I’m wondering if I opperate better through out the day on less sleep than the average joe. When Jessica was waking up in the middle of the night and I would get 6 hours of sleep, I could function at a pretty high level all day, until about 9:30 - then I became a walking zombie, but I got my butt to bed.
Now that she’s been sleeping through the night, 12 or 13 hours at a time, I go to bed later but I get more sleep than I used to and I’m always tired.
Last night Jessica woke up at 8ish, after going to bed at 7, and after some convincing she went back to sleep only to wake up at 1 am and stay awake for an hour, screaming. This is new.
Then she woke up at 6:45 and just (JUST) went back to sleep for her morning nap at 8:45.
Normally she goes to bed at 7, wakes up between 7 am and 8:30 - eats breakfast and goes down for her morning nap, which is 2.5 to 3 hours. And my routine along with that is, I go to bed somewhere in between 10 and 12, wake up when she wakes up, nurse her, put her back down for her nap and I go back to bed for her nap too, most mornings.
But this morning, after getting less than the covetted 6 hours and being awakened by screaming, and kept awake by the screaming, I’m more functional now than I would have been at this hour yesterday with her sleeping for 12 straight hours.
I’m on some kind of sleep drug - they should market this, it’s called “Motherhood”.
posted on September 27, 2005| 8:42 AM EST
We broke down and signed up for Netflix this weekend. After being faithful Blockbuster customers for years and after enduring their prices for those same years, we finally broke and went for Netflix.
The straw that broke the camles back for us was renting a movie at $4.50 and after being half way through it - realizing it wasn’t worth the money. All those movies we say are “renters” when we don’t want to pay for the movie theater experience are now “waiters” because I’d rather see a crappy movie on the big screen than to see the same crappy movie on my small screen, with bad lighting, and hushed conversation in the background.
Right now we’re on the minimum account - one movie at a time for $9.99 a month, but it’s unlimited. So we’ll see how this goes. We even tried Family Video for a week or so - and although their prices are amazing, you only get the new releases for one night, and when you return it late they rape your wallet.
posted on September 26, 2005| 11:36 AM EST
Wednesday night we witnessed, together, the first steps. The very first step was just Aaron and Jessica but then when I got home from running childless errands, she did it again.
Oh the glory. My life’s purpose is fulfilled in some small degree. I have witnessed the first steps. The partaking of the first steps and the aftermath of the wonderment of those first steps. I am a Mother.
Now I have to check bungi-jumping, watching husband sky dive and going on a cruise off my list before I can say my life is actually semi-fulfilled.
The things I have to get done. It’s like the childless errands, which are sent from Jesus up above. Running in and out of a store for one small thing and it only takes MINUTES. Not halves of hours or hours even. Childless errands are my drug of choice. They keep me sane, give me some contact with other humans running those same errands - some with children, some not. And it’s a sisterhood I love being a part of.
You can tell who the mom’s in the stores are - the ones without the kids, running the childless errands - we’re always mesmerized by something. Staring at a product, actually taking our time to decide what to put in the cart. We’re also the ones who book it to the correct section of the store without knowing exactly what it is we came inside for.
And you can probably always find us in the kids’ section at one point or another on our shopping spree - aka childless errands. Because it doesn’t matter anymore what we’re shopping for - if we’ve been given strict orders NOT to shop for the children, to only spend money on ourselves, as a treat even - we will inevitably find a way to spend most of that fun money on the babies.
When we’re not in the kids’ section, or the cleaning aisle pondering which dish detergent really does clean better than the leading brand - we’ll be in shoes, lingerie or candy. Because lets face it - those are the 3 things that keep us going.
posted on September 23, 2005| 9:16 AM EST
Sophia Broersma Brandt born 9.20.05
7:02 pm
8 lbs
20 ins
Jessica’s not the baby anymore. Which is really sad, but competely happy at the same time.
Emma is already a darling big sister and mom and dad are elated.
posted on September 20, 2005| 9:40 PM EST
