It has been one of those days.
Daniel pretty much refused to sleep longer than 30 minutes at a stretch all day long. He’d wake up, I’d try to get him to go back to sleep… sometimes it worked for a few minutes, often not. Naturally, this meant I had a pretty unhappy baby on my hands for a large part of the day. Rebecca slept a bit better, but not a lot.
Add to that the fact that M had to work from 2am to 6am last night/this morning. So not only was he unavailable for some of the baby night shift that he usually takes, but then he was completely out of commission for much of the day. So not only had I slept less than usual, but I then had yet another day of caring for the babies on my own. And a particularly rough day, at that.
You know how everyone always says to nap when the babies do? Well, I generally don’t take that advice, and that’s alright. Today, I was all over it. The moment I could get them down, I was going to pass out on the couch. Yeah. I didn’t manage more than a 10 minute stretch with both of them sleeping. And I know there wasn’t much M could have done about his work schedule (this is something that happens once every 6 weeks), it meant that I had a sixth day in a row of being on my own with the twins. It’s a lot.
I put them both to bed early, so by 6pm, they were finally both asleep. Daniel fought it, but I swaddled the crap out of him and the room was dark and he finally let go. Rebecca, as always, was pretty much happy to go along. I can only hope they have a better night.
The left side of my head feels like it’s going to explode, and the three ibuprofen I took are only barely taking the edge off. I’m not generally much of a drinker, but tonight might be the night for a beer. And if it wasn’t NaBloPoMo, you can bet your sweet bippy I would not have bothered writing tonight. But I suppose it’s a good exercise to document a whole month.
Today’s picture, also courtesy of my fabulous new iPhone, is one of the moments Daniel was actually happy today. There really are those moments. They just sometimes get overshadowed by all the screaming.
