I have no idea how single mom's do it. Kudos to you!
I would seriously just give up and hide in a hole.
This is going to be a long post, but I don't know when I'll have another free moment. I paid Emma to play with Olivia so I can blog :)
So...my smart, talented, and hard-working husband has been working 80+ hours a week (and traveling) for the last month trying to meet a deadline. We are hoping this is coming to an end next week and we can once again be a two-parent family.
Landon's school work is a lot more aggressive this year. There is very little room for error, and the teacher seems a lot more strict than past years. I don't know if it's the new school administration or just the way 3rd grade is structured, but I'm happy he's being challenged and he's doing really well. I guess I just wasn't mentally prepared for the amount of effort we would need to put in.
We are also working really hard in Scouts to earn his Wolf badge. He needs to earn it by his 9th birthday, which is in 2 weeks. So, needless to say, he and I have been working really aggressively on that. Meanwhile, they decided to throw in the Pinewood Derby. That deserves a post of it's own. Do you know how hard it is to be a girl (with no power tools) trying to compete with all the dads out there? Well, I went for it. Landon just finished painting it and we put the last wheel on a few minutes ago. The paint has bubbles and the wheels are out of alignment, but we did it together, and I'm proud of his hard work!
Also, Landon has decided to run for Student Council. He had to create a speech and a poster. He gives his speech tomorrow and then elections will be right after. I told him to write his speech and it was two pages long. He is so comfortable speaking in public. He never gets nervous. He will also sing a solo in front of anyone with no fear. I admire him so much for that. Anyway, after cutting his speech down to a paragraph, we made his poster. He has such a great sense of humor too...
Emma is also working hard at school, but since I've been through the 1st grade program with Landon, I'm fairly well prepared for her school work. Emma is very well liked at school and soccer and so she tends to get invited to at least one birthday party each week. With my time constraints this month, I've only allowed her to go to two of them, and I'm just the 'meanest mom ever'.
Aside from the basic drama of being a girl, my biggest challenge with Emma right now is that she is sleepwalking. It's been going on for years, but would only occur once a month. It's been every single night for the past month. I feel like I have a newborn again since I can't sleep through the night. She never has recollection of these events, even though we have a full conversation and sometimes I even take her picture. This is her (totally asleep) after she came into my room and just laid on my bed.
I don't know what to do for this. For now, all I can do is make sure she's safe and that the house alarm is always on. Until she magically out grows this, I will just continue to be sleep-deprived!
There's much more to update, but I think Emma has earned her dollar, so time to get back to being a single parent. Although it hasn't been easy, I do want to say that I'm definitely not complaining...I know we are so fortunate that my husband has a job he loves and that it's doing well enough that it requires so many hours. I'm definitely blessed, but also humbled as to how difficult it is to keep it all together without a lot of help.
Wish us luck at the Derby :)
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Ky and I made his car together. It was the ugliest car in the derby. We had to keep reattaching the wheels after each race. They even had to glue a couple of pennies on because it didn't weigh enough.
Then there were the dads that obviously made the car all on their own. They were amazing. They had great paint jobs. The dads even went so far as greasing the wheels before each race. But guess what? Ky tied for second place. He almost took first place. He was beating all these cars that were spectacular and his wobbled to the finish line each time. But Ky's car left all of them in the dust. It was sweet. I am sure Landon's car is great.
Oh that's what the Pinewood Derby is. I saw your FB status but was clueless. Melanie, you such a great job with your kids. I hope I grow up to be just like you. Love you honey bunny!
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