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is where I am headed this morning after getting a maximum of three hours of sleep last night.  I don’t know why this always happens when Andy is out of town but I hate it!  One kid with a nightmare, one kid with a stomachache, one kid can’t sleep, one wild puppy.  They all go to sleep, then it starts all over, one kid in my bed, two kids in my bed, one kid to my bathroom turning all the lights on and flushing and washing hands.  One big dog goes down the hall and lets the puppy out of one kids room, puppy thinks it’s time for play.  I let them all out for a 3am pee.  Big dogs can’t settle and I realize they are out of water so I get back up to give them water.  They go to bed.  Puppy can’t calm down when I bring her back in and try to leave her in my room.  So we both go back to older kids room and she falls asleep.  But wakes up an hour later whining.  I get up and give her food- by this time it is 4:30.  She eats and goes back to sleep for an hour and starts whining again- a thunderstorm of all things has rolled in and is LOUD.  She has never heard thunder, she’s scared.  I get up.  Let all dogs out.  Read email until it was time to get the kids up.

Now they are all up and one wants to stay home because he doesn’t feel good, one is coughing all over his cereal, and the little one is climbing on my back.  At least the dogs are asleep.