1. Craving Sleep
2. Fighting Sleep
3. Losing Sleep
Lordie we are all tired. Son 2 aged 14m barely made it past breakfast before he was eye-rubbing, yawning and shrieking. Son 1 aged 4y 1m was producing weapons-grade sibling rivalry. I held Son 2’s hands across the highchair table; and Son 2 laughed. Son 1 stopped what he was doing and came and climbed on my knee, blocking out the route to the highchair table. I put Son 2 down for his sleep, and Son 1 and I played Scooby Doo and made Pirate finger puppets.
i am doing a Running Gag. Whenever anyone asks if The Man is back, I say yes, but he’s Very Tired. Our neighbour walked down to The Town with us, asking The Man when he’d got back. “Yesterday,” he said. “He’s Very Tired,” I said. “Don’t you get tired then, Serenedays?” she said, Getting It beautifully. We wandered along in the rain, Son 2 in the Big Pram, Son 1 in the buggy. “We’ll just have to push them and they’ll fall asleep and then we can have a coffee,” I said. Son 1 fell asleep eventually. Son 2 just went on and on and on. It was an amazing feat of endurance. We’d stuffed him into an anorak, in a cosi toe, with his new (hot) hat on. His hat fell down over his eyes so he could only see out at the bottom. And still he stayed awake.
Back home he was so tired he needed his tea at once, but melted down before he’d had very much. We think there is a teeth thing going on again. Son 1 says his teeth hurt at the bottom front. Hells bleeding bells. I’ve probably dissolved them in fruit juice. Bathtime was agony, getting them to bed was awful - Son 2 woke and woke and woke… but when I finally got him to sleep I rang a Friend for a chat and felt better. And The Man is having a go at all my outstanding filing. Good to think it’s getting done. I’m a bit worried it might be like Son 2’s tidying up though… bits of cheese spread sandwiches left in the vegetable rack, crayons in the washing machine, jigsaw pieces in the bin.
Tags: fighting sleep, filing, finger puppets, pirate, sibling rivalry, sleep problems, teething, tiredness, toothache
