Wahhh for the past few days Maddie has not taken a nap longer than 40 mins. Most of her naps are 25-30 minutes instead of her usual 1.5-2 hours. WHAT HAPPENED? I think she got a bit sick the week of 11/15 and this screwed her up. She was only sick for 2 days but something must have happened cuz her sleep has not been the same. I'm going insane....I cant get anything done anymore. Shes going back to her old ways. I did read about a 4 month sleep regression...maybe this is it. I am just hoping she goes back to longer naps soon cuz I am exhausted!

What I hate about hosting Thanksgiving:

1. Even though my relatives TOTALLY cleaned up, washed dishes, etc...theres still a lot of work for me to do. The floors are filthy, things still need to be put away etc.

2. People coming in with their shoes on. just gross. they usually will come in with their shoes to drop off food and then go take them off later. But still, very gross. I have a baby who will soon be crawling on this floor!

3. People who ask me for bottled water when I put out 3 gallons of water on the buffet table. If you MUST drink from a bottle, please bring your own. I dont have the money to buy cases of bottled water, only to have you drink half and leave it on a counter somewhere for someone to clean up later.

4. Not having a place for the kids to go. Last Christmas, they occupied my living room... I found candy wrappers and food and stuff all over the sofa. This year they took over my bedroom. How they ended up here, I have no idea. They werent messing anything up, but just not having that quiet space anywhere in the house was hard. And while MAddie was trying to sleep, they would be loud and go up and down the stairs.

5. Little things out of place - like my foam letter "carpet"...they messed up all the borders and switched a lot of the letters. we also had painters tape on our stairs for a project we never started...but i found the tape had been taken off and put in other places.

6. Someone opening a bottle of wine and it was still 100% full by the time they left. I had to dump it.

7. All the soda cans strewn all over the house, of course, none of them were empty.

8. Everyone taking all my tupperware.

9. Finding random food bits in crevices all over the house. Walnuts here and there, dried up corn here and there... gross.

10. People not knowing where my stuff is...so I get asked about a zillion questions coming from a zillion people in a zillion different directions. When I went upstairs to breastfeed Maddie, I felt anxious bc I knew people would probably need stuff...I didnt think that was fair to Maddie. I hated being away from the crowd....so i did end up giving her a bottle so that I could be around at the same time she ate.

Let me stop complaining. I just needed to vent a bit...but I have no regrets about hosting. I love my family!! and I love entertaining. ITs just always a lot of work.....and I bring upon most of the anxiety myself. I get to do it all over again for Xmas!