Thursday, October 20, 2011

Where did the time go?

So, after we stopped sleeping, then we got 2 weeks of teething/sickness at our house. Everyone had something, though it all seemed like different things. At the end, Samantha ran a fever for three and a half days, got 2 different antibiotics and Nathan came home with what he thought was food poisoning. We still managed to make it to visit his family once Samantha seemed on the mend, and we had a good weekend. Then we found out that apparently Nathan's food poisoning was a virus and all of his family got sick. You're welcome! :-)
So we finally got over that and my favorite nanny AM came to visit for 5 days!!! We did lots of fun things with her around to motivate, create and babysit :-)
And now I've been out of touch with my homelife for 3 weeks and I feel very behind. Where did my time go? And somehow, ya know, being in the last 7 weeks of this pregnancy, I'm suddenly feeling VERY tired, VERY worn-out, sleepy and feeling like I'm becoming completely useless.
I can spend all of my energy all day into cleaning/picking up the house for small group, but then Nathan has to finish dinner and do the dishes and I get nothing else done all day.

I have SO many projects!! I am just not a person that can slow down. Well, I do slow down, I just wish I didn't. And it makes me sad and guilty that I can't do everything I want to. Not even half of it.

On the bright side, yesterday morning, I got up at 6 because I couldn't sleep any longer and got a whole 30 minutes before Sam woke up so I finished her curtains between that and naptime. Today during naptime this morning I put together half of my maternity shirt. Now if only it wasn't a tank top when the weather finally turned cooler. Hah. I'm gonna finish it anyway, hopefully today and then figure it will warm up at least one more time before this baby comes out. And maybe someone can borrow it after that :-)

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Sleep Stealing Monster

Our household has been battling the sleep stealing monster for over a week now. Nathan can't fall asleep, I can't stay asleep in the middle of the night, and Samantha doesn't want to sleep past 5 or so. It'd be slightly better if we coordinated and were all awake at the same time, or at least 2 of us!
My poor baby is teething/sick and it seemed like the end was in sight until today when she got up at 4:45am, would not go back to sleep, had trouble taking a morning nap and is now coughing through her afternoon nap. :-( I feel so bad for her...
And in the midst of sleep deprivation this morning, I was contemplating which child to put up for adoption, because there was no way I could handle her like this and a newborn! I'm now getting very anxious about the lack of sleep with an infant. When Samantha was a baby, it was only her, and when she was feeding 2-3 times at night, I could get her to sleep in till 8 or 9am and I was doing fine, hardly needing a nap! I don't know what I'll do when I have an infant waking up 2-3 times to eat and a toddler ready to go at (oh let's hope) 6 or 7am.
Someone who's been there, please tell me I'll survive and its worth it!