My Freaking Awesome Life

It’s 1:00 A.M.
I’ve just gotten Gabby to sleep. She’s got a helluva cough (croupy & congested) and is just miserable. She won’t take ANY medicine. She doesn’t swallow pills and she doesn’t do liquids. I can remember when she was a toddler, D and I sat on her, forced her mouth open and gave her [...]

Insomnia sucks

Me, my kids and my husband are plagued with insomnia. One of them, often two, are up half the night. And when they’re up, they think I need to be up with them. It’s been bad lately — I don’t think I’ve slept for more than three hours in weeks.
Wouldn’t you know the kids actually [...]