forgetful
Well, it's 4am and I'm awake so I figured I'd finally get around to remembering to update. And as soon as I said that, someone decided it might b time to go back to bed.
My nephew, Colby Matthew, was born last Tuesday. He had leaky valves and within a couple hours of his birth had a balloon put in. On Friday he had open heart surgery to correct the problem. We heard the surgery went well and he was recovering but, haven't heard much since. That would be because Grandpa (Mary Ann's father) died early Monday morning. So, the boys (Danny and Josh) are flying in today and Shawn will be picking them up. We'll take both Shawn's and my car over to NY later today since we can't fit all six of us in one car. The services start at 8:30 (family gathering for the wake) tomorrow morning and will end with a family gathering at 2 or 3. So, we'll probably end up staying Thursday night as well. I have to get working on the church bulletins so I'm hoping to sneak online for at least a little while at some point. If we stay in a hotel it's possible they'll have net access (I think we're staying in the same place we did a few years ago and if I remember correctly, it was $10 for unlimited broadband access).
Now, this all assumes Elizabeth is feeling better than she did yesterday. I can't really tell yet (it's now 7:50 that I'm finishing this update) but, he is a little on the cranky side and I just put her down for a nap. If she doesn't feel better by this afternoon, I'm going to stay home with her tomorrow while Xander and Shawn just go up for the day (Josh and Danny will take my car up this afternoon, I'm guessing). Part of me actually wants Elizabeth to still be ill but, that's just me being selfish. The kids will really help to ease the grieving of Grandma and Great Grandma and a little trip to NY never hurt anyone (even if it means losing the one night Erin can be online to RP- some things are just more important than Role Playing).
Shawn may start sleeping downstairs. Between exercising and waking up every other time I roll over to feed Elizabeth, he's not getting good sleep and his work is starting to suffer. It's hard for me to be sympathetic because at least he's not waking up EVERY time Elizabeth wakes up and he has the ability to sleep in whatever position is most comfortable,not on either one side or the other side with a baby using your arm as a pillow, AND he doesn't have her attached to his boob, trying not to fall back asleep so you can put her back in the crib so the previous issue isn't an issue and failing. And it wasn't like he actually GOT OUT OF BED for an hour in the middle of the night while Elizabeth played, ate, and pooped. He got to go back to sleep. But, I don't have to think much with my job whereas he's an engineer so, I really do understand about him needing sleep. It would just be nice for him to acknowledge the fact that he's not the only one not getting a good night's sleep and maybe, just maybe, I'm actually getting worse sleep than him so it might be nice if he took Elizabeth downstairs on the weekend so I can sleep in BEFORE she already wakes me up to the point where I won't fall back asleep (he usually does it after she's been playing around in bed and smacking me in the face for 15 minutes or more).
My nephew, Colby Matthew, was born last Tuesday. He had leaky valves and within a couple hours of his birth had a balloon put in. On Friday he had open heart surgery to correct the problem. We heard the surgery went well and he was recovering but, haven't heard much since. That would be because Grandpa (Mary Ann's father) died early Monday morning. So, the boys (Danny and Josh) are flying in today and Shawn will be picking them up. We'll take both Shawn's and my car over to NY later today since we can't fit all six of us in one car. The services start at 8:30 (family gathering for the wake) tomorrow morning and will end with a family gathering at 2 or 3. So, we'll probably end up staying Thursday night as well. I have to get working on the church bulletins so I'm hoping to sneak online for at least a little while at some point. If we stay in a hotel it's possible they'll have net access (I think we're staying in the same place we did a few years ago and if I remember correctly, it was $10 for unlimited broadband access).
Now, this all assumes Elizabeth is feeling better than she did yesterday. I can't really tell yet (it's now 7:50 that I'm finishing this update) but, he is a little on the cranky side and I just put her down for a nap. If she doesn't feel better by this afternoon, I'm going to stay home with her tomorrow while Xander and Shawn just go up for the day (Josh and Danny will take my car up this afternoon, I'm guessing). Part of me actually wants Elizabeth to still be ill but, that's just me being selfish. The kids will really help to ease the grieving of Grandma and Great Grandma and a little trip to NY never hurt anyone (even if it means losing the one night Erin can be online to RP- some things are just more important than Role Playing).
Shawn may start sleeping downstairs. Between exercising and waking up every other time I roll over to feed Elizabeth, he's not getting good sleep and his work is starting to suffer. It's hard for me to be sympathetic because at least he's not waking up EVERY time Elizabeth wakes up and he has the ability to sleep in whatever position is most comfortable,not on either one side or the other side with a baby using your arm as a pillow, AND he doesn't have her attached to his boob, trying not to fall back asleep so you can put her back in the crib so the previous issue isn't an issue and failing. And it wasn't like he actually GOT OUT OF BED for an hour in the middle of the night while Elizabeth played, ate, and pooped. He got to go back to sleep. But, I don't have to think much with my job whereas he's an engineer so, I really do understand about him needing sleep. It would just be nice for him to acknowledge the fact that he's not the only one not getting a good night's sleep and maybe, just maybe, I'm actually getting worse sleep than him so it might be nice if he took Elizabeth downstairs on the weekend so I can sleep in BEFORE she already wakes me up to the point where I won't fall back asleep (he usually does it after she's been playing around in bed and smacking me in the face for 15 minutes or more).