That Point

Tonight was the toughest.  It always seems to happen around the third day Steve is away but no-one wanted to go to bed or do as they were told and I was pretty frustrated and wound up. I was just at the end of myself when Bonnie rang and my kids were excited to talk to her (they should have been in bed!) and it gave me time to go away and recollect myself.  It also proved to be the most effective punishment for Joshua when he got removed from the room and couldn't talk to her anymore because he was being obnoxious. It proved to be the thing that calmed them and I got R and J off to bed but N would not go down as she had seen a bug on her mosquito net and would not go back to bed.  I ended up taking her up to my bed at 8 so she would go to bed, while I read.  She fell asleep almost immediately so I put her back in her bed before I settled in for the night.  No surprise, though, I ended up with both girls in my bed during the night!