Night Time

Night time at my house is always kinda interesting and no matter how much of an emphasis you put on keeping to a routine, when you are dealing with people, something always blows it out of the water.
Tonight for example.
We started bathing at 730 which is the girl's bedtime as they had all requested a snack just prior to our usual bathing time. That got a little elongated as they wanted waffles, then Eric, thinking he was getting left out decided that he would make a little fuss so Rachel played with him for a while.
Then, the girls normally jump in first as I can get them done reasonably quickly then the boys can have their turn but, while I was getting a replacement nappy for Kathleen, Nathan decided that he wanted to go first and jumped in with Kathleen.
John decided that this would be the right time to plunge the toilet while Sarah turned the sink on in the bathroom which is currently filled with bathtoys.
More water on the floor.
I was actually saved by the fact that Rachel was content to get out after she had washed her hair and got clean and Kathleen followed her out as tonight she was pretty much doing whatever Rachel was doing.
This left room for John so I got the plunger off him and put him in.
At which time Nath decided he had had enough and jumped out, so the usual hour long routine took less than 15 minutes.
What a blessing.
Sarah chose not to bathe as she has a owie on her foot and she says the water hurts it.
Eric bathes in the am when there is more time for him to swim around a bit so she will probably jump in with him.
I have Nathan and John on Melatonin. It works beautifully and they for the most part, stay asleep the whole night and usually knock off within an hour of taking it.
Kathleen doesn't use it as it has a paroxysmal effect on her and the one night I gave it to her, she was up all night neighing and galloping up and down the loungeroom.
I had with the help of friends painted the bedrooms downstairs and took great pains to decorate one of them for Rachel and Sarah.
It looked pretty damn good even if I say so myself. And decorated so girly it would pretty close to make you dizzy.
Well, they slept in it for the 6 weeks that my sister was over here last year and have refused to sleep in it since.
At night, the girls and I play musical beds upstairs in the master bedroom which is currently equipped with two doubles.
As they go to sleep first, I sleep in whichever bed there is room.
Kathleen has taken to sleeping in their too and it is nice to see.
Tonight, the three girls just would not go to sleep.
1030 came and went and I escorted Rachel and Sarah downstairs to their room and put them into bed.
Kathleen went too and jumped in as well.
Only took a couple of minutes and wham, they were all asleep.
But, no doubt, by morning they will have meandered back upstairs and will be safely ensconced around me on whatever bed I choose to sleep on.
John has slept in the master bedroom for so long now we refer to it as John's room.
Nathan would only sleep on a couch in the loungeroom.
I took to sleeping on a foldup couch in the dining room.
After their dad was taken away, that night, John came to me and asked if he could sleep in my bed.
Nathan jumped in their too.
Kathleen who had been sleeping in a loungechair in the loungeroom slowly started weaning herself off that and started sleeping in the yellow room.
He was taken away June I think or July.
It has been that way since then. All the boys in the dining room and the girls in the yellow room.
Funny how that worked out.
Good Night.