I am feeling on deaths door as a result of exhaustion and I am just praying that Tiara will sleep past 3am tomorrow morning. For the past week she has been waking up at 3am, including the night of my reunion. Oh wait, that night she woke up at 2am and then I had to get her a breathing treatment at 4am and then I was up making breakfast at 6am. I always know that whenever I am out having fun, she won’t sleep well. It is like she is punishing for having fun. As a result, I try and never over drink at any event. On the night of the reunion, one of the girls working offered Louie a shot of something. He said he wasn’t allowed, his wife would kill him, but if his wife took a shot he could too.
I had no idea this was going on, but suddenly the girl called me over to the bar. I thought she was going to ask me a question about the party but instead she said ” I want to give you a shot.” “No thanks, I don’t do shots.” I tried to walk away but she kept trying to convince me to take one. I said No 3 times, and finally when she wouldn’t drop it, I looked her in the eye and said ” You probably don’t know this, but I have a 13 year old girl at home who wears diapers and has seizures everyday so I don’t have the luxury of taking shots.” The poor girl looked horrified and said nothing and I walked away. I felt bad being so blunt because she was a sweet kid and was just trying to be nice, but I was getting impatient with her persistence.
Either way I was so grateful I didn’t succumb to her persuasion because I finally went to bed at 12am only to be awakened at 2am. My sweet husband was passed out cold so could you imagine what would happen if I couldn’t get up and take care of Tiara? I think the house might fall down around us.
Funny enough by that night we were all so tired, we decided to have family movie night. Even Tabitha decided to join in, oh right, because she stumbled in at 4:30 am after I texted her to get her butt home. Apparently she was partying it up with her friends who are going back to school this week. Lucky for her she got to sleep in until 3pm. Oh, to be in college again!
So we rented Hunger Games and were all ready to start watching it when I walked by the hallway only to see Bailey’s dog bed covered in this thick white pasty stuff. And there on the bed was an eaten tube of Desitin, I had used on Tiara’s diaper rash earlier in the day. OMG, how disgusting. Really can we just get a break for one day?
I told Lou, and he said, “Wow, I bet that can’t be good for his stomach.” No sooner did he say that, Bailey walked over and vomited all over the floor. Lou hates throw up and can’t stomach dealing with it at all but I think he felt guilty since I had just finished making dinner, giving Tiara a shower, doing her medicine and breathing treatment and I had let him sleep in until 8:30 that morning, so he offered to clean it up.
I should have done it myself, because he was in a panic trying to figure out the process. I am professional at cleaning up the most disgusting messes you could ever imagine and I have a system. He looked at me like, how do I do this?
“First, get the whole roll of paper towels, grab the trash can and bring them to the scene of the mess. After the big stuff is up, follow up with a round of baby wipes and when the floor looks clean spray on the Simple Green and clean it again. “
As he went through the process we could hear him gagging and cursing to himself. Ohhh, wasn’t really funny, but kinda was, he is such a baby when it comes to gross stuff. Either way the mess got cleaned up, we all went to bed early and Tiara woke up again at 3am. On Monday, I so wanted a break, but I had to get the house in order for an appraisal. Whenever we get our house appraised I like it to look as nice as possible. I don’t know why I was even bothering because I know the value won’t come in high enough to refinance, but what the heck, if we don’t try we will never know. Our bank offered to do this for free since we have never been late on our payments, and our interest only loan ends next year. So not looking forward to next May. One day at a time.
Of course when the guy showed up Tuesday, I was sweating, from cleaning like a madwoman, and he spent let’s say a whole 10 minutes looking at the property. Didn’t make me feel like all my efforts were going to be rewarded.
So it is Tuesday at 4pm and I am going to spend the rest of the day being mellow, and begging Tiara to sleep through the whole night tonight. Pray that she does me this favor for me, just this once. Oh, and I think I will probably drink some wine. Yeah!!!
Have a great Wednesday….
