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Dreadfully tired
Jul. 14th, 2011 06:14 pmI am so so tired. My only natural birth resulted in the swift return of my normal menstrual cycle, which is, for anyone who hasn't known me since my teens, bloody awful, no pun intended but I'm leaving it there. I am tired and sick and headachey. I may be brewing a migraine, though it's hard to tell - I am intermittently losing sight in one eye and feeling slightly queasy. My migraines used to be week-long events so I'll see if I get really sick tomorrow.
Also I am tired because I am doing all the parenting this week. It's easy for Astrid, who needs nothing extra, but it's hard for Emer and Linnea, who both need more reassurance than usual and are less cooperative than usual because of Rob being away. However, I seem to have made a bedtime breakthrough, so hopefully that will hold true after Rob's return and we might get some normal sleep then.
Today was going horribly wrong and then a friend called to say he'd pop over for a cuppa on his way back from an errand, and while the children were sitting outside waiting for him a neighbour dropped by, so we all had coffee and stroopwafels and then Mary arrived for her regular other-Thursday visit, and after she left the neighbour girl came to play with Emer. I wonder why I'm tired?
The Roomba doesn't work if it tries to sweep up a puddle of glue from under the dining table. It doesn't stop working immediately, though, not until it's moved on and the glue has had time to dry. Luckily it washed off easily and it all seems to be ok now.
We keep trying to go out in the morning and we keep failing. I just don't have the oomph to patiently elicit cooperation this week. I'm too hormonal. And I don't want to actually lose my temper because it's not under control this week.
BUT. I timed a bunch of special offers and discounts and got a sandpit cut-price and it should arrive tomorrow. No sand, though. But a sandpit with a lid that turns into seats. I hope it works.
And the apple tree is putting out new leaf after a serious pruning of blighted branches. And we have TONS of blackberries. So it's not all bad.
Also I am tired because I am doing all the parenting this week. It's easy for Astrid, who needs nothing extra, but it's hard for Emer and Linnea, who both need more reassurance than usual and are less cooperative than usual because of Rob being away. However, I seem to have made a bedtime breakthrough, so hopefully that will hold true after Rob's return and we might get some normal sleep then.
Today was going horribly wrong and then a friend called to say he'd pop over for a cuppa on his way back from an errand, and while the children were sitting outside waiting for him a neighbour dropped by, so we all had coffee and stroopwafels and then Mary arrived for her regular other-Thursday visit, and after she left the neighbour girl came to play with Emer. I wonder why I'm tired?
The Roomba doesn't work if it tries to sweep up a puddle of glue from under the dining table. It doesn't stop working immediately, though, not until it's moved on and the glue has had time to dry. Luckily it washed off easily and it all seems to be ok now.
We keep trying to go out in the morning and we keep failing. I just don't have the oomph to patiently elicit cooperation this week. I'm too hormonal. And I don't want to actually lose my temper because it's not under control this week.
BUT. I timed a bunch of special offers and discounts and got a sandpit cut-price and it should arrive tomorrow. No sand, though. But a sandpit with a lid that turns into seats. I hope it works.
And the apple tree is putting out new leaf after a serious pruning of blighted branches. And we have TONS of blackberries. So it's not all bad.