I know this feeling - I have been here before - when babies just don't sleep through the night. But my boys are no longer babies but it still feels the same. Chase is having some stomach issues which is waking him up at night. Then he wants to sleep in my room, and so I lie there thinking about Chase, worrying while he is restlessly trying to fall back asleep, winging his arm around every few minutes, trying to get comfortable until he falls asleep. And then I am still laying there, thinking, worrying, for another hour. Finally asleep until I feel Landon's gaze upon me. He had a nightmare, and then he jumps in. And it is many more minutes until I fall back asleep and I wonder if I tallied up all of the minutes how much time did I really spend sleeping? I don't think coffee can even put a dent into this morning.
We had a fantastic weekend! With a teacher workday tomorrow, I was able to relax and not worry about lesson plans this weekend. We just hung out as a family - we took the boys fishing and they finally caught two fish - one baby small mouth bass and the other a sunfish! They were thrilled and they "pet" them before we threw each of them back. They were surprisingly so patient and are really into it (perhaps it could just be their cool Spiderman fishing poles!) We also spent a few hours baking on Saturday. Landon brought home apples from a field trip last week and we turned those into apple pie tarts which he thought was pretty cool. And we also baked molasses cookies for Aunt Heather's birthday! The boys helped with all of it - I am really enjoying their age right now- they can just be so much fun and so sweet!
This morning I went for a jog - it is steamy outside - warm and steamy, but I was feeling great! My knee finally worked out it's kinks into about mile 3 1/2 and as I was rounding back home, a guy on the trail was running towards me but then hesistated, jumped, and turned around only to point out that there, lying spread out on the trail was a Copperhead snake! I had never seen one before and probably would not have known what it was. But the nice guy proceeded to grab a stick and carefully... oh so carefully, move the snake off the trail and send it on it's way. The snake complied but did so with a bit of hissing and darting of the head toward the nice guy who risked his life. I am hoping the snake will not show up again for a while and thank you guy on the trail - good karma back to you!
Today there was a bomb threat at Landon's school. I almost had a full blown panic attack as I rushed over to get him (I left my class - luckily a teacher was there to cover - to run out and get him). I was not alerted (by email) until 2:15 (after all of the high school kids had already gotten home safely). His classroom is on the first floor of the highschool and there is an elementary school ATTACHED to the high school. Landon's class was moved to the library in the attached elementary school and just hung out there all-day-long. I was grateful to have been able to pick Landon up when I got there. I argued that I had 4 minutes in my favor with the nice man blocking my way. They were telling me that I couldn't get him between 2:30 and 3 because the elementary kids were dismissing early. So let me get this straight, dismiss all of the highschool kids at 12:15 (the threat occured at 11:30), move the four year olds over to a school that is attached to hang out in the library all day, dimiss the elementary kids next, and save the four year olds for last... huh? I don't get it... and still don't.
Chase insisted on wearing his goggles around the house and around town on Saturday. He wore them to the grocery store claiming that his eyes wouldn't get wet (it rained all morning) and also wore them to nap in - perhaps in his dreams he may have needed them? 
