I was up late, late, late last night (well, early this morning) and woke up too early. Not sure why my body wants me to do it since no one else was waking up. I'm really feeling it now. Thankfully there wasn't too much I had to do today. My mood has definitely deteriorated, though.

Ella's wide awake thanks to a nearly three hour long nap that ended around 6:30 p.m. Cole and Accalia are awake, too, although they're both upstairs in bed now. Accalia and Cole played with the neighbor girls most of the afternoon and evening. The three girls are overall nice to have around, and we definitely don't have the issues of Cole being excluded or the kids wanting to run all over town like we did with Mercedes. These three are constantly asking for food, though. They'll come up to the door and ask if I have this or that. I'm prettty sure they either can't have or are very limited when it comes to candy/sweets because that's usually what they ask for. Today, though, they were disappointed since we didn't hav any of the things they wanted. I'll be honest. It kind of annoys me to have them always asking for food. I think it's because they live right next door and can easily run into their house to get something to eat. Of course, if we have all of the forbidden food (and possibly they are limited to when they can eat as well), they're going to take every chance they can to have what they're not supposed to have at home. I don't know anything for sure about food issues at their house, though, so this is all conjecture. What I do find interesting, though, is that it always seems that the kids who are denied or forbidden so many things are the ones who are always trying to sneak around to get things. That makes perfect sense, of course, and always makes me wonder why these parents don't help their children find a balance rather than enforcing an atmostphere of deprivation and forbidden fruits.

Accalia's soccer game on Saturday was quite cold - 50s and very windy. Some of the girls showed up for the game with just shorts and their thin team t-shirts. I felt so bad for them. Accalia did have fun despite the weather and is looking forward to Thursday's game. Should be much warmer, too!

I should get ready for bed. There are errands to run in the morning.