Do you ever think that maybe babies and cats have some sort of internal barometer so that they know when they got a little too close to the edge of their caretaker's sanity?
the next night M slept from 6pm-1:30am and then from 1:40am-6:45am. The cat slept at the foot of my bed the entire night.
Yes, you heard that right. For the first time in over a year I slept for 5 contiguous hours... amazing how that changes one's perspective on the world.
That did not happen the next night, but I was feeling so much better from the one decent night's sleep that it was ok.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
what was the point of going to bed at 9:30pm?
9:30pm lights out, sleepy
9:32pm cat wants under the covers
9:34pm, I roll over
9:35pm, cat jumps over my head so as to be on theother side of me, he prefers under the covers on my front side
9:36pm, I don't like the cat so close to my face when trying to sleep b/c I am mildly allergic and he makes me cough
9:37pm, I roll over again
9:38pm, cat leaves to get a kitty-crunchy snack
9:42pm, cat starts batting at my face, I pull covers over my head
9:43pm, cat starts attacking my hands just under the covers
9:44pm, I let him back under the covers
9:58pm, I roll over
10pm, cat jumps over my head to be on my front side
10:12pm, baby starts to cry
10:20pm, baby is still crying, harder now
10:25, I call out to baby and beg her to go back to sleep
10:27pm, cat starts bugging me again
10:30pm, I freak out and kick cat off of me and go to baby's room, she is standing in her crib totally freaking out crying
10:31pm, baby is in my arms asleep as I rock in the rocking chair
10:39pm, I lay sleeping baby down in her crib
10:40pm, baby starts crying again as I walk away from crib
10:41-43pm, I take cat outside and leave him there for the night
10:44pm, baby is crying really hard now
10:45pm, I close baby's door and my bedroom door and lay back down in bed, noticing that the sheets stink and wishing I had had time over the weekend to change them, but it was ridiculously hard just to find the time to wash my & baby's laundry and put all my clothes away that I had dropped on the floor in a state of exhaustion over the last 2 weeks
10:50pm, baby is still crying, and I have rolled over about 10 times trying to pretend like I can't hear it
10:55pm, the tension in my neck and back feels like a jack-in-the-box and I wish I could throw something across the room
11pm, I notice the clock and start feeling really mad that there is no way in hell I am going to get even a decent night's sleep at this point. Baby is still yowling in the other room.
11:10pm, baby is still yowling.
11:15pm, still crying
11:20pm, still crying
11:25pm, I go into baby's room, she is laying down facing the wall, crying. I pick her up and take her to the rocking chair, start to nurse her
11:40pm, try to unlatch myself from her asleep suckle-of-steel, she fusses a little but falls back to sleep
11:43pm, I lay her back down in her crib, she stays asleep as I leave the room
11:45pm, I am back in bed, wide awake
11:50pm, decide to blog about it
I honestly don't get this. Millions of years of evolution have mothers and babies coexisting. Adults have to sleep more than 1 hour at a time, and more like 6-8. While I know that cosleeping is an option, it isn't a viable one for me. Now that M is so mobile, she will crawl off the edge of the bed easily before I would be awake enough to notice. It is way too dangerous. Plus, every time I roll over I was waking her up. Our ancestors slept in nest for criminy sake, and that has all the same complicating factors as my bed. How did this work? Why can't I get a decent amount of sleep? I am honestly feeling like I might lose my mind...
9:32pm cat wants under the covers
9:34pm, I roll over
9:35pm, cat jumps over my head so as to be on theother side of me, he prefers under the covers on my front side
9:36pm, I don't like the cat so close to my face when trying to sleep b/c I am mildly allergic and he makes me cough
9:37pm, I roll over again
9:38pm, cat leaves to get a kitty-crunchy snack
9:42pm, cat starts batting at my face, I pull covers over my head
9:43pm, cat starts attacking my hands just under the covers
9:44pm, I let him back under the covers
9:58pm, I roll over
10pm, cat jumps over my head to be on my front side
10:12pm, baby starts to cry
10:20pm, baby is still crying, harder now
10:25, I call out to baby and beg her to go back to sleep
10:27pm, cat starts bugging me again
10:30pm, I freak out and kick cat off of me and go to baby's room, she is standing in her crib totally freaking out crying
10:31pm, baby is in my arms asleep as I rock in the rocking chair
10:39pm, I lay sleeping baby down in her crib
10:40pm, baby starts crying again as I walk away from crib
10:41-43pm, I take cat outside and leave him there for the night
10:44pm, baby is crying really hard now
10:45pm, I close baby's door and my bedroom door and lay back down in bed, noticing that the sheets stink and wishing I had had time over the weekend to change them, but it was ridiculously hard just to find the time to wash my & baby's laundry and put all my clothes away that I had dropped on the floor in a state of exhaustion over the last 2 weeks
10:50pm, baby is still crying, and I have rolled over about 10 times trying to pretend like I can't hear it
10:55pm, the tension in my neck and back feels like a jack-in-the-box and I wish I could throw something across the room
11pm, I notice the clock and start feeling really mad that there is no way in hell I am going to get even a decent night's sleep at this point. Baby is still yowling in the other room.
11:10pm, baby is still yowling.
11:15pm, still crying
11:20pm, still crying
11:25pm, I go into baby's room, she is laying down facing the wall, crying. I pick her up and take her to the rocking chair, start to nurse her
11:40pm, try to unlatch myself from her asleep suckle-of-steel, she fusses a little but falls back to sleep
11:43pm, I lay her back down in her crib, she stays asleep as I leave the room
11:45pm, I am back in bed, wide awake
11:50pm, decide to blog about it
I honestly don't get this. Millions of years of evolution have mothers and babies coexisting. Adults have to sleep more than 1 hour at a time, and more like 6-8. While I know that cosleeping is an option, it isn't a viable one for me. Now that M is so mobile, she will crawl off the edge of the bed easily before I would be awake enough to notice. It is way too dangerous. Plus, every time I roll over I was waking her up. Our ancestors slept in nest for criminy sake, and that has all the same complicating factors as my bed. How did this work? Why can't I get a decent amount of sleep? I am honestly feeling like I might lose my mind...
Sunday, February 28, 2010
scooping the poop
My least most favorite house chore has got to be scooping the cat litter. The actual task itself is not so bad as is the thinking about scooping the poo. As such, I find it hard to motivate.
Since the spouse is out of town, and that is always his job, the cat poo has not been scooped in WAY too long.
So today, I did it.
Yep, I somehow mustered up the motivation.
Believe me, this is not your normal scoop-one-box type of job. No, my kitty has a total of 8 litter boxes (spoiled little animal he is). Don't even ask why... that's a long, long story of how he and my husband found each other and my husband's rather peculiar connection to the kitten.
So this takes while.
During the scooping activities my dear kitten came to check out the action. He jumped into one of the boxes, the very one where my hands and face were way too intimate with his old poo, and proceeded to add a new fresh poo to the mix. And a nice HUGE pile for such a little being. Stinky too.
Is this normal? Do others' kitties do this same thing?
And, while we at it, does anyone else's kitty, who may have more than one box, pee in one box and poo in the other? Mine does. It's weird.
I clipped his velociraptor claws today too. Life is good.
Since the spouse is out of town, and that is always his job, the cat poo has not been scooped in WAY too long.
So today, I did it.
Yep, I somehow mustered up the motivation.
Believe me, this is not your normal scoop-one-box type of job. No, my kitty has a total of 8 litter boxes (spoiled little animal he is). Don't even ask why... that's a long, long story of how he and my husband found each other and my husband's rather peculiar connection to the kitten.
So this takes while.
During the scooping activities my dear kitten came to check out the action. He jumped into one of the boxes, the very one where my hands and face were way too intimate with his old poo, and proceeded to add a new fresh poo to the mix. And a nice HUGE pile for such a little being. Stinky too.
Is this normal? Do others' kitties do this same thing?
And, while we at it, does anyone else's kitty, who may have more than one box, pee in one box and poo in the other? Mine does. It's weird.
I clipped his velociraptor claws today too. Life is good.
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