Whew! What a day!

I don't even know where to start. I even handed the iPad over to Sean asking him if he wanted to blog tonight. I had the hardest time falling asleep last night, then around 1:30 am, M was at our door. I went to her room for a bit to try to help her get back asleep and returned to bed.m Ten minutes later, she was at our door again and Sean went to lay with her. He returned to bed 30 minutes later. A few minutes after that she was demanding me to the door. I had no clue what to do, but knew I needed sleep! I got pretty frustrated and she was close to going in to S's room when I practically snapped. That's all I needed, both of them awake. I caved. I told her that she could bring in a blanket and lay on our floor. I was kind of hoping she would not want to because its the floor and its dark (no night light). But she grabbed her pillow and blanket and was right in.  Right to sleep she went. Now I think I need to figure out how to end the night light era. This could help.

Sure enough, up bright and early. I can hardly remember the morning, that's how tired I am. We all got ready and headed to Albuquerque for our 10:30am meeting at the title company to finish the sale closing of our house here. Thank heavens, it closed and is complete. It may have been the fastest short sale ever! M&S were great while we signed. After signing, they dropped me off at Burlington Coat Factory to finish shopping using the school vouchers provided to us by our adoption worker. Sean and the girls went to ITZ family fun place for lunch and to kill time playing games while I shopped. We had a good time collecting tickets from the games. The girls just wanted to turn in the tickets for a prize and struggled with the concept of using all the funds on the game card first to get more tickets. Looking back on what they picked, I bet they don't remember, but at the time it was a big deal. 

They both had short 10 minute naps on the ride home. They were both looking forward to going to Walmart after naps to use their party money and gift-card. Our agreement was to stay in your room and nap/rest and we would go after that. M slightly struggled with this, but she was able to stay in her room. S started out in her room and seemed ok with resting, but then blew up. I repeated told her the agreement we had but she refused to stay in her room. I told her to get up and don't worry about a nap and she could stay home and that set her off even more. I once again told her to rest in her room and she proceeded to run down stairs and threw herself on the floor saying that's where she would sleep. That was the last straw for me. I told her that she was not listening to me and she would be staying home with Sean. The tantrum she threw was out of this world. Screaming and yelling. Blocking the door. Demanding to go. Threatening to run away. We heard it all. Eventually M and I were able to leave, but we could hear her from outside. I felt very bad for her, and kept telling her that she wasn't ready to go spend her money and have more fun. And that children that throw fits do not get to go with me to Walmart. M was able to pick out an electric toothbrush, a new leapfrog game, and a DVD fir our ride to California. When we returned home, S was calm and seemed like she was sorrowful for what had happened. 

We did some packing in the garage and kitchen. M was overly eager to help clean, and was disappointed when we would not allow her to clean what she wanted (walls with cleaning wipes) and offered her other things to clean that she did not like (baseboards). Soon we were able to calm her down and dinner was made. We watched Rise of the Guardian (great movie), had dessert, and got ready for bed. Both girls had a story read to them, and were asleep by 8:45pm. 

Yes, whew what a day! And that's about half of the details! Sean had a pretty stressful time alone with the girls. He also mentioned keeping a more exact time log of events for the girls to see if their medications trigger a up/down spike in their moods. This could be something easy to do in a basic notebook. 

Tomorrows a day of packing to get everything ready for the uhaul on Sunday. I can't wait to get out of here and to start the next chapter of our lives!