Goodnight and Sleep Tight

We are in the middle of our first full week of school and we are still trying to get used to all that goes along with that.  For some reason E has been getting up before 6:00am for several weeks now.  Ok this does work since we are getting around earlier but we don't really need to get up at 5:00am, that is the time he woke up this morning.  After so many days of doing this you have one tired and cranky mom.  Really this is never good.  The whole house suffers when I am tired.  I try to work thru it as graceful as I can, but was not so successful today.  Really we are all tired from all that we have going on.  Denis works all the time and when he is home he is wrestling with the boy or outside kicking the ball with our girl and let's not forget handling everything else in between that I mess up or forget about.  Yep, we are all tired. 

Both of my kids have always had a healthy bedtime routine.  We used to read books to my girl before she went to bed and now she likes her back or arm rubbed as I sing her several different songs.  My boys routine is evolving into this bedtime ritual.  It is like he is checking things off a list before he can go to bed and tonight he added a new one to his list.  Every night the curtains have to be shut with no gaps.  Even if there are no gaps he still wants me to touch the curtains before we can move on to the next thing on the list.  Next we have to locate both of his Dora dolls and they lay next to him and get covered with the sheet just like he does.   He always scans the room like he is looking for something and then he lays down and usually that is that, but tonight he surprised me with another thing that we need to check off the list.  He grabbed my shorts from my room and brought them to his room and wanted me to cover up the light that was coming from the Wii game.  The game is off but it still shows a yellow off  light.  So I covered up the light and he was then happy to go to bed.  Really it is easy to put him to bed.  All this talk of bedtime has made me really tired.  I am going to get to bed because I am sure I will be up early.  So goodnight and sleep tight my dear friends.