Tired, and I haven't even STARTED

Soooo. Last week was not a good week. I was going to bed at midnight, waking up at five-thirty and one of those nights Molly decided to get up at three AND woke up her brother in the process and there was no sleep to be had in the Cheung house that night. So sleep was an issue. If you are not sleeping well or not getting enough, I think we can agree you are less likely to be your Best Self during the day. 

My little boy is also giving me a very long very fast run for my money. Maybe one of these days I will write an excruciatingly honest post about How I Deal With Two-Year-Olds Who Willfully Ignore Their Mommies, but probably not because one of you would ring CPS and then I would "disappear" and THEN what would you do with your free time? Hmm? Let's just say I am almost NEVER my Best Self when I tell Jack to do something and he 1) does the exact opposite 2) runs away 3) blows raspberries. And there was quite a lot of raspberry blowing last week. (And today. It was the kind of morning in which I should have taken myself out of the communion line, alas.) 

There is also something up with Molly. She wakes up from her naps in the FOULEST of moods. She won't be held, she won't be walked, she won't sit, she won't play, she won't sit in her highchair and what IS this putrid revolting bit of food you have put on her high chair tray are you CRAZY? She's basically like this until Jack wakes up, which is usually a good hour or so after she wakes up (because he doesn't fall asleep until a good hour or so after SHE does, although they both go down for their naps at the same time. Like I am going to let him stay up longer and reduce my free time out of the goodness of my heart. HA.)

And my husband, since it was his last week of his first quarter of grad school, was in Another World. Which is fine. In my role as Grad School Support Staff I am all for working on papers till two in the morning if that's what it takes. And I will acknowledge out loud that HE is having a hard week JUST LIKE ME. (This is crucial, in our marriage at least. We are BOTH having hard weeks - NOTED!) And to his credit he would say, out loud, that he appreciated what was going on, that he would take me out to dinner when this was over and when some of his classmates asked him why in the world he was in a grad program with a 2 and 1-year-old at home he said, and I quote, "My wife is awesome." 

Soooo. It wasn't like there was any great amount of STRIFE in the house last week. The kids were being kids. My husband was doing his best. Even I, I think, was doing my best. Most days. Sort of. But it was a long blearghy slog and I am TIRED.

Unfortunately (but also fortunately, because I LOVE this stuff) this is going to be The Busiest Week Of 2009. My brother and his family flew into town over the weekend and we are kicking off the festivities with Nephew #2's Birthday Party tonight. Over the next couple of days I have a string of wedding-related tasks to accomplish, mostly involving Photoshop and Microsoft Publisher and swear words directed at my printer. Family and friends are flying in, I have to buy wedding day food and tights for Molly and something pretty for my hair and find out if Phillip has even thought about what he is going to wear. Phillip is the MC and we still have to finalize the order of the reception. I need to buy some Valium from a guy on the corner of 93rd and Aurora so I can slip it to my mother. JUST KIDDING MOM.

Actually, it's probably me who should throw back the tranquilizers. FPC came over yesterday and we tried to figure out a schedule for Saturday and can I just say that it's hard being the hopefully-diplomatic "Wellll, I just don't think "whenever" is going to work" for all the "Oh, whenever!" people I happen to be related to? And I'm NOT saying that they are wrong. I think most of the time they are RIGHT. I am TOO fixated on when and how and who and all that stuff, to the point where I convince myself my friends and family and Blathering cohorts will disown me if I keep it up. On the OTHER HAND. Giving your friends a choice of tasks on your wedding day will lead to a grand and annoying discussion of "Oh, but whatever you need me to do most!" or "Whatever is easiest! or "Whenever you think!" and perhaps we should just decide those things NOW. One of the regrets I have from my own wedding is not having a seating chart (I was going for a loungey just-hang-out-and-have-a-glass-of-wine! feel) and it was not only awkward for some guests but led to Altercations. (Thankfully I was not aware of said Altercations until AFTERWARDS.) So I pretty much beat FPC into submission on THAT front, but I've been trying to rein myself in on the others. It's NOT a big fancy hard core crazy wedding with a Bridezilla and scary mothers and forty-nine people in the wedding party. Almost everything will be finished on Friday night. I don't HAVE to plan Saturday by half-hour increments.

(Although I would LIKE to.)

Anywaaaaay.

Phillip has time off from school AND work right before Christmas and afterwards, so we're looking forward to that. We have some tentative-ish fun plans for Our Own Christmas Eve and we're hoping to take the kids up to the mountains too. You = SHOCKED. I know. Mountains and I do not get along. They are cold and wet and require a not small amount of carsickness to reach. But we think Jack and Molly will LOVE it, so we're going to try and make it happen. The ensuing disaster will be detailed here, you can be sure. 

I guess all that's to say, stay tuned! On tap for Mighty Maggie this week? Heaping amounts of KRAZY!

Comments

[lindsay]

What would Christmas be without some KRAZY? Sounds like lots of fun. YOu are going to just love when you get to Christmas Eve and it's just your little family and an er, Mountain. :)

[Amy --- Just A Titch]

I am also a Planner Extraordinaire and so I will NEVER get annoyed at Blathering planning. I love thorough.

[Jess]

Oh, it DOES sound like a Hard Week. I hope that the busy-ness will somehow make this week EASIER. Is that possible?

[Elizabeth]

Holy cats, lady. It sounds like crazy times! But also kind of fun. Don't forget to have fun!
Also, obviously P should be wearing a DJ Philthy T shirt, so I've solved that problem for you.

[Carrie]

Hope you all get some sleep and that everything goes wonderfully this week!

[Sarah in Ottawa]

Bring on the KRAZY. You have a bunch of planners who read your site (and Twitter) so I'm sure that we can suggest ideas to help you through any hiccoughs this week.

Also - even you KRAZY you are always hysterically funny.