Another day...Another dollar...

I had the five kids again yesterday. The day definitely went by quickly! I spent the morning at my Grandmother's with the 5 of them. In the afternoon I brought them all to the hair salon to get S, C and R's hair cut. That was an expedition!

I'm excited to only have the regular four today. It's funny how that happens, that suddenly four is a piece of cake. We have some chores to do this morning, then some things that I've been trying to get done, but have been too busy. :)

Boy are my arms tired!

Last night while K and I were making dinner there was a knock on the door. It was my cousin that I haven't seen in a year. We was in a bad way and had no one to watch his daughter today because his girlfriend is very sick and he needs the money to work. He came over with his head hung asking if I could help and watch J today. Obviously I said yes, but boy are my arms tired!

R slept over again last night, so I was starting the day with 4 kids and going up to 5 by 8. Poor J was so sad this morning. I was the first sitter she's ever had other than her mom, dad and grammy. She's 12 months old and weighs 34 pounds. She is adorably huge. She was so sad today that I had no choice but to hold her and try to comfort her. She is a love and warmed up to us quickly, but got startled by the noise of my house. How do you prepare an only child and grandchild for this kind of noise?! :)

We went to C's friends house today for a play date. It's really a play date for all of us since I really like her mom. We had 10 kids between us today that we were taking care of. And you know what? It really wasn't bad. The day flew by and the house is clean and my arms are sore.

Bring on tomorrow!

I'm the broken doll...

Do you remember those dolls everyone had when we were kids? The ones that shut their eyes when you laid them horizontally? I had one or two growing up and I always had the dolls with the broken eyes. I'd lay her down and one eye would stay locked open while the other twitched somewhere between closed and open. My sister's doll would be sleeping peacefully next to my twitchy awake doll. It's become a theme in my life.
Every night I do the same things to get myself ready for bed. There is the standard face washing and teeth brushing, but in my case it's also taking my sleeping pills and doing mediation in the hopes that I will get some sleep. I wait until I'm dead tired before heading to bed or it's not even worth trying to sleep. K is one of those people that lay down and his eyes close and within a minute, sometimes less, he's sound asleep for the night. I'm the broken doll. I try so hard to sleep, but there always seems to be an eye that doesn't agree and lays there twitchy and waking up the rest of my body. Better yet I'm the version with the shaky legs too! Why can't I just lay down and sleep like other people. I need sleep just like everyone else and would really relish it!
The other night when I was laying in bed with one eye closed and the other half I started computing my sleep for the week. It occurred to me that I clean many more hours a week than I sleep. That's awful! I'm going to be one of those people that spend 1/3 of their life cleaning instead of sleeping!