Wondering why you haven't heard from me lately? It's very simple: I'm merely struggling to keep my head above water, and at the end of the day I simply don't have the mental energy for blogging. Here, in a nutshell, is what I've been dealing with:
* A three-year old who has decided that she doesn't want to go to school after all. So instead of a few blissful hours of freedom, I get to relive my toddlerhood by sitting quietly in Tess's preschool class while she learns to feel comfortable there. This is, however, preferable to watching her kick and cry and yell, "Nooooooooooo!" as I walk away at drop off time. There's pretty much nothing worse than that.
* A child that has decided not to nap, even though she is exhausted from the extreme stress of not wanting to go to school. She is so very tired that she simply cannot eat — she can't even pick herself up off the floor and climb into her chair — so she has decided to subsist only on her meager ration of milk.
* A five-year old who has decided that she simply will not sleep until her parents are asleep, a full 2-3 hours after her actual bedtime. Furthermore, she has decided that when she does sleep, it will only be on the floor. When she wakes up, she's tired and whiny and cranky, but the next night she stays up again, because who needs sleep, anyway?
* A child that can't decide what she wants to wear to school, and then what she decides on isn't right, and then she must shed many tears before finally settling on something. And then she refuses to eat breakfast, because no matter what she is served, it's certainly not what she wants (and nothing can be right anyway because she didn't get enough sleep).
This evening, in an attempt to maintain an iota of sanity, I decided to attend my exercise class for the first time in three months. As I left, Adam was trying to cook dinner. Grace was sobbing and wailing because Tess had messed up her pile of leaves in the yard, and the pile was so special to her, and she would never get it exactly right again. And Tess, who had just been released from a time out, was running around the kitchen, stark naked.
So, please forgive me for my recent absence from the blogosphere, but right now I am channeling all of my energy into fighting the urge to run away from home.
Travelingjenny 
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