Zombie

I’m so sleepy I’m getting a headache. I’d take a nap, but it’s impossible to sleep in this house. As soon as I lay down the kids start fighting, the phone rings, or someone’s knocking at the door (and they usually don’t get the point and continue to knock until someone answers it).

Getting the kids to bed the past two nights has proven to be…overwhelming. No matter how early I feed them dinner and bathe them they still aren’t in bed until 10-10:30. Not good. I’m PRAYING that things start getting better.

It was Tuesday yesterday, which means Mario either chills out at work drinking with his co-workers or they go eat somewhere. Yesterday, their choice was Hooters. Mario’d never been there. When he called around 11:30pm that he was on his way home he sounded disappointed. He kept saying it wasn’t how he thought it would be. I asked him, “Aww, were the girls ugly and flat-chested?” LOL.

We talked and cuddled till 1am after he got home. Then he tells me his other schedule starts the next morning so he needs to go in at 9…which means I have to wake up at 7:30 to make breakfast and all that. Grr.

I kept waking up all night, which is the norm these days. I swear, it’s like my kidneys disappeared and all liquids go straight from my mouth to my bladder. I already had to bust out the leg-wedge pillow to help me sleep. And to top it off, the fan can be in my face and I’m still burning up. I had to switch my comforter for a flat sheet.

Last night when Mario and I decided to go watch TV in the bedroom instead of the living room I tried getting up from my half-laying position. After rocking back and forth like a turtle on it’s back Mario helps me up and I tell him, “I’m really afraid of how BIG and uncomfortable I’m going to be at 9 months!”

Speaking of being uncomfortable, I wish I could do more around this house! Not chore-wise but remodeling-wise. I painted half of the living room yesterday but had to leave some spaces unpainted since those areas still need the texture, like around the new hallway door. It frustrates me that the house is basically in shambles right now. I know my dad-in-law and Mario are busy all the time, but it sucks that it seems like we’ve come to a hault. Nothing’s getting done. The kids start school on Monday and their new clothes are still just draped over the back of the couch. All I want is for the closets to be completed, at least. But anyway. No use crying over spilled milk I guess.

I’m going to try and get some rest before our hectic day. Mom has an appointment at her hearing aid place, then we have to visit Gramma, I promised Mario I’d drop off a drink from Circle K to him, and in the evening we have Meet the Teacher Night. Let’s hope their teachers are nice people!