Okay I'm pretty sure this doesn't qualify as insomnia just yet. . . but one of pregnancy's real cruelties is the fact that you know you aren't getting any sleep once the baby arrives, but being pregnant makes it pretty difficult to sleep before the baby is even here. Sigh.
Harper woke up at 3:30 a.m., calling for Matt, and whining like she could medal in it at the next Olympics. I stumbled into her room (Matt's a really heavy sleeper, which is mostly great as he's the one that gets up and goes to work every morning), gave her a hug, rearranged some covers and told her to go back to sleep. Which she did.
I, however, have been laying (lying?) in bed for the last hour, thinking about how hungry I am. Thank you for that Baby Number Two! I have to sub today so when four-thirty rolled around and I realized falling back asleep would entail being woken from the equivalent of a too short nap, I decided just to get out of bed. I walked into the kitchen, because the baby obviously wanted me to eat a Christmas cookie, and there was a car in our driveway. A car that doesn't belong to us. Huh? I was freaked out for a minute, until I realized it was just the paper being delivered. Apparently our paper arrives at about 4:38 a.m. Ack -- remind me never to think having a paper route would be a good idea!
So what does one do when one can't sleep and it's not even five a.m.? Why, blog, of course! I know all of your days will be more complete thanks to this fascinating early dispatch.
Several people have asked how I've felt with this pregnancy, especially through the first super-secret trimester, and I have a lengthy post brewing which will answer that very question. I will place ample warning at the beginning of said post, because I intend to be very specific and let's face it, not everyone wants to read all those fun details.
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It's almost time to go eat some real breakfast (more Christmas cookies?) and think about taking a shower, etc. (I refuse to do either of those things before five a.m. because I am not insane.) But I feel as though I should take a deep breath here because today is going to feel like an official start to the holiday madness in many ways:
1) I believe all the shopping is finished and most of the wrapping, so much stress-induced panic has slipped away.
2) The school where I'll be subbing today is having their all-school-sing this afternoon. If memory serves (from my days of full-time employment there) the children will all be worked into a holiday party/sugar induced frenzy by singing time, and the singing will probably turn into shouting by the end of the afternoon. Good times!
3) Matt's sister Meaghan got into town late last night/early this morning and we'll all be together for dinner tonight, sort of kicking off the festivities.
I hope you are feeling festive wherever you are, and that you have the good fortune not to be in my vicinity around three-thirty this afternoon when I will likely be hit hard with the fact that I've already been awake for twelve hours.
3 comments:
Oh Kels, you have my most sicere sympathies on the insomnia this morning. Hopefully you'll be able to unwind a bit tonight and get some rest.
I was wondering, what the heck? when I saw your comment on my blog at 4:30am. I thought, Kelsey? Up at 4:30? She MUST have been up all night.
Ugh, Kels, sympathies here, too. Back in November I went through a phase (pregnancy induced, of course) where I would routinely wake up between 3 and 4am and be awake for EXACTLY 2 hours before I could get back to sleep. At which time, it was, of course, almost time to get up. Luckily, knock on wood, I haven't done that for about a month, so I'm hoping it has passed. I guess I feel fortunate that pregnancy is the only time I have such a struggle, because it's not fun at all.
I hope you make it through your crazy day with your eyes open.
I was also awake most of the night. Gotta love pregnancy-induced insomnia. Makes for a fun day the next day.
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