Making Progress

For the past two days Kiera has fallen into more of a routine. Eating every 2.5-3 hours and stretching out her nighttime sleep up to 5 hours! I'm still holding my breath each night waiting for the night that she sleeps all the way through, but I don't expect that to happen for several more weeks. My body must be adjusting to the nightly wakings because I've actually had energy the past two days. Energy on my end means that the upstairs of our house finally got vacuumed for the first time since we moved in. Okay, so Matt swept part of it too. It is sad that I worked on laundry most of the day and still have 3 loads to go through today. Today's energy, however, was spent in a different venue.

Kiera and Gabe spent the morning with Mamaw and Papaw Miller so that I could help out at Luke's school party. It reminded me how much I enjoy being in a classroom, but I definitely don't miss the stress of all the extra tasks. I believe I will teach again someday, just not sure if that will happen next year or not. Back to the party...the kids (ages 4-5) played pumpkin games, did crafts, decorated cookies, and had yummy snacks! It was a blast and I am so thankful that Luke has such wonderful teachers!

The kids enjoyed playing with their grandparents and I even had the chance to sneak out to Target to return a costume (Gabe was going to be Elmo until we found Luke's old Spiderman outfit and he chose it instead) and do a little shopping. The dollar rack has a 70% off section and since I don't have my own treasure box at school to fill up anymore, I stocked up for Luke's teachers instead. Sorry Matt, I know you thought that expense was gone, but who can pass up 30 cent items! Even better is that along with babysitting came meals that I just have to warm up later for dinner! Now that's how I like to cook :). Well, really I do like to cook, but warming things up is what I have time for right now.