Olympics, Sleeplessness, Party Time, and Sibling Rivalry

Well if Cody decides to get me up at 2 AM then again at 4 AM, I can watch the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics live from S. Korea. Broadcasting in REAL time could work out well for me this Olympic games. LOL! I wasn't too excited about the announcement of REAL time broadcasting. But that's because they first announced it like they were going to do away with the primetime edition of the Olympics. Once I found out everything is in REAL time but they will also package the most popular stuff together and do the nightly primetime broadcasts I relaxed a bit about it. I have a life, I can't sit around and watch the Olympics 24-7. I depend on the primetime coverage BIG time. LOL!

But I can see turning on the TV in the middle of the night to get REAL time coverage while I'm up pacing the floor with Cody. The last 2 nights have featured me being up with my puggie. No, he hasn't been sick. He just doesn't want to go to bed. I'm not sure what the issue is. We've tried everything to figure it out too. Does he get his days and nights confused since going blind? Or is this just a thing with older-vintage pets. Because we dealt with the same exact issue with Storm during her last 6 months of life and she never went blind. She could see us up until her last breath. So who knows, all I know is Cody is not fond of bed at bedtime in recent days. "In recent days" is the key phrase, he goes through spells of not wanting to go to bed then transitions back to spells of sleeping through the night. Life with a vintage pug is interesting! Overall, I'm just glad to still have him, so I'll deal with the lack of sleep. I'll deal with so sleepy of moments that I look down to notice I have only one shoe on. Wondering where the other one is? Wondering just how long have I been walking around with only one shoe? True story! LOL!

This past weekend we had a combo birthday party for my in-laws. I think the party went well! I felt like it went well at least. I had decorated the house two days before the party day. When Brad arrived home and saw the decorations he immediately commented on the banner stating "Happy Birthday Mom and Dad". He instantly said, "How cool, that you found a banner with both mom and dad on it". I looked at him with a puzzled expression then clued him in, "Uh, honey, I made that banner I didn't buy it! And Piper helped! She kept sitting on it." LOL!

After we have a get-together or go to a get-together, a form of sibling rivalry comes out. Being an only child I missed out on all that sibling rivalry stuff. However, I now have to deal with it as a wife. LOL! Brad seems to take note of moments during each get-together when his mom pays more attention to his brother than to him. After that short explanation can you tell Brad is the youngest? No matter how old him and his brother get, I believe Brad will have moments of wanting to do a handstand in an effort to steal his mom's attention from his brother. LOL! Don't get anything twisted from this paragraph, everyone gets along great in Brad's family. Brad and Rob are close. And Brad is of course close to his mom. But "little bro syndrome", that somewhat innate desire within the little brother to try to steal mom's attention is always going to exist from time to time. LOL!

Before recent years with Brad the "sibling rivalry" I was most experienced with is demonstrated in the pics below. LOL!