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Sleep. Sleep has been elud­ing me this past week.

Some­body should’ve writ­ten in those pre-marital books, “Oh, and by the way, hope you enjoyed all those teenaged years of sleep­ing like a log because now your hus­band is going to snore like a demon-pig and you won’t ever sleep through the night. And if you hap­pen to be one of those rare, lucky ones whose hus­band doesn’t snore and drool in your ear, your chil­dren will keep you up each and every night. Whether it’s to be fed, night ter­rors, or just yelling in their sleep, your nights will never, ever be the same again.”

Just about the time I think I’m alone in a parenty/mothery/wifey issue, all I have to do is read another blog or catch up on Twit­ter to find that EVERY mother on earth is feel­ing the EXACT same way.

The inter­web rocks.

Speak­ing of rocks…(I rock at segues. I also rock Dictionary.com so that I don’t spell ‘seg­way’ by mis­take.)

I’m usu­ally a day late and a dol­lar short, but this one I’m years behind.  I have dis­cov­ered Veg­gie Rocks!  We got it this morn­ing and my 9yo and I have been rockin’ out all after­noon.  We were the fam­ily that enjoyed a few Veg­gi­eTales here and there, but in all hon­esty as much as my hus­band loved them, I hated them. Totally got on my very last nerve. But this CD rocks!

Rebecca St. James redid the theme song and it’s amaz­ing. Relient K’s ver­sion of The Pirates Who Don’t Do Any­thing is one of my favorites by far (see video). I think Old­man likes it so much because he remem­bers the songs from when he was lit­tle but is now “obvi­ously too mature for those old baby songs”. If you’ve got pre-tween, I think they’ll LOVE this CD.

(Ok, so if you’re really more of a 10-year-old nerd at heart, you’ll love it too. Just don’t tell your co-workers.…you’ll never live it down.)