Ironic

Isn’t it ironic that sleep is one of the things your body needs to function properly, be alert, and be on top of things, however; when children come along sleep is the one thing you are deprived of when you most need these skills?

My night: baby goes to bed at 8:00pm so I rush around trying to round up Dal and Parks and get them to bed soon after. Dallin will go right to sleep but Parker fights it until 9:00 or so. Finally all the boys are asleep and I try to get some things done around the house. (bills, dishes, pick up toys, etc.) Nate and I are usually in bed by 10 but I figure the baby will be waking anytime to eat so I don’t bother going to bed. I check my email, eat something, read my book or watch Jay Leno…finally it’s 11:00pm and the baby is STILL asleep along with everyone else in my house except me. I decide to wake up the baby and feed him so I can go to bed! After a good feeding I imagine he’ll sleep a good 5 or 6 hours. Then the baby crying alarm goes off at 3:30…feed the baby again, back in bed by 4:15 thinking he’ll sleep a good 4 hours at least! Well, he does but his brother wakes up at 5:30 and needs a drink of milk. Occasionally we'll have a boy who wakes up and wants to snuggle at around 6am. His noise wakes up the baby who wants to eat again. Brother is in the other room calling my name so I go in his room and sternly tell him to go back to sleep, it’s not morning yet. After a few minutes of crying he falls back to sleep. At 6:00am dad gets up to go to work…I hear the alarm go off and the sound of the snooze button being slammed a few times before he gets up. He leaves for work and mom thinks “wow, I can go back to sleep”. One hour later everyone is awake and its time to start another day! So....here it is almost midnight....I guess I should get some sleep! Oh well, at least it’s quiet.