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As life is reliably imperfect at all times, I'm sure you're dealing with a Difficult Thing. DT's can range from petty to horrifying, hopelly more the former, but it's always something, even if you're the positive-thinking type (I'm not).
I'm tapping out this post on a smartphone in the dark while struggling, as I have every night for eight months, with insomnia and an often-waking baby. This makes most nights of sleep into a chewed-up couple of hours at best, resulting in a sub-optimal, itchy eyed waking life the rest of the time. I highly discourage others from repeating my experiments with sleep deprivation, should you so be tempted.
My thesis here is that, should you be dealing currently with a Difficult Thing, I'll take the night shift of worrying about it off your hands, since I'm up anyway.
What has this to do with typewriters, you ask? Not one small thing.
Typewriter porn
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hope that the DT passes soon and with favorable results. sending good thoughts your way.
The first two years of my daughter's life were years of brutal sleep deprivation for me and my wife. It takes its toll, to be sure. You have my sympathies.
Then there was the time when she was 3 or 4, and woke me up in the middle of the night screaming, "Daddy! Daddy!" -- "What is it?!" -- "I'm bored."
I'm with you, Cheryl. There's a reason my kids are nearly five years apart... it took that long for my wife and I to realize that there was another adult living in the house.
That may not have been encouraging. Better forget it. In fact, in your current state, you probably already have.
@Richard: LOL. My favorite is being yelled out of bed in the middle of the night, stumbling into the kid's room, just to have them sit up and say, "Oh, hi Daddy!" (Rassa-frassin'...)
Aw, thanks y'all. It helps to hear from people who have been through it.
Wait... did I just 'mom blog?'
I can't exactly empathize but I did want to express sympathy. You're smart and creative and I expect we'll see a brilliant coping mechanism here soon.
It won't mean much to you right now, but it does get easier and you do begin to snatch back some sleep time. My daughter would call out "water!...water!", in a parched, stuck-in-the-Sahara-for-a-week kind of voice. At two-thirty in the morning.
Hang in there, ma'am. The fact that you're running a cool blog that a lot of people read means that you're still in control.
Parents, I don't know how you do it, but I'm glad you do. I tend to fall asleep several times a day as it is, and I don't have any kids keeping me up all night. I'm just lazy!
Since you're offering: sure, you could worry for us about who's going to take care of us in our old age if we don't have any kids. Nurses are bloody expensive!
Got that covered? Thanks. I'm off to sleep!
When you said you were awake with your baby, I had a truly terrifying flash-back. I can remember one time when I stupidly took an antihistamine (allergy sufferer) and then had to wake up at 1:30a with a screaming baby. It was painful. Every neuron in my body was begging to go back to sleep. I was a zombie. Blessedly, we have been able to take a nap or two since then. There is a payoff though: the smile we get in the morning when we go to get him out of the crib. Best feeling ever.
True, the morning smile makes the bad night fade away.
Only problem is: it's night again right now.... sigh.
Ugh. If it makes you feel any better, the insomnia that my son triggered when he was but a wee lad just plain never went away. That part of my brain that was always awake, listening for infant distress never deactivated as he grew, and so now the slightest rustle wakes me up. In fact, Gen made fun of me for waking up and leaping out of bed when I heard the baby next door start to cry.
Now that he's just short of 5, Mr. Speegle the younger sleeps better than I do.
My son is 20 and I've got the night shift covered here in SF, believe me.
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Cheryl,
I hope you get some sleep soon. My sympathy is definitely with you and every parent suffering tonight. (Our twins turned 12 in March.)
--Joe
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