My Friday...

I went up to the church on Thursday night to do some work. I got home about midnight, so I'm considering that to be the start of my Friday.

I got to be around 12:30am and I was really looking forward to it. I was tired and had my iPod sleep-mix all cued up with Viva La Vida. (Which really does sound good...)

At 1:10, I felt someone tapping on my shoulder. Jonah was up and wanted to sleep in bed with us. Normally, this might not be that big of a deal, but since Kristen has been so sore and sleeping so fitfully, I told him I'd take him up to his room.

He didn't like that.

At one point in the conversation, he called me a liar. That's always nice at one in the morning, right?

I got him up to his room and laid down beside him. The original plan was to lay by him until he drifted off, then head back to my big, soft, grown-up bed. Instead, I woke up in his bed at 7am.

He and I came downstairs. My mother-in-law, who we call "Sugar," had spent the night since I was working late. Of course, she was already up, making coffee and cleaning up the kitchen. I crashed on the couch while Jonah surfed for some cartoons, landing on Spider-Man. I'm not sure what really happened next. All I knew was that I was on a couch and I needed to be up and awake by 8 to get ready for an appointment.

I got off the couch a little after 8 and grabbed a shower. Then I headed out to get my hair cut! (Much needed...felt so much better after getting all that stuff cut off! I asked the girl about growing it out a bit. She looked at me like I was insane.)

Came home to find Jonah smoking through levels on Fantastic Four for Wii and Finley running around. Finley immediately led me to the door and started begging to jump on the trampoline. Sugar got her some "play clothes" and she and I headed out. She jumped, then went to our little playhouse for some swinging and sliding. After twenty or thirty minutes we came in.

We ate an early lunch while Krist and her mom went out to run some errands.

When they got back, Kristen ate a little bit and we started getting ready for Finley's nap. At this point, Jonah had a breakdown of sorts...I handled myself well, considering that I wanted to wring his neck. (It's like Leave It To Beaver over here.) Shortly after the storm died down, my mother-in-law said,

"Why don't I call Stephanie (Krist's cousin) and see if Jonah can come play with Tyler (her son)?"

And before her sentence was done, I shouted "yes."

They left thirty minutes later. I put Finley down for a nap. It took her about half-an-hour to go to sleep, but as soon as she did, it was time for a little, tiny, snippet of a nap for Mom and Daddy.

...and then we slept for almost 2 hours.

After awhile, Krist's mom came back over. (She's been such a big help for us around here.) We all lounged around, ate an early supper.

Jonah didn't get back until 8 o'clock, and we sat around visiting w/ Kristen's cousin and aunt while the kids all played together. We put Finley to bed not long after they left, but she did not want to go! Jonah went to bed a little after 9, but was scared for some reason. I sat on his stairs for awhile to calm his fears and then came down as he was drifting off.

Hung out with Kristen for a bit, did the treadmill while watching Gone Baby Gone and then to bed!