Why Do Kids Sleep So Much? and other things...

Scott and I have been up for a while now.  Showered, dressed, fed and ready to go, but as it turns out, EVERY SINGLE DAY, we wait on sleeping kids.  Why is it that kids sleep so much?!  It's the questions that plaques all parents (and grandparents) during the summer months... WAIT!  I KNOW!  It's because they stay up all hours of the night playing video games or streaming movies, that why.  I think we need to start a "go to bed by 10 pm and get up by 8 am" routine.

Cierra is still sleeping with her tattered baby quilt.
We just made her a new one just like this one, but she still uses it.  Go figure.

Hunter is under there somewhere.

Still no news on the truck...we're ready to head out today...I guess we wait.  They're still trying to figure out what wrong with the braking system...

On another note, I've started reading a book last night called, The Heiress of Winterwood by Sarah Ladd that my mother-in-law gave me to read.  

It is set in Darbury, England in 1814.  So far I read 4 chapters last night where Katherine, mother of a newborn, dies and Amelia vows to Katherine on her deathbed to keep and rear the child.  However, the child's father, Graham Sterling, a sea captain who has been off to sea returns.  Amelia decides to propose marriage to him in order to keep her vow...  It's pretty good and the cover is gorgeous.  It's book #1 from the "Whispers on the Moors" series of three books. I may have to get all these books.

Synopsis:

Amelia Barrett, heiress to an ancestral estate nestles in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend's infant baby.  She'll  risk everything to keep her word - even to the point of proposing to the child's father, Graham Sterling, a sea captain she's never met.

Tragedy strikes when the child  vanishes with little more than a sketchy ransom note hinting to her whereabouts.  Fear for the  child's safety drives Amelia and Graham to test the boundaries of their  love for this infant.

Amelia's detailed plans would normally see her through any trial, but now, desperate and shaken, she examines her soul and must face her one weakness: pride.

Graham's strength and self-control have served him well and earned him much respect, but chasing perfection has kept him a prisoner of his own discipline.

Both must learn to accept God's sovereignty and relinquish control so they can grasp the future he has planned for them...

Here's the rest in the series if you're interested: