Friday 22 July 2016

First world problems

Screaming baby (teething...?), poorly son with fever who just wants hugs, and the 8th day of no washing machine, so I'm resorting to washing very stinky nappies from pre washing machine breakdown by hand, while feeding a baby to sleep in the sling and hoping desperately son doesn't run in screaming just as she falls asleep (happened twice today already). At least the dishwasher now works. At least it's sunny. At least I have a roof over my head and food to eat. At least I have clean running water.

#firstworldproblems #50sHousewife #oneofthosedays

Saturday 16 July 2016

The moments after waking

Well that was a better night. By far. My little (almost) 5 month old pumpkin actually slept. Back to normal, I am hoping.

She woke at 5am and played happily with the sheet for a bit, kicking her little legs and gurgling. I pretended to be asleep for a little longer, squinting at her through half closed eyes. Then I could see her staring at me and she lay still. As soon as I opened my eyes, she smiled and started kicking her legs again. My heart melted.

My son used to do the same thing. How quickly he has grown, almost 3 years now. He woke from his nap yesterday, confused, saying he wanted to go downstairs to daddy. I smiled and said "it's not morning, you've just woken from your nap". He laughed. Looked sheepish. I told him that tomorrow was Saturday and daddy would be home then. "Oooh, the weekend," he squealed, "We can go to a dinosaur museum and look at dinosaur bones!" Not this weekend, but I promised soon. I told him this was something we could do one day a good few weeks ago. And he remembered. He started telling me about the dinosaur round the corner that roared. I think it was a dream.

I love the moments just after waking the best, with my beautiful, sweet, quickly growing babies.

Wednesday 6 July 2016

Bliss in motherhood

Bliss bliss bliss! Not only did both kids nap at the same time (still asleep), no one has knocked at the door during this timeframe either. I napped too! Small things are actually huge things when kids don't sleep at night. 

(Awake every 90 minutes to feed a 4ish month old, wide awake 3-5am with wriggling toddler then chatting infant, then joyously hit over the head by toddler at 5.30am because "it's not night anymore" - thanks to kind husband, I managed another hour sleep after that. In summary: not enough sleep.)