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This week was hard. \u00a0Christopher hasn’t been sleeping well. \u00a0I had major post-holiday blues. \u00a0I woke up every morning hoping the day would end. \u00a0That sounds dramatic, but it really was hard. \u00a0I angrily uttered the phrase, “Spankings for everybody!” \u00a0at one point this week. \u00a0I then gave those spankings after which both kids looked at me like they didn’t know what had just happened. \u00a0Which of course made me feel terrible. \u00a0Ben got home from work one night just in time to hear me screaming at Carson and Betsy. \u00a0He said he heard me clearly from outside the house and had never heard me talk to the kids like that. \u00a0I was so glad when Saturday came. \u00a0And we had a nice weekend, which was much needed.<\/p>\n

The day that stands out the most (I’ve blocked a lot of it out) as I type this is Thursday night. \u00a0Ben had left for Minneapolis, so I was home by myself. \u00a0There was a lot of up and down the stairs between 7 and 10. \u00a0I finally got in bed a little after 11. \u00a0Around 12:30 I went upstairs again and fed Christopher and spent the next hour getting him back to sleep. \u00a0Around 2, right after I’d started to fall asleep, the dog started whining. \u00a0I let her outside and she peed. \u00a0I brought her back in and put her in the kennel. \u00a0She kept whining and barking. \u00a0I yelled at her from bed to stop, but she kept doing it. \u00a0I figured she was freaked out that Ben hadn’t come home. \u00a0So I closed the door to my bedroom and turned on my white noise. \u00a0At 5 Christopher started crying. \u00a0I opened the door and smelled something terrible and knew right away that Ginger had done her business right there in the kennel. \u00a0I went upstairs and tried to get Christopher back to sleep. \u00a0That didn’t work, so I brought him downstairs and let him cry on the floor while I bathed a poop covered dog, cleaned up her kennel, and the walls of the laundry room. Yes. \u00a0The walls, y’all. \u00a0So I started Friday at 5:30 cleaning up poop and listening to the wails of a very unhappy child.<\/p>\n

I didn’t take many pictures this week since there weren’t many moments worth documenting.<\/p>\n

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We did get a Christmas tree! \u00a0Our first real one, ever! \u00a0The kids love it.<\/p>\n

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This week was hard. \u00a0Christopher hasn’t been sleeping well. \u00a0I had major post-holiday blues. \u00a0I woke up every morning hoping the day would end. \u00a0That sounds dramatic, but it really was hard. \u00a0I angrily uttered the phrase, “Spankings for everybody!” \u00a0at one point this week. \u00a0I then gave those spankings after which both kids looked … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sWbPG-4952","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}