Ocean Eyes

Maybe mid-winter cleaning – all I know is I have been sorely neglecting my house, and this weekend I got a sudden burst of energy – I NEEDED to clean, toss and organize…I (we) put the boys bunk beds together, painted, took the Christmas tree down (finally!), scrubbed sinks, counters, tubs, floors and carpets. Oh, and did every bit of laundry I could get my hands on.

I think my creative mojo has been hiding under my running to-do list. You know – “I would make an apron, but gee, I still have x, y, and z to do.”  So now I have (almost) no excuse.

I DO have something exciting to share – I entered my picture of my son from our beach trip into Amy and Angie’s “I heart faces” photo contest, and I got 5th place! I am SOO excited! There was a LOT of great competition too!!

It’s a great site with some AMAZING images – I am THRILLED they liked mine!

Huh? wha? Oh right…morning. Chalk this up to another one of my bright ideas…

I had noticed that since Christmas break, the boys were trying to nap mid-day, and were much less charming than I was used to…so being the LOGICAL person I am, I thought that they could probably stand to sleep a little more at night.

Knowing that if I up and made them go to bed an hour earlier all at once chaos would result, I made the decision to start with 15 minutes earlier…so instead of 8pm, they would go to bed at 7:45. So far so good, they were still getting up just before 7.

THEN, a week later, I moved it back again by 15 minutes…

And ALL manners of H E double-hockey-sticks broke loose. Now? They are waking up at 5:30. AM. IN THE MORNING.

Whic wouldn’t be too bad if I didn’t spend most of my evening (and sometimes WAYYYY later) doing work for design clients…

So now I’m not only sleep deprived, but completely dumbfounded as to how to get them to sleep as much as they need to, and reset their inner alarm clocks.

Did I mention I was trying to consume LESS caffeine? Good times…