday, January 10, 2005
TEARS
This last few weeks have been kind of hard on my 19 year old Phillip. His fience at first wanted to just step back and take a breather but promised that sometime in the future she would be back. She called tonight and told him that it was all over with.
I have worried about this very thing happening since she went back to school in September. I know he has also. This is a really hard thing to have to see your child go thru but it also is a life lesson that sometimes has to happen. I just hope that he feels like he can talk to me anytime. If I could take this hurt from him I would in an instant, but I can't. I can be there for him though. I am so grateful that we have raised children that love and respect us and that feel like they can talk to us. I am truely blessed.
I have worried about this very thing happening since she went back to school in September. I know he has also. This is a really hard thing to have to see your child go thru but it also is a life lesson that sometimes has to happen. I just hope that he feels like he can talk to me anytime. If I could take this hurt from him I would in an instant, but I can't. I can be there for him though. I am so grateful that we have raised children that love and respect us and that feel like they can talk to us. I am truely blessed.