As usual, life and death and everything...
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Willow hasn't been sleeping well lately. Who can really blame her? I haven't really slept well since November...
She has never been my sleeping kid. Always my energizer bunny. But, lately, she has had a rough time falling asleep. Usually, once she is asleep she is fine...but this past week, she has had nightmares and has come into our bed frequently.
We have tried lots of methods to get her to sleep. Discipline, no discipline, melatonin, no melatonin, reading in bed, not reading in bed. Bedtime routines and non-traditional bedtime routines. I know it is partially the summer. I know it is partially hormones on her part. I know it is partially an ennui on our part.
I think the vacation next week on Cape Cod will help to do a reset...and we will start the climb back to a semi-normal sleep routine with her.
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This happened on Monday:
He signed up for his first semester of college classes. To help him transition, he is going to take only three classes. Two academic ones--Biology and Western Civilization (History) and then he picked a Drawing class (he was thinking photography, but went to drawing).
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Hoping we have a restful vacation, although it sounds like I will be checking in with Hospice regarding my mother. I think her struggles with cancer are almost at an end. I have mixed feelings on all of it.
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We are up to 8 hours out of 40 hours needed on the parental supervision requirement for Michael to get his driver's license. He does pretty well and now he is driving us to and from appointments, etc. Last Saturday's adventure to our Dentist appointments in Lexington was a bit of a reminder that he needs to remember, especially in Massachusetts small towns, the pedestrians rule.
He hasn't gotten up to driving on highways yet, but there are more occasions now that my stomach is not freaking out with him at the wheel...so I think that is a good sign, right?!
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I am by no means ready for school to start. I am again facing my summer denial...summer isn't over yet, dammit!
Some summers we have done lots and lots of summer activities and I feel like we have lived the summer to its fullest. Then there are some summers...where time just sneaks up on you...and summer is already almost done. Unfortunately, through various means (including various obligations, sickness, weather, etc.) this summer is feeling like the later.
Although...there have been some good summer-time activities like these:
Fire pit and s'mores in back yard:
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| I got some of those fire packets that change the flames different colors! I did not photograph it very well! But it was blue, purple, green...etc. |
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| Rockport, MA - fudge shoppe |
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| She enters a place and immediately asks for LOBSTER! |
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Well, I guess we are going to cram a whole bunch of summer into the next few weeks--we are socially booked up and I barely will have time to get us all packed before we go to Cape. Looking forward to some beach and resting, family time and reflection.
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