Shea went back for the second night of the sleep test. He says he slept great after he got use to the mask. He said it’s the first time he felt rested, and woke with no headache. So yay!

I too slept better last night despite the massive amount of caffeine I had during the day. I’m sure that the pure exhaustion just took over. But once I fell asleep I didn’t wake until 5:30 when my body woke me up to go to the bathroom.

Maybe the two of us both will get a better nights sleep when he gets the mask. We don’t know when that will be but they will call with another appointment.

Tonight Shea is going in for a sleep test. The doctor he went to see last Thursday asked him a serious of questions that basically boiled down to Shea having sleep apnea. So tonight he’s going in for that test.

I’m not sure how well he or I are going to sleep tonight. He won’t have his bed, and I won’t have him. I’m going to freeze. I’d have the girls come to bed with me if they didn’t wet the bed. But then we’d probably not sleep either lol.

Shea has done his research and he thinks that he might actually have sleep apnea, and it might explain a lot of things. If he is diagnosed with sleep apnea tonight then he’ll go back tomorrow night. So probably another restless night for all of us.

I’m always sad when my parents leave or when I leave my parents. I miss having them around. Even on Long Island we could go up for a weekend and not be too much trouble, now we only get to see them once a year, twice at most. The only thing that truly helps is the fact that we talk every week via web cam.

But I love their visits. I had the house cleaned so Mom wouldn’t be as inclined to clean it. She did mop my floors. I had a few projects for her, mostly Kathleen’s projects – gardening. Kitten has been dying to plant things for months, and grandma helped out alot there, I just hope we can keep the plants alive. I now have basil and dill, yum!

Mom also covered my rocking chair covers. It looks presentable now.

We went to the library – twice! They girls really loved Grandma and Grandpa reading to them. It was nice to see them so excited to read hopefully they’ll keep it up this summer.

We went to the beach park and Samantha didn’t get hardly wet, where as Kathleen had a blast in the splash pad. Kathleen loved the park.

The week was rather uneventful for the most part, we had a few things planned. Like going to the skating rink, Grandma even got out on skates. Samantha didn’t like the skates this time, so she ran around the rink with Grandma. It was cute. Other than that though we didn’t have much planned.

Grandpa played cars with Sam and she loved it.

They both loved playing with Grandma and Grandpa, and I loved having them here.

I am sad to see them go.

Last Saturday was an interesting day. We got up at 7am to get ready, I had already packed everything except the things we needed in the morning. I had made a list so I wouldn’t forget important things like the girls antibiotics. We left around 7:55am to go get the little cakes Shea’s Mom wants us to pick up. They weren’t done but I had forgotten my phone so Shea waited for them to be finished while I went home to get my phone.

The drive over was rather uneventful, except that place we wanted to eat breakfast at didn’t open up until 10:45am, it was a little after 8:30, so that wasn’t going to work. We eventually found a place to eat and and made it to Mobile. The hotel room wasn’t ready yet so we headed over to the coliseum where the ball was. We helped a little with things, and watched the emblem practice.

We went back to the hotel to Shea’s parents room it was on the second floor. When we were leaving Samantha let go of my hand as I stopped to talk to some family members. The doors shut and Sammi went down. Thankfully Shea was on the first floor to find her there because no matter how many times I smashed the button to go down it still didn’t open the doors, it just went down. I heard Samantha cry on the inside but Kathleen let out a scared cry as she knew her sister was trapped. We showed her that Sammi was safe in Daddy’s arms and when we made it down the elevator she hugged her sister so tight. Sammi still tells me Mommy I don’t want to go in elevators again.

I only lost Samantha once. She had wandered back to a friend who watches them once and a while. I was thankful that was the only time she wandered from me.

We watched the 2pm parade and the girls got pelted with beads a number of times. They didn’t really like the parade after that. But they did manage to get some things.

At 6pm we got ready for the party in our pretty dresses and Shea in his tux. We had an issue after getting ready with Shea disappearing on me and me getting upset but it’s important not to dwell on it. So I won’t reiterate it here, needless to say we finally got together in time for formal pictures with the Queen to be made.

Note: these pictures were taken at home before the ball.

We sat back down after pictures and waited for about an hour for the show to start. Samantha started to fall asleep them but their aunt took her for a walk and that seemed to help keep her awake. At least until it got dark and she had to be quiet. She started nodding off in their lap, so I took her to mine to see about keeping her awake, it was over for her she was out. We moved over to the eldest nephew, who had agreed to carry her up on to do her part in the show. She flopped around and was a big hit with the crowd. She stayed asleep the rest of the time.

Kathleen got to dance with Daddy and she wanted to dance with me, but we really needed to get Sammi from their uncle and head home. I promised her we’d dance at home. I’ve yet to fulfill that promise but I will. She was such a good girl there I am very proud of her. Of both of them, they did a good job of behaving.

When we got back to the hotel room I woke Samantha up taking off her dress. I was afraid when we went to bed that she’d be up all night, but she wasn’t she curled up and pretty quickly went to sleep, everyone was exhausted. That was the start of the first bad night Shea had. A cold snuck up on him and he had a miserable night.

The morning came and we packed up and helped pack up the in laws massive stuff too, and then we went to breakfast before coming home.

All in all it was a good time. We enjoyed it. We probably won’t do it again very soon, but we’ll see. It’s not our cup of tea as they say.

Heat is one of those things you take for granted when you have it and miss it terribly when you don’t have it. Two nights ago I noticed (but didn’t say anything) that our heater seamed to be acting up. It didn’t kick in after being on. I didn’t think anything of it. But it didn’t come on the rest of the night either. It got really chilly in the morning and through out the next day. Thankfully I tried the heat in the morning and found it wasn’t working. Shea looked at it but we couldn’t afford for him to stay home. So he went to work and called his Dad to get his AC guy to come take a look.

Kathleen went to school and Sammi and I stayed home to try to stay warm. I ended up going to Walmart with the girls after I picked Kitten up cause Sammi and I needed a bit warmth. We looked in the toys and sports area for starter skates just to see prices but they didn’t have any. We then picked up some McDonald’s so the girls could have a warm lunch instead of just sandwiches or cereal. Warm was better than cold since we still hadn’t gotten any heat. We came home and the AC guy came and found the problem. It was the ignitor/glow plug was cracked and thus not working. He went out picked up another one and then we had heat.

It really was amazing how cold it was. It was so cold that after I got warm after a hot shower how my body just released all it’s tension. My back and legs were killing me. A little stretching and Aleve helped me get to sleep.

I am thankful we have such great family (on both sides).