By: teri on January 6, 2010

So last night I stayed up and worked in the office. I have been neglecting some duties because it is hard to find time during the day to sit down at my desk and computer.
If the boys are awake they don’t last too long with me at the desk. Tyler does sometimes because I can get him to color and if I allow Jaxon to play on a computer he would last hours, but AJ not so much. But when AJ has his afternoon nap I try to line up Tyler’s nap too and then I always have to make those decisions to make. IF, both boys go down for a nap, I now have some time. I can sit at the computer, do housework, maybe get in a workout or nap.
AJ is still not sleeping all that well and so lately I’ve been going for naps if all possible (though unfortunately it hasn’t been real possible because their naps aren’t lining up).

So my desk has been piled high with alua finances which includes bills that need to be paid, checks that need to be recorded and then deposited, bank statements that need to be reconciled and some general catch up. I also have all our personal finances dating back to the end of November. The receipts are no longer able to stack on my desk so they are overflowing in a monster pile. I have a new laptop that Norm got me weeks ago, maybe a month, that is sitting on my desk waiting for files to be copied over so I can use it and then I have all the miscellaneous crap like photos, Jaxon’s numerous drawings, and whatever else makes it to my desk. It stressed me just going in there.

So last night I decided to take a bit more control. The boys were all in bed and I had time to myself so I sat down to start. I figured I would still be able to get some sleep and I didn’t have to stay up two nights in a row and I always get to sleep in after I hand of AJ so it shouldn’t be such a big production.
Well, I did make a nice big dent into my desk duties. Alua finances are almost taken care of and I did some straightening up so it doesn’t look so overwhelming.
BUT, here are the things I did not consider.
I stayed up after I was done with my desk for the night to pump which took an extra 30 minutes.
Tuesday night is Norm’s WOW night so he is up late (and where he would usually easily take AJ at 6am so I can go back to sleep, on Tuesdays he doesn’t go to bed until midnight, so he’s tired and not awake Wednesday mornings) and we shouldn’t both be up late on the same night while AJ isn’t sleeping.
In addition to his late night, he has a dentist appointment this morning at 8am, so he’ll need to leave the house around 7:40am which doesn’t give me my usual morning nap anyway.
So there is the start of my bad decision.
We also have plans tonight and most likely will be out of the house until about 9pm so I can’t put AJ down at 7:30 and go to sleep with him early. More bad planning.

And the most unfortunate part for me is AJ’s night. I went to bed just after 11pm. I think the last time I saw the clock it was 11:13pm.
AJ started crying at 1:06am and continued until 3:23am. During that 2 hour period he would cry, with his pacifier still in his mouth, for only a few seconds up to at most a minute, every few minutes. I got two or three 10-20 minute lulls where I thought he fell asleep, and I probably did, but the sadness started again. I fed him in there hoping it would help but it didn’t. Once he fell asleep after 3am he went until 5:10 so that was nice. I got 2 hours and then another 2 hours.

I’m tired.