Friday, March 22, 2013

Spring Break aka Losing my Mind

Yesterday was the first day of Spring Break for Crazy 1 and today is the first day for Crazy 2. They are already making me lose my mind.

The day started out WAY to early. Crazy 3 has a bad habit of waking up for the day anywhere between 3:30 AM and 5:30 AM, today was no exception when he was up at 4:30 AM. Next was Crazy 2. I started to hear him around 4:45 AM, but he didn`t actually get out of his room until 5:30 AM. Crazy 1 was the last to wake up, at 5:50 AM. Yes, you read that right, all 3 of my children were up before 6:00 AM and we have nowhere to go today.

It is 10:00 AM here as I write this.

Crazy 1 has already had breakfast, a snack, played in the basement and the play room, coloured, made a paper airplane and watched TV. Now she is already asking for lunch.

Crazy 2 has already had breakfast, a snack, played in the basement and the play room, coloured a lot and watched TV. Now he is asking if we can decorate Easter Eggs (activity I planned for next week).

Crazy 3 has already nursed 3 times, had breakfast, played around the living room, had a 45 minute nap and is now going to down for nap number 2.

If this schedule keeps up, I have no idea what state I will be in by the time Crazy 1 and Crazy 2 go back to school on April 2nd.

I do have some activities planned as well as some outings, but I still have a house to run and maintain. These breaks from school sure to put a damper on my day to day routine. Not that I don`t enjoy have the crazies home and able to do things with them, but I do like my sanity as well!

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Waste of a Weekend

This weekend has been a complete waste. I have accomplished nothing, and when I say nothing I mean just the bare necessities were accomplished.

Crazy 3 is fighting something, fevers of over 102 F, cranky, waking up in the middle of the night and will only sleep on me. I feel like a zombie, I feel like I am just running on fumes, I feel like I might go insane if sleep does not happen soon.

The worst part of the whole thing is that Crazy 1 and Crazy 2 are also in rare form. They are not suffering from any illness, just completely crazy! The not listening and talking back are at all time highs, especially today.

We were supposed to go out to the Science Centre today, I figured if we at least did something with the kids, my guilt about not getting things done around the house would be lessened. Well, let me tell you, nothing was working to get the two of them to behave this morning, so low and behold we stayed home. This unfortunately leads to cabin fever and the behaviour ends up worse. It is a never ending cycle that I have no idea how to break.

It got so bad with Crazy 1 that while I was telling her to stop doing something, she continued to do it, while apologizing for doing it and telling me she would be a better listener. She never did stop on her own, it took me giving her a time out to stop.

Crazy 2 was the good one today, and that is saying a lot considering lately I have been referring to him as the 2 year old Tornado. He just stops listening because Crazy 1 doesn't listen so why should he.

I hope this doesn't continue every weekend or else I might get a little crazy myself. The weekends are when I look forward to outings as a family, but the stress of not knowing if the kids are going to listen just isn't worth it when I am already on edge from lack of sleep.