Why are my children still up?

Our clocks are now officially all messed up. The girls were up until almost 10pm last night (or later??)...not sure why exactly. Had something to do with with me changing all the sheets and looking for a missing dinosaur pillowcase which I never did find. Avery actually didn't care...it was me trying to keep matching stuff together, the 5% (Steve may argue more)of my personality that is obsessive/compulsive about stupid things. So the girls were both at school today and when they came home they didn't seem too bad....then they watched TV...not just any TV, a DVD of Giselle,/Sleeping Beauty with Nureyev....real ballet. They both got into their full dance recital costumes and then...


Well I was busy researching how we can facilitate the conversion of my dad's vinyl to MP3 for his birthday (using our existing equipment on hand)...I was engrossed so I let them sleep. It was some 'me' time. Usually I fall asleep putting them to bed and that's the end of my night unless I read for a bit after I drag my sleep self to my own bed.

So Steve's at an open house and gets back sometime between 8:30 and 9pm and Avery has just woken up (Wynne is still dozing) and I am just feeding Avery dinner...crazy. What kind of mum am I? Well they are in bed but not asleep. We will try to get them back on a normal schedule tomorrow. Naps just don't work at almost 5 and 7.

So I may have figured out the vinyl to MP3 thing. I have it sort of working using cassettes and Audacity, although the sound quality is a bit dicey still; now I just need a good turntable with an audio output and my dad needs a bunch of time to do this while he visits us! (Mum....don't tell dad yet...dad will have to bring a bunch of his favourite vinyl with him when he comes next week and his MP3 player).

This week has been okay but I feel like the effects of chemo are dragging on longer and longer. This is basically what I expected. I had small waves of nausea all weekend but I felt pretty good today (although headaches seem to also come and go regularly). Just in time for next Tuesday (next chemo day on June 22nd)! I have my little window to get things organized, tidy up the house, and finish planning Avery's birthday party (thurs). Luckily we took the easy option this year and so we are are having the party at Bingeman Funworx. All I have to do are the loot bags (which do include a few homemade items which I have yet to do!). It's not a birthday party unless I am staying up late making something! At least I don't have to clean the house too!

So I'm hanging in there and still looking for more books recs (Thanks Kanchan...I'm checking them out). I finished "the Girl Who Played with Fire" last night and stayed up way too late the night before trying to finish it and finally relented and save the last 40 pages for last night. Since I'm in between books I should get to sleep within the next half hour or so...so goodnight!!