I just like this picture....When Dan comes home from work, he usually asks if I got a nap that day. I know he's asking to get a feel for how well rested I might be, and how crabby I may be. The problem is that I might say I only got a short nap or no nap, but Rylee took a 2 or 3 hour nap. Dan cannot understand why I didn't also sleep for 2-3 hours. Let me tell you why not!
Say Rylee falls asleep at 1:30. I put her in her bed at 1:45. Then I have to hunt down Delaney. I'll have to change her diaper and get her upstairs. I'll have to sing her some songs and tuck her in. By then it is well after 2 o'clock. I will realize I never had any lunch because I was busy dealing with a baby who was demanding attention and a toddler who was also demanding attention. So I will go make a sandwich and sit down to eat it. I'll notice that the sink is full of dishes when I put my things away, so I will load the dishwasher. Suddenly I'll remember I had laundry in the washer and I'll have to run downstairs to change that over. And while I'm down there, I may as well start another load, because the laundry NEVER ENDS!
Finally I'll get headed towards bed. Then Callie will ask for a movie. I'll have to help her select a movie that she's happy with, and she's already seen everything we have at least twice and right now she hates all of them. Thank goodness for Netflix and the watch-it-now selection! I'll get her squared away and the phone will ring and I'll have to deal with a telemarketer. Once I'm done with that, I'll get upstairs and discover we are about out of toilet paper. Knowing it will be very bad if we do run out, I go get some more from the basement while I'm thinking about it. At last, I'll get up to bed. I may get to lie down before Rylee wakes up or the kids get home from school. Once the kids get home, I can occasionally stay in bed, but not really sleep. Someone will come in and ask what's for snack. Then they'll ask if they can go to a friend's house. Then they'll tell me that the mail came, or that Callie was teasing them, or what movie can they watch.....
Anyway, THAT is why I may not have gotten a nap today!
3 comments:
That almost sounds like "if you give a mouse a cookie" type story line. Good luck getting more sleep next time. :)
I totally understand!! Dan wonders why it takes me thirty minutes to "get ready for bed", which involves a lot of the same stuff. :) Miranda
You are a lot better than me. I usually try to do something useful in the morning and then when ever Emma is ready to nap, I stop whatever it is tell Matthew it is time to sleep, forget everything that is calling to me and go to sleep myself. There is an awful lot that just doesn't get done around here right now. You struck me as amazing with all the things you got done while we were visiting, even with a brand new baby, and no sleep.
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