Family Life

So everybody is sick again. Coughs, runny noses, broken sleep, lethargic. I got to sleep at about 5am last night, kept up by Micah’s restlessness. For several months we slept Micah in a playpen in the office every night, as a way of getting some distance and several closed doors between a noisy baby and the rest of us who wanted to get some sleep. That plan worked marvelously, except that it substantially limited our use of the office in the evening once Micah had gone to bed.

Debbie decided it was time to get Micah back into his proper bed, so for the past couple of nights we’ve had a baby-free office. It gives the feeling that things are back to normal, although with Micah I don’t think we’ve ever had a sleep pattern that went on long enough to consider normal. We’ve tried moving him back into the boys’ bedroom before, without much success. However, he now sleeps more consistently so this time it might actually take.

Unfortunately our renewed attempt at normalcy coincided with yet another of Micah’s colds. He coughs and snuffles all night, unable to breathe properly. Add some persistent moaning, and crying out for his parents to pick him up, and you have the ingredients for a sleepless night. This doesn’t bother Debbie. She’ll sleep through anything. But the slightest noise keeps me wide awake. Sigh!

In the end I left to sleep in the office. I managed to sleep in somewhat, and Debbie kept the boys occupied in the afternoon so I could have a nap.

The sleep issue is a recurring theme on this blog, and I’m sorry to bore you with the details. I don’t have any brilliant solutions other than to just make it through each day as best I can. Life is like that sometimes. That’s not a complaint. Just acknowledging a fact.

Photo note: Joel is sick too, and he & I catch forty winks on the living room rug for half an hour.

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