Why do I do this to myself. I really do know better!Then add on top of it that I left work at 12:30 on Friday, and then we left with kids and Geoff's parents in tow for Poughkeepsie (Carole, I drove through part of Newburgh I believe!) to see Geoff's brother and didn't get home until about 8:30 last night. Now here I am at work again.
Add on top of that, a late night because despite going to bed at 9:30 or so, the girls had a meltdown and wanted to sleep in our room. Started out with the oldest saying she missed her dad and wanted to spend more time with him. Convinced them to sleep in their own room. Lights out, almost asleep, pitter patter of little feet. Now youngest is upset and wants to come in. We put our feet down and send them back to bed (across the hall). Now youngest is crying, so we call her in to talk to her. She misses her mom (much more plausible because we were away all weekend...they'll be with her tonight). Of course big sis follows thinking its an invitation to sleep on the floor in our room. Geoff takes them back to bed and sits with them until they "fall asleep". Well, not long later, oldest is back and wants to sleep in our room. At this point (I think around 11) Geoff gives in because he has to get up at 5 for work. Well, this leaves the youngest in bed asleep, so sometime in the night she wakes up and comes and crawls into bed with us. Needless to say, I didn't get the best night sleep because I had no room to move.
Something doesn't add up. Either something is amiss with them at their mom's, or Geoff has been too much of a softy and they are playing him for what they want. It does nothing but get me tired and cranky and then I take it out on both them and him.
Then add on top of it, I'm at work, and we are such a disfunctional office its not even funny. I'm getting a charge on one job for a month and a half use of a piece of equipment we rented because our equipment manager says he checked with our co-op about whether to send it back or not. I'm the PM. What is he? Afraid of me? Tells me it can't be billed to our equipment overhead # and has to hit the job. Yeah, way to go. make my job look bad because you're an idiot and didn't send the damn thing back when we were done with it. And this way he doesn't have to own up to my boss.
I so want to go home. But then I've got too much work to do to do that.
Katy
PS: Any parental advice/thoughts anyone? My inclination is to be a hardass and send them back to bed. Thats the way my parents did it. But I understand Geoff's fatherly instinct that something isn't quite right. But sometimes I think he gives in just so he can get some sleep/rest whatever. I'm so out of my league its not even funny.
