Wednesday, Day 54 of Quarantine

Bad sleep night. She woke up and I went in there twice. Which was bad but. . . the first time I gave her melatonin and put her back to bed. The second time she was screaming and crying so I came back and put her back to bed. Then she woke up early. Which always happens. She's a mess.

All day was a mess. We did have a nice movie time.

Tuesday, Day 53 of Quarantine

Much better night regarding sleep. I took Sav on a walk. She keeps reopening that place on her nose. I think she did it the first time on the road and now she's reopening it with her paw. I don't know how to get her to stop. She NEEDS the walks and loves them. I'm giving her a treat when I get her lead on to try to get her to calm down.

My AC isn't up to snuff. It shocks me every year. It's happened every single year we've lived here. It needs, um, Freon, maybe. Something. I set up an appointment to get it done. I'll hide the girls and the dog in my room to keep them quarantined and hopefully he won't need to be in the house too much.

We watched most of the rest of Civil War. It's a long movie, maybe my favorite in the series.

Maggie did a bunch of chores. It's been a pretty good day.

I tried to take Sav on her night walk at 8ish and she still made that awful screaming noise. I guess the gentle lead can't stop that. I'll have to walk her when there aren't a lot of people out.

Monday, Day 52 of Quarantine

Bad night for sleep. Ruby woke up once in the night and I was in there before I knew what was happening. I put her back to bed and told her I wouldn't come back. It didn't matter, she didn't get back up anyway. She did wake up early but I ignored her until it was time.

I was so tired. The house is a mess even though I just cleaned it. That's going to be the title of my quarantine memoir. We did a movie time and watched Ant Man and then a few minutes of Civil War. By 3pm, I was so tired. Bleh.

I put everyone, including me, to bed early.

Sunday, Day 51 of Quarantine

The girls didn't get home until late, almost 8 pm. I put Ruby straight to bed.

Maggie and I read together.

Oh, Savannah's gentle lead showed up. It's amazing. She somehow bloodied her nose trying to get it off but hopefully she won't keep doing that.

Saturday, Day 50 of Quarantine

Day 50! Good God.

So, I got up this morning, opened Ruby's door, opened Sav's crate, and started turning off the house alarm. As I was doing that Ruby said, Mommy why is still dark outside? I looked at the alarm and the time was. . . 3:27 am. Goddammit! Guess how easy it was to get Ruby back to bed??? You know what? I'm going to have better sleep hygiene, as they say. I'm going to bed (like lights out!) at 9:30 pm and get up at 7 am. This is just the worst.

The girls went to their Dad's in the evening.

Friday, Day 49 of Quarantine

Slept in again today. Ugh.

I took Sav on a walk without the girls. She's ridiculous. A guy suggested getting a gentle lead to stop her from pulling. My hand and arm and neck hurt from walking her. I gotta figure something out. She's insane on a walk. He said there's not much you can do about her screaming. A dog who screams, I mean, come on.

Maggie is in a MOOD today. She's mad about chores. Mad about school. Mad she can't play on her computer or watch YouTube until 4 pm. Whatever.

Ruby's all over the place, bouncing off the walls. She paints most days now. She's less messy than I would have thought. I need to get her outside more. It's too hard to deal with her and Sav on a walk. Ruby wanders off and stops and it's just too much right now. I need to make her go in the backyard and run around.

We turned on a 60s music station on Pandora on the TV. I love it.

Thursday, Day 48 of Quarantine

I slept in today. I'm so tired. I don't know why. Is just stress? Am I not sleeping well? I don't know.

Maggie said she tried to wake me up when she had a nightmare but I have zero memory of this and I'm super aware of my kids so. . .

Ruby painted again today. I made a new rule that, no matter what, Maggie can't play on her computer until 4 pm.