Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Heading into the Holiday

Well, here it is, Tuesday and I am home all week from work. No school! I can't tell you how happy that makes me. This is my last week off until the Christmas break, and then I will have off for 6 whole weeks!

I am nervous for Anna next week when she begins life at home alone with 2 boys.

I couldn't do it.

No way, not yet.

Anders has been waking up at the crack of dawn, actually even before dawn, and raring to go at 5:30 in the morning. This was the first morning I was able to talk him into going back to sleep until 8. I felt triumphant and we all got a little more sleep. In fact, I think I had the best nights sleep than I have had in ages.
Normally, I am up with him for a few hours before Anna heads down.
What will she do? I leave for work at 6:30! I think it will be an interesting transition.....and I am slightly worried....more on that as it unravels.

I do think Anna and I are pretty well, even though we take turns being irritable and grumpy - soley due to sleep deprivation, and an entirely new life....life with 2 boys. I had one day where I was in a panic over everything. I wish I was a good writer and I could really describe the way life justs shifts paradigms. One day a whole life, next day it's gone forever and a new life slips in it's place. It was the same kind of thing when Anders was born....and this time it is the exact same profound change. The life we had with the 3 of us, the way we spent time, related, set up routines, etc. gone. It simply vanished.
And now the big job of creating a new rhythm for all of us.

I think it is going to take a little time.
Yes, I remember that the first time around.

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