Outside my window… the grey overcast morning as transformed into a bright, sun shiney day.

I am thinking… about how to get my son to sleep through the night without me having to get up every couple of hours. He used to sleep really well, but in the last month he’s been having problems. I know the move to CA disrupted his sleep patterns, and I after a week of sleepless nights, I just decided to start sleeping with him so I could actually get some shut eye. A four hour block of sleep is a blessing these days. I think I might simply need to continue this pattern until we get back to Florida in late November. The course here is far to intense to try other measures I might be willing to attepmt. I need a sleep doula!

In the Kitchen… I woke up this morning dreaming of Chicken Avocado Melts on Foccacia. I could taste it. So I whipped it up for lunch. Well, it took an hour to prepare, cause I had to clean up the kitchen first. And we didn’t have Foccacia, so whole wheat had to surfice. Mounds of Avocado, a layer of grilled chicken, sprinkled with shredded Monterey Jack. Scrumpious. Samantha had a bite of Daddy’s and spat it back out. It’s a good thing I made Mac’n’Cheese for her. LOL.

I’m thankful for… 80’s music and BBQ’s. We had a fun time last night hanging out with the rest of the ‘Restoration Community’ here, swapping stories, listening to a continuous 80’s mix (so glad we’re all around the same age! and can appreciate it together), eating supersized steaks and lasagne.

I’m reading… still chugging through ‘I have to be perfect’. And a couple of other books too.

I’m hearing… the sounds of my son soothing him self to sleep for his afternoon nap. Sleep training score: Mum 1, Baby 0 Hmmm, maybe I will be able to return to the ‘dream days’ of Timothy’s infancy. Except, now I’m stuck in the computer lab with a sleeping baby, and I would really like a nap myself… DOH!

Around the house… aaaaahhhhhhhh ha ha ha ha ha! do I really want to admit it AGAIN??? I do my best, but as we speak there’s toys all over the living room floor and lunchtime dishes stacked high in the kitchen, from the gormet lunch I whipped up.

One of my favourite things… Mummy and Samantha time. Dancing in the bathroom, jumping rope, hiding under the blankets, or having an indoor picnic with a blankie and a bowl of raisins.

Plans for the week… tommorrow we’re visiting friends in Reedley. Still need to find baby sitters for next week. And it’s just the usual. Classes and sessions, more debreifing and development, preparing for our return to Thailand in December.