Graveyards

The Graveyard shift sucks. I am glad that James only has to do it for another two weeks, because it has thrown me off my schedule. I don't remember having as hard of a time before, but this go around has been a lot tougher. You would think that I would still want to go to bed at a normal hour, especially with Madison still waking up at least once during the night-nope, not going to happen. I stay up to the point that all I have to do is curl up in bed, and because I'm so tired I just fall asleep. One good thing about this though is how I act towards my kids. Because James is sleeping in the morning through mid-afternoon, I've tried to keep the kiddos as quiet as possible. This means no loud voices. It's hard juggling 3 kids at times, but I'm still trying to learn how to keep calm and work on my reactions to what the kids are doing.
I wouldn't change the situation though, James needed to get back on the security shifts. Working exclusively with the sex offenders the last year has put a lot of stress on him. I can already see improvement, and with this change correlating with the end of the semester, James is so much less-stressed. We like a happy daddy! We'll have an even happier mommy when James goes to the day shift at the end of the month :)