DONE! ALL DONE!

Yay!!

And it only takes a weekend for me to fall into this rhythm.

Dude, me too. The only way I can explain it is that going to bed at a decent hour for me is like going to bed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon for most people.

When 70's style velour jumpsuits come pack into fashion, then we'll know the robot rebellion won't be far behind. That will be a good time to start fashioning EMP weapons and get rid of your Roombas(tm).

Just to be safe, we should probably keep an eye out for people claiming to be from the future who are arrested trying to burn down velour jumpsuit factories....

Especially if the velour jumpsuit factory is owned by Skynet.

Are you still teaching at the school that has a fairly different calendar? In other words, if Noah and Grace come home in July, will you be home for the summer?

Yep. I'm currently on leave, but my usual breaks are July-August and December-early March. K's breaks are May-June and November-December. So there are only 4 months a year when we are working at the same time. Which means I need to start thinking about childcare for Sept.-Oct. but we'll see. My mom said she'd come out then before she got all mad and stompy and left.

Allyson, I'm so impressed!

The thing about early mornings and late nights is the quiet. I love the quiet. The afternoons are my super sucky time. Early AM is good. And evenings are fine. But 2:00 PM? Forget it.

I am majorly groggy this morning, not helped by extreme insomnia at 5 AM, followed by a two hour "nap" starting at 9 AM. Plus I had a dream about living in a horrible, horrible apartment, where my former coworkers came to check up on me and were visibly pitying me for living there....

I had nasty insomnia last night - I think I got to sleep around 1:30. I've had two cups of tea and I think I'm waking up now.

There should be a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger breaks into a police station armed with machine guns and forces all the cops to put on velour jumpsuits....

Yay, Allyson!

I cannot work past about 2pm if I'm on my own. The entire time I was in law school and studying for the bar, I would start my reading/writing at 7am and work until about 1:30. Past that, I might mean to work, but I could never get myself motivated to do it.

In college, I could occasionally study until 9-10pm, but after that I would start to feel sick to my stomach and cold.

I've never had trouble sleeping, but when I was pregnant, sometimes I couldn't sleep. Since I was in the house alone, it was incredibley liberating when I finally realized that I could get up, read, watch TV, or have a snack and no one would care or want me back in bed.

Yep. I'm currently on leave, but my usual breaks are July-August and December-early March. K's breaks are May-June and November-December. So there are only 4 months a year when we are working at the same time. Which means I need to start thinking about childcare for Sept.-Oct. but we'll see. My mom said she'd come out then before she got all mad and stompy and left.

That's really good, plus you should be fully recovered by then, which will help you deal with an interrupted sleeping schedule (for yourself). I had relatively easy pregnancies and fast deliveries, but sucky sucky sucky recoveries with all three babies. It always seemed like a cruel joke that a newly post-partum mother has to wake every couple of hours.

I hope your mom is over it all (or at least can't resist grandchildren thrall) by the time they get home. It would be great to have a grandma-who's-a-nurse helping to care for Grace and Noah during that first cycle when both you and Katie are working.

OMG, could the Garner/Afflect family be anymore adorable?

And JG looks REALLY good.