Goin' Private!!

Just to let who ever might read this---I have decided to do the very thing I should have done from the beginning! I'm taking the blog private. So, let me know your email if you're interested in getting an invite. :) I will go private in a couple of weeks. Thanks for all your fun comments. It always brightens our day to get a new comment! Hope all is well with everyone! I hope to have some delayed posts up soon---just too busy right now!

We've got a Chirper!!

Ok, I just have to say that I hate the chirping sound of a smoke alarm! And, how come it always happens for the first time in the middle of the night??!!! And, when your husband is out of town!!! :) I had just been woken up by the sound of our sprinklers going on---oops, we forgot to shut them off! And with all the rain we've had, the sump pump had already been going on. So I was the lucky one to get up and go down to the garage to turn them off. Then I just get back to sleep and I hear "the CHIRP!" So I get up walk around the house and can't figure out which one is making that annoying noise. (I have never been able to tell direction of sound well) Finally I decide to just shut everyone's doors and try to go back to sleep. Well, then Shelby wakes up and asks if there is a fire. I get her back in bed, go to my room and shut the door. I lay down and realize that it could be the CO2 detectors because that has happened to me before. And, I knew I would be so bugged if that was the case and I just tried to sleep through it. I checked those, but they were fine, but I decided to take out the battery anyway. So, I go back to bed and finally get back to sleep. Then about an hour later the boys wake up and come into bed with me and they can't sleep because of "the CHIRP!" and neither can I!!! What a crazy night! I was thinking though, that I was lucky that I wasn't up with a little baby, trying to feed-change and such while being half asleep and wondering if the baby would go back to sleep and for how long! So glad those days are over!!! I need sleep--so not sure how I made it some nights. I still remember walking with my friend Wendy in CO and some mornings telling her the many times I had gotten up with Matt and not sure I even got any sleep. With Sam it was easy--he slept through the night at 6 weeks--until night tares came at 2 years old. And, Shelby---well, I just remember nursing and falling asleep and then changing her from her bed-to swing-to car seat-to bouncy chair. (anything to have her sleep!) :)
And, of course the "CHIRP!" is in the boys bedroom---with vaulted ceilings!!! And, yes, Tom is still out of town until about 10:00 tonight!!! So, yes---it is me who gets to get the big ladder and haul it up and down the stairs!! Oh, well, maybe I can count that as my exercise today!!! :)