Random happenings ...

For whatever reason I can't sleep! That hardly ever happens to me, so it annoys me when it does. Zachary is still having nightmares, so he crawls into bed with me for a short time before I kick him out and he sleeps on the floor. Only problem is that he moves around a lot and grinds his teeth in his sleep. Grrr ... Besides it waking me up, I then lay there getting annoyed at all the dental/orthodontic work we'll have to pay for because he grinds his teeth ...

We just had a huge snowstorm! I peeked out my office window to see how much snow there was, and I couldn't see out the window because of the foot of snow in front of it. Last night Paul's normally 30-minute commute took him 1 hr 40 minutes. Ouch! When he called to tell me he was coming home, I told him I couldn't talk since I was trying to make dinner for new neighbors. Then when he didn't come and didn't come, I kept wondering if he was in an accident. I wasn't overly worried, but I did think a few times that I'd feel really bad if he died coming home and the last thing I said to him was, "I can't talk now!" I also then thought about how I'd resent these new neighbors if THEY were the "cause" of my not getting to talk to my husband for the last time. Sigh. What is it with mother brains that just worry about ridiculous things like that?!?

The good news is that Paul had new tires and windshield wipers for his difficult commute home yesterday. Yes, he went to get his car registered and failed the safety & emissions test because of his bald tires and bad windshield wipers. Oops. I knew we needed new tires, but not THAT bad. I'm glad I didn't realize how unsafe his car was ...

There's nothing like trying to drive on snow. Yesterday taking the boys to school I realized there was no way I was stopping at a stop sign near our house, so I just hoped nobody was coming the other way. Of course, a school bus was coming the other way! It was still far enough back that I just glided out in front of it and turned out of its way. Then the snowplows only plowed one lane, so it was like going over a single-lane bridge where you're trying to communicate with other drivers about who gets to go when. (Most of the time we both went half-way into the snow drifts to get past each other.) And then to have the snow drifts all the way across the road ... I'm sure this is making all of you REALLY miss Utah ... or wish you lived here yourself. :)

More randomness ... Last week we took Shayla back to the doctor. She was still being a bit cranky, so I was afraid her ear infection hadn't cleared up. Unfortunately our normal pediatrician was off, so we had to have one of his colleagues. This colleague asked if she was sleeping well. We mentioned that she wasn't eating normally, so some nights she was also waking up hungry. He then lectured us about not rocking her to sleep, etc. so she would learn how to go to sleep on her own. This just annoyed me. Her waking up hungry wasn't what we wanted his "medical" advice about. We value sleep and have NEVER done any of those things with any of our kids, even our oldest! In any case, I think I'll stick with my pediatrician.

Well, my alarm just went off, so I better go start my day ... I am so NOT a morning person ...