Sightings

The girls have been on Christmas break for a week and a half. In that time, the 12-year old has read the Twilight series (all 2,000 pages) along with 4-5 other smaller books. She has been holed up in her room for the entire break. She stays up until 3:00am and only emerges for meals and the randome chore (washing dishes and the like).

Today we found ourselves with an entire day off (church service was cancelled due to the freezing rain we had yesterday). So we spent the entire day in our jammies playing games, watching movies and football, and just lounging around the house. Throughout the day the 12 year-old has graced us more than usual. We have started referring to these as "sightings". I don't think she finds it half as amusing as the rest of us do. I'm just happy to know that tomorrow they'll all return to their normal routines and the chaos will resume.

...as for the runner we had the other night...
All of my children have been stricken with sleep walking. On any given night you can find atleast one of them wandering the house aimlessly babbling incoherently. There have been a couple of instances where one has gotten out of the house, so we try to keep their ventures supervised. The pediatrician that performed #2's sleep study assured me that this is all very normal. Obviously he has never been graced with these activities at 1:00am by one of his own offspring. They used to disturb me, now I just corrale them and coerce them to the bathroom and back into bed.