is where I am headed this morning after getting a maximum of three hours of sleep last night.\u00a0 I don’t know why this always happens when Andy is out of town but I hate it!\u00a0 One kid with a nightmare, one kid with a stomachache, one kid can’t sleep, one wild puppy.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 One big dog goes down the hall and lets the puppy out of one kids room, puppy thinks it’s time for play.\u00a0 I let them all out for a 3am pee.\u00a0 Big dogs can’t settle and I realize they are out of water so I get back up to give them water.\u00a0 They go to bed.\u00a0 Puppy can’t calm down when I bring her back in and try to leave her in my room.\u00a0 So we both go back to older kids room and she falls asleep.\u00a0 But wakes up an hour later whining.\u00a0 I get up and give her food- by this time it is 4:30.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 She has never heard thunder, she’s scared.\u00a0 I get up.\u00a0 Let all dogs out.\u00a0 Read email until it was time to get the kids up.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 At least the dogs are asleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
is where I am headed this morning after getting a maximum of three hours of sleep last night.\u00a0 I don’t know why this always happens when Andy is out of town but I hate it!\u00a0 One kid with a nightmare, one kid with a stomachache, one kid can’t sleep, one wild puppy.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 One big dog goes down the hall and lets the puppy out of one kids room, puppy thinks it’s time for play.\u00a0 I let them all out for a 3am pee.\u00a0 Big dogs can’t settle and I realize they are out of water so I get back up to give them water.\u00a0 They go to bed.\u00a0 Puppy can’t calm down when I bring her back in and try to leave her in my room.\u00a0 So we both go back to older kids room and she falls asleep.\u00a0 But wakes up an hour later whining.\u00a0 I get up and give her food- by this time it is 4:30.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 She has never heard thunder, she’s scared.\u00a0 I get up.\u00a0 Let all dogs out.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 At least the dogs are asleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20909,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/20909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}