
Tired tired tired tired tired tired tired!!!
And I'm not even the one up half the night, but it gives you a pretty good idea of exactly my state of mind. It crept up on me yesterday morning I think, something in the way I was swapping the word "sleep" for any other "s" word, or in fact any word at all really. At about 8pm I was falling asleep walking. I'm pretty sure I received and conversed through two telephone conversations with my mother, of which I have no recollection of whatsoever. I didn't really think it would catch up on me, but apparently it did. There's something in this crazy regime that is now our new life that is a little bit tiring. But, hey, give it a few more weeks - the routine catches and I'll be right.
It's probably got something to do with the fact that pretty much nobody in the house is getting awesome sleep. At the moment I write this, Little Miss Mango is sitting on my wife's exhausted knee, as they both struggle to keep their eyes open. Little Mango 3 is sleeping, but it's about the first time all day. He has developed this habit of just crying no matter what is done, what time of day until he's picked up. Kind of makes it a little hard sometimes. Especially considering after two kids, obviously the sound of a baby crying is not something new. In fact, half the time it's very hard to connect that cry with the baby in front of me. He cries and it's so detached that I don't recognise it - I'm, like, "What is he doing?"
Something else I noticed - Little Mango 1 has started using, like, like in, like, sentences when he can't think of the, like, word. That's when he's not lecturing me about the state of the environment or whether his school lunches are healthy enough. Like, has become the Umm of the new generation. I keep trying to stop him, but then I realised that I was, like, the one that passed it on to him. It all became very clear that most of the annoying things we get in our personality come from our parents. Which makes a very scary indication of where things are going.
I, however, am going to bed - two of my children are still awake though so I'll see how successful this will be. And the crazy circus keeps on rolling....

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