Leimamo’s Life

Last week Meg had her oral surgery and ever since then, Kamalani has been staying with me and hubby. At first she was afraid of Meg because her face swelled up and she was taking pain meds and doing a lot of moaning and groaning. Those first days weren’t pleasant for any of us. But then, the swelling went down and still Kamalani refuses to go home with her mother. We don’t mind having her here but demmit, that girl wears us out.

We wake up at zero-early o’clock to get her ready for school. She takes nearly an hour to eat a bowl of oatmeal, then she gets washed up and dressed for school. By then we’re rushing her tiny little bundled body to the van. Luckily her school is only 4 minutes away. (She usually blames hubby if she’s late anyway.) Then we pick her up from school three hours later because the kindergarten grades only have half days. From the time she gets out of school, it’s non-stop talking and doing stuff. Stuff, as in talking, playing school, stringing beads for bracelets, talking, playing beauty shop, more talking, did I mention her non-stop talking?

So I’ve been planning stuff to do with her all week. Mind you it’s been 16 years since I had to deal with a 5 year old. Kamalani never really had a schedule so I thought it would be best for ME if I worked on a schedule for her that ended at 8:30 p.m., when she finally goes to sleep. She’s been having so much fun that she fights her sleep at night. Lastnight she thought that she would just call her mom to go home because 8:30 is too early for her to sleep. I told her that’s fine, she can call her mom but I will not do activities with her because she was breaking the agreement. Things were hunky dory for her when we were doing fun things but when it got down to bedtime, she decided the schedule was not for her. She was sooooo wrong. After she realized that I was not going to commit to any previous arrangements, she quickly changed her tune and apologized for crying. Soon after that she was tucked up in MY bed, snoring. The up side of having her stay with us is that she doesn’t whine or cry as much as when she’s with Meg and when she’s sleeping, she sleeps peacefully.

If only I had half the energy she has.