PS--go to bed soon, msbelle.

seriously, msbelle.

midnight Xmas shopping? What craziness is that? Isn't it reserved for day after Thanksgiving?

Staying here is like the least restful hotel in Vegas ever. Round the clock busy-ness. Weird halflight time feeling. Something is always going on. Wicked expensive.

I was so hoping the bizarre dream that sent me shockily awake had carried me to at least 3 am. Curses.

Man, those cats were big.

Were they giant housecats or, you know, impressive BIG cats?

I keep waiting for thunder and/or lightening.

Why am I awake?

They were massive, blocking out the tops of trees, cats. But they looked like housecats. And they had something to do with spoilers. It was a really wacked out dream.

Okay, more Ambien taken. I'm going to try lying down again.

Sleep speed to you, Kat! (And, damn, I don't envy you on the hospital thing--least restful places ever)

Why am I awake?

I was wondering the same thing, and not just, "why am I awake?" but "why are Kat and ita awake too?" And the thunder hasn't even started.

midnight Xmas shopping? What craziness is that?

Total. It's for procrastinating parents who didn't buy stuff while school was still in session and now can't shop until the kids are in bed. DH is picking up the last part of Isaac's gift. It was supposed to be one Wii game, but he just called and there are now 2 more items in the mix. Oy.

Hi! I hope you are all asleep! I`m just getting down. Actually, I`m thinking about getting up and eating something. Concert was great, good crowd, good response, although no on liked them enough like us playing them on constant rotation for the past six months. But it was excellent and well recieved, so I am happy. Show went long so the party was small, ended up being mostly our students. Which was fun, and I finally just kicked them out. And they were good guests and actually there isn`t much cleanup left for tomorrow. We will have a nice clean house for the rest of break! I am wiped and wired at the same time.

Ugh. Got talking to an old college buddy at a party last night, and stayed hours later than I planned. Which meant I got to bed hours later than I should have. Good thing I can sleep in tomorrow.

You guys were up late! Good luck with today...

I sort of slept in, but woke up a couple of times. I should know to set an alarm whenever I can sleep in -- if I don't, I subliminally worry about oversleeping. Which, today, would have had to have been really severe to be a problem! Ah well.

Late night guests, both of the party and old friend variety, are such good things. As ever, I'm up. Actually I'm up even a little later than usual.

Being a regular care giver to a medically fragile/complicated critter, staying in a hospital is weird. There are all of the things for her care which are medical that I do at home (i.e., suctioning and feeding and the giving of meds and diapering) that are weird in a hospital because I'm not sure WHO is supposed to do it.

In a PICU or in a subacute facility, someone else would do all of these things and I'd just watch. But if I wait for someone else to do them here on a regular pediatrics floor (and Grace has NEVER been admitted to a pediatrics floor bed, always a PICU bed), they won't get done because a typical kid? Well, you just feed them or diaper them and that's what mom does.

I don't give meds, though I think someone didn't give her the singulair last night and it certainly won't be the first time it has happened, even at home. But suctioning is a gray area. We aren't in a 1:1 or even 1:3 situation and no RT is really available forever, so it's just easier for me to suction. But then do I have to tell them for charting?

And this is what I thought about all night and morning.

I can't wait to go home. Why is my crack of dawn earlier than the surgeons (okay, fine it's not even dawn, so my crack is even earlier, but I also blame solstice because in another season dawn would already have cracked)? Where are they to discharge us? I can't even order food yet because dietary is closed. Whose dawn is this again?

I order the food