It's 2:24am and I am wide awake. I haven't been able to sleep this entire night.
How can it be possible for a mother of four, including a newborn, to not be sleepy????
Can I really have somehow, in three days of fevers and staying as horizontal as possible, caught up on the lost sleep of the last 2 months?
Or is it that my brain is making up for those lost days with little thought beyond "What time is it?" and "How soon does that mean I can take more Tylenol?"
Whatever it is, I can't stop thinking about stuff. I even got up at midnight and wrote everything down in lists to see if that would calm my brain down enough to sleep. It simply freed my brain up to think about other things.
I now currently have three of four children awake. Elli woke up because her Tylenol wore off (she had surgery last Wednesday and is still sore), Anna woke up because Elli was making so much racket, and now Luke is awake for his 3am feeding. He's a little early, but the girls probably woke him up.
Here's hoping that by the time I lay him back down, everyone else will be sleeping again and I will finally catch some shut-eye myself.
