We’ve had a variety of annoying, sleep-interrupting noises around here this weekend. Finally we are having some nice hot weather, so one has to sleep with the windows wide open, and it’s still fairly uncomfortably hot in the house (no AC in Canada…. only need it 3 times a year!).

Friday nite the teens next door had a big fire and party outside, with very LOUD music, so windows had to be shut. Yesteray I mowed over one of the beer bottles under my front spruce tree… SMASH!

Sunday morning, (today) the neighbors in back of us were outside with their 2 noisey kids by 7:00 AM! The little one is just about 18 months old I think, and I swear to god that is the most unhappy child on earth! Always crying, and throwing screaming temper tantrums. When my kids were tiny and did that, there was only one place for them…..IN BED! So that was an unpleasant noise to wake to.

Most other mornings, the older lady next door is out on her deck at the ass crack of dawn yakking on the phone at the top of her lungs to her hearing impaired even older mother! Grrrrr

Now I’m NOT a sleep in kind of girl at all. I can’t remember the last time I slept past 8:00 AM. BUT I’d still like the time that I wake up to be my choice, and it would be nice if it was rather peaceful when I did!

I’ve also noticed that I have much more patience now for the loud, party noise at night than I do for the baby screaming noise first thing in the morning. I think my tolerances change as my kids do. I just hope the people with the noisey kids, don’t phone the police on the kids next door (or mine) if they have friends over some times, since I don’t think we’d get very far bitching to the cops about their baby that screams all day.