I went to bed 2 hours ago, went to sleep an hour and a half ago, and woke up an hour ago. This happens to me quite often, but usually I can go back to sleep pretty quickly. Not so tonight. So here I am...awake at 10:55 on a Sunday night. Full week of work and kids' activities ahead of me. This is not a great way to start.
So since I couldn't sleep I thought I'd do some blogging. Not blogging any of the fabulous posts that I have rolling around in my head (I always have posts rolling around in my head, I just usually don't get them posted), just blogging whatever comes to mind.
I'm having a major allergy attack right now, which probably added to the sleep problem. I went by Wal-Mart earlier and bought some Claritin, but it's the non-drowsy kind so I didn't take it because I was afraid it would keep me up. See how well that plan worked? Now I'm awake anyway and I still have a stopped up nose. So now, in an effort to combat both problems, I'm sipping some of my sleepytime tea...hoping it really does, in fact, put me to sleep, and the heat and steam will let me breathe again. I'll have to wait and see how that goes.
Yesterday I downloaded this book on my Kindle:
It's a book narrated by a 15 year old autistic boy who finds his neighbor's dog dead. I thought it might give me some perspective that would be useful for my job. So far it has. I really want to be able to help the autistic kiddos that I work with and I've been reading everything I can get my hands on. I like this one because it's fiction and I'd rather read fiction than non-fiction any day. But I'm still learning so that makes it even better.
*For some reason Typepad is not recognizing the rest of my paragraphs, so I'm changing the font color for each one. Oh, technology, you give me such a headache sometimes!!*
In other job-related news...I was finally able to get my hands on an exercise trampoline to put in my classroom. I've been looking for one on Craigslist since before the school year started and hadn't been able to find one. You'd be surprised how scarce those things are. They're close to $50 new and I just didn't want to spend that, so I was thrilled when I found one in the area for $15. The nice lady who was selling it said there had been quite a bit of interest in it, but she said I got it because of why I needed it. I'm really glad she let me buy it. There were a couple of days last week that I thought one of my friends could have used one. So now they'll have it when they need it.
Tomorrow night is Mom and Collin night. He wants to see "The Lion King" in 3D and then eat at Chili's. That particular movie is my least favorite Disney movie, but that's what he chose, and I'm excited about getting to spend some time with him. I've been working so much that I really haven't had much time to spend with my kids (major mom guilt here) and I think it's starting to take its toll on him. He's always been a mama's boy (I love that about him) and he seems to need more attention from me than he's been getting. There have been a lot of unexplained tears lately, and I really think that's why. I miss seeing my kids as much as I used to so it's time to change that. I knew the beginning of the school year would be like this. Tuesday marks the end of what I have been referring to as my ARD marathon (8 ARDs in less than 4 weeks is a LOT for this newbie) and I'm ready for it to be OVER! Hopefully after that, life in this house will return to normal again...whatever that is. : )
So it's now 11:19 and my sleepytime tea is almost gone. I feel a little sleepy, but I don't know how quickly I can fall asleep. Brendan came downstairs about 10 minutes ago and informed me that his stomach hurts and he feels like he's going to throw up. I told him there's nothing I can do to stop him from throwing up and please do so in the toilet. I suppose I'll play on Facebook for a few minutes and then try to get some sleep. Hopefully I can sleep for more than 30 minutes this time.
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