Someone Save Me...
Thursday, Jul. 20, 2006 7:50 pm
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Bubba has decided that naps are now a thing of the past. I needed those naptimes... Even if I didn't sleep, it made it easier to get through the day when I knew I would get a two hour break in the afternoon!

I can deal with the tantrums, the whining, the screaming, the fighting... I can deal with loud computer games, with blaring television programs, with toys everywhere, and the "I'm hungrys". I can even handle the constant dirty diaper train... As long as I know there are two blessed hours where Patrick is sleeping and Hannah is quiet in her room, reading a book or playing barbies...

Apparently, that time no longer exists...

Today was a really difficult day. This gluten-free thing is a bitch. Dinner is easy enough, I stay away from pasta and I serve a meat, a veggie, and either a potato or rice sidedish. Breakfast on the other hand, is hard! Especially if you have forgotten to buy eggs three days in a row!

I never know what to feed him... Everyday its a struggle to find something he likes, because he doesn't like much that isn't bread, donuts, crackers, or pasta!

All the poor kid wants is a peanut butter sandwich. He asks me for one at least three times a day. That and macaroni and cheese... And I can't give it to him! It makes me feel so bad! So today I went to Whole Foods and I bought gluten-free sandwich bread mix and gluten-free macaroni and cheese... He was SO HAPPY! It was worth it even if it was a five dollar loaf of bread and a box of three dollar mac and cheese!

I think this might be a new way of life for us, (oh goddess that sucks!!! It really really really sucks!) because his poo is showing improvement...

Yay for normal, non-explosive poo! I have to keep telling myself that!

Hannah is getting on my nerves. I am so sick of telling her the same thing over and over and over... I asked her to watch Patrick for ten minutes while I made dinner, and three times in a row, I had to remind her she was supposed to be watching him... Every single time I turned around, she was watching tv... And then Patrick flipped over in the desk chair, smacked his head on the hardwood floor, and she didn't even notice! Didn't even turn around!

All day long I've had to keep telling her, Hannah please pay attention... I don't know what the hell is going on with her! Its so frustrating! I try to talk to her, and she just looks at me with this slack-jawed vacant expression on her face...

On another note... I had another really strange dream last night... I dreamed I was sitting in a shallow pond with Hannibal Lector, and I was trying to teach him how to juggle lawn chairs...

What the hell is going on with me?

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