Meow September 13, 2005
Posted by spacemom in : Life...otherwise , add a commentOn a completely different front, I had a CAT scan today to try to understand my migraines. I am now on day 13 of a migraine. My personal hope is that I at least have a brain in there.. I don’t know if I want them to find anything else
Why Do People CARE??? September 13, 2005
Posted by spacemom in : Life...otherwise , add a commentOn Sunday, I had a good/shitty day. The good part was that I took the
girls apple picking while Dr. Jay played softball with our temple. He
needs to get out and do things for himself and I loved taking the
girls. The apple picking was at a winery/orchard, so I picked up a
bottle of plum wine (yummy).
At night, the Cleveland Indians were on TV. I opened the wine, and
prepared to relax with wine, a good baseball game and Dr. Jay. Then
his brother J called. Lovely. J wanted to know why we drove to and
back from Cleveland in 1 day. He commented that in his “limit
observations of Dr. Jay” over 36 hours, that we “looked a little
stressed” and that “driving 13 hours is very stressful”. Hmm, ya
think? Dr. Jay explained that we had thought about it and we had
decided on 1 day since 2 days means a hotel stay, calming the girls,
getting them to sleep in a strange place (and neither girl sleeps
well), etc etc etc. J continued to press and then had the funny
statement that “you know, I feel much less stressed when I get enough
sleep”
(insert sarcasm font here)
NO! You must be joking? Sleep relaxes you? Wow, I never thought of
that! You mean, the fact that our girls have major sleep issues. The
fact that my 14 month old SKIPS NAPS and wakes 2-3 times a night,
might not be relaxing ? Oh hell! Now I have all of the answers!
I swear do people think before they talk?
I fully admit that I wish my kids slept better. Soleil is finally
sleeping well once she hit about 2.5 years. Sure, she comes into our
room once a week and needs to snuggle at 2 in the morning for about 10
minutes, but it is nothing like the scream fests we had 2 years ago.
And Luna is not much better. I have accepted that they have sleep
issues and that this is not something we are doing wrong, but how they
are. Soleil even talks to us about how she wishes it was easier for
her to sleep.
And yes, lack of sleep is a major stressor. But why attack us on that
front?
Sigh…
The good news? the Indians won 12-4, I had 3 glasses on wine and I
stumbled into bed and Luna only woke 3 times for a total of 3 hours
up time…
Life continues…
