I made arrangements to go to a week-long spa/hotel thing. I have wanted to do this for years. I saved my money. DH can manage the kids. I am going alone and will be sleeping in, eating healthy meals, doing yoga and saunas and getting massages for a WEEK solid. I am in heaven. So excited. Of course my mother in law is appalled that I am 'leaving my family' to do something so selfish. After fifteen years of mothering I think I can do this without a smidge of guilt.

DD4 has been sleeping 12 hours a night since she was 3 months old and has always taken decent naps. I can count on one hand the number of times she's woken up in the middle of the night with a bad dream or cough, etc. Baby #2 is on the way and I'm terrified, we can't possibly be lucky enough to get two awesome sleepers! But, until I'm proven otherwise, I'm going to daydream that we will :)

This s horrible but dh has been sick for a week or so and gets a horribe night cough. He's been sleeping in another room so I can sleep. I have to admit I kind of like having the bed to myself.

I should really go wake up the baby. He is 9 and a half months and gets up waaayyy too early, so we've been limiting his naps to 2hr chunks. The idea is to get him to make up sleep by sleeping later, not napping four hours in the afternoon. I should really go wake him up...

I'm considered a really cool mom. All my kids' friends tell me stuff they wouldn't tell their own parents. I give them advice and my opinions, but I am in no way friends with my kids or their friends. I'm an open-book adult that is very approachable. I don't go out or hang out with them in any way shape or form. If they're sleeping over they'll see me act silly, play games, etc.

The term "born sleeping" for a stillborn baby creeps me out. The baby is dead, not asleep. I get that it's a nicenice way to put it but it gives me the shivers.

I've stopped supporting the Occupy Wall Street protestors, in EVERY city. I believe in their cause, but I think it's becoming more of a joke. They still have NO OBJECTIVE. They haven't demanded new tax codes for the rich or stricter regulations. They're just...protesting. Yes, it pisses me off like CRAZY that I pay TWICE the tax rate that Mitt Romney does, and I only make $40k per year. But sleeping in a public park for 5 months won't change it. They need to make DEMANDS. It's just silly at this point.

My favorite kind of infant is the sleeping kind.

I know every kid is different, but whenever I hear about someone who thinks the first year is the EASIEST I just don't understand. I mean, I literally cannot wrap my head around how that could be. For me, the first year is pretty much awful. It's only when the walking and talking starts that the bad parts are balanced by good parts. Before that, snuggles & when they're sleeping aside, it's all bad parts as far as I'm concerned.

I'm taking generic hycodan, cough syrup...the only thing that helps with this godawful bronchitis I'm suffering from right now. If I take nothing, I cough all night till gagging, and cannot sleep. If I take it, it either puts me in a twilight sleep where I'm STILL not really sleeping, hypes me up, or gives me some pretty darn atrocious nightmares. I'm exhausted, and I have an exam tonight in my pharm tech class. Keep me in your thoughts, gals.