Random Thoughts

Today is my baby sister's 21st birthday. I remember when she was born. I used to rock her to sleep when she was a baby. I remember her being a toddler and running around with her silkie and her thumb in her mouth. Her favorite movie was The Little Mermaid. I remember her beating up our Dalmatian puppy! :) I can't believe she's 21. It's almost like having one of my kids turn 21.
I didn't go to bed early last night, like I was planning. As usual I got sucked into Star Trek. Before I knew it, it was 1/4 after 12 and I was falling asleep on the sofa. Then Lorelei woke up at 2 and Liam woke up at 3 and I fell asleep while I was in with him and didn't go back to bed until 4 and then Liam was up again sometime before 7.
On the plus side, Molly is doing fairly well with school today. As long as we can get LA done by the end of the week, we'll still be on track. I don't know if I can do this next year. Maggie still won't be in school, but things are going to have to change a lot between now and school registration. Molly doesn't want to go to "real" school and I don't want to force her, but this is really stressful for me. I feel like I'm tethered to the school table all day, despite the fact that Molly is much more independent than most kids her age. I can't imagine how much more time I'll have to spend with Maggie. And who knows if Lorelei and Liam will be napping by then. They'll be 2 1/2 and 3 1/2. Hard to imagine. Lorelei's the kind of kid where you can't really imagine her past where she is. You can't really think around her.
I'm bummed that Lorelei and Liam won't be napping at the same time today. Liam will probably be waking up right after Lorelei goes down. I would love to nap this afternoon! Who knows - sometimes Liam is good and I can lay down on the sofa, but he's been so cranky with his teeth lately - sometimes he's not even happy when I'm holding him! I tried to keep him up, but I really can't do school with Molly when he's awake. I have to do art with the girls when Lorelei is asleep anyway. They love to paint, so at least they'll be happy.
I really need to do laundry. I'm running out of clothes. I have to put buttons on pants as well... I wish we had a single story house. I wish we'd bought the house we first put an offer in on. We withdrew it because the well was under the driveway, but that really wasn't the big deal we thought it was. That house didn't even have a basement. I guess by now I'd be complaining about being cramped. Or, blissfully unaware of how much crap I hadn't accumulated because I try really hard not to outgrow my environment. I haven't looked at houses lately. I looked briefly last night, but didn't see anything. It's just that we have so much stuff now, we can't downsize.
Ok, I think Molly's mostly done with school now. The stuff she doesn't want to do anyway. So, I'm done on the computer for a while.
ttfn!