Winding Down

I'm feeling a bit more at peace than I was yesterday..... although if I'd have posted this a few hours ago, you wouldn't have seen it.  Today started out dreadfully.  I couldn't fall asleep last night for anything.  I just don't understand it.  Some days I'm just so tired all day...... but, put me in bed, and nothing.  My mind starts racing and I start worrying about everything that I have to do the next day.... or the whole week.... or what I forgot to do.  It's exhausting.  So, I got back out of bed and stayed up a few more hours and finally fell asleep... way too late.  So, this morning I was really tired from the start.  Morgan was pretty easy to get motivated, thankfully and I got to work in plenty of time to take a few minutes to myself before I went inside.  There, was where it went from bad to worse.

Apparently, the IT dept. (or one person of the IT dept.) did some work on the network on Friday and didn't think about how the changes would affect our credit card processor.  Now, don't get me wrong.... they're all my friends... in fact, I have lunch with them every day.  And, I know that nobody wanted what happened today.  But, I came in to tons of cases that were taken over the weekend that we couldn't process because we didn't have the ability to process the credit cards.  After lunch, we were finally able to do it manually, but that meant entering all of the information into an external site, processing, then transferring it back to our system.  What used to take maybe 5 seconds, was taking several minutes.  It was frustrating and exhausting.  And, I know we had well over 100 of them to process.  It was tedious, time-consuming work, but we finally finished what we needed to get finished and I was able to leave about 20 minutes after my normal quitting time.

When I got home, I had the kids to deal with.  Katie was finishing up some homework that is due tomorrow that she could have finished over the long weekend.  Instead, she didn't even start and chose to go to a movie last night instead.  Now, I'm supposed to feel sorry for her and exempt her from household responsibilities because she has too much to do.  And then Morgan..... she's been complaining that school is boring and too easy for her.  Granted, she is very smart.  And, the only gifted class they have for 4th grade is Language Arts and Reading, so that leaves a lot of time left in the day where she is not being challenged.  Anyway, she was assigned Social Studies homework today, and given an extra worksheet as an extra challenge for her.... and she had a meltdown.  She didn't want to do the extra work.  That's so frustrating to me.... After I promised her that I would do everything I could to talk to her principal and work with her to find ways to challenge her and keep her from getting bored in school.  And, I did that on Thursday..... now, we're seeing the results of that and she doesn't want to  follow through.  But, when I explained that I would like her to finish these worksheets without complaining, and if I did hear complaining, we would be tomorrow's homework as well, she quieted down and decided she was ready to work.  She's just finishing up now.... and explaining what she learned from our President in his speech today.

So, I've cooked dinner, done a few loads of laundry, worked on homework with Morgan, and now I'm about ready for bed.  I should have no trouble sleeping tonight.  Let's just see if I can get Morgan to sleep in her own bed tonght.