Just put the boys in bed. Please please please please let Evan actually sleep through the night tonite. The past 2 nights have been rough. Evan has had this mystery fever off and on for the past 3 days. It started Friday right around 4:30 in the afternoon, and he got a rash on one side of his face out of nowhere. Of course this was after the pediatric clinic he is supposed to go to is closed, so I took the wait and see approach. The rash went totally away, and the fever lowered, so I figured he was fine. Well he has gotten the fever at some point every day since. No other symptoms except not sleeping well, and he gets clingy while he has the fever. When it goes away, he is fine again. God I wish he could just tell me what hurts, if anything.....

On the irresponsible mom front, I just can't get her to see what she does can really hurt her if her dh decided to use it. She has been here since tuesday and has gone out to a club TWO of those nights. Yes it was after her son was in bed, and yes he was safe, but it's still not a good idea. It would be very easy for her dh to say that she would rather go out than take care of her son. Her theory is that she doesn't go out unless she knows her son is well taken care of. Ugh, grow the hell up.

And the thing with her going out means she doesn't get much sleep, so the next day she is tired. So after she gives him his bottle, she sits him on the floor and then SHE goes to sleep. So guess who takes care of her kid while she naps??? Well, today, when he was on the floor crying, I took Evan and went upstairs to my room. There is no way that I am going to be punished because she is tired from going out. Hell, I didn't get much sleep either, but that is because I was here taking care of my child (like I should be) while he was waking up in the middle of the night. She works overnight tonite, so I guess she will expect me to take care of him all day again tomorrow. Not happening.

There IS good news in all of this though. For one thing, dh and I had a talk and decided that while she was here, we will give each other the benefit of the doubt. By that I mean that we both know that having her here is adding ALOT of stress to the situation, and if we get snappy with each other (and we HAVE) then we both pretty much agreed to let it go. I am totally impressed at how well we have managed to let things go. Really impressed.

More good news, she won't be here much longer AT ALL. She should be gone by the end of the week. Her and dh's command found out she is staying here, and they have a problem with that. See dh outranks her, so it's a conflict of interest. I hate how the Navy gets so involved with people's lives sometimes. He basically got called into the office and chewed out for helping her. They said he should have called them and let them know what was going on. Ummm hello, she told them what town she was staying in, and has also been riding to work every day with dh. Gee that is hard to figure out. So they have ORDERED her to move into base housing, and are making her get her car fixed (the Navy will give her a loan). Usually it takes MONTHS to get into base housing, but they are going out of their way for her, and she is pissed because she doesn't want base housing on THAT base. She would rather live at Little Creek because that is closer to her friends.

Can ya tell she annoys the hell out of me??????

Now off to try to catch up on blogs, I am soooo out of the loop!!!