It's 7:15. Do you know where your kids are?

I do.

Mine are in bed.

Yep. Both of them.

Lucy has been giving us fits recently with her sleeping. If she doesn't get a morning nap, she is a complete crank in the evening hours and is DONE by 6:30.

Fine, we thought. We'll just ensure that she gets a nap in the morning and all will be good, right?

It was. For about a week.

Yesterday and today she didn't nap in the afternoon. She played in her crib all during afternoon nap time, talking to herself and periodically crying.

When I got her up this afternoon, she promptly started crying.

Great.

It pretty much went downhill from there.

Add to that the fact that Emily's birthday party is this weekend and I have 18 million things to do to prepare for it and what feels like ZERO time to do it in.

As I was cleaning up from dinner, I told Mike to toss Lucy in the tub and get her in her jammies so that when she finally lost it for good, I could just put her to bed. Emily asked to come inside and I told her that if she came in she was going in the tub and then to bed or she could stay outside and play some more.

She chose inside.

Fine by me.

It is now 7:50 and Lucy is quiet and has been for several minutes. Yay.

I think tomorrow we're going to try skipping the morning nap and see how the afternoon/evening goes.

Augh. Kids. They can be so darn frustrating sometimes.