Early to bed, early to rise, and all I want for Christmas is no pink eyes

Early to bed, early to rise....I think I have complained before about the exhaustion that is felt by Bunky and I at night around 8 o'clock each night, right after the kids are down...well, I think it is compunded by the fact that our children have not slept past 5:30 am in about a month. I think Thanksgiving with my parents was the last time my children "slept in", which means they slept until 6. But....every day since they are up at the (scratch that) before the crack of dawn. The problem is that when Hannah and Hayden open their eyes, they are up. There is none of the we need to sit and relax before we do anything because it is early....it is just go!go!go! right away. I am a morning person myself, but I still need a moment to breathe each morning - not sure what to do.

I am writing this at 12:15 on Monday as I contemplate taking a nap along with Hayden while the house is quiet. Why am I home on a random Monday at 12:15, you may ask? Well, I am home with pink eye! I woke up Saturday morning with a nasty case of it - good thing Hayden had some left over antiobiotics from his last encounter with pink eye - I just used that, but to be safe I stayed home today - Lord knows that no one needs pink eye for Christmas pictures!

Bunky is not here today though because he started work for UPS. He is a driver's helper right now until Christmas (I pray they need help longer or with something else). He looked cute in his UPS garb and it made me think of the "King of Queens". Pray for him that he will find work that he enjoys soon. I told him to think of this temporary job as a free workout.

We picked up our Christmas tree on Friday night. It is amazing to me that the tree never looks the same in our house as it does on the lot. We picked ours up from HomeDepot. I wanted to support the local dairy farm that also had trees, but wow! $50 for a 5 foot tree....sorry, just can't do it.

Just a few more days until we are off for Christmas break. We are so very excited about it all - even though I still have quite a bit of work ahead of me.