Friday Night Leftovers- Tired Edition

• Today was not a good day. Being tired caught up with me and I did some breaking down.
• I can handle, reasonably easily, the demands and needs of my own immediate family. It’s when we throw other people into the mix, who all want something from me, that I end up sobbing into the couch in the playroom.
• So Matt took us all to Burger King for lunch and helped me run the errands and I feel much better.
• Also, in a few minutes, after this baby is full and sleepy, Matt is taking over all child related supervision and I am going to sleep until the next feeding alone in a quiet room with no children touching me.
• Because I’ve slept with both Elizabeth and Ryan in the same room for the last four nights. And that is working much better than any of the other things we have been doing (infinitely better even) but it will be delightful to sleep a few hours with no one touching me.
• I think Ryan has reflux. He spits up all the time and sleeps much better elevated. He arches and cries and seems uncomfortable. He has the hiccups ALL THE TIME. And he sleeps much better towards the beginning of the night, when he hasn’t been lying down for as long. Then he starts trying to eat constantly. So at his doctor’s appointment next week, I’m going to request some medication for him and if he gets better, fabulous.
• Something I’ve learned over the last few years is that things are easier if you have the right equipment for them. It’s easier to nurse in public if you own nursing shirts. It’s easier to get dressed if you have a place upstairs to put the baby down in. (Bigger house than when Dibits was a newborn. My baby containment devices didn’t stretch to our upstairs bedroom.) It’s easier to do less laundry if you have enough baby pajamas so that you don’t have to wash spit up laundry every single morning. So. I’ve been buying all the things.
• Relatedly, if anyone wants to send me all the money so that I can buy all the things, that would be great.
• I was looking around the nursery today and thinking about how pretty much everything I could see would be different if I didn’t have the internet. At least half of what is visible is either a gift or a hand me down or a loan from the internet and even the things that I bought myself were internet influenced. So my life would be much different without all of you guys. And much lonelier at midnight baby feedings. The internet is just the best.