Bedtimes at the Summer Soltice

Hmm. Not a good night with the kids. AJ left to go to a conference. On a Friday afternoon. Not good. He won't be home until late Wednesday. We've already had meltdowns. (The sun'll come out, tomorrow? Let's hope.) It's so hard to get the kids to go to bed when it's light out. They were in bed at 8:30, but it seemed like 6:30. Of course they don't want to go to sleep. They goof around. They yell at each other and step on each other. They cut up paper in the hallway. They play with water in the bathroom. And T runs around in the hallway after I've given him his last warning. Then I have to shut his door and he freaks out. I reach a breaking point and yell and hustle MJ back into her room. And then I regret it. This hasn't been a very good week with them...