189 + 85 Weeks

This week has been a rough week.  Jeffrey has been working a lot, including some double shifts, which means that I have had lots of alone time with the kids.  Ordinarily this would be fine, except that I think the fact that Carmen has given up on her naps has caught up with her.  She is fine for most of the day, and then she is the complete opposite of fine.  For the last three days she has been going off to school and apparently having a great time, and then coming home, and she will have the slightest upset, and then she cries with wracking sobs, tantrums, screams, wails and then back to heart wrenching sobs, and this can last for a good 45 minutes.  It is truly awful.  And then coupled with Arley being a stubborn little guy who throws his (almost 14kg) weight around when he doesn't get his way, I am exhausted.  He wants "up" all of the time, and it is backbreaking!

On a good note, we have had some nice times too - we did some baking this week, and I got Arley out to the pirate ship park and for the first time he didn't make a run straight for the road.  Carmie spent a day at the farm with her grandparents which she has been asking to do for ages.  And I got a couple of paintings finished, which is a good thing as I am having a small exhibition at the end of April.

This next week I am going to try to get Carmen to bed early every day, so hopefully my next post will be a little more positive :)

New hat for the dress-up box

The view from our front porch