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Dolly had a sleepover here last night and I'm the one who's exhausted today. She had a little friend from school stay here with us and they played together so nicely I hardly knew they were here. Even at bedtime they went up to my room, put a disk in my laptop, and watched a movie. Then they watched a little TV until they fell asleep.

Since Dolly is still in my room until this coming weekend I opted to sleep downstairs on the sofa; I am not sleeping in my bed with someone else's kid. That's just a big no-no. So the girls were in my bed; I was on the couch and Zach decided to sleep on the living room floor because he was fighting with Ty and didn't want to sleep in the same room as him. Okay, so be it.

Zach and I watched "Rudy" and then started watching one of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" movies before we both fell asleep. I roused and turned off the TV somewhere around 12:30. That's not unusual for me; I'm generally up until 1:30 or 2:00. So I got comfy on the couch - as comfy as I can get with both cats lying on my legs - and fell asleep. I wasn't asleep long, though, before I heard footsteps on the stairs.

Dolly had come downstairs to tell me she was afraid sleeping in my room without me. I told her she'd be fine since her friend was with her and suggested she turn on the TV for a short while to help her fall back to sleep. She agreed and went back upstairs. I got comfy again and went back to sleep. At 2:00 Dolly came back downstairs telling me she was scared upstairs without me so I got off the sofa and followed her up to my room. I keep extra blankets under my bed so I made myself a pallet on the floor at the foot of the bed.

Dolly got back in the bed and I got uncomfortable on the floor and I turned on the TV; I was now wide awake but she was drowsy. I put on a movie, "Ghost Town" with Ricky Gervais, and lay there watching it while Dolly got tired enough to fall back to sleep - again. It only took here about ten minutes but I still couldn't sleep. Not only had she woken me twice but my lower back isn't all that healthy so lying on the floor is almost torture for me.

Anyway, I watched the movie until it ended and changed the channel to watch "The Associate" with Whoopi Goldberg. I only pick movies I've already seen so if I fall asleep during them I won't miss anything. So I watched that movie until around 4:30 until I felt tired enough to actually sleep. I turned off the TV and tried to get some rest for the third time. I had just fallen asleep when I heard footsteps on the stairs - again.

This time it was Zach coming up the stairs telling me he was scared to sleep downstairs by himself. He's nine and has had a lot of unpleasantries in his young life so I don't really blame him. I invited him to sleep on the floor next to me and he gladly accepted the invitation. My back was already in some serious pain from lying on the floor so I had to keep readjusting to try to get comfortable and Zach takes up a lot of room. Once he lay down next to me he took up all of my readjust space so I could barely move.

I finally fell asleep for the final time somewhere around 5:30 but had to get up at 8:00 to get the girls up so I could put Dolly's friend up, dressed, fed, and on the bus to the local church. I actually woke up at 6:45 but was in such pain I couldn't sit up. I had to, very slowly, roll myself to my stomach to push up to my knees, to finally be able to stand. And I was exhausted from having about four hours of sleep all night. I was not a happy camper.

Needless to say, I didn't do much of anything at all today. Every time I sat on the couch to watch TV with the kids I started to fall asleep. Later in the day Dolly and I were in my room watching TV and I fell asleep in about five minutes, but only for an hour that was interrupted constantly. I finally just got up when my friend called on the phone and I made dinner, had the kids take showers, and I'm actually in my room, sitting in my bed as I type this. I'm always here when I blog but it's only 8:50 right now and I've been up here for half-an-hour already.

I just wanted to check in with whatever readers I have out there; it's been a week since I've signed on. My apologies, been pretty busy. But I also wanted to get comfy in my bed tonight as soon as I possibly could. I'm betting I'll be asleep within the hour and I can't wait. Bedtime is my favorite time of day, getting all snuggly under the covers...aaaahhh. With luck I'll have something more interesting to discuss next time but for now I'm signing off before I fall asleep sitting up. :)

Until next time...peace to all.