Burning the Midnight Oil

Ah it's after 2:00 am and tomorrow is a busy busy day. Why am I awake? one might ask. I don't know. I wasn't. I went to sleep for awhile. Then I guess Rod's bad dream woke me up. He was mumbling about something and I asked him if he was okay. He rolled over, with a seemingly alert expression on his face and mumbled something incoherent. I asked him "what?" and he said very clearly, "I'm just getting something," and then threw the covers over his head (that's odd)...and promptly fell back into a deep sleep. Then I started a coughing fit, so I thought I better get up and take some more allergy medicine. So I got my first grumblings of criticism from church people about some of the things in the bulletin...I only put in what I am told. I don't write anything special and unique. I mainly just pick out the cover picture and "design" the rest. My very Christian response was "well, I'm not getting paid to do this, and if someone has problems with it they can do it themselves." Now, of course I don't mind if someone lets me know that their name was spelled wrong or there was a mistake in information or something like that. Obviously, those things need to be fixed...but when you start grumbling about "I don't think this should go here and I don't like the way you put that there...blah blah" that's when I get irritated. Changing subjects: Julianne is an amazing little girl. I hate that I can't be home with her every day. She's always doing something new and cute. I think she has her daddy's tendency to talk in her sleep and whatnot. The other night at around 11:30 or so (long after she'd gone to sleep) we suddenly heard her laugh really really loudly. It was her cute laugh that she does when we are tickling her or something. That was the only thing we heard from her...she was asleep. It was sooo cute. Well, the boys are coming tomorrow. They are finally out of daycare and spending more time with their mom, which I think is a good thing. Taylor tells me every weekend now how he didn't have to go to daycare and he got to stay home with his mom. The happier he is at his mom's house makes him happier at our house. Mark and I have a pretty close bond...mostly because he thinks I'm really funny I think. He tells me that "the funniest one in the whole family." There's still an issue sometimes of what they should call me. They both still call me "Allyson" when they are trying to get my attention or when they are around their mom, but Mark, when he's talking about me in 3rd person always refers to me as "mom" or "mommy." He started referring to me as his mom to his friends at church. He says stuff like "My mom says I can't run around..." or whatever. I love it! Last year, he would launch into this long explanation about how I wasn't his real mom and that I was his stepmom and he had two moms...etc etc. He's progressed a lot. Another example of the third person "mom" reference is stuff like "I'm going to tickle mommy's feet!" and he'll come over to tickle me. On all the pictures he draws too he has me labeled as "mom." Taylor's not as easy to win over in that respect, although he is extremely lovey and loves to give hugs and kisses. He's a lot better at showing affection that way than Mark is. They are both so unique. I think I will make breakfast for dinner tomorrow night when they get here and have chocolate chip pancakes (using my beautiful new kitchenaid mixer, of course). Last time I made them, I turned around and everyone's face (including Rod's) was covered in chocolate and they all looked blissfully happy...this far off look in their eyes that can only be brought on by the taste of good chocolate (I've been buying the dark chocolate chips...they taste better somehow). Well, anyway, work is the same...still pointless and my boss is still insane. Funny, you might think I'm horrible for talking behind her back this way, but I'm really not. I've said all these things to her face. My motto is "I won't make fun of you behind your back for anything I haven't made fun of to your face." Oh yeah and it also looks like we might be getting our review writing gig back. Rod and Bob had another concert at Youth for Christ on Tuesday night. It was awesome. I'd never seen kids so intent on Bob's testimony and 8-10 kids got saved! It is amazing to see the work God's doing through Bob's "gospel rap" and Rod's beautiful voice. I'm glad to be a part of it, even though I am the designated picture-taker (which is scary in itself if some of you have seen my picture taking non-skills...I'm really good at bow-hunting though!) and otherwise just sit at the "merch" table. I love it though...the atmosphere at these concerts is always great. Well, I better go back to bed; I'm getting pretty sleepy. I hope you enjoyed my discombobulated ramblings. I love you all!