Leimamo’s Life

Yesterday was the first of our visitation days with Kamalani. I always come up with these ideas that I think will work best for all of us and this is my latest idea.

Since Kamalani’s school is closer to my house than it is to Meg’s house, I thought it would be best to have her just sleep over on the weekdays when Meg works. Her work schedule is so screwy that she sometimes gets off of work at 4:30 and sometimes at 9:30. Then she gets Sunday and Mondays off so I decided, all by myself, that Kamalani shouldn’t have to live her life around Meg’s work schedule. Instead, I told Meg and hubby that Kamalani will stay with us from Tuesday (after school) until Friday (after Meg gets off work). This will help to keep her on a schedule that she can be comfortable with. Moreso what I can be comfortable with.

Take for instance Monday night. We were watching t.v. at 2 a.m. when the phone rang. We all know phone calls at that time of the morning are never good. When I picked up the phone, all I could hear was crying in the background. I said, “hello” and no one replied. I started getting nervous. I said, “hello” again. Finally Kamalani answered but she was crying. I asked her what was wrong and she said she was sleeping in the living room and her mom was in the bedroom with some of her friends. She wanted her mom so I told her to give the phone to her mom. When Meg got on the line, I asked her what what going on. She said that Kamalani just woke up fussy. Now, it’s common knowledge that Kamalani still needs to sleep next to someone, whether it be me and hubby or her mom. She still needs to feel secure when she’s asleep. So after a few choice words, Meg said she was going to tell her friends to leave so she could tend to Kamalani. I was worried that Kamalani would be late for school yesterday but when I picked her up, she said she was on time.

It’s the little things like that that makes me want to keep Kamalani here. She needs to be rested up for school so that she can be more alert. Lastnight she was so tired that after dinner and a nice warm bath, she fell asleep without any “Can I tell you something” tricks to stay up just a little longer. She woke up bright and early this morning, had her breakfast, I got her dressed and she was out the door and eager to get to school because the staff from here has put on a display at her school and they are teaching the children about engineering. She told us yesterday that she was so excited about going to school today.