I love the passing of time

1) Allison isn’t sure if she’s going to do speech team. Says they have meets every Saturday in Nov, Dec & Jan - from 6:30am until sometime in the evening. She’s not sure if she really wants to do that. But, according to her blog & her general attitude, she’s loving Choir & tolerating school just fine, anyway.

2) Two nights ago, I asked David if he had an alarm clock or something, so he could wake himself up in the morning. He said he’d set his cellphone alarm. Yesterday morning, I heard cellphone beep for a bit at 5:30a then stop. I dozed off, then woke about 15 minutes later & he was still asleep in bed. I woke him up.

Last night, I guess he set alarm again. I didn’t hear it go off this morning, but heard him up at 5:15am. I woke at 5:45a & went out to make sure he was actually awake. He was fully clothed, sleeping sitting up, in the dark, on the couch. I turned on lights in the living room & woke him up again.

I just wish that I didn’t have to do that - be responsible for him waking up & getting to work. I would rather sleep in until *I* have to wake up at 6:30a. If he oversleeps, though, he’s going to want Jim to drive him into work & I don’t want Jim to have to do that. I want him to be able to go to sleep for a while, until Annie wakes up.

3) A few days ago, I asked David to use the outlet in the kitchen to charge his phone, instead of the one that’s near the floor in the kids room. They’re are properly frightened of electricity, so I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t mess with it (99.999% sure), and there are things already plugged in there, anyway (nightlight & CD player). I really don’t think they’d play with it. But, they might. David unplugs the CD player & plugs his phone in. That day, he had left the CD player unplugged, after unplugging his charger, leaving an open, exposed outlet at child level.

Yesterday, he was using it again. Again, I asked him not to do it, explaining my worries about the kids playing with electricity. And, anyway, he’s a freaking guest in the house, I’ve already asked him not to do it, he should simply respect my wishes (I didn’t say this part to him).

This morning, when I woke up (for the 2nd time, after he’d already left) & went into the kids room, his cellphone charger was sitting there, plugged in (although he took the phone with him) instead of the CD player.

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!

I’m sure I’m being too uptight about it the electricity thing. But, WTF???

4) I don’t want Jim to think that I think we should not have taken David in, or that he should take any responsibility for *my* feelings about the decision that *we* made to help a member of *our* family. We do 100 times more for members of my side of the family every day, every week. I don’t begrudge any of this, but I do need to vent when it’s annoying to me. I’m thinking that, maybe, I’ll start thinking of David as more of a child, who needs to be taught how to be a good guest in someone’s home. It’s kind of weird doing that, though, when you are the ‘host’ - teaching him how he should be treating me, our home, our family. But, it’s probably the more productive & kind thing to do.