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  • Jul. 31st, 2008 at 9:40 AM
Matsuri, Wadaiko Newark
My Miss Muffet is at home for the next two weeks, though she wants it to be three weeks.  She was with me yesterday - I was working at home - and I forgot - teens are as bad as toddlers.  All day - "Mom, can we go to....

- the park
- the mall
- to get her nails done
- the store to get cookies
- to the beauty store to get hair products

She called her dad to come get her to go to the park because I WAS WORKING... I went to lunch and when I returned she was back.  I reminded her to finish her laundry since she has a habit of keeping the washer and dryer hostage.  "Okay Mom, can we go..."

I finally took us to the nail salon after 4pm, her to get her nails done and me to get a pedicure.   Afterwards, it was off to soccer practice for her and Taiko for me.  I left practice early to pick her up only to be told that her coach was driving her home.  When she got home it was, "Mom, could you please warm up my dinner while I wash up from practice?"  I warmed up her dinner and reminded her of her laundry.  Finally, I told her bed time was 10:30.  Her: "But you said 11:00 last night!"  I reminded her that I/we were getting up early today because I have to go to work. 

So we went to bed at 10:30.  At 11:00, she's crying and yelling my name... she heard a noise in the house and was scared.  So we went through the house to check all the doors, to make sure they were locked.  All this time she's saying: "I hate this house.  It's too quiet... I heard noises....  it's too dark... can I have a night light... where's Mr. Edip (her stepfather)"  I finally made her go back to bed, resting beside her.  After a while, she fell back to sleep and I went back to my room.  When Edip got home, about a half hour later, she came bounding out of her room with a shoe.  It seems she heard noises and was going to defend herself with the shoe.  He reassured her and told her to go back to bed.

This morning we both were tired.  I told her that it was the same way with me for the first week and she will get used to the house by that time. That's when she said she wanted to stay for three weeks.  I think I'll be hallucinating from sleep exhaustion if she keeps this up....

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